INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND TELELCOMMUNICATION COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES

ITT COMMITTEE MINUTES

March 10, 2004

ATTENDANCE: Gerald Foley, Larry Manzi, Dave Lepus, Rick Hayes, John Lindquist, Ed Toth, Bob Mcgregor, Craig Reichenbach, David Wrinn, Chris Buswell, Peter Berry,
Ed Schmidt, Tom Hamilton, Tom Schadlich, Mike Yeosock, Hal Alvord, Kevin Poruban, DBO representatives.

Meeting was called to order at 1:10 pm

Peter Berry reviewed MAN and Digital Back Office open issues such as 200 hours in contract, 10 year lease and what happens at end of lease, and erate reimbursement issues.
Joe (DBO) asked for key dates, priorities for all projects in the MAN.
John Lindquist suggested pricing out loops and setting priorities in case erate does not go through in time.
City Hall, Police, MCMahon and Volk Fire Station were identified as key locations (MAN).
Ed Schmidt said that Norwalk Hospital wants to be included in the MAN.
There was concern about Disaster Recovery for New Police station and whether it will be ready when the Police Station goes live.
A subcommitte for the DBO MAN status was created with the following members:
Peter Berry, Craig Reichenbach, Hal Alvord, Ed Schmidt, Dave Wrinn.

The IP addressing Subcommittee needs to set a meeting with DBO.

Peter gave status of Telephony Solution solution. Gerald Foley had 25 comments that were answered or built back into RFP.
Phone RFP should be out by next week. Data was sent to all departments and a response needs to be received by all departments by next Monday so Peter can make changes.
Exhibits for phone system went out yesterday and need to be reviewed.
Gerald Foley expressed concern about timing and compatability with existing phone systems.
BOE wanted wording about existing systems and comments about integration and compatability by vendors. Also equipment pricing should be seperated for City and Schools and also priced for both.
Ed Schmidt mentioned that the vendor/system selected with be the model for the other buildings.

Hilink was selected as the vendor for the RFP 2069 Backup and Restore after a re-interview of all final vendors and is on the agenda for the finance committee tomorrow.
Total cost is aprox. $86,000 and includes a veritas solution.
The Itt committee approved the selection of HiLink.

Peter Berry gave status report of MCMahon and Police projects.
Rcc is reviewing several bids for dispatch center equipment.
Peter will submit status to gerald foley.

Status of remote access RFP was given by Rick Hayes.
The cost is Aprox. $10,000 for 50 clients and $6700 for 25 clients.
He is looking into other vendors/products currently.

Hal Alvord has requested 5 pc's and a server which he will submit next week with the proper form.

The meeting adjourned at 2:50 p.m.
Respectfully submitted
Larry Manzi

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