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INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATION COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
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December 14, 2005
ATTENDANCE: Terry Morris, Gerald Foley, Karen Del Vecchio, Tom Schadlich, Peter Berry, Dave Wrinn, Larry Manzi, Dave Lepus, Paula Palermo, Frank Sarno, Hal Alvord, Al Kao, Chris Buswell.
Meeting was called to order at 3:03 PM.
The minutes from the December 7th meeting were approved.
Status of Telephone Solution: Karen Del Vecchio said the council approved the amendment for the contract with AT&T, spoke with Law dept. about contract and final draft was sent to them. Original contract will be amended by Law and Peter Nolan will review it. Terry Morris said DBO did great job on cutover of voice traffic at Police Department. Dave Wrinn said that testing of the phone went well.
RCC: Status of McMahon project: Peter Berry said there was a debate about the power and if it is in all the closets, but it was checked and it is in. Fiber needs to be labeled. Telsource will be starting on Monday to get the closets finished and should be done by January 1, 2006.
Status of South Norwalk Library Project: no updates
Status of Cabling RFP: Karen Del Vecchio said contractor had concerns about legal requirements, and meeting will be setup with the contractor this week. Dave Lepus asked about wiring at his stations. Peter Berry said the money is in there to do the wiring. Terry Morris said we should look at running fiber from basement to the City IT Center.
Status of MAN:
Training: Paula Palermo said she would like to do training at DPW facility in January.
Customer Service Center: Hal Alvord said more training has been done. They are also creating a rolling punch list. Go live will be next month.
Miscellaneous/New Items:
Cell phones and PTT communications: Gerald Foley said push to talk phones would be in soon to test. Once the devices are in, each department can test them out.
MUNIS Version 2004/ upgrade: No changes over the past week.
SBC local and long distance contract expiring: Gerald Foley said it was posted yesterday. Karen Del Vecchio said that she had some comments and feedback for Gerald and she will email them.
Consent Calendar:
Dave Lepus asked if Firehouse software was discussed by Mike
Dolhancryk. Dave Wrinn said we need to order the CAD monitor (nexgen to firehouse
module) to pull the data over. Dave Lepus said we don’t know where we stand
on this. Dave Wrinn said January 14th, 2006 is the date he was given for consolidated
dispatch to be live.
Dave Wrinn also said that Telstaff is moving forward and we need to have the
IT department involved.
Al Kao requested needs for DSL service and firewall, the money will be from a grant. This will prevent the city from being at risk for opening ports.
Dave Lepus said they are looking at going with First Look Pro, hardware and software.
Next meeting with be December 21st, and the December 28th meeting will be cancelled.
The meeting adjourned at 3:56 pm
respectfully submitted,
Larry Manzi
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