CITY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
Regular MeetingMilwaukee, WI · June 16, 2022
Minutes
200 E. Wells Street
City of Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin
53202
Meeting Minutes
CITY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
ALD. MARK BORKOWSKI, CHAIR
David Henke, Vice-Chair
Timothy Richter, Robert Jaeger, James Klajbor, Jennifer
Meyer, James Owczarski, Jeffrey Madison, James Zimmer,
David Klein, Richard Watt, and Jeffrey Larson.
Staff Assistant, Chris Lee, 414-286-2232, Fax:286-3456,
clee@milwaukee.gov
Thursday, June 16, 2022 10:00 AM Virtual Meeting
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1. Call to order.
The meeting was called to order at 10:07 a.m.
2. Roll call.
Present (11) - Borkowski, Henke, Richter, Zimmer, Klajbor, Meyer-Stearns,
Owczarski, Madison, Jaeger, Klein, Watt
Excused (1) - Larson
Also present:
Brad Houston, City Records Center
Atty. Peter Block, City Attorney's Office
Robert Surita, ITMD
Judy Siettmann, ITMD
3. Introduction of new membership.
Members welcomed Ald. Mark Borkowski as a new member and chair of the
committee, and chair Borkowski said he was eager to learn more about records
management and IT matters for the City.
4. Review and approval of the previous meeting minutes from March 17, 2022.
The meeting minutes from March 17, 2022 were approved without objection.
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5. Records Retention.
A. Proposed departmental record schedules for approval
Mr. Houston presented. Schedules consisted of 16 new and 35 supercedes. DCD
schedules pertained to the consolidation of individual schedules for individual
programs. City Archives would review City property records and real estate transaction
files prior to destroying them. Records for cancelled property acquisition BIDs did not
need lengthy retention. Client loan administration records of 15 different programs
would have one schedule. There was a cleanup of personal health information records
for the Health Department, and more related schedules (consolidating electronic health
records) would come at the next meeting.
Mr. Houston said that amended schedules for the City Treasurer's Office were
submitted to correct the consolidation of incorrect schedules and to prolong the
retention period from one month or when administrative no longer useful to 4 or 7-year
retention period for those schedules.
Member Klajbor said that his office (City Treasurer) supported the amended
schedules.
Member Klajbor moved approval, seconded by member Meyer-Stearns, of the
amended proposed departmental record schedules, as proposed. There was no
objection.
Vice-chair Henke said that his office would work with Mr. Houston on the Health
Department consolidation of electronic health records.
B. State Records Board approval of previous schedules
Mr. Houston commented. The State Records Board approved the previous schedules
with some having administrative corrections. Most corrections were related to typos.
There was a correction to add all appeals expanded to RDA 210040 concerning use of
force incidents and internal investigation record schedules. The State Records Board
was planning to revise their global schedule of facilities relative to surveillance camera
footage by the end of August. The retention period for footage without identification of
incidents would be changed from 120 days to 72 hours. He would be submitting a
global schedule for the City to match the State's.
Members discussed that a new global records schedule on surveillance camera
footage retention would be taken up at the next meeting or earlier via a special
meeting, as necessary.
6. Communications from the Information and Technology Management Division.
A. Text Message Archiving
Vice-chair Henke gave an update. The text message archiving trial project via Smarsh
was planned for full deployment, had produced mixed results, and would be stopped.
The intent was to make text message records of City employees who were conducting
city business on city-issued or personal phones archivable, searchable and retrievable
similar to that of emails. There were practical limitations. Archiving could not be done
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for personal devices. The app solution for phones was not user-friendly. Apps with
encryption, such as iMessage, would not allow texts to be captured. The value of text
message archiving should be reconsidered to see if it would be worthwhile to do. It
would cost $100,000 to implement archiving for all city-issued cell phones. Having
employees retain their text messages could be a consideration. ITMD stopped
archiving in April but still maintained those that were archived prior to.
Atty. Block added that the text archiving pilot project was set up to assist with public
records requests, text messages were subject to the open records law, the program
was found to be expensive, there was not a legal requirement to use archiving
software, there had been very few open records request for text messages, the app
solution was not viable, there were other options to consider versus an archiving
program, smaller communities were able to implement their archiving programs due to
their smaller workforce, such a program would not be feasible due to the size of the
City's workforce, and the decision was made to discontinue the pilot program.
Mr. Houston said that 95% of texts were transitory and not relevant, archiving all texts
would be an over-retention, employees should not be depended upon to retain their
texts, and departments had previously objected in a response to a survey on text
archiving.
Vice-chair Henke said that he would work with City Records Center and City Attorney's
Office to draft instructions and guidance on maintaining non-transitory texts, and he
inquired about having a communication file on the matter before the Common Council.
Member Klajbor said that there should be advocacy to instruct employees to conduct
city business via email rather than through text.
Chair Borkowski said that he was surprised to learn the issue of text message
archiving and that he did not oppose to a communication file before the Common
Council.
Members and participants discussed whether or not such a communication file before
the Common Council should occur, whether the communication would spark open
records requests, that a system or plan should be in place prior to doing the
communication, that such a communication should be focused on best practices as
opposed to citywide archiving, and that there should not be reliance on cell phone
companies to retain texts since their retention periods were questionable.
B. Multi-Factor Authentication and Password Policy updates
Vice-chair Henke said that MFA required employees to do secondary verification via a
text or phone call when logging into their city accounts.
Mr. Surita gave an update. The goal was to have 100% MFA participation by the end
of the year. There has only been 10% participation thus far. The purpose of MFA was
to protect accounts against hacks and unauthorized access. MFA would occur when
users would change their passwords or log into their accounts outside of the city
network. MFA was an audit finding, and the desire was to satisfy the audit finding.
Mr. Houston inquired about revisiting or eliminating the policy to update passwords
every 60 days.
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Vice-chair Henke said that the intent was to do away with updating passwords based
on a calendar date should MFA have full implementation.
Atty. Block said that MFA was becoming more standard.
C. Deployment of ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
Mr. Surita said that Manage Engine ServiceDesk products were being used, the Plus
product would be purchased to replace RITS, Plus was a better enterprise
management software for ITMD to deliver better service, and it would allow for asset
inventory and software inventory for ITMD and other departments.
D. Phishing Test Campaign
Ms. Siettmann and vice-chair Henke gave an update. The campaign resulted in an 8%
fail rate for 2022, which was lower than the rate of 25% for 2021. The decreased rate
would be attributable to training and an easier template. Those who failed lacked
training. Reports of phishing were forwarded to management. The City was getting
better. The campaign would continue. A next step was to require mandatory training
once a year for those who failed. There would be follow-up with department heads on
phishing issues. Training would be 20 minutes long. Security training was also
ongoing. Dashboards can be made for departments.
Some members said that they were interested in a dashboard for their respective
departments and that the phishing test results should be shared with the respective
department heads so that proper follow-up with employees could be done.
E. CISA Cyber-Response Table Top Exercise for Q3 2022
Vice-chair Henke and Ms. Siettmann gave an update. CISA was a federal cyber
security agency that provided a wealth of resources. There was an audit finding for the
City to do a cyber-response table top exercise. CISA would be able to do an exercise
with the City in quarter 3 of this year. The exercise would take 2 hours and go over
scenarios and response. Participation from many departments was needed. Further
information would be forthcoming.
7. Agenda items for the next meeting.
To be determined.
8. Next meeting date and time (Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 10 a.m.).
Chair Borkowski said that he learned much from his first meeting and thanked
vice-chair Henke and clerk staff for their assistance with the meeting.
9. Adjournment.
The meeting adjourned at 11:28 a.m.
Chris Lee, Staff Assistant
Council Records Section
City Clerk's Office
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Meeting materials from this meeting can be found within the following file:
220189 Communication relating to the matters to be considered by the City
Information Management Committee at its June 16, 2022 meeting.
Sponsors: THE CHAIR
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200 E. Wells Street
City of Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin
53202
Meeting Agenda
CITY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
ALD. MARK BORKOWSKI, CHAIR
David Henke, Vice-Chair
Timothy Richter, Robert Jaeger, James Klajbor, Jennifer Meyer,
James Owczarski, Jeffrey Madison, James Zimmer, David Klein,
Richard Watt, and Jeffrey Larson.
Staff Assistant, Chris Lee, 414-286-2232, Fax:286-3456,
clee@milwaukee.gov
Thursday, June 16, 2022 10:00 AM Virtual Meeting
This will be a virtual meeting conducted via GoToMeeting. Should you wish to join this meeting
from your phone, tablet, or computer you may go to https://meet.goto.com/281974229. You can also
dial in using your phone United States: +1 (408) 650-3123 and Access Code: 281-974-229.
1. Call to order.
2. Roll call.
3. Introduction of new membership.
4. Review and approval of the previous meeting minutes from March 17, 2022.
5. Records Retention.
A. Proposed departmental record schedules for approval
B. State Records Board approval of previous schedules
6. Communications from the Information and Technology Management Division.
A. Text Message Archiving
B. Multi-Factor Authentication and Password Policy updates
C. Deployment of ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
D. Phishing Test Campaign
E. CISA Cyber-Response Table Top Exercise for Q3 2022
7. Agenda items for the next meeting.
8. Next meeting date and time (Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 10 a.m.).
9. Adjournment.
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Meeting materials from this meeting can be found within the following file:
220189 Communication relating to the matters to be considered by the City
Information Management Committee at its June 16, 2022 meeting.
Sponsors: THE CHAIR
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