Minutes of November 10, 2004 were reviewed and the minutes were unanimously approved.

City Telephone Solution Recommendation: Karen Del Vecchio said the revised statement of work was sent back to AT&T and there will be a meeting tomorrow to review. Legal is waiting for feedback.

RCC: Police Station & McMahon: Steve Mandas said the Police Station is proceeding at pace with no problems. For McMahon a $16,000 quote was received from SBC for entrance facilities. Also new phones are being pushed through.

Status of Cabling RFP: Gerald Foley said that only two bids were received by the deadline, which was today. One of the bidders did not submit a bid bond. Mr. Foley said we will have to go out to bid again. Hal Alvord suggested surveying the vendors that attended the pre bid but did not submit a bid and suggested changes be made in the RFP to allow more small companys to bid. There was a brief discussion on what was needed to attract more bidders.

Status of MAN: Karen Del Vecchio sent note on a couple of outstanding items to DBO. These final items should be the completed and we should have a final contract soon.

Training: Department heads will be sent a list of no shows. There was a discussion about the no shows.

Customer Service Center: Hal Alvord said that the positions for the Customer Service Center were advertised this week. Hal said that we need to draft the contract and give to legal so we can meet the anticipated date of going live on March 2005.

Consent Calendar
a. Authorize the Purchasing Agent to issue a purchase order in an amount not to exceed $4,353.95 for a Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 MP notebook PC, in compliance with City IT specification, for the Norwalk Fire Department for use in Car 2, account 013120-5741.
b. Authorize the Purchasing Agent to issue a purchase order for an HP LaserJet 1300 B&W printer for an amount not to exceed $436.00, account 224062 5382 (Waste Treatment Manager at the Public Works Center).

Hal Alvord moved to approve and Tom Schadlich seconded.

For Informational Purposes: There was discussion about sharing common information between several departments. Frank Sarno is looking into scheduling demos.

There will be no meeting next week.

The meeting adjourned at 3:45 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,
Larry Manzi