After eleven
months of enduring obfuscation to outright lies from Keith Heenan and Bob Ockerman, I could not ignore that I had
been drawn into a put-up job to distract attention away from the actual reasons for Heenan's
and Ockerman's refusal to address my homestead, the truth of which is unbrevealed today.
I persisted and
my request was eventually placed on the E-911 Board's agenda for its meeting of October 11,
2007. The agenda and the minutes for that
meeting follow:
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DALLAS COUNTY
E911 SERVICE BOARD MEETING
THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 11, 20075 7PM
DALLAS COUNTY
CARE FACILITY
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TENTATIVE AGENDA
CALL MEETING TO ORDER:
SILENT ROLL CALL:
APPROVE AGENDA:
APPROVE MINUTES FROM LAST MEETING:
OLD BUSINESS:
NEW BUSINESS:
• CARL HAYS REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL ADDRESSES
• 911 ORDINANCE CHANGE
• IOWA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS REQUEST TO RE-NAME
R AVE BETWEEN 1-80 AND VAN METERS NORTH CITY LIMITS • DALLAS
COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER TEMPORARY
RELOCATION
• FINANCIAL STATEMENT
• QWEST QUOTE FOR PSAP UGRADES TO POWER 911
• WOOD WARD FIRE DEPARTMENT REQUEST FOR CHARGER REIMBURSEMENT
• CITY OF VAN METER FUNDING REQUEST
• DALLAS CENTER POLICE DEPARTMENT FUNDING REQUEST • REDFIELD
FIRE DEPARTMENT FUNDING REQUEST
• 911 COORDINATOR REQUEST FOR MILEAGE REIMBURSEMENT INCREASE
OTHER BUSINESS:
ADJOURN:
[END OF AGENDA FOR
OCTOBER 11, 2007]
Dallas County
E911 Service Board Meeting.
Minutes: October II, 2007
A silent roll was taken. Those in attendance were:
Bob Ockerman, E911 Chair
Don Wilson, City of Redfield
Teresa Nolan, City of Redfield
Michelle Leonard, City of Dallas Center
Mitch Price, City of Dallas Center
Ron Steilen, City of Dallas Center
Ken Cavanaugh, Woodward Fire and Rescue
Garber [sic. Amber] Williams, Dallas County News
Ron Flam, City of Miñburn
Barry HaIling, Dallas County Emergency Management
Keith Heenan, E 911 Coordinator
John Korkie, Quest
Don Young, Quest
Glenda Hiddleson, City of Dawson
Mark Hersch, City of Dallas Center
Lyle Griswold, City df Granger
Jim McNeill, City of Adel
Allan Adams, City ofVan Meter
Chad Leonard, DalIaè County Sherriff
Chad Hiddleson, Secretary
Ockerman called the meeting to order at approximately 7PM.
Agenda Approval
Heenan said there were a few items that needed to be added to
the agenda for tonite.
1. Dawson Fire dept' funding request for generator
2. Dallas Center funding request
3. Griswold was to make request for Granger funding
Adams moved to approve the agenda
Flam 2nd
Motion carried
Approval of Minutes:
McNeil made a motion to approve the minutes from the last
meeting. 2nd by Cavanaugh
Motion carried
Note: G1 through G6 refer to foootnotes found
below at the end of this article.
New Business:
It was said that[G1] previous to
this meeting, a ruling was made to deny the request of a Mr. Carl Hayes to
address the location of his residence 24002
- 260th Street [sic 26000 O Lane]. Also prior to the October E911
board meeting, Mr. Hayes was told he could bring his appeal to the October
meeting for the E911 board members to deliberate[G2] . Due to the
location of the primary driveway of the Carl Hayes residence, it was decided by
the E911 board that the previous ruling was justified due to the GPS'd location
of said driveway, and its location along 260th street within the section where
the driveway entrance was located (23996 - 260th Street). The additional
secondary driveway was also addressed according to the GPS'd location within
the street and section where the center of the driveway was located (23998 -
260th Street[G3] ).
Ockerman said
that based on other Counties' procedures, the addresses are based on the
predominant driveway. He further stated that the Warren, Madison and Boone
County ordinances had been reviewed and that the same procedures for rural
addressing existed in those counties in order to promote the general safety and
welfare for residences to receive emergency services[G4]
It
was decided by the E911 board, due to safety considerations for which the new
911 addressing system was developed in the first place, that there would be no
further action by the E911 board to grant Mr. Hayes' request.
Section
11:01 Purpose: The ordinance mandates the use of a uniform rural address system
for residents of Dallas County in order to promote the convenience, safety and
general welfare of those residents.
Section
11:03 Addressing System (revised from ordinance 11:02): The Board shall cause
to, have installed, signs for every person owning, controlling, occupying or
using any house, store, storeroom or building situated on premises, fronting
any public way. The
assigned number will be platted by GPS at the center of the primary entrance to
the premises and will not approve multiple addresses to a premise.[G6]
A
motion was made by Griswold to approve the new ordinances.
2nd
by McNeill
Motion
carried
Heenan
mentioned that the Iowa Department of Veteran's Affairs had requested that a
portion of R16 (located between 180 and the bridge North of Van Meter) be
changed to "Veterans Memorial Dr".
Allen
made a motion to approve the street name change.
2nd
by McNeill
Motion
carried
Heenan
mentioned that the Dallas County Communication center relocation is now being
considered a permanent location.
_______________________________ ___________________________
Bob Ockerman, Chairman Chad Hiddleson, Secretary
[END OF E-911
BOARD MINUTES FOR OCTOBER11,2007
[G1]It was Bob Ockerman who "said," and what he said was "Keith and I have already denied this request but if anybody wants to, speak up." No other Board member spoke.
[G3]Here
is the same litany of of imagination I had heard for 11 months. Notice that these reasons are claimed for the
exact same location that the Board had addressed ass 2998 260th
Street 11 months earlier, then changed the address of the same location to
25998 O Avenue. GPS readings don't
lie!
[G4]Ockerman's
statement is patently untrue.
Furthermore it is wholly irrelevant; Dallas County's Ordinance, Section
11:02, ,below flies in the face of Ockerman's remarks.
[G5]This
is really, really clever. If ever you
seek to witness blatant changing the rules after the fact to suit a nefarious
purpose, see comment G6 below.
