Thursday, January 31, 2008, 1:00-3:30
pm CT
Governor's Residence--Lower Level
MINUTES
VOTING
MEMBERS/ALTERNATES PRESENT:
Mr. Arnold
Bateman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Mr. Clark
Chandler,
Dr. Michael
Chipps,
Mr. Ron
Cone, Educational Service Unit 10
Mr. Steven Hamersky,
Mr. Ed
Hoffman, Alt. for Stan Carpenter,
Ms. Yvette
Holly, University of
Mr. Jeff Johnson, Centennial Public Schools
Mr. Dennis
Linster,
Mr. Chuck Lenosky,
Mr. Art Tanderup,
Dr. Bob
Uhing, Educational Service Unit 1
LIAISON/ALTERNATE
MEMBERS PRESENT:
Ms.
Kathleen Fimple, Alt. for Marshall Hill, Coordinating
Commission for Postsecondary Education
MEMBERS/LIAISONS ABSENT:
Dr. Eileen Ely, Western Nebraska Community College; Dr. Terry Haack, Bennington
Public Schools; Mr. Craig Pease,
CALL TO ORDER, ELECTRONIC POSTING,
LOCATION OF OPEN MEETING LAW DOCUMENTS, ROLL CALL, INTRODUCTIONS
Dr. Chipps called the meeting to order at 1:05 p.m.
There were 12 voting members present at the time of roll call. A quorum
existed to conduct official business. It was stated that the meeting notice was
posted to the NITC and Public Meeting Calendars Web sites on December 27, 2007
and the meeting agenda was posted to the NITC Web site January 23, 2008. A copy
of the Open Meetings Law was available on the meeting table.
CONSIDER
APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA FOR THE JANUARY 31, 2008 MEETING
Mr.
Linster moved approval of the January 31, 2008 meeting agenda. Mr. Bateman seconded. Roll call
vote:
Bateman-Yes, Chandler-Yes,
Chipps-Yes, Cone-Yes, Hamersky-Yes, Hoffman-Yes,
Holly-Yes, Johnson-Yes, Linster-Yes, Lenosky-Yes,
Tanderup-Yes, and Uhing-Yes.
Results: Yes-12, No-0. Motion passed unanimously.
CONSIDER
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
FROM THE NOVEMBER 16, 2007 MEETING
Dr.
Uhing moved approval of the minutes of the November 16, 2007 meeting. Mr. Lenosky
seconded. Roll call
vote:
Bateman-Yes, Chandler-Yes,
Chipps-Yes, Cone-Yes, Hamersky-Yes, Hoffman-Yes,
Holly-Yes, Johnson-Yes, Linster-Yes, Lenosky-Yes,
Tanderup-Yes, and Uhing-Yes.
Results: Yes-12, No-0. Motion passed unanimously.
PUBLIC COMMENT
There was
no public comment.
MEMBERSHIP
Mr. Hamersky has delegated Steven Stortz
as his alternate. For members whose
terms will be coming up this summer and are interested in serving another 2-year
term, they will need a confirmation from their sector to serve another term.
1. Results of Phase II
(Network
RFP2258Z1
· Section 1 = All locations WAN—Rejected Bid
· Section 2 = All locations WAN, w/ Router—Rejected Bid
· Section 3 = All locations WAN, w/ Transport—Rejected Bid
· Section 4 = All locations WAN, w/ Router AND Transport—Rejected
Bid
· Section 5 = 308 locations WAN—Rejected Bid
· Section 6 = 308 locations WAN, w/ Router—Rejected Bid
· Section 7 = 402 locations WAN—Awarded to Windstream
· Section 8 = 402 locations WAN, w/ Router—Awarded to Windstream
· Section 9 = Transport: G.I. to LNK, LNK to OMA, OMA to G.I.—Awarded to Qwest
RFP2297Z1
· Section 1 = STEP Consortium WAN—Rejected Bid
· Section 2 = STEP Consortium WAN, w/ Router—Rejected Bid
· Section 3 = TVDEC-N Consortium WAN—Rejected Bid
· Section 4 = TVDEC-N Consortium WAN, w/ Router—Rejected Bid
· Section 5 = WNDLC Consortium WAN—Rejected Bid
· Section 6 = WNDLC Consortium WAN, w/ Router—Rejected Bid
· Section 7 = SWDLC Transport to G.I.—Awarded to Qwest
· Section 8 = TVDEC-S Transport to G.I.—Rejected Bid
· Section 9 = Higher Ed WAN—Chadron State College Awarded to
Qwest, all others rejected
2. LB1208 Phase II and
III Revised Implementation
The prospective Phase II
entities (104) that will be coming on Network
3. Requirements for all
Phase I & II participants, 2008-09
Network
Inter-regional
Transport Fee. Fee is used to
inter-connect the NE, SW/W, and SE Ethernet clouds and provide statewide
transport and distance learning exchange.
Costs are currently being determined based on bids and the amount
of bandwidth that will be carried.
E-rate Form 471 will be filed by the CIO’s office. We will need to
obtain Free/Reduced lunch data from ESUs 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, and
17. Costs are billed to the K-12
entities (or groups of K-12 entities) and Higher education entities by the
CIO’s Office. Bandwidth and costs will
be adjusted on an annual basis on or about July 1.
LB 823 To change provisions relating to
enterprise projects, the
Commission, the Chief Information
Officer, the technical panel, and the Information Technology
Infrastructure Fund; to provide
powers and duties to the
and the Chief Information Officer.
(Hearing 1/22/08)
A) Requires that all state-funded or
state-supported I.T. projects using general, cash, or Federal funds
submit a project request as part of the
budget process;
B) The NITC may adopt formatting
guidelines and may monitor the progress of any such project and
require project reports;
C) Determine the format for
reporting information technology assets;
D) By September 15 of each
even-numbered year, all agencies, boards and commissions shall submit to
the Chief Information Officer an
information technology plan that includes an accounting of all
technology assets, including planned
acquisitions and upgrades;
E) The Chief Information Officer and
the NITC shall monitor the status of enterprise projects;
F) The “representative from the
project sector” is removed from the Technical Panel membership;
G) The NITC shall develop a program
that determines “enterprise information technology projects”;
H) The Information Technology
Infrastructure Fund shall be used to attain the goals in the Statewide Technology
Plan.
The hearing
for LB 823 was last week. There were no
proponent or neutral proponents. It is believed
that it will pass committee with possible amendments. One of the amendments would be to include the
GIS Steering Committee and possibly the NIDCAC (Nebraska Intergovernmental Data
Communications Advisory Council) under the umbrella of the NITC as advisory
councils.
Mr. Hoffman
left the meeting.
DISCUSSION: 2008 NITC STRATEGIC INITIATIVES AND ACTION
PLANS
A brief history was provided for
new members. Every fall the NITC reviews
their strategic initiatives for the upcoming year. IF approved, the NITC
relies on its advisory councils to develop action plans to achieve the
initiatives. Today, the Council
members will need to determine if the action items are still appropriate,
expand, delete, or create action item. The
next step would then be to look at the other initiatives to evaluate whether
the council feels it should be part. Each council is doing this. In early part of the year, the NITC reviews
and approves the Statewide Technology Plan.
The council reviewed the current action items. Many of the action items were to be
continued. In addition, the following
recommendations were made:
NETWORK
DIGITAL EDUCATION
The council also has the option
of having staff develop the wording with the understanding that they’ll get an
opportunity to review before submitting to the NITC.
Mr.
Linster moved to approve the Education Council’s action items as presented and
recommended with the understanding that staff will implement the recommended
changes and send to members electronically for review prior to submitting to
the NITC. Mr. Johnson seconded. Roll call
vote:
Bateman-Yes, Chandler-Yes,
Chipps-Yes, Cone-Yes, Hamersky-Yes, Holly-Yes,
Johnson-Yes, Linster-Yes, Lenosky-Yes, Tanderup-Yes,
and Uhing-Yes. Results: Yes-11, No-0.
Motion passed unanimously.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mr. Linster
informed the council that the I.T. Department at Wayne State College is moving
to new building and offered to host the May meeting at their new location.
AGENDA ITEMS FOR THE 3/6/08, MEETING
& CONSIDER LOCATION FOR THE 3/6/08 MEETING and ADJOURNMENT
The next meeting
of the NITC Education Council will be held in
With no
further business, Dr. Chipps adjourned the meeting at 3:27 p.m. by voice vote.
Meeting
minutes were taken by Lori Lopez Urdiales and reviewed by Tom Rolfes of the
Office of the CIO/NITC.