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INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATION COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
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MARCH 7, 2007
ATTENDANCE: Karen Del Vecchio, Dave Hopp, Dave Lepus, Dave Ross, Dave Wrinn, Gerald Foley, John Giorgio, Larry Manzi, Ralph Valenzisi, Al Kao, Paula Palermo, Frank Sarno, Mike Yeosock
Meeting called to order at 3:08 pm.
1. February 21, 2007 Meeting: approved.
2. RCC: Status of City Telephone Solution: Karen Del Vecchio said there were
5 outstanding questions for ATT, and they sent us updated pricing info and
we should have spreadsheet back on Friday. Also short list was down to three
vendors. There will be a subcommittee meeting to discuss vendors. AT&T
payment records have been sent to them for review. Daylight savings time updates
will be done tomorrow on the call managers.
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: Dave Ross said we had walkthrough
on 3rd quote so we will have by Friday.
5. Training: Adobe Classes for DPW/Legal have started; part one is done. Paula
said she had 7 people attend. Adobe has been ordered for users desktops. Outlook
training in inspector’s office may be done at Fire department.
6. Miscellaneous/New Items
a. Cell phones and push-to-talk: Dave Lepus tried 2 Nextel phones and said
that the service is great and the phone worked much better than the old ones.
Ralph said that Nextel will swap out the existing phones for free, with $45
each additional phone. They do not have windows mobile. Public Works should
also test out the new Nextel dual band phones.
b. One Coast/One Future WiFi Initiative: Karen Del Vecchio said that Diane
in Law department had crafted 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 tested both sides of the train station and had a strong
signal, and tested the maritime aquarium. Service will be turned on next week
and we will have a press conference.
c. Norwalk Government Access Broadcast Content Guidelines Policy development:
no update
d. Firehouse software upgrade: Frank Sarno said he needs to look at Firehouse
data loss issue before he runs the upgrade. Dave Wrinn said the new version
may fix this problem. Dave Lepus said he doesn’t think the data is being overwritten
and the problem is fixed. Dave Wrinn said the data is dumped from the police
system and will not merge data. It’s not an error, it’s just the limitation
of the software. Dave Lepus asked if user training is going to be needed with
the upgrade.
e. Health Dept clinical and environmental system search. Al Kao said that
the RFP will be finished next week. They have looked at three different packages.
Timing was critical as the grant for this initiative expires June 30, 2007.
f. Fleet system upgrade: Karen Del Vecchio said our current version is not
supported. The new version is SQL and will run over WAN. Public works wants
to stay with this system. Upgrade will be around $25,000.00. Budgeted amount
for Fire was $7,300.00. Funds need to be found for this project. Maintenance
will not be available in the near future. Dave Lepus said he would just like
the current version installed. Karen will talk to sales rep. to see if we
can get five more licenses for current version. (2 for dpw, and 3 for fire)
g. Active Directory: Karen Del Vecchio said the core switches should be approved
this week by the Finance committee. John Giorgio and Dave Ross redesigned
the IP addressing Scheme on paper and have to implement. There was discussion
on sharepoint and active directory. Ralph Valenzisi explained how they will
use it for student records.
h. Reverse 911 System: Presentation was given and have not heard feedback.
The meeting was suspended for 15 minutes due to a building fire
alarm.
i. Telstaff – funds need to be spent by the end of the month, we are getting
an updated Contract from Telestaff.
j. Blackberries: We have funding for 10 additional blackberries. Mayor Moccia
and the fire chief will decide who receives one.
7. Consent Calendar
8. For Informational Purposes
a. Next meeting is Wednesday, March 21, 2007, room 101, City Hall
b. Karen Del Vecchio said we may be inviting bids on active directory design
and there was discussion on the procedure.
The meeting adjourned at 4:35 pm
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