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Princeton Broadband Committee
Meeting Minutes August 7, 2013 7:00pm Town Hall Office
Meeting called to order at 7:10 PM. Committee Members Present:
Bill Dino
Ned Utzig
Petr Spacek
Phil OBrien
Stan Moss
John Kowaleski
Chris Lynch from Matrix Design Group also attended.
Discussion:
- Committee recognizes and congratulates John K. for his successful Pan Mass Challenge ride!
- Verbally informed by Town Administrator from G4S that they are not going to supply a network design. Need to look at purchasing law regarding design builds under Mass General Law 30/30B. Project has to be estimated to be > $5M to qualify as a design build. Construction law requires design/ bid/build.
- Need to decide where to go next on network design. Is the $10K going to be sufficient to do a network design? Possible viable avenue to get a network design is hiring a network design engineer to review/combine town-initiated survey efforts with RFI information into a network design. Need to determine if this is a viable option, otherwise we would have to go back to town meeting to up our network design info.
- John L. checking on draft ISP RFI. No legal strict requirements for an RFI, should be straightforward.
- Not on track for September town meeting , probably will be pushed back to October. Probably fine because MBI schedule is also pushed out.
- Chris mentioned that Verizon probably has fiber in town that we may be able to get access to for short-term or for secondary access.
- Verizon has a vested interest in removing copper, is there any incentive for them to work with us to install fiber and reduce need for copper?
- Depreciation update from Stan. Leverett was $23/month/subscriber . Do we depreciate the ONTs, where the town pays for replacement, vs. town pays for initial ONTs but customers pay for replacement/breakage. Leverett depreciates their fiber over 20 years. Talked to 2 companies, fiber put in 30 years still going strong. Other infrastructure like electric lines not depreciated. John K suggestion: we depreciate only the electronics , up the maintenance amount. Regular maintenance may be akin to depreciation over a long time span.
- John distributed schedule proposal, for review.
Action Items:
- Stan to talk to MBI to get update specific to Princeton. (Stan)
- Talk to Verizon about backhaul (Bill)
- John K. to post soft copy of schedule.
- Talk to Cell tower customers & tower providers (Brian Allen) about connecting to fiber / getting an ONT, could be a source of revenue. (Stan)
- Talk to Sterling about their cable service and possibly providing service over Princeton Fiber. (Steve)
- Talk with G4S about feasibility of splitting feed to town to East Princeton FD after plan is released from G4S. (Mike)
- Talk to Westfield about depreciation. (John)
- Meet with pole survey volunteers, organize further work (John)
- Generate a revised near-term schedule for BBC activities (John)
- Ideas for content for possible newsletters to town (All)
- Work on draft for press release of revised schedule / recent update (Phil)
- Chris to provide soft copy of IPTV document to committee. (Chris)
- Polish ISP RFI (John)
- Follow up with John L. on ability to spend network design money on a consultant (Stan)
- Mike to put together page of reference towns, give to Rich to post (Mike, Rich)
- Come up with a “success” definition for the BB project. (Steve)
- Work with Jon F. on revised/realistic depreciation (Stan)
Upcoming Agenda for 8/14:
- Decide on moving town meeting.
- Discussion/decision for network design
- Review of John’s schedule for BBC.
- Polished RFI for ISP from John
- Review press release from Phil.
Meeting adjourned 8:17pm
Respectfully submitted,
Ned Utzig
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