SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

ATTENDANCE: Shirley Sarkin, retired Norwalk School System; Anna Duleep,
teacher; Jessica Fogg, Spinnaker; Anthony Daddona, Director of
Secondary Education; Lisa Cooper, CPTF/HSC; Michael Mocciae,
Recreation and Parks Director; Rhonda Collins Capuano, Health
Educator; Officer Greg Riley, Norwalk Police Department;
Darlene Young, Assistant City Clerk (4:15 p.m.); Peter Wien,
Chairman (5:05 p.m.)

STAFF: Linda Wilock, Director of Youth Services

OTHERS: Karen Del Vecchio, IT Director; Larry Manzi, IT Department;
Scott Hara, student

CALL TO ORDER

Ms. Wilock called the meeting to order at 4:05 p.m. She then informed the group that Mr. Wien was delayed at the airport and would be joined the meeting as soon as possible.

APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF JUNE 12, 2007

The following changes were noted:

Page 1, under ATTENDANCE: please change “Michael Mocciae, Recreation and Parks
Director Jessica Fogg, (4:20 p.m.) Candace Mayer, Norwalk Housing Authority
(4;35 p.m.) to: “Michael Mocciae, Recreation and Parks Director, Jessica Fogg,
Spinnaker (4:20 p.m.); Candace Mayer, Norwalk Housing Authority (4:35 p.m.)

** MR. MOCCIAE MOVED TO APPROVE THE MINUTES AS AMENDED.
** MR. DADDONA SECONDED.
** THE MOTION PASSED WITH ONE ABSTENSTION (SARKIN).

UPDATE ON THE WEBSITE

Mr. Manzi then stated that during the summer, there had been six interns working on developing the website.

Ms. Young joined the meeting at 4:15 p.m.

Mr. Hara then spoke about the base and design process for the website. He stated that the calendar was set up through the month of October. A Top Ten list was also included with links to various websites for lyrics and music videos. Mr. Manzi explained that the site is approximately 50% completed. He also reminded the group that there was the question of who would be responsible for maintaining the site.

Ms. Young commented that the six interns had been chosen because they had expressed an interest in developing the website. Ms. Fogg asked how the website would be presented to the public. Ms. Young said that the interns had discussed this.

A discussion regarding how the information for the calendar would be gathered followed.

Mr. Manzi then gave the group a virtual tour of the website.

Mr. Manzi commented that there was still work that needed to be done on the site and that there were a number of links that still needed to be added.

Ms. Del Vecchio commented that the City had developed two key policies for the City website, one regarding privacy and a second one regarding the linking policy. The linking policy is particularly important because frequently people assume if a link appears on a page, that the owner of the page is endorsing whatever material is on the link. A discussion of this issue then followed.

A discussion regarding the link to the lyrics of the Top Ten songs then followed. Ms. Young said that after reading the lyrics to one song, the link had been removed because of offensive wording. Officer Riley then suggested that rather than posting someone’s selection of the Top Ten songs, that the group just use Billboard’s listing of the top ten songs in various categories, which could be expanded to include country western, and gospel, along with rock and jazz.

Mr. Mocciae left the meeting at 4:55 p.m.

Ms. Del Vecchio pointed out that if a policy is established in advance, then it is much easier to say that a particular link is not consistent with the policy rather than creating the policy afterwards.

Ms. Del Vecchio left the meeting at 4:58 p.m.

Ms. Wilock said that she would be creating a subcommittee to address the issues of a privacy policy, a linking policy and guidelines.

Mr. Wien joined the meeting at 5:05 p.m. Ms. Young left the meeting at 5:05 p.m.

Mr. Manzi also said that it would be important to contact the interns regarding the issue of maintaining the site.

** MR. MANZI MOVED TO NOMINATE DARLENE YOUNG TO CONTACT THE INTERNS REGARDING THE ONGOING MAINTENANCE OF THE NEWLY DEVELOPED NORWALK IT OUT SITE.
** MR. DADDONA SECONDED.
** THE MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.

Ms. Fogg asked about including a section for issues like cell phone etiquette and other topics. Mr. Hara said that a section called “TIPS” had originally been suggested but that it was not included on the site. He added that it could be included, if the Board wanted to have it done.

Mr. Daddona left the meeting at 5:20 p.m.

OTHER

The discussion then moved to the scheduling of the next meeting. It was decided that the next meeting would be on November 13, 2007 at 4 p.m.

ADJOURNMENT

Ms. Wilock adjourned the meeting at 5:25 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Sharon L. Soltes
Telesco Secretarial Services

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