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INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATION COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
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ATTENDANCE: Karen Del Vecchio, Frank Sarno, Dave Hopp, Dave Lepus, Dave Ross, Dave Wrinn, Gerald Foley, John Giorgio, Paula Palermo.
Meeting called to order about 3:05 pm.
1. Minutes of December 20, 2006 Meeting: approved as amended.
2. RCC: Status of City Telephone Solution: RFP Review Committee met today
and will invite 4 vendors to continue working with the City to understand
their proposals. The Committee set February 6th as the date to interview the
4 vendors. Everyone on the Committee was asked to send Karen their questions
to ask the 4 vendors on February 6. Gerald will send out invitations to the
4 vendors to further explain their proposal and answer our questions.
3. RCC: Status McMahon project Phase 3 and Norwalk High Phase 1: Nothing new
to report.
4. RCC: Status of Cabling Project(s)
a. Fire stations: we have received all but the as-built drawings. (The Volk
drawings are 48 MB too big to send over e-mail.)
b. Fiber connection between City Hall and Health: Phonetel will present their
proposal on Friday, January 19th.
c. Health Department: Karen asked Al Kao about getting power to the new wiring
cabinet and noted that it must be on the generator. He said all power in Health
is on the generator and he can take care of it when he knows how much power
he needs.
5. Training: Paula said she has not yet developed the Adobe Classes for DPW/Legal
but can start at any time. Karen suggested that she develop a beginner course
for Legal and an intermediate course for DPW and that she talk to Hal first
about their needs. She sent a Word tutorial to John K. She has a curriculum
available for Bill Perkins in the Fire Department for train the trainer.
6. Miscellaneous/New Items
a. Cell phones and push-to-talk: Cingular push to talk phones. Al said he
thought they had not yet enabled it.
b. One Coast/One Future WiFi Initiative: One Coast contracts signed. We are
waiting for new phone lines with upgraded wiring. Equipment to be ordered
and Thursday is the kick off meeting.
c. Norwalk and Government Access: Larry is not here to report.
d. DPW Garage Copier: New copier no numbers yet as Gerald not here
e. Internet acceptable use policy: Productivity issues we will make the info
available to Dept Heads. Still reviewing policy and looking at the trends
of usage. Dave Wrinn’s Pix can use our websense but he has not implemented
it. Fire and Police acceptable use policy from personnel so we can address
chain letters.
f. Norwalk Library: We received 3 quotes: tabled till Tom is here to talk
about it.
g. Firehouse software Upgrade: Fire house upgrade disks arrived today and
we will commence installation. Issues: Nexgen piece; client side may be very
different. We will talk to Firehouse to see about training issues, who uses
it and how do they use it? Tony Matera is probably the best person to test
it. We may need training from Peter the Greek. We should be installing the
Test version
h. BOE: Tabled per Ralph V.
i. Health Dept looking for software that will be server based for environmental
inspections. Current system uses a foxpro database and they want to use SQL.net.
Narrowed search to 3 vendors. Environmental and Clinical in one basket but
implement environmental first. 2 of 3 have the clinical piece. Cost $150,000
using grant money $97,000 per year. Ongoing costs for support, maintenance,
etc different pricing models but about $45,000 per year maintenance. Initial
cost 60,000. Migration of data from legacy costs – included in costs. They
will put an RFP out soon. Grant money goes away end of June.
j. Grants for purchasing Telstaff has been extended to end of March but no
paperwork yet to guarantee we will be reimbursed. Karen said she will not
order it until we get that guarantee.
7. For Informational Purposes: The next meeting will be February 7th.
The meeting adjourned about 4:35.
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