Rick Brown started the meeting
quickly at
All but two Board members were present. They were Paul Juneau & Drake McDonald.
Last months minutes were voted on and approved.
Then Rick moved to approval of new applicants. There were ten companies up for approval, and
all were approved.
There were two locksmith companies in the group: John Dobson, A.S.A.P. Field Services LLC
of Tulsa, OK and
Alexander Briskin,
The board moved quickly through the applicants, and Rick moved to
discussion & possible action concerning changes
to the Alarm & Locksmith Regulations pertaining to:
a. Central Station certification requirements. Rick Brown, Steve York, & Matt Schue had a good discussion on defining
the difference between a Central Station and a
Monitoring Station.
b. Tagging requirements for residential systems:
There was a little discussion on this issue, but nothing was
settled.
c. Tagging requirements for access control, CCTV, and nurse call:
Paul Conrady got up an apologized
for all the issues he had stirred up over the last months. It appeared
he did not understand
Matt Schue’s answer concerning
the enforcement issue pertaining to the electricians. Matt made it clear that anyone engaging
in any activities covered under the Alarm & Locksmith
Act was subject to enforcement by the Health Dept.
d. Adopted references;
There was not much discussion on this issue.
e. Individual renewal requirements:
Charles Hudecek spoke
to the board on continuing education & prerequisites.
Several people asked why the State could not set guide
lines for pre-education & time limits.
There was a lot of discussion
on this from the board and general public.
f. New applicant’s requirements:
This was covered in the previous discussion.
g. Placement of company license numbers:
There was a lot of discussion on this subject. Keith Gabel, the enforcement officer, stated he would like to see all companies
put their license numbers on their trucks. This brought up a good bit of opposition from
several company owners who
claimed they did not put any ID on their trucks due
to safety reasons.
h. Renewal of monitoring contract notifications:
Matt Schue voiced his concern on the
practices of some alarm company's contract renewals, and put it up for later
discussion
on how to deter their bad practices and spoke out about
setting up an AD-Hoc committee to work on this issue.
I. Customer Documentation:
There was very little discussion on this.
Then Rick Brown moved into the forming of Ad-Hoc committees, and
it was agreed by all present that it would be a good idea,
and it was agreed by the board to move forward on forming the
Ad-Hoc committees.
Next Rick moved to discussion of Committee attendance.
Mat spoke about setting a limit on the number of meetings a
committee member can be absent each year.
Matt wanted limit
to be no more than 2 times a year. James Perry
suggested a limit of 4 times, but Matt said no way and they compromised on 3.
The Board is going to set rules such that if a board member misses
more than 3 meeting in a year, (not just all 3 in a row) that
board member would be removed from the board, and
be replaced.
Next they moved to discussion of House Bill 2308:
Charles Hudecek got up and told the
board that this bill was pulled from the committee, so it can not be re-entered
in its
current form for now.
Discussion of House Bill 2320:
Charles Hudecek addressed the board
on this issue also. He told the board
that part 1 of the bill was just cleanup of wording.
Part 2 was dealing with the updating or voltage limit to 90 volts. Charles claimed that the
but they failed to do so and it will go to the floor for a
vote. Part 3 was on new language brought
forth.
Next was discussion of electrical exemption in tile 59:
Matt stated that the electricians who do not have the exemption on
their license are subject to fines from the State.
Discussion of the exemptions of tow truck
operators:
Matt told the board that the wording of the exemption states only
the use of a DOT TOW vehicle. No response
vehicles!
Next was the Discussion of manager requirements for out-of -state Companies
and in-state offices. The board agreed
to leave this
to a AD-Hoc committee.
Next the board discussed enforcement actions.
The Health Dept. found another
scammer locksmith in the phone book with 28 numbers, so the State contacted AT&T about it
and had all of his numbers disconnected.
The board discussed how much licensing revenue was in the account.
Then the board moved to the committee seats that are ending in May
2010.
Matt told everyone to submit their resumes for the openings.
There were not any old or new issues, so Rick Brown said the next meeting would be on
and he called for adjournment.
The meeting ended at
This report was submitted by:
Dusty Brummitt