ST LAWRENCE COUNTY
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE
MEETING MINUTES
January 28, 2010
2 – 4 P.M.
SPIRIT Awards—The St. Lawrence County Chamber’s newsletter will be out in February with the Spirit award’s information; the announcement will be tentatively posted for the first of the month. Laura indicated that Kevin had an additional idea for the organizations to sponsor individual awards.
Symposium-The subcommittee met on Tuesday which spent time working on planning issues and lining up partners. Topic of discussion were the contents and what kind of speakers. Five categories were covered: business, healthcare, Gov’t and Community Services, Business and Industry, and agriculture, and a new category called general category. The presentations are to be approximately 45 minutes. The tentative date is May 19th at Clarkson University. Plan on a day long event. Laura indicated that they are working on a keynote speaker and generating lists. Leigh mentioned that she had a list from Economic Development with their contacts. It was also indicated by the committee to use the list from previous symposium and obtain a list from DANC.
Next Project Deployment Opportunities: Pat McKeown briefed the committee with an up to date with the chamber projects for the expansion of broadband throughout the county. The chamber is targeted three areas for wireless connection. The first area was the Brasher Stockholm area. The others are Madrid Waddington, Morristown-Hammond area. Ridgeview has contracted with those areas. Part of the fulfillment is lack of corporation from the town and placement areas. The chamber has had talks with DANC and SLIC in regard to suggestions for the push of broadband across the county.
Phil indicated that they were successful in the first round securing grant funds to extend their network through parts of the county and is tentatively looking at the whole of St. Lawrence County. The thought is to put in an application for the second round to be more comprehension to go throughout St. Lawrence County.
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