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INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATION COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
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ATTENDANCE: Larry Manzi, Karen Del Vecchio, Dave Hopp, Tom Hamilton, Dave Lepus, Dave Ross, Tom Schaldich, Ralph Valenzisi, Frank Sarno, Mike Yeosock, Gerald Foley.
Meeting called to order at 3:05 pm.
1. Minutes of December 20, 2006 Meeting: approved.
2. RCC: Status of City Telephone Solution: Received six proposals back. Eleven
firms were at prebid meeting. Questions went back out to vendors with responses
due January 4th.
3. RCC: Status McMahon project Phase 3 and Norwalk High Phase 1: Dave Hopp
said that wireless access points need to get in, and there are some missing
drawing pages. There was discussion on phone system of Norwalk High.
4. RCC: Status of Cabling Project(s)
a. Fire stations: Completed all stations. January 2nd walk through to approve
work and every thing looks good; vendor did an excellent job. Waiting for
test results and cabling as-builts.
b. Fiber connection between City Hall and Health: Dave Ross said walk through
next week.
5. Training: Adobe Classes for DPW/Legal under development by Paula.
6. Miscellaneous/New Items
a. Cell phones and push-to-talk: Gerald Foley said we have several requests
for Blackberries. There was discussion on who was supposed to be issued Blackberries
based on the lists from the former Director of Emergency Preparedness. This
prompted discussion of the Board of Ed emergency operation plan for each school
dependence on PTT communications with other City emergency and public safety
services. The City should change to one common platform. BOE and Recreation
and Parks are on month-to-month contracts. There was discussion of which departments
have what service. Dave Lepus said the cell carriers could give public service
priority over normal users.
b. One Coast/One Future WiFi Initiative: Contract with the vendor should be
executed this week. The City is authorized to go ahead with project and council
was approved. DBO will be executing the installation of the project.
c. Norwalk Government Access Broadcast Content Guidelines Policy development:
Policy was attached last week. Larry Manzi contacted Marge Costa, the ANCC
representative for Norwalk, and asked if other towns will share their guidelines.
d. New copier for DPW Center (upgrade to include scanning, network printing).
The copier is for the public works garage and they want to scan and process
pdfs and have network access. This did not get replaced during the refresh.
Gerald getting prices for upgrading this copier to the new City-wide copier
contract and to include the necessary hardware and software to network the
unit.
e. Internet Acceptable use policy: Karen Del Vecchio said the City policy
for email and internet access needs to be revisit for applicability and accuracy.
Dave Ross has started the review process.
f. Board of Education Technology Plan/2007 Capital Budget presentation: Ralph
Valenzisi reviewed the BOE proposed capital budget. Ralph reviewed the long-range
plan, what they are doing now, status of schools, district status, capital
requests and the Microsoft migration.
g. Norwalk Library (Main) Administration Wing wiring project (approved capital
project for 06-07) quotes received. Tabled until next meeting (getting comparable
quotes from each vendor).
h. Firehouse software upgrade: Dave Ross is looking into it currently and
we need to fix problems created by Nexgen.
i. Enhancing Internet service: Dave Ross said that Optonline will provide
us 10 meg internet outbound and we can still keep DSL for static IP’s and
inbound connections. Optonline will be for outbound, providing the capability
for load balancing.
7. For Informational Purposes
Next meeting is Wednesday, January 17, 2007, room 101, City Hall
The meeting adjourned at 4:45 pm
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