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INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATION COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
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ITT COMMITTEE
MINUTES
June 23, 2004
ATTENDANCE: Larry Manzi, Karen DelVecchio, Tom Schadlich, Al
Kao, Kevin Poruban, Chris Buswell, Dave Lepus, Ed Schmidt, Dave Wrinn, Gerald
Foley, Hal Alvord, Tom Hamilton, Alan Lo.
Meeting was called to order at 1:38 pm
Minutes of June 16, 2004 were reviewed. No changes were recommended and the minutes were unanimously approved.
City Telephone System: Answers from vendors have been received and a spreadsheet with a summary has been created by Peter Berry. Target for interviews is July 1st .
Status of MAN: DBO will be visiting more sites this week.
Training: Email went out to all employees for course registration. Courses filled up quickly and there is a waiting list for future courses. Anyone on the waiting list can fill in if there is a cancellation.
Customer Service Center: RFP will go out tomorrow. Starting July 1st, DPW will act as a call center for all DPW calls to the new number.
Backup/Recovery: Fully executed agreement with Hilink, Karen DelVecchio met with the engineers to setup plan and timeline.
Homeland Security Grant and RFP: The total grant of $500,000 is a reimbursement of expenditures relating to homeland security prevention, post prevention and searching for weapons of mass destruction. RFP should be created for radio consultant.
GIS: Hal Alvord said that DPW would like to map out all fire hydrants. Dave Lepus asked about locating Yankee Gas lines in GIS. There was discussion on third party vendors that could provide services for city departments and tie into GIS.
Health Department request for 7 pc’s for the training room. Al said that 6 will replace the old ones and he would have one for backup. The money for this purchase came from a grant. There was a brief discussion about the pricing. Item was unanimously approved.
Youth Services request: Laptop is to be purchased by IT department and used as a loaner for youth services and other departments. Hal Alvord motioned to approve, Dave Wrinn seconded and the item was unanimously approved.
Code Enforcement request: Cornerstone software running on two
pc's. Replace two PC's.
There was general discussion about the pricing on MS Office. Hal Alvord motioned
to approve, Dave Wrinn seconded and the item was unanimously approved (not
to exceed total price).
Gilbane PC Request: City owned pc for Gilbane's access to munis financial data. There was discussion about giving Gilbane a spare pc. IT Department is to determine how to deploy a pc.
Karen Delvecchio said that our codebook will soon be hosted by General Code, and we will have online access to it. Karen also reported that the IT department is working on an agreement with CGI communications to host a welcome video and up to ten other videos for the City of Norwalk. Chris Buswell mentioned to include a clause that prohibits adware and spyware.
Larry Manzi provided statistics on the City website.
The meeting adjourned at 2:48 p.m.
Respectfully submitted
Larry Manzi
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