<div dir="ltr">The City has posted its agenda for the March 3 meeting, which includes the staff report on the Yolo Broadband Strategic Plan. The <a href="http://city-council.cityofdavis.org/Media/Default/Documents/PDF/CityCouncil/CouncilMeetings/Agendas/20150303/09-Yolo-Broadband-Strategic-Plan.pdf">staff report</a> summarizes the broadband report and recommends actions.<div><br></div><div>Oddly enough, the staff report omits community broadband from its listing of the broadband report recommendations. This is a bit disturbing, but we shouldn't jump to the conclusion that this is deliberate. Staff may be planning to highlight that in their presentation.</div><div><br></div><div>If staff does not highlight the community broadband recommendation, anybody who speaks on Tuesday should be ready to note that omission. There will be at least some council members, and certainly much of the public, who will be relying on the staff report and will not have read they lengthy Yolo Broadband Strategic Plan.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Steve McMahon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@dcn.org" target="_blank">steve@dcn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">FYI, all, materials regarding the Yolo LAFCO broadband report are available at: <a href="http://www.yolocounty.org/general-government/yolo-lafco/shared-services-initiative/yolo-broadband" target="_blank">http://www.yolocounty.org/general-government/yolo-lafco/shared-services-initiative/yolo-broadband</a><div><br></div><div>The report recommends -- with no ambivalence at all -- that the City of Davis "<span style="font-family:OpenSans;font-size:11pt">Adopt General Plan policies that incorporate broadband as a public utility and
create a policy framework to promote its deployment in public and private projects as appropriate. "</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Their survey also does not report any percentage at all of residents with Internet speeds that would count as broadband under FCC definitions, though they did say that there were individual reports of speeds up-to 57mbps.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Just a note on earlier discussions: I think the release of this report ends the period during which we might think the issue was under the radar. We're out, and we might as well get talking to the politicians. We can be sure that Comcast and AT&T will be.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Steve</font></div><div><span style="font-family:OpenSans;font-size:11pt"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Robert Nickerson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob@omsoft.com" target="_blank">rob@omsoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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Hi <br>
<br>
So went to the Connected Capital Area Consortium meeting this week
and found out that Winters CA will invest in putting in Fiber. I
really know no more details than that, didn't get to talk with the
mayor or anything. <br>
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The Yolo LAFCO ED Christine Crawford will be at City Council on 3.3
to present the "Yolo County Broadband Plan" recommendations for
Davis. The consultant from Magellan Advisors was with Christine at
the CCAC meeting, so, likely hes in town doing all the meetings with
her. <br>
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I do not know what time it will be at the city council, or if there
will be public comment or what, but should tomorrow. I'll plan on
attending if its reasonably timed, and they are looking for public
input. Anyone else would be welcome (especially since I have another
committmetn that night I'd like not to break) but I think it would
be good for the council to hear from citizens that we do not want,
yet another monopoly. <br>
<br>
Thanks<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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