MEETING MINUTES

Region 3, 700 MHz Planning Committee Meeting No. 6

Phoenix, Arizona

March 21, 2002
  1. Meeting was called to order at 10:00 a.m. by Curt Knight (RPC Chairman).
  2. Each attendee introduced themselves and their agency affiliation. List of attendees is attached.
  3. Attendees reviewed the minutes from the 5th RPC meeting. A motion was made and seconded to approve the minutes as written. Motion was adopted unanimously.
  4. SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS:
    1. FUNDING: Joe Noce reported that the City of Mesa reimbursement check would be cut and mailed shortly. The committee also received information from NIJ that additional funding will not be available during this fiscal year.
    2. BYLAWS: Phil Lense the committee chair stepped down and Phil Caruso (City of Phoenix) was nominated as the chair replacement. Carol Campbell (Phoenix PD) was nominated to Co-Chair this committee with Mr. Caruso. Both of these nominations were approved unanimously by the membership.
    3. STRATEGY: Bill Washington (Tucson PD) and Kevin Rogers (NAU PD) volunteered to Co-Chair this committee. Both received floor nominations, which were unanimously, approved by the membership.
  5. OPEN DISCUSSIONS/PRESENTATIONS:
    1. National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC): Mr. David Funk and Mr. Tom Tolman of NPSTC provided a brief overview of NPSTC and the Pre-coordination database that NPSTC is developing for use by the Regional Planning Committees. This database should be ready for use by mid summer. NPSTC newsletters were handed out. NPSTC information is also available on their web site www.npstc.org.
    2. Tom Tolman addressed 700 RPC planning issues relating to states that have international boarders. He stated that the northern boarder issues are being worked with Canada and are progressing well. The opposite is true with the Mexico boarder issues. The obstacle here has always been the lack of a single agency in Mexico who coordinates and manages spectrum. The diplomatic activities relating to spectrum were difficult with the 800 NPSPAC planning and will be challenging with 700 MHz as well. Mr. Tolman suggested that the Mexico Boarder states develop a plan that addresses the 700 MHz boarder issue to present to Mexico through diplomatic channels. NPSTC is available to assist with this and will provide Curt Knight a list of regional planners who should meet to discuss this challenge.
    3. Curt Knight briefed the membership that the FCC continues to license broadcasters in the 700 MHz band. Phoenix Parks Board recently received a request from channel 64 to install a translator at South Mountain in conjunction with a license they recently obtained from the FCC. Considerable discussion ensued.
    4. Home Land Security: Mr. Joe Noce (Mesa) asked NPSTC representatives for information on the 3.5 billion dollars budgeted for Home Land Security. NPSTC's response was the this is a budget figure only which has not been funded yet nor have guidelines been established for its allocation and use if its funded by Congress.
  6. OLD BUSINESS: No old business.
  7. NEW BUSINESS: No new business.
  8. VENDORS: Nothing presented.
  9. OTHER RELATED ACTIVITY:
    1. PSCC has scheduled a one-day PSWN symposium targeted to elected and appointed Public Officials in Phoenix on April 30, 2002.
    2. IWCE will be held in Las Vegas on April 22nd through April 26th.
    3. An Arizona Tribal meeting, hosted by the Hopi Tribe will be held in Flagstaff on May 16th, 2002. Curt Knight and Mark Openshaw will attend and present information to the attendees on the 700 MHz Regional Planning Committee process.
  10. Next Meeting will be held at the Grand Canyon National Park on June 6th, 2002, from 1 - 4 PM in the Albright Training Center.
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  11. The 6th Region 3 RPC meeting was adjourned at 11:30 p.m.