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Princeton Broadband Committee
Meeting Minutes June 18, 2014 7:00pm - Town Hall Office, Princeton, MA
Chris Lynch from Millennium Design and Phyllis Booth from The Landmark also attended.
Committee Members Present:
Stan Moss
Ned Utzig
Dag Olsen
Petr Spacek
Rich Wagner
Bill Dino
Discussion
- Approve 6/11 Minutes – Unanimously Approved.
- Letter to Sen. Chandler regarding IT Bond bill on hold per MBI request. Reportedly Senate Bond Committee will vote on 6/25.
- Meeting with Bill Stathis Director of Sales from Crocker Communications. Worked for Verizon for 27 years. Worked for Axia to bring in other ISPs and to deal with the State. Member of Wired West board (alternate delegate). Wired West votes to change bylaws in August. A language change to tighten requirements for membership was proposed for the meeting, but a majority present was not in favor of it.
- Bill distributed information regarding Crocker Comms. role in Leverett, pricing structure, and Experience/support:
- Internet, VOIP with unlimited long distance, caller ID 3-way call etc. with basic monthly service.
- Billing for Internet & voice
- 7x24x365 call center
- Leverett Pricing:
- Internet (1Gb/sec) $24.95/month
- Voice only $24.95/month
- Combined $39.95/month
- “Leverett cost recovery line item” (~$30) - TBD
- Wiring to exterior ONT, additional consumer cost to do internal wiring.
- Bill can provide the responses Crocker gave to Leverett’s ISP.
- Stan asked: What are the expectations on the take rate 3 months out? Bill is more concerned with the “ultimate” take rate – feels it will be high, perhaps 80%.
- Crocker will do email service for Leverett, web hosting, etc. if needed/required.
- Crocker is a $7M/year company, 50 employees (50% support call center)
- John L. put a call into Deirdre Lawrence (Possible Town Counsel regarding Millennium negotiations) and a $300/hour , 16 hour estimate. ($4800). She may not have availability to work on project until August. John is setting up a retainer with her. She offered to come for a July meeting with the MLP/BBC during business hours. This will likely delay signing of an MOU until August or later.
- Chris L. suggested looking into the attorney used by Leverett, who also did the town of Wilbraham. Chris will get a contact.
- Bill asked if Leverett is comfortable if we need to wait until August to resolve MOU legal issues – Chris responded that Millennium wants to do the right thing and would wait if necessary.
- Ned updated committee on USDA grant. Attended the USDA webinar – turns out we are ineligible for grant because we are partially served by broadband.
- Phyllis Booth asked how committed we are to using Deirdre Lawrence as attorney – answer is we have not signed an agreement yet.
Action Items
- Stan to follow up on Counsel meeting with MLP.
- Chris to provide alternate Counsel contact info.
Upcoming Agenda Items
- Next meeting July 2nd (tentative).
Meeting adjourned 8:27 PM
Respectfully submitted,
Ned Utzig
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