INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATION COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES

ITT COMMITTEE MINUTES
April 13, 2005


ATTENDANCE: Larry Manzi, Karen Del Vecchio, Ed Toth, Gerald Foley, Frank Sarno, Dave Lepus, Tom Hamilton, Mike Dolhancryk, Hal Alvord, Rachelle Hayes, Kevin Poruban, Paula Palermo, Chris Buswell, Dave Wrinn.


Meeting was called to order at 3:05 pm

Minutes of the April 6th 2005 meeting were reviewed, and the minutes were
unanimously approved.

City Telephone Solution Status: Karen DelVecchio said the Police phone install is progressing and they are working on T1's between City Hall, Police and McMahon.

RCC: Police Station & McMahon: Dave Wrinn said Police is going well and they are on schedule for the 27th with no forseen delays.

Status of Cabling RFP: Tabled

Status of Copier Award: Gerald Foley said that it is going to the finance committee tomorrow.

Status of MAN: Karen DelVecchio said the Fibertech is continuing to file permits and finish make-ready work, and walk-thru's have been completed for city hall and police building entry. There are no new updates on Erate.

Training: Paula Palermo there were a lot of no shows lately. There will be more training coming up.

Customer Service Center: Karen DelVecchio said that they are working with the law department to finalizing licensing. Hal Alvord stated that we are trying to sync the hardware, software and new personnel.


Miscellaneous/NewItems:

a) BOE 601 pc's installation: Ed Toth said that we are still finalizing the pricing and he should have a quote by next week.

b) Policy on Payphones: Hal Alvord said he has not heard back from CCM, Item was tabled.

c) HR and Time/Attendance system: Karen DelVecchio said that Munis support Kronos and she has Martha Giordano researching. Hal Alvord said he would like to change the current time and attendance method, and in doing so it would free up the personnel that is spending a lot of time on this function. Hal said that he would also like to capture where each resource is being used. Karen suggested that Hal look at Cityworks work order system. Dave Wrinn said that the police department would like to have a new time and attendance system. Frank Sarno said that he has a system that we could look at. Hal said that he wanted Frank to show him the system. There was a general discussion about HR systems and the functionality.

Consent Calendar:

a) Authorize the Purchasing Agent to issue a purchase order for Adobe Acrobat version 7.0 with media per ASAP Software (State of CT contract) quote MTK05032306 for an amount not to exceed $250.00, account 011340-5742 ( Comptroller).
b) Authorize the Purchasing Agent to issue a purchase order to Dell Computer for seven GX280 PCs per quotation 213822592 for the Norwalk Public Library for an amount not to exceed $8,369.62, account 0106200-5741. (replacing 3 year old clones - public access workstations)
Authorize the Purchase Agent to issue a purchase order for 2 Dreamweaver software licenses from ASAP Software quote MTK050401052 for the Norwalk Public Library for an amount not to exceed $718.00, account 0106200-5742. (Reference Staff)

Hal Alvord motioned to approve the consent calendar, Mike Dolhancryk seconded, all were in favor with non opposed.

Other Business:
There were questions and a general discussion about why the BOE would need a separate phone system when a Cisco phone system contract for all three floors of city hall was selected by a bidding process.

Te meeting adjourned at 3:44 pm

respectfully submitted,
Larry Manzi

 

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