The 1st quarter meeting will be held on January 23rd at the Pell City Municipal Complex located at 1000 Bruce Etheredge Parkway in Pell City. Lunch will be catered by Butts to Go.
The hotel will be The Hampton Inn located at 220 Vaughan Ln Pell City. To make reservations for the room block you will need to call the hotel directly at 205-814-3000 the room block code is National Emergency Number Association. I have secured a block of 30 rooms and we must book at least 10 rooms on the block.
For anyone wishing to attend the Executive Board Meeting it will be Wednesday January 22nd at 3pm at The St Clair EOC classroom located at 1610 Cogswell Ave. Please park in the rear parking lot and enter the rear door marked 911. Take the stairs immediately to your right when entering the building. At the bottom of stairs turn right to enter the EOC classroom.
Sorry for the delay in sending hotel information out but I was hoping our new Marriott Property would be open.
Hope everyone had a Holiday season. If anyone has any questions or would like restaurant recommendations, please feel free to reach out.
Alabama NENA Membership Meeting Agenda
January 23,2025 Pell City, Al
Promoting Excellence through Education and Networking
- Call to Order-
- Invocation and Pledge-
- Welcome- Introduction of Guests and new attendees
- Approve Minutes- Meeting
- Approve Financial Reports and Expenditures-
- ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Alabama State 9-1-1 Board Report-
- Alabama Next Generation Emergency Network (ANGEN) Report-
- Nation NENA-
- Committee and Group Reports
a. Conference Committee
b. Training and Education Committee
c. Awards and Scholarship Committee
d. Promotional/Website Committee
e. TERT-
f. GIS-
g. AAND and Legislative Committee-
h. IAFC-
i. IACP-
j. APCO-
- Region Report
a. Birmingham-
b. Mobile-
c. Huntsville-
d. Montgomery-
e. Commercial-
- Old Business
- New Business
- Next Meeting Date: April 24, 2025 – Location TBD
Alabama NENA Quarterly Membership Meeting Minutes
October 14, 2024 11:00 AM — Orange Beach
Call to order –Jeanie 11:00 AM
Invocation/Pledge: Bubba Blue
Welcome – Jeanie
Approval of July Meeting Minutes: Motion to approve Gordon Sandlin, 2nd Alan Campbell
Approval of Financials: Alan Cambell gave a report on expenditures and receipts. Motion to approve by Lee Moore, 2nd by Bill Broder. Alan then updated the board on the status of the 501 (C)(3) status and informed the membership that the Executive Board had approved hiring a CPA going forward so all paperwork would be submitted correctly and by the deadline.
Swearing in of new officers: New 2024-2025 NENA Officers sworn in by
Cassie Lowery (National NENA Southeastern Director).
Announcements – None
State 911 board – Leah provided an update to the membership of the Admin Rule Hearing. If you want to know more specifics and details, get with Leah. Leah also updated the board on the Sunset Review findings and informed the membership that AL911 would be working on legislation to help correct the issues.
ANGEN – Caleb gave an update on ANGEN. Huntsville Madison has successfully tested with 4 carriers. Caleb gave an update on MEVO and discussed the mutual aid response to Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton. Caleb announced a training class on November 2, 2024 at Mobile County EMA. The morning session will be called ANGEN 101 with a more in-depth discussion that afternoon and it will be called ANGEN 201.
National NENA – Charles Cullen & Cassie Lowery presented to the membership and gave a broad overview/update of National NENA.
Committee Reports:
Conference – Bill provided an update from the conference committee stating there was a current balance of 243,038.14 but that balance did not account for merchandise sales which will be deposited at a later date. Conference attendees were estimated at approximately 460 with 170 vendors, pending final count.
Training and education – No report given.
Awards and Scholarship – Nothing to report.
Membership & Diversity – Nothing to report at this time.
Promotional/Website –Johnny advised the website is staying updated. Reminded everyone to get on the email list if not already. If you take photos while at the conference please use #gulf9112024.
License plate – Nothing to report.
TERT – Jeff Dempsey provided an update on TERT and discussed the current deployment of TERT to Hurricane Helene.
Requests came from Florida however that request was canceled. North Carolina sent requests as well. ALTERT deployed a team of 13 which included 8 dispatchers and 5 drivers. The drivers consisted of deputies from Madison Co.
GIS – Anderson advised AL911 has been working with Indigital to continue to build out the statewide system. Anderson informed everyone that AL911 has contracted with Datamark to perform data remediation.
AAND – Aislinn advised of the legislative conference coming up on December 11-12. This will be held in Montgomery.
AAND meeting will be held on December 11th. AAND has Districts 1 and 3 to submit nominations to the Governor’s Office for AL911 Board appointments.
Federal level:
IAFC – Donnie West advised of the Alabama Fire Chief’s Conference that will begin on February 10, 2025 at the Wynfrey Hotel. The ISO class will be held at this conference on the 10th. The fire chief’s conference will follow.
IACP – Nothing to report.
APCO – Charlsie advised awards and scholarships are open and available on the APCO website.
BHAM – Alan updated everyone about St. Clair Co’s migration over to the P25 radio system. 3 new towers in Shelby Co. to enhance their radio system. Birmingham has swapped over to Civic Alert.
Mobile – Nothing to report.
Huntsville – Morgan County has a new website. Morgan911.org. Colbert and Lauderdale have new directors. Jody Hitt is Colbert’s and Brad Holmes is Lauderdale’s. Limestone Co has new radio consoles installed. The next North AL 911 meeting is November 6th @10:30 in Morgan Co.
Montgomery – Nothing to report.
Lee Moore – If you still have copper admin lines in 911, you should look at upgrading. Reminded everyone to test their emergency power generator. There’s been some issues with generators at different locations. If you are upgrading or contracting services that will connect to ANGEN.
Old Business – Robbie reminded everyone of how much the conference committee does to make the conference so great.
New Business – Robbie asked for a motion to approve the stipends ($500 President, $250 Board Members) for the Executive Board . Motion made by Bill, 2nd by Margaret, all in favor, motion carried.
Robbie then asked for a motion to approve the 911 Goes to Washington scholarships for board members ($500 President, $250 Board Members), motion by Jeanie and 2nd by Brian, all were in favor, motion carried.
Robbie asked for a motion to approve the stipend for the Conference Committee Co-Chairs in the amount up to $10,000.00. Robbie emphasized that this amount wasn’t solely for the co-chairs but was for the co-chairs to distribute amongst the conference committee. Motion made by Gordon with a 2nd by Bill, all in favor, motion carried.
911 Goes to Washington February 23-26.
Jeanie asked for a motion that ALNENA sponsors four scholarships for reimbursement up to $2,500 each. Motion made by Aislinn with a 2nd by Bill, all in favor and the motion passed.
Next Meeting: Location TBD – January 23, 2025
Adjourn: Motion made by Gordon with a 2nd by Bill, all was in favor.