Meeting Agenda 04-23-09

St. Lawrence County
Information Technology Advisory Committee
Meeting Agenda
4/23/09, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Location: Human Service Building, 2nd Fl Conf Room

1. Welcome New Committee Members & Meeting Attendees

2. Review/accept minutes from 3/26/09 meeting

3. Presentation: Carmen Branca, New Visions Power Company

4. Presentation of IT Committee’s Final Strategic Plan

5. Response to Committee’s letter from Service Providers – LJP

Tabled from 3/26/09 meeting:
• Rte 28/Lisbon Connection Request (see email enclosed with agenda)

• Recap of discussions with Four-Lane Highway Working Group

• Recap of discussions with Sheriff

• Jerry Schell/Library System

• 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
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: Thurs., May 28, 2009, 2:00 pm – 4:00pm