INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATION COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES

ITT COMMITTEE MINUTES
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
MAY 16, 2007

ATTENDANCE: Karen Del Vecchio, Dave Lepus, Dave Wrinn, Dave Ross, John Giorgio, Gerald Foley, Larry Manzi, Tom Hamilton.

Meeting called to order at 3:03 pm.

1. May 2nd Meeting Minutes: approved.
2. RCC: Status of City Telephone Solution update from RFP review panel: Karen Del Vecchio indicated she met with the Finance Committee and they unanimously approved the capital expense for the telephone system. The award will go to Total Communications. The project will be on the Council agenda for its next meeting. Working with building management for getting power to the data center. IT department is converting departments to new wiring. There was discussion on how the dog pound is going to be wired.
3. RCC: Status of Norwalk High Phase 1: no updates
4. Training: Public works cancelled yesterday. Needs to be rescheduled. More training being done today. Laptops would be a good idea for a mobile training lab. Looking at getting 7 laptops.
5. Miscellaneous/New Items
a. Cell phones and push-to-talk: Karen Del Vecchio said that Hal Alvord said the Nextel–Sprint push to talk phones worked great.
b. Norwalk Government Access Broadcast Content Guidelines Policy development: no update
c. Firehouse software upgrade: No new changes.
d. Health Dept clinical and environmental system search. Gerald Foley confirmed the RFP was released. Only two vendors responded.
e. Active Directory: Looking at licensing and IP addresses.
f. Blackberry service expansion: Karen Del Vecchio said that she received 10 Blackberry handheld devices from Cingular and Cingular will provide ½ day of hands on training. Attempted to roll out 3 units at the fire department. Others are being rolled out next week.
g. DPW lease copier/scanner capital item (bid document attached). Current model is dead; RFP is created. Printer does plotting and scanning. Funding is in the IT Capital Budget. Gerald Foley said we are trading in the old printer.
h. BOE Capital spending items: Next meeting this will be discussed.

6. Consent Calendar
7. For Informational Purposes
a. Next meeting is Wednesday, June 6th, 2007, room 101, City Hall
The meeting adjourned at 3:45 pm
respectfully Submitted,
Larry Manzi

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