INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATION COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES

ITT COMMITTEE MINUTES
January 19, 2005

ATTENDANCE: Larry Manzi, Karen Del Vecchio, Dave Lepus, Gerald Foley, Steve Mandas, Kevin Poruban, Chris Buswell, Paula Palermo, Rachelle Hayes, Frank Sarno, Tom Hamilton, David Wrinn, Hal Alvord, Michael Dolhancryk, Tom Schadlich, Al Kao, Ed Schmidt.

Meeting was called to order at 3:05 pm

Minutes of January 12, 2004 were reviewed and the minutes were unanimously approved.

City Telephone Solution Status: Steve Mandas said AT&T the statement of work and it was unacceptable. It is being rewritten and will be reviewed. The project manager has been contacted and will be here next week. Karen DelVecchio said we may need to reserve the block of 3500 numbers at a cost of $1,800 or we will lose them. Tom Hamilton suggested that we do not reserve the entire block of numbers if the are not consectutive. There was a discussion on reserving a smaller block of numbers.

RCC: Police Station & McMahon: There will be a coordination meeting with SBC tomorrow. McMahon is proceding at pace. Cablevision will be installing Cable TV and Inet soon.

Status of Cabling RFP: Steve Mandas said that the allocation was exhausted, and RCC will resubmit for additional funding.

Status of MAN: Karen DelVecchio said the fully executed contract from DBO was sent back. Erate must be kept separate when cutting checks.

Status of Copier RFP: Gerald Foley said that he will setup a meeting to review submissions next week.

Training: No Updates.

Customer Service Center: Hal Alvord said that Law reviewed the standard forms and found the license agreement and maintenance agreement was not acceptable. They must be redone.

Miscellaneous/NewItems:

a) Registrar of Voters data conversion and network access: Frank Sarno converted the voters file to the state format and the registrars signed off on the conversion. There was discussion on if both systems will be used and how the will be maintained and syncronized. Ed Schmidt said that Norwalk needs to be compliant with the state. Karen DelVecchio suggested making the local system read-only after the cut over is done. Rachelle Hayes said the connection for the dual system was in place and Rachelle was asked to connect the Voters to the Dual system.

b) Active Directory implementation: No updates.

c) Boe bid request for 601 pc's: No one from BOE attending, tabled until next week. Ed Schmidt said that all questions about this item should be sent to Karen DelVecchio.

d) Library E-rate filings: Tom S. said that last year Dave Cornett filed the Erate for the library and Dave would not go down in price. Tom said he will file Erate for the Library based on last years and that timing may be an issue because we must show "use of services". Tom asked Karen DelVecchio to send him a copy of what was filed last year.

Consent Calendar
a. Authorize the Purchasing Agent to execute a purchase order for 14 Dell Computers OptiPlex GX280 PCs per quotation 193930344 for an amount not to exceed $14,643.86 account 013058-5741 (ref: swing equipment for new Police Department). See attachment.

Hal Alvord moved to approve the consent calendar, Chris Buswell seconded with non opposed.

For Informational Purposes: 911 pc's and printers will be added to the agenda
next week.

The meeting adjourned at 4:30 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,
Larry Manzi

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