IT Committee Meeting Minutes

April 5, 2016

Present:  Anne Bell, Mike Borfitz, Dick Hartley, Bill Pappas, Wil Rivers, Jim Spallone, Steve Yovan

Absent: John Scott, Hans Zassenhaus

1. Follow-up on March 8 items:

a. There has been no response from ADT about Check-in” systems.  Jim and Bill will follow-up.

b. Bill has met with Bob and Mrs. Behrens to introduce them to Google capabilities for Bob’s request for an IT approach for monitoring the storage cubbies.  He plans to meet with them again and will update the committee at the next meeting.

c. There has been no activity on consideration of the Cloud version of Quicken.

d. John Scott performed the certification computer swap with only minor problems.

2. New Topics

a. Two new members were identified who are versed in Access and willing to help Dick Hartley.  They are Wil Rivera and Joe (Jay) Busa.   Dick provided them with access to the Access Database.  Wil is reviewing the information.  He also agreed to look into the “picture system” within the program to see if it could be reinstated following the last change which made it inoperable.

b. The front desk check in system/screen appears to be working okay.  Dick will check to see if he can expand the touch area.

c. John McGowen has offered his help in the hardware area which gives us more depth in that area.

d. The move to Windows 10 was discussed.  Bill agreed to assess the Shop computers as to their capabilities to make this change.  The cut-off date for the free download is June 10.  At the same time the committee needs to assess moving to Office 365.  In the meantime, Windows 10 will be loaded on the laptop and Anne will work with it to gain knowledge as to any watch-outs within our database using the new operating system.

e. Anne informed the Committee that she is currently training Kathy Valani to be her back-up on the front desk.

3. Next Meeting

The next meeting will take place Tuesday, May 3 at 4:30 in the Shop.