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Meeting is in zoom till 7PM Action Items: ACTION: Next meeting April 7t"at 5:30-All ACTION: Provide list of all county owned land—Northrup ACTION: MCNC fiber maps?—Broucksou ACTION: Graig Meyer(and Republican colleague) on agenda for next meeting—McKee to arrange ACTION: Commissioner Greene requests that OC put together a synopsis of grants that we are eligible for(federal funding, block grants, etc); Northrup/Myren (Northrup=>will provide weekly progress reports) ACTION: Disruptive technologies to consider—All (Northrup will put together a starter list) Discussion notes: - Sally/Earl welcome - Maps discussion (Northrup) o Discussion about service areas (RDOF map); not attesting to 100%accuracy; hatched area is Spectrum's coverage in county; yellow dots are in underserved and unserved area; —5000 dots in this area; wanted to figure out where problem areas are—no competition,just a single landline provider(DSL); where OC gets the most calls about poor/absent internet service; crosshatched area represents more than one ISP (CenturyLink, Google, etc); OC map generally accurate for Spectrum coverage area ■ Starlink discussion -> land-based equipment (Earth stations) 2 in NC(Chapel Hill) o Tower map—telecommunication sites (preferred/not preferred); Planning Dept put together map of preferred tower locations (as of 2012—green dots); any telecom that wants to put up a tower in OC, we ask them to go to these sites first (built into permitting process); Walnut Grove Church Road has a preferred location (Verizon—not moving forward yet); guyed towers (higher than 200', has guy wires), electric transmission towers (steel transmission towers, high intensity); lattice tower-triangular or square; monopole; preferred towers are not all county owned properties; map last updated 2012 (preferred tower locations map); Schley Road tower, Open Broadband putting LTE antennas and expect 2-3 miles penetration; OC has rights on some of the towers-so can sublet tower space to ISPs; may try to require space for ES on all towers erected (may be possible to legislate space on towers); OC does have some small communications towers (on the map—lattice at ES; Cedar Grove Fire Dept.—put OpenBB equip on); if commissioner's allocate funding, OC could build towers; regulatory process is very involved for under 200' and extremely involved for over 200' (Myren) o Map for schools (10/29/2020)—where is effective area of their hotspots; gray spectrum, white is not good internet; did radii around towers to figure out which vendor could provide best service (known cell towers); intent to project success of hotspot program; all properties that were owned when they were permitted;Jim contacted property owners to see if they're amenable to putting antennas on towers—nearly all said "no"; Town of Hillsborough is charging for use of water tower; cost model of fixed wireless solution require ability to get on towers for little to no cost— must have 40 customers within radius of tower for service to still be profitable if paying to be on tower o Fiber map—did strategic fiber plan 4 years ago; found that the only fiber is connecting parts of Century Link network so they can interconnect with each other; even Piedmont fiber is not well built out in OC;Todd has access to Piedmont Electric fiber maps that may be shareable; 5 year strategic plan for running fiber North/South/East/West (economic development zones), phased approach w/ToH for underground fiber MOU but didn't get off the ground; county owned fiber