REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
JUNE 6, 2018
A meeting of the Finance Committee was held on Wednesday, June 6, 2018, at 7:00 p.m. in the Aldermanic
Chamber.
Mayor Jim Donchess, Chairman, presided.
Members of the Committee present: Alderman Michael B. O’Brien, Vice Chair
Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly
Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws
Alderman Patricia Klee
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright
Also in Attendance: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
David G. Fredette, Treasurer/Tax Collector
Bruce Codagnone, IT Division Director
William Mansfield, Radio Systems Manager
Nick Caggiano, Superintendent Parks & Recreation
Jeff Lafleur, Superintendent Solid Waste
PUBLIC COMMENT - None
Mayor Donchess
Now before we begin | just want everyone to know the reason that | have this bicycle helmet here is | rode
Veobike from my neighborhood. There was a bike parked like a half a block away, so | just wanted to let you
know.
COMMUNICATIONS
There being no objection, Mayor Donchess suspended the rules to allow for three communications
received after the agenda was prepared
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Purchase of KnowBeé4 Integrated Security Awareness Training and Simulated Phishing Software
(Value: $9998)
Now this | just wanted to elaborate on this a little bit. Technically this does not have to come to the Finance
Committee because it is under $10,000.00 but when | saw this and | thought $9,998.00 | said “Well that looks a
little suspicious” that used to happen when | was an Alderman and so apparently there is a reason that this is
that figure but | didn’t want you to think | was going around you by reducing a contract by $2.00. So here it is.
And | think Mr. Codagnone is here to discuss this, at least inform us on what it is. Come on up.
Bruce Codagnone, IT Division Director
My name is Bruce Codagnone for the record, Director of Information Technology. Yes there is a reason why it
is that amount is we have planning this for a while and we have negotiated very aggressively with this
particular vendor to get deep discounts, we only had so much in our budget. So we were able to get it to a
certain amount. What this is is training and testing for information security Malware and critical things like that.
My team has done an excellent job | think building up the fire walls, building up the infrastructure, putting in
anti-virus software to protect the City’s assets from outside attacks. We do get quite a bit, only 60% of our e-
