HomeMy WebLinkAboutTelecommunications Board - Minutes - 07/16/2007TELECOMMUNICATIONS BOARD
MEETING MINUTES
July 16, 2007
6:00 PM
Council Liaison: David Roy
Staff Liaison: Liz Stroh, Communications and Technology Services; 221-6522
Board Chair: Curt Cramer
Vice Chair: Herb Saperstone
Present: Curt Cramer, Herb Saperstone, Wayne Wiemerslage,
Chip Cushman, David Heiberg
Absent: Ted Funk
Staff: Tom Vosburg, Liz Stroh
Chair Curt Cramer called the meeting to order at 6: 10 PM.
Public Input:
None
Minutes:
Curt Cramer, herb, david, wayne, chip
Staff: Tom, Liz
Called to order at 6:10
No public input
Minutes:
Correct allowed.
Wayne, motion. Chip second.
Unanimous
Wifi update.
Phase I project making progress. 6 or 7 access points on this building. Scheduled to go
live on July 27. explained the boundary area cherry on north, howes, Peterson, Jefferson,
magnolia bound the area. Mason street corridor will be well covered. Utility crews and
trucks helped FRII install the antenna. The network is actually live now. Will be
offering user accounts time limited to 30 minutes a day (must sign up). Can also sign up
for daily, weekly and monthly use. Some access points will be moved because of tree
problems.
Able to access the network from 3`d floor, but not accessible from community room. Will
be testing connectivity and performance. Traffic department raised concerns about poor
performance from the traffic department, but the frequency is different, so wasn't a
problem with the wifi. Traffic continue to find out what is happening.
Next milestone — july 25 is operational for the public. Wire cutting ceremony.
Scheduled. July 24 a study session scheduled to update them on the the progress, and
talk about the phase 2 plan.
Phase 2. meeting with Loveland/county/fort Collins. Loveland brought wifi to that
group. Discussed parterning on the feasibility study. Working together on an rfp.
Theose that apply only to FC or Loveland will be handled in separate document. Haven't
been able to move forward with CSU because of other work.
Chip asked about consultants. Some have already talked to the City, so they will be
included, as well as any others that might be interested.
Phase 3. testing different applications. Utilities budgeting funds for meter reading pilot
project. New Belgium brewery is interested in demand side management and remote
meter reading, so they will participate in the phase 3. potential savings is at the process
control aspects that allow businesses to shift consumption of energy. The brewery is
interested in controlling their water and wastewater releases.
Building inspectors — went live with permitting system and given inspectors laptops and
can record their results in the pc. Don't need to come in early to do data entry, hope to be
more productive. Set up to load onto the laptop and resynch at end of day. If have live,
can resynch (written that way) so City will be using that as part of test to connect real
time — will buy air cards and test wifi versus verizon service performance to see which
works better for City ie is the bandwidth
Wayne asked about security. Tom said use a vpn, encrypted.
Suggested low -jack product. Hidden on hard drive and send a message back to service to
locate. David suggested encrypting hard drive first to avoid any security thing.
Loss of data and laptop are two security questions.
David asked about how phase one going to be disseminated to the community that it is
available. Public info officer putting out info, will also give info re council study session,
press would cover, etc. will assume dba might promote, chamber.
Attorneys should look at terms of use to make sure the city is covered from any liability.
Chip wondered if the business customers pleased with service. There hasn't been any
thorough testing.
Tom will go from district one (walnut). City leases it line for that, and will be a good
location to see if the wifi connection is good enough to run the voip system.
Chip asked about the election. Thought might go to voters to set aside 152. Bill allows
city to lease excess capacity to private providers. The phrase `insubstantial" amount is
included, and there is no definition to help clarify what that means. Will use that
argument. To expand to university, will have to use city fiber. In long run, will probably
set it aside, but the timing is too near for the election this year., didn't want to do that
because would be the only thing on the agenda. Don't plan to rule any business plans out
that won't work with 152 because may change later.
Some saying cities are only ones that can compete with qwest and Comcast. Timnath
seems to be only city that city is aware of that have set aside 152.
Other business
Herb asked about power point presentation up and running on web. Tom suggested
having attorney's and public infl officer look at it. Need to verify. Send to Tom. Curt
asked about hurdle, tom explained city manager is protective of what material goes on the
web site. And also is it appropriate from legal perspective and community relations
effort.
PIO would handle content. Wayne suggested putting a year deadline to remove or update
the info. Retention policies also need to be put into place.
Chip asked about FC Pan, Herb said loading server and got equipment. Asked for a visit
from Comcast. Update on services, rathes, penetration, basic tier penetration. Also
percentage of hd tv. What is status of channel 5 request to be included on the Comcast
system. Talk about quarterly reports and schedule visit for after 3`d quarter. Questions
about Loveland franchise.
Contact curt to determine whether or not will have the august meeting.
Chip adjourn. Seconded by David.
Meeting adjourned at 7 pm.
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