IT Strategic Planning Committee

2021-05-12 – Princeton IT Strategic Planning Committee – Meeting Minutes

John Zimmatore, Peter Cummings, Pat McGowan, Sherry Horeanopoulos, Jake Rozniak

Meeting convened 5:01 pm

Approved prior minutes

VOIP Vendor Selection - Going with Valley Communications

Town administrator proposed ideas for advancing use of IT.

Cemetery commission looking for online program, assistance evaluating.

Ideal solution would be to have a common application with functional plugins for different requirements.

Strategic plan priorities from February

• Disaster recovery plan template uploaded by John
• Information security draft uploaded by Sherry
• Todos:
  • (1) Finalize desired state tiers/priorities
  • (1) Strategic Imperatives
  • IT Benchmarks (Peter)
  • Business Value (John)
  • Consolidated demographic database for the town residents (Sherry H to investigate, talk to Sherry P) 
• Define how to identify opportunities for third party solutions vs items requiring Peter directly.
• Define equipment rollover plan, scheduled replacements
  • Investigate alternative configuration
• Propose steps for budget consolidation
• Top priority Data Backup
  • Retention policy for backup data to drive cloud backup implementation
  • Scan and archive paper in current storage, document management system (John)
  • Peter recommending use of Datto for continuous backup of server
    • Webinar 5/13
    • Veeam also popular
  • Need to connect highway department
  • Data storage policy and procedure i.e. sync to OneDrive shared folders (Sherry)
    • Documented but not public
  • Laptop re-imaging (also related to disaster recovery)
  • John and Pat will document how Onedrive is working at our companies (done)

Next meeting Wed May 26

Meeting adjourned 5:27 PM