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INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATION COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
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FEBRUARY 7, 2007
ATTENDANCE: Karen Del Vecchio, Hal Alvord, Dave Hopp, Dave Lepus, Dave Ross, Dave Wrinn, Gerald Foley, John Giorgio, Larry Manzi, Ralph Valenzisi, Tom Schadlich, Al Kao,
Meeting called to order at 3:05 pm.
1. January 17, 2007 Meeting: approved.
2. RCC: Status of City Telephone Solution: Vendor meeting yesterday, outstanding
info needs to be entered into spreadsheet. References will be followed up
on. Pricing needs to be updated so we are comparing at apples to apples.
3. RCC: Status McMahon project Phase 3 and Norwalk High Phase 1: Ralph Valenzisi
said that Norwalk High has new principal and McMahon principal is leaving
next year. Norwalk High Phase 1 update will be given at next ITT meeting.
McMahon may be missing equipment for door buzzers.
4. RCC: Status of Cabling Project(s)
a. Fiber connection between City Hall and Health: Dave Ross said we had one
bid from Phonetel, and we are waiting on 2 other bids.
5. Training: Adobe Classes for DPW/Legal are ready to go with Paula, however,
we need to install the correct version of Adobe in the training room.
6. Miscellaneous/New Items
a. Cell phones and push-to-talk: Dave Lepus said there was a 10 second delay
on push to talk but the 10 second delay is only for the 1st transmission,
overall performance is better than Nextel.
b. One Coast/One Future WiFi Initiative: Sono train station line is installed;
it should be about a week to install equipment. Aquarium will be installed
at the same time. Met with Tad Diesel to look at marketing materials for WiFi
and have meeting tomorrow with Diane in Law department to review and craft
policies on using WiFi.
c. Norwalk Government Access Broadcast Content Guidelines Policy development:
Review next week.
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 said the term would be shorter so the price will be more per month.
e. Internet Acceptable use policy: Karen Del Vecchio said the City policy
for email and internet access needs to be revisited on an ongoing basis as
technology advances.
f. Norwalk Library (Main) Administration Wing wiring project (approved capital
project for 06-07) quotes received. Tom Schadlich said that he has 3 quotes
with the lowest one being Phonetel. Motion: Authorize the Purchasing Agent
to issue a purchase order to Phontel of Wallingford, Ct, for the installation
of voice and data cabling in the Administrative wing of the Norwalk Public
Library in an amount not to exceed $5,600.00 per quotation dated 1/10/2007,
(accounts 09070600-5777-C0375=$3838.50 and 016200-5245=$1761.50; 2006/2007
approved capital budget item; no special appropriation required) and forward
onto the Finance Committee, if required, for further action. Dave Ross moved
to approve, Al Kao seconded, all were in favor with none-opposed.
g. Firehouse software upgrade: Dave Ross said that software, client and SQL
server installed but still need to migrate existing Foxpro database to new
SQL database.
h. Board of Education: Computers for Norwalk High and SmartBoards for pilot
at Middle & High schools. Ralph Valenzisi said he is still looking at
smart board models and prices. Dave Hopp gave handouts to ITT committee showing
dell quote for 25 computers for the Norwalk High Library. Ralph said that
the existing computers are over 5 years old and in need of replacement. There
was general discussion on Dell taking back old pc’s for free. Motion: Authorize
the Purchasing Agent to issue a purchase order to Dell Computer to refresh
25 PCs with software in the Norwalk High School Library for an amount not
to exceed $22,266.50 per Dell quotation 3467845732, dated 2/7/2007 and 331116296,
dated 11/22/06, account 0907501050-5777-C0112 (Board of Education 2006/2007
Capital Budget item; no special appropriation required) and forward onto Land
Use Committee for further action. Hal Alvord moved to approve, Dave Wrinn
seconded, and all were in favor, none-opposed.
i. Vmware and I-scsi sans: Dave Ross explained Vmware 3.0 benefits and gave
overview of our current Vmware status, explaining that we currently have 28
physical servers and Vmware can run one physical server with 15 logical servers.
We would like to get down to 5 physical servers which would save on energy
and air conditioning as well as floor space. We would need to upgrade to Vmware
3.0 first. Motion: Authorize the purchasing agent to issue a purchase order
to Precision Computer Services of Shelton for VMWare Version 3.0 upgrade and
Gold Support for an amount not to exceed $4,700.00, per quotation 010907-2,
dated Jan 9, 2007, account 010600-5742. Tom Schadlich moved to approve, Dave
Wrinn seconded, and all were in favor, none-opposed. Dave Ross explained how
storage area networking uses IP for communications and how many servers could
use the same SAN. Some benefits would be consolidation of disk storage, hot
swappable drives, memory, redundant power supply and NIC. Dave researching
configurations and pricing.
j. Health Dept clinical and environmental system search. Al Kao said that
the RFP was in the works, but timing was critical as the grant for this initiative
expires June 30, 2007.
k. There was general discussion on archiving data/email.
l. Gerald Foley said that the Town Clerk’s imaging system is a powerful system
that can be used by other departments.
m. Karen Del Vecchio said that the Town Clerk is looking at software that
will give access to land records data via the Internet. New Vision is the
company that currently provides access for the public in the Town Clerks office.
Larry Manzi said that the internet access could be password protected and
used by other city departments to access land record data and images whereas
the public would only be able to access the data. Karen said we would have
more information on this at the next meeting.
7. Consent Calendar
8. For Informational Purposes
a. Next meeting is Wednesday, February 21, 2007, room 101, City Hall
The meeting adjourned at 4:47 pm
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