IT Strategic Planning Committee

Meeting date: 
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Princeton IT Strategic Planning Committee
November 3, 2021

Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

John Zimmatore, Sherry Horeanopoulos, Pat McGowan, Michael Cote, Sherry Patch, Peter Cummings

  1. Meeting convened 5:08 pm
  2. Prior minutes approved (October 13)
  3. Data inventory discussion
    1. Shery P to encourage responses
    2. Regional School district using Google cloud,
      1. not a specific concern for Princeton, just know where it is and that it is backed up
    3. State offers a free IT assessment, will explore to see if its worth doing, IT audit is not required for the town as it is for colleges, but factors into grant applications
  4. Digitization plan
    1. First phase is organizing physical records
    2. Could be good grant target for later phases
  5. Committee email retention using cc to the shared town address
  6. Peter attending cybersecurity conference, will forward documents
  7. Phone system installed, training done, some glitches, Fire and Police not using as they are on the regional system
    1. Town hall, library, Fire station 2, Council on aging, Highway department
  8. Dato cloud backup being used in Paxton
  9. Cemetary  commission software review, Michael will talk to Lynn Grettum and ask to invite us
  10. This committee needs to define standards for departments and commissions to try to comply with
    1. Is there a one size fits all town records solution?
    2. Check what else the website system (CiivicPlus) can do, maybe Vadar Systems

Next Meeting 5:00 pm

November 16th

Meeting Adjourned at 5:58 pm