Thursday, March 19, 2009

IT Meeting announcement and materials

St. Lawrence County
Information Technology Advisory Committee
Meeting Agenda
3/26/09, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: Human Service Building, 2nd Fl Conf Room

1. Welcome New Committee Members & Meeting Attendees

2. Review/accept minutes from 1/22/08 meeting

3. [TO BE CONFIRMED] Presentation: Dan Churchill, Ridgeview Tel
Dan Churchill is a representative of Ridgeview Tel. The company is seeking the help and support of the County in making an application to the NTIA’s Broadband Technologies Opportunity Program. Here is a link describing the program http://www.ntia.doc.gov/broadbandgrants/index.html

4. SLC IT Director position – update

5. IT Committee’s Strategic Plan

6. Newton Falls Grant – project status, update

7. New Visions Power – proposed to present to us on 4/23, at 11am (note meeting time change)

8. Stimulus Money
a. State Broadband Initiative – Rick Johnson
b. NTIA Broadband Technologies Opportunity Program
c. Other?

9. Rte 28/Lisbon Connection Request (see email enclosed with agenda)

10. Recap of discussions with Four-Lane Highway Working Group

11. Recap of discussions with Sheriff

12. Jerry Schell/Library System

12. 2009 Work Plan –DRAFTS of the following documents included with this agenda.
Please review and plan to use these as working drafts during our meeting. Feel encouraged to suggest items I’ve omitted.
1. 10-minute presentation
2. Directory of service providers & resources
3. Profile of committee members
13. New Ideas Proposed:
• Sponsor a contest honoring innovative uses of technology to accomplish organizational mission
• North Country IT Symposium, Fall 2009 – a forum for Business & IT in the North Country
• Sponsors: CU, County
• Do a call for presentations, ask North Country Businesses to talk about how they use technology to grow their business
• Have several tracks for different constituencies (perhaps 3-4 50 minute sessions, with 5 concurrent sessions for 15- 20 presentations).
• We’d arrange for a keynote
• A vendor display area in the Cheel concourse (local and national vendors could come and market their wares to business people).

Questions & Discussion


Action Items for Next Meeting


Next Meeting: TBA

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