[Davisgig] City Staff Lunch

[Robert Nickerson]

Here is my incomplete thoughts on the lunch meeting today. Perhaps Doug 
and Bill can chime in with any additional impressions...


CInO - Chief Innovation Officer
DepCInO - Deputy Chief Innovation Officer


Meeting with City Innovation Officers
KetMoRee
3.25.15 Noon

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, but....

City Staff seem to be motivated to get a Gigabit Fiber install completed 
for Davis.

Seem to want to work with local experts, so the council can look to the 
experts  for recommended solutions.  So for us, DavisGIG, to continue 
our efforts to bring it about.

CInO encouraged us to continue our efforts around this goal, full speed 
ahead.

CInO will be organizing 4 or so community "events" about this topic, we 
are encouraged to be at these events to offer our point of view as local 
experts. At least one of these events will have "providers invited" to 
offer their PoV. This definitely means SureWest, now CCI, and perhaps 
Comcast, ATT, and whatever others.

  A fair  hearing of all fiber deployment strategies needs to be given 
in order for things to be passed.

  We were able to tell them the strengths of our model versus other 
deployment models, and they are aware of, other models,  for instance, 
Chattanooga Gig, and SonicNet's build out in city of Brentwood and the 
arrangements it has made with the City government.

  DepCInO wants us to help articulate what the winning proposition that 
we need to deliver to the  community to change the conversation from a 
when we get it, or if we get it, to a more urgent call to have it now.

  They understand that having this as a utility investment will help 
them in their efforts to foster locally based innovation, as well as 
bring in larger businesses that will come for the University and the Fiber.

  I was not able to ask some detailed questions, about the citys' offers 
from other vendors to do this, and about the feasibility study the 
council is looking to have done.

  BIG TAKE AWAY POINTS

  1) The current model for funding this is through a parcel tax backed 
bond measure. Detractors are noted ;)  Elections for a parcel tax  can 
only be held on city council election, "elections."  So June 2016 is the 
next election, and then the window is closed until June 2018. This gives 
us a target date for mustering the voter support and passing this vote 
in 06/2016. This is a good thing, timing is about right for something of 
this scale, and it helps frame our effort by giving us the next big goal 
point to work for. It also means we should actively move to get the 
council to approve this before hand so it is included for the ballot.

  2) DepCInO indicates these measures pass when there are local 
"champions" that the community trusts to implement these types of 
projects, and a 66% pass rate was needed.

  3) There is a wide disparity in numbers, City staff are thinking $100 
million, we are thinking more like $30 million


  I'm sure there was other nuances I did not pick up on, but that is all 
my poor brain can think on now.
-- 
Rob Nickerson

CEO
Om Networks
UCD Class of 96
C: 530-848-3865

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