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33 <br /> <br />• Hillsborough <br />• Chapel Hill <br />• Carrboro <br />• Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools <br />• Orange County Schools <br />• UNC <br />• UNC Hospital <br />• Piedmont Electric <br />• Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) <br />• Duke <br /> <br />2016 <br />Wi-Fi to go <br /> <br />Orange County Plans <br />• Federal Engineering communications tower planning to include space for broadband <br />providers to attach <br />• Fiber Plan <br />o Cedar Grove to Carrboro <br />o East West along Rt. 70 <br /> <br />Current Initiatives <br />• Maintaining all of the previous stuff just covered <br />• Fiber Project with Hillsborough ~ 2017 <br />• Broadband RFP / Grant ~ 2018 <br /> <br />Commissioner Price asked about Durham Tech. <br />Jim Northup said staff has not met with Durham Tech, but will add them to their <br />meeting list. <br />Commissioner Price said what about the students. <br />Jim Northup said he would invite Durham Tech to their meetings. <br />Commissioner Marcoplos asked if the cost of the Wi-Fi to go could be identified. <br />Jim Northup said $35/unit monthly for unlimited broadband, and it is available for any <br />library patron. <br />Commissioner Marcoplos asked if the County pays for the unit itself. <br />Jim Northup said the County does not buy the unit; rather the unit comes with a <br />$35/monthly charge. He said the units fail fairly often, and replacement units are provided for <br />free. <br />Commissioner McKee thanked Jim Northrup for his work in, and outreach to, the <br />community. <br />Chair Dorosin said the request for proposals (RFP) was released in January, and asked <br />if there is a timeline for getting responses back. <br />Jim Northup said it went out for 30 days, and there is a timeline within the RFP. He <br />said he hoped to turn this around within a few weeks, and then start the longer process of <br />developing a contract with a vendor(s). <br /> <br />c. Quarterly Update on the Orange County Transit Plan and the Durham-Orange <br />Light Rail Project