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INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATION COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
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ATTENDANCE: Larry Manzi, Karen Del Vecchio, Dave Hopp, Mike Yeosock, Hal Alvord, Gerald Foley, Dave Ross, John Georgio, Dave Wrinn, Frank Sarno, Tom Schadlich, Ralph Valenzisi, Paula Palermo, Tom Hamilton.
Meeting called to order at 3:05 pm.
1. Minutes of November 15, 2006 Meeting: approved.
2. RCC: Status of City Telephone Solution: Received six proposals back. Review
Committee was set in September. Eleven firms were at prebid meeting. Meeting
to review and short list proposals was last Friday. Questions are going back
out to all vendors.
3. RCC: Status McMahon project Phase 3: Dave Hopp said training tomorrow.
10 access points and antennas are installed.
4. RCC: Status of Cabling Project(s)
a. Fire stations: Completed all stations with the exception of stations 1
& 4. PC anywhere will be removed and they should be hooked up next week
to the MAN.
b. Fiber connection between City Hall and Health: Now that John Georgio is
on board we will look into this more.
5. Training: Paula said that last training was in the Law Department on Adobe.
Hal Alvord said that his department needs some training on Adobe. Hal said
they have electronic RFP’s and RFQ’s that are very large. He creates pdf's
with these and he needs to make changes to pdf’s. Hal said he also needs electronic
document management. There was discussion on electronic document management
and costs.
6. Miscellaneous/New Items
a. Cell phones and push-to-talk: Gerald said no updates.
b. Time and Attendance Systems: Tom Hamilton said that now that the MAN is
in place and and IT department staffed, the City should revisit the time and
attendance systems used in several departments. BOE has a system for custodians
but it does not feed into payroll. Tom said there were a lot of collective
bargaining issues. Setup and Administration is something that would be a big
undertaking. Tom Hamilton suggested that someone from the outside review department
needs and help with coming up with the RFP.
c. One Coast/One future WiFi : Intent was to provide free internet access
to the public areas. Two sites have been located, Maritime Aquarium Café
& South Norwalk Train station. Money needs to be spent by December 31st
2006. ITT and Pubic Works Committee approved and the item will go on council
agenda on Tuesday. DSL service was recommended by DBO. Ralph said they have
some antennas that we could have.
d. City and Board of Education Capital Requests:
· Motion: Approve the Board of Education request to purchase the Dell
laptops and desktops for an amount not to exceed (Ralph to provide) as per
the 2006/2007 Board of Education Technology Plan and Capital Budget (no special
appropriation required; budgeted item). 50 pc’s at $817.45, and 25 per school
x 8 schools
at $964.68 (laptops) for total of $233,808.50 Dave Wrinn Motioned to approve,
and Frank Sarno seconded, all were in favor.
· Motion: Approve the Board of Education request to purchase Digital
Cameras for an amount not to exceed $35,000.00 as per the 2006/2007 Board
of Education Technology Plan and Capital Budget (no special appropriation
required; budgeted item) to meet no child left behind requirements, need a
10 pack of cameras for each building, they are purchasing 180 cameras, bids
are due back next week.
Hal Alvord motioned to approve, Dave Wrinn seconded, and all were in favor.
Ralph explained the above 2 items for the laptops and desktops in the classrooms
and labs.
e. Board of Education: Multi-media projectors for K-12 schools. Ralph said
this was for informational purposes only.
f. IT Capital Budget Request for 2007/2008 briefing: Karen said she completed
meeting with most departments about budget needs and created a spreadsheet.
Karen reviewed the spreadsheet with the group.
g. Norwalk Government Access Broadcast Content Guidelines Policy development:
We are broadcasting on channel 79 now, and looking to create guidelines for
content to broadcast on the channel. We have a copy of Easton’s guidelines
and they can be used as a starting point in creating Norwalk’s guidelines.
7. Consent Calendar
a. None.
8. For Informational Purposes
a. Next meeting is Wednesday, December 20, 2006, room 101, City Hall
b. Police Department purchase of laptops (City standard specification) for
2 School Resource Offices for access to Police Network Resources; funded by
Asset Forfeiture; amount $4,553.94.
c. Police Department purchase of 5 PCs (City standard specification) for new
interview rooms; funded from Asset Forfeiture; amount $6,830.00.
d. Renewal of annual email spam filtering service, funded budget item in 010600-5245;
amount $1,000.00.
e. Renewal of Outlook Web Access and VPN concentrator authentication appliance
for $3,100.00
f. Cisco Instant and Mobile Integrated Communications Solution & IP Interoperability
& Collaboration demo at Police scheduled for December 13, 10am – noon.
The meeting adjourned at 4:55 pm
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