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INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATION COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
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FEBRUARY 21, 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. February 7, 2007 Meeting: approved.
2. RCC: Status of City Telephone Solution: Karen Del Vecchio said that Peter
Berry will have an update of the spread sheet tomorrow and the meeting to
review will be next week.
3. RCC: Status McMahon project Phase 3 and Norwalk High Phase 1: Ralph Valenzisi
said there are no updates.
4. RCC: Status of Cabling Project(s)
a. Fiber connection between City Hall and Health: Karen Del Vecchio said that
as built drawings were received from Phonetel and will be available on the
network. Dave Ross said one bid was 8,700 for 6 strand, and 9,099 for 12 strand,
and other bid was 6,000 for 6 or 12 strand. Third bid is not in yet.
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. Classes
will start next Tuesday and there will be a beginner and intermediate class.
6. Miscellaneous/New Items
a. Cell phones and push-to-talk: Ralph Valenzisi said push to talk will still
be Nextel and sprint will still have their piece. He said he sees that Nextel
cell service will be better. He is getting a few phones in and he will test
them. Ralph is also looking at windows mobile devices.
b. One Coast/One Future WiFi Initiative: Karen Del Vecchio said that Diane
in Law department is reviewing and crafting an “acceptable use” policy for
the City’s WiFi service. Login pages and other pages are created. All hardware
is installed and ready to go. We are waiting for policy from Law before we
make live.
c. Norwalk Government Access Broadcast Content Guidelines Policy development:
Review next week.
d. 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. She will be meeting with Jim Haselcamp to review policy.
e. Firehouse software upgrade: No update.
f. Health Dept clinical and environmental system search. Al Kao said that
the RFP was in the works; estimating the system will cost an estimated $90,000
for 1st year, but timing was critical as the grant for this initiative expires
June 30, 2007.
g. Town Clerk Land Records Index service on norwalkct.org project. Motion:
Authorize the Mayor, Richard Moccia, to execute an amendment to the contract
between the City and New Vision System Corp to provide software and services
to implement internet access to the Town Clerk Land Records Index from the
City’s website. Term of amendment to be coterminous with the existing contract
which expires October, 2008, for an amount not to exceed $575.00 per month,
[assuming April 2007 start = 18 months @ $10,350.00] account 010500-5255,
and forward onto the Finance Committee for further action. Karen said that
New Vision is a turn-key system that will take land records and display online.
The Town clerk has an existing contract until 2008 and then will renegotiate
contract when contract expires. Andy does not want the actual document image
to be displayed. The user must come into City Hall to get the image, but can
see if document exists. Karen handed out a copy of the contract modification.
Gerald Foley asked why the July 1, 2007 date was different than the April
1st date, and Karen said that we have funding that will allow for putting
it up live now. John Georgio asked if we could write this in-house and there
was discussion on what it would take to write. We were not sure if the vendor
would allow us to write the application against the S
QL database. Dave Ross moved to approve , Al Kao, seconded and all were in
favor with none-opposed.
7. Consent Calendar
8. For Informational Purposes
a. Next meeting is Wednesday, March 7, 2007, room 101, City Hall
The meeting adjourned at 4:47 pm
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