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INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATION COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
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ITT COMMITTEE MINUTES
April 14, 2004
ATTENDANCE: Gerald Foley, Larry Manzi, Dave Lepus, Frank Sarno, Al Kao, Craig
Reichenbach, Rachelle Hayes, Chris Buswell, John Lindquist, Dave Wrinn, Hal
Alvord, Ed Schmidt, Tom Hamilton, Mike Yeosock, Paula Palermo, Steve Mandas,
Kevin Poruban, Ed Toth
Meeting was called to order at 1:07 pm
Minutes of April 7, 2004 were reviewed. John Lindquist moved to approve the
minutes. Minutes were
unanimously approved.
John Lindquist reported that Stamford has just received a homeland
security grant and we should look
into this grant for Norwalk.
City Telephone System: Peter Berry had a discussion on location of conduit and demarcation point. Peter stated that moving the demarcation point would be done by SBC and would be outside the scope of the RFP. Also on multiparty conference calls and the needs of the city.
John Lindquist said VOIP is not currently allowed for Erate
and the city needs to address this in the future in order to maximize Erate.
There was also a question of the number of phone lines that will be recorded
at the police station.
There was a question of if the phone auto attendant should have spanish as
well as english.
Most committee members agreed that spanish is needed.
City MAN status: Base contract currently being worked out with
city law department. Pre-engineering scope
of work approved by Common Council last night. Peter said DBO must finish
pre-engineering before giving
us the final pricing/proposal details. Craig Reichenbach asked if DBO could
give us a more detailed outline,
and Peter said he would ask DBO.
Police Station Status: Steve Mandas met with all parties involved
in the police/fire combined dispatch to discuss specifics including raised
flooring, future additional consoles and how to determine cut-over plans.
Kevin
Poruban asked about UPS scalibility and redundancy of the generator. Dave
Wrinn said the UPS had no up-scalibility. The total time the UPS could provide
backup was not known, but Dave Wrinn said it was only for cut over to the
generator. RCC agreed to look into how long the UPS would provide power.
BOE Brookside Network Hardware and Middle School Tech Lab: Gerald
Foley will have RFP out tomorrow
for the Brookside Network Hardware. John Lindquist asked for more detail in
the item descriptions for the projected capital spending. Ed Schmidt recommended
the ITT committee review the BOE Revised Tech. Implementation Schedule and
email questions back to ITT committee to be reviewed at a later time. A rollout
plan for the middle school tech labs was requested of BOE. Kevin Poruban brought
up questions about the number of qualified teachers for the middle school
tech labs and stated that he knew that Nathan Hale Middle School was not fully
using the tech lab because of this.
Training was discussed and Ed Schmidt said training is important for the city and it might be a good idea to include training for the City/BOE when purchasing hardware and software.
Remote Access Implementation: Approved by the Common Council last night.
Backup/Recovery has been approved and sent to the corporation council. The vendor can prepare for installing, which will commence upon completion of the contract by corporation council.
2003 active directory implementation meeting will start today at 3pm. Rachelle Hayes will be meeting with Dave Wrinn and Ed Toth to discuss the implementation plan.
Two purchase requests from Building Management and Comptrollers were tabled.
Dave Wrinn asked about disposing of some old Per Scholas pc's.
Gerald Foley said he can put the pc's on
the surplus list.
The meeting adjourned at 2:55 p.m.
Respectfully submitted
Larry Manzi
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