DRAFT Minutes of Technology Advisory Board Meeting of April 18, 2006

Present: J Tasse, Chairman, G. Eggleston, J. Kelley, M. Schorr, P. St. John, B. Gardner-Town Board liaison

The meeting was called to order at 7:03 pm.

1.       The minutes of the 3-21-06 meeting were approved with no changes.

2.   The Town Hall bid package went out today (4-18).TAB members can still look at it and comment by 5-16 (next meeting).

3.  The strategy for the file server (Kelley’s write-up) in the new Town Hall was discussed. He recommends an 8 port server –more than 8 ports and the cost goes up fast. Networking options were discussed. Tasse recommended that the ’07 Town budget should contain money for a firewall router (8 port is just over $100) and server, but the server could wait a year. The cost of a 70-80 gig, 10,000 rpm file server system should be investigated. Hp is the most reliable according to Kelley. The server should be located in the Town Hall basement where it is a cooler environment. ACTION-Kelley’s write-up is to be attached to the minutes, but I have not received it yet.

4.  Survey-Tasse made changes to the survey form based on feedback he received. Heather will distribute it to the departments and put return info on the forms. ACTION-The revised survey will be attached to the minutes, but I have not yet received it.

5.  Tasse has Nan’s GIS disk. She said that the county maps are usually a year behind. ACTION-Kelley will check on where Nan gets her maps.

6.  Computer for constables –Gardner talked to Tom Parks about how it will be used. It is needed for reports, tickets are issued by computer, to check a persons record. Paul will check the County Sheriff to see if they have money from the “Stop DWI Program” or other sources. The state police have software that does everything that our police need. The TAB recommends that the software should be put in the budget and purchased. ACTION–Gardner will verify that it is in the budget. The TAB also recommends that the laptop with docking station that the justices turned in, should be used. Councilman Lippiello may be using it to try to load software for justice Ketchum. It has Windows 98. ACTION-Gardner will check on its availability and if it’s not available for the constables, he will check that money is in the budget for a laptop computer for the constables. Re-the justice’s computer-try to buy office through the state contract.

7. Highway Dept. –Gavin wants to hook up the time clock to the computer. Heather got it to work OK on her computer. The price for a Highway Dept. PC, if purchased from the state contract, appears to be too high, but it depends on what features are on the PC. The price for the justice’s PC, if purchased from the state contract, looks OK. St. John discussed the software available for the Highway Dept. ACTION –he will get a demo disk from Williamson. The Williamson software will be all set up as opposed to the County software that must be set up.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:23 pm.

Prepared by M. Schorr