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Princeton Broadband Committee
Meeting Minutes January 29, 2014 7:03pm - Town Hall Office, Princeton, MA
Committee Members Present:
Steve Cullen
Bill Dino
Petr Spacek
Stan Moss
Ned Utzig
John Kowaleski
Phil O’Brien
Dag Olsen
Chris Lynch from Matrix Design and Rich Bacon from Alcatel/Lucent also attended.
Discussion
- Phil Leaman & David Moore – owners of Linx Corp - in operation since 2004. Phil and Dave gave a summary of their history and experience in the network business, including his work developing the fiber network for the Five College system in Western Mass, a distributed fiber/antenna Terra-span system in the Back Bay of Boston, initial design work on the MBI network design on I-91, Cooley Dickenson hospital in Northampton, US Virgin Islands and other projects.
- Stan summarized the proposed task of editing/finishing the network design to the point of being able to use it for issuing an RFI, along with our recent committee activity.
- Discussion with Phil and Dave on various scenarios, including cable franchising and municipal network builds, triple-play packaging vs. internet-only, smart grid grants, revenue sharing, and other public/private funding options.
- Stan: Letters to potential ISPs for the CAI locations should go out late this week.
- Steve introduced Rich Bacon from Alcatel/Lucent, network equipment / LTE / fiber optic provider.
- Motion to give Leaman and Moore a favorable review and recommendation to the town administrator as network resources to contract to review the design and help with RFI. Passed Unanimously.
- Discussion of John LeBeaux report on the Municipal Association Meeting.
- Cable TV ad published, in the 45-day period. Phil will draft an article for the web site.
- Discussion of grant material document. Phil to own / edit.
- Stan invited to a G4S informal meeting on network design on Feb 14th. Vote to support John K. and Stan to meet with G4S to discuss network design on Feb 14th. Passed Unanimously.
- Steve stepping down as Committee Chairman will take a 6 month leave from the committee for a job contract out of town.
- John Kowaleski appointed as new committee chairman, Passed Unanimously.
Action Items
- Article on cable licensing process for web site (Phil)
- Stan to talk to John L. about Steve’s leave of absence and how to proceed with quorum. (Stan)
- Steve to complete annual report item for BBC (Steve)
Upcoming Agenda Items
- Discuss committee membership issues.
- Work on RFP requirements for Cable licensees (as needed)
- Comcast visit – still tentatively scheduled for Feb 5th.
Meeting adjourned 9:51PM
Respectfully submitted,
Ned Utzig
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