Boards and Committees

Board of Directors

The Dakota Communications Center (DCC) is headed by the Board of Directors, a 12-member board consisting of an elected official from each jurisdiction. Each Member of the DCC will have one seat on the Board of Directors and is entitled to one vote. The Chair is Inver Grove Heights Mayor, George Tourville and the Vice-Chair is Rosemount Mayor, Bill Droste.

BOARD
Member	Representative	Position	Alternate	Position
Apple Valley	John Bergman	Councilmember	Clint Hooppaw	Councilmember
Burnsville	Mary Sherry	Councilmember	TBD
Dakota County	Liz Workman	Commissioner	Tom Egan	Commissioner
Eagan	Gary Hansen	Councilmember	Cyndee Fields	Councilmember
Farmington	Todd Larson	Mayor	Steve Wilson	Councilmember
Hastings	Mike Slavik	Councilmember	Paul Hicks	Mayor
Inver Grove Heights	George Tourville	Mayor	Dennis Madden	Councilmember
Lakeville	Laurie Rieb	Councilmember	Kerrin Swecker	Councilmember
Mendota Heights	Ultan Duggan	Councilmember	Sandra Krebsbach	Councilmember
Rosemount	Jeff Weisensel	Councilmember	Bill Droste	Mayor
South St. Paul	Beth Baumann	Mayor	Tom Seaberg	Councilmember
West St. Paul	Jim Englin	Councilmember	Ed Iago	Councilmember

The Board of Directors has many functions and duties including:

• Provide policy leadership and approve the general policies of DCC relating to budget, finance, and legal matters;
• Approve annual operating and capital budgets of DCC;
• Hire, discipline, terminate, and set the compensation for the Executive Director; and much more.

 

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee consists of 12 members – an Administrator or Manager from each participating jurisdiction. Each Member will have one seat on the Executive Committee and be entitled to one vote, (with the Chair of the Executive Committee entitled to a second vote in case of a tie). The Chair is Dave Osberg, City Administrator of Hastings and the Vice-Chair is Joe Lynch, City Administrator of Inver Grove Heights.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Member	Representative	Position	Alternate	Position
Apple Valley	Tom Lawell	City Administrator	Charles Grawe	Assistant City Administrator
Burnsville	Craig Ebeling	City Manager	Tom Hansen	Deputy City Manager/COO
Dakota County	Brandt Richardson	County Administrator	BJ Battig	Risk and Homeland Security Manager
Eagan	Tom Hedges	City Administrator	Gene Vanoverbeke	Admin Services Director
Farmington	David McKnight	City Administrator	Robin Roland	Finance Director
Hastings	Dave Osberg	City Administrator	Melanie Mesko Lee	Assistant City Administrator
Inver Grove Heights	Joe Lynch	City Administrator	Jenelle Teppen	Assistant City Administrator
Lakeville	Steve Mielke	City Administrator	Tom Vonhof	Police Chief
Mendota Heights	TBD	City Administrator	Mike Aschenbrener	Police Chief
Rosemount	Dwight Johnson	City Administrator	Emmy Foster	Assistant City Administrator
South St. Paul	Stephen King	City Administrator	Dan Vujovich	Police Chief
West St. Paul	TBD	City Administrator	Sherrie Le	Assistant City Manager

The Executive Committee has many functions and duties including:

• Carry out the policy decisions of the Board of Directors and make recommendations to the Board of Directors;
• Review all administrative decisions concerning personnel, development efforts, operations, cost sharing, and operational decisions made by the Executive Director as deemed necessary by the Committee; and
• Review, modify, and approve to the proposed annual operating and capital budgets prepared by the Executive Director prior to submittal to Board of Directors.

 

Operations Committee

The Operations Committee is comprised of 25 police, fire, and EMS personnel, one from each DCC Member law enforcement agency and fire department as well as one representative from the Dakota County EMS Council. Each Member of the DCC will have a maximum of two votes on the Operations Committee – one from the law enforcement agency and one from the fire agency of that Member.

Currently the Operations Committee meets as a whole, with two subcommittees: the Law Enforcement Operations Committee and the Fire/EMS Operations Committee. The purpose of the two sub-committees it to cover the high volume of start up topics related to law enforcement, fire, and EMS personnel (radio selection, building design, dispatch policies, etc).

The Operations Committee has many functions and duties including serving as:

• Personal contact at each DCC member’s law enforcement or fire/EMS department for the Executive Director for daily procedural and operational issues; and
• A resource to the Executive Committee in researching special topics of interest; coordinate field training and back-up exercises.