Meeting Agenda 5/19/2011

St. Lawrence County

Information Technology Advisory Board

Meeting Agenda

5-19-2011

3:00 PM

 

****NOTE LOCATION CHANGE: 2nd Fl Conference Rm, Public Safety Building, Court St., Canton, NY

 

1. Welcome New Committee Members & Meeting Attendees

 

2. Questions/Comments from minutes of 4/19/11 meeting (posted on blog).

 

3. Featured Guest: Sue Rau, North Country Grown Cooperative

 

Ms. Rau to discuss unique difficulties they are having that involve utilizing technology to help with ordering and order fulfillment, particularly with their Amish members.

 

4. Committee Reports:

•  North Country Technology Symposium 2011
• SPIRIT Awards
• Education Committee
• Strategic Plan Review

6. Old Business

 

• PSC Complaint, SLC Board Res (attached)

 

7. New Business

 

Remember to check SLC IT Blog – slcit.blogspot.com – for meeting minutes, agendas, notes, comments, supporting information, etc.

 

Meeting Minutes, 4/21/2011

SLC Technology Committee Minutes


4/21/11

1. Laura provided an update on the symposium. All presentation slots are full; nearly 100 people have registered; and we have about 12 exhibitors lined up. Senator Ritchie presenting introductory remarks. Dave Wolf, Kevin Lynch, and Phil Wagschal are planning to cover Access, Adoption, Opportunity aspects of technology initiative in the North Country. Reception will be held at the end of the day; details TBD. Working out details on workshop sessions also.

2. Committee Updates

a. Education Committee. Mission statement was circulated in advance of the meeting. Laura suggested that periodic meetings be conducted with the St. Lawrence County interim IT Director (Keith Zimmerman).

b. Strategic Planning. Group is developing a survey to distribute to sectors to update rankings of “where we’re at” and “where we’re going”. Challenges going forward will be closing gap for access and then education to increase adoption.

3. Presentation to Legislators

a. Some committee members presented an overview to the legislators. Attendance at meeting was low and liaison (Steve Putman) from board has not attended a Technology Committee meeting yet.

4. New Business

a. Bill Hunter provided an overview of an article in the Watertown Daily Times on 4/20/11 regarding National Grid pole licensing fee increases of up to 1000%. Both DANC and Slic Network Solutions, Inc. have filed complaints with the PSC against National Grid. B. Hunter recommended that the SLC Technology Committee join DANC and Slic in their complaint. L. Perry will contact SLC Legislator Operations Committee chair to request National Grid come to meeting to explain rate increase, as immediate next step; and send out letter to PSC.

b. Meeting Attendance. Committee discussed attendance requirements in the by-laws and reminded those present that active participation in sub-committees is expected.

Meeting Agenda 4/21/2011

St. Lawrence County
Information Technology Advisory Board
Meeting Agenda
4-21-2011
3:00 PM
Location: 2nd Fl Conference Rm, Human Services Bldg, 80 State Highway 310, Canton, NY 13617-1496

1. Welcome New Committee Members & Meeting Attendees

2. Questions/Comments from minutes of 3/17/11 meeting (forthcoming).

3. Featured Guests: None

4. Committee Reports:

North Country Technology Symposium 2011

SPIRIT Awards

Education Committee

Strategic Plan Review
6. Old Business

• Presentation to Board of Legislators, 4/18
7. New Business
Heads Up: SLC IT Board Meeting in May will be held in the 2nd Floor Conference Room in the Public Safety Building on Court St. (NOT Human Services Bldg)
Remember to check SLC IT Blog – slcit.blogspot.com – for meeting minutes, agendas, notes, comments, supporting information, etc.

Meeting Minutes 3/17/2011

SLC Information Technology Advisory Board


Meeting Minutes 3/17/2011

Attendees: J French, K Lynch, M Rousch, P Turbett, C Tuttle, D Wolf, J Rousell

Guest: Rochelle Romada
1. Minutes unanimously approved as submitted.

2. Rochelle Romada, St. Lawrence Lewis BOCES – Provided an overview of the Career & Tech Center and the Vocational Education program they offer to 11th & 12th graders in St. Lawrence Lewis Counties. The program current has 45-50 students in it. Rochelle is seeking an opportunity to have a dialogue with the SLC IT Board members for input about their program’s curriculum. They want to work with business to be sure the curriculum matches the needs of businesses. Rochelle provided a packet of information that included descriptors of their programs.
Questions from Board members included:

• Whether or not the curriculum currently included apps like GIS or SCADA?

• Do students tour business facilities? Would skpe or other technology offer virtual tour opportunities?

• Is there an eye on emerging technologies?

• Does the program invite guest speakers?

• Are there opps for student run projects matched with real world projects?

• Is there a focus on communication skills for technical students?

• The SLC IT Board invited students/teachers to attend and perhaps participate in the Symposium?

3. Committee Reports

a. Technology Symposium

• L Perry provided an update on the Symposium preparations

• Solicited help from Board members to attract interest from commercial service providers to exhibit at the event.
b. SPIRIT Awards

• Still seeking nominations, committee will convene to discuss selections
c. Education Committee - No update

d. Strategic Planning -No meeting yet
4) Old Business –

RE: Wireless access in the Conference Room – Laura reported having a conversation with Interim IT Director Keith Zimmerman. He committed it was within their capacity to build out wireless access in the conference room within a month timeframe.

RE: Video capabilities – the equipment is available in the conference room, some learning needs to take place on how to utilize it, Jeff Rousell offered to contact Dale Pondysh in the County IT office to work on expanding the Board’s ability to utilize video through Web X or comparable app for its deliberations.

RE: Teambox or other web based information sharing app – Jeff Rousell & Kevin Lynch offered to work on setting up a Teambox account for the Board to begin experimenting with for its projects.

5) New Business:

• Presentation to Board of Legislators, 4/18 – Laura reminded Board members that we have an opportunity to orient the new legislators to the SLC IT Board at this presentation. Laura indicated it would be a 5 minute intro (later realized this was an error, and we were scheduled for 30 minutes.) Carrie Tuttle and Marc Rousch offered to assist with the presentation.

• Access to SLC Legislator’s via email – Laura mentioned that she noticed email addresses for legislators had been removed from the County website since the beginning of 2011 which limits the ability for constituents to communicate directly with legislators in this technical age. The SLC IT Board directed the Chair to write a letter to Board members pointing this fact out and offering assistance to restore email access to legislators.
Meeting adjourned 5pm
Minutes respectfully submitted by L Perry

3/17/2011 Meeting Agenda

St. Lawrence County

Information Technology Advisory Board

Meeting Agenda

3-17-2011

3:00 PM

Location: 2nd Fl Conference Rm, Human Services Bldg, 80 State Highway 310, Canton, NY 13617-1496

 

1. Welcome New Committee Members & Meeting Attendees

 

2. Questions/Comments from minutes of 2/17/11 meeting (attached).

  

3. Discussion by Featured Guests: Rachelle Romoda from Sllboces to speak on the Computer and Business Technology Curriculum at BOCES.

 

4. Committee Reports:

• North Country Technology Symposium 2011 
• SPIRIT Awards 
• Education Committee
• Strategic Plan Review

 
6. Old Business

 

7. New Business

2/17/2011 Meeting Minutes

SLC Information Technology Advisory Board
Meeting Minutes 2/17/2011

Attendees: David Coffey, Wade Davis, Joel Duhl , Jennifer French, Bill Hunter, Kevin Lynch, Laura Perry, Jeff Rousell, Patrick Turbett, Carrie Tuttle, Phil Wagschal, David Wolf, David Wurzburg

Guests: W. Jamie Bay, Maureen Connelly

1) P. Turbett motioned to approve minutes, J. French seconded. Minutes unanimously approved as submitted.

2) Committee Reports

a. Technology Symposium
• K. Lynch, L. Perry, C. Tuttle are working on planning activities
• Call for presentations has been distributed; quite a few submissions have already come in many of which are in the social media area. Current gaps exist in government applications and healthcare tracts. K. Lynch plans to conduct a tract that covers on online applications that are free or low cost.
• Requesting keynote from FCC
• 5 partners from last year are on board for this year
• Utilizing Chambers of Commerce to distribute information about the symposium
• Solicitation for vendors will be out in a couple weeks
• Blair Patacairk (speak at last year’s symposium from Ottawa) has reached out to committee to discuss potential for Strategic Planning session
• May 25th is the date of the symposium

b. SPIRIT Awards
• Application for SPIRIT awards is posted on the Symposium website and linked to a Google form
• Press release should be going shortly
• Categories: High Tech Business Endeavor, Government, Small Business and Non-Profit

c. Education Committee
• D. Wolf reported that the committee has met to discuss their role. Initial ideas are to focus on educating ourselves on new technology, making sure we’re ware of services available in North Country, coordinating educational presentations which could be extended to others outside the committee. Plan to target soliciting presentations every month. Requested other committee members to pass along topics that may be of interest. Some committee members suggested adding remote access for presentation (i.e., webinars, etc.) and rotating meetings to other locations (like Newtown Falls trip). L. Perry will check into availability of services and access to wifi at Human Services Building.

d. Strategic Planning
• No meeting yet

3) Akwesasne Broadband Project (Guest Presentation)

a. Hand out titled, “St. Regis Mohawk Tribe “Connect” (Economic Development for the 21st Century)” was provided and Mr. Bay presented an overview of the tribal government structure and the benefits. $10.5MM broadband project will provide to the Akwesasne community.

b. The Tribe will invite competition and sell off the ability to provide last mile services (Tribe will be the middle mile provider only) once the construction is complete.

c. Current internet access is a patchwork of satellite and limited DSL. 1500 households in southern U.S. portion of reservation. Mr. Bay hopes to secure triple play services and receive high levels of adoption through project.

d. Broadband project will create 500 jobs over 5 years.

e. Mr. Bay encouraged more communication and sharing of information between governmental agencies and the Akwesasne Tribe in terms of broadband projects.

4) Old Business – none to report

5) New Business

a. Explore option of video conferencing for committee meetings

b. P. Wagschal mentioned working with RVRDA on study of datacenters

c. L. Perry mentioned RVRDA grant announcement that is presently out

Meeting adjourned 4:30

Minutes respectfully submitted by C. Tuttle

Massachusetts utilizing fire towers to expand broadband access

Massachusetts utilizing fire towers to expand broadband access

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