BbTF Minutes 05-05-2021 - Laserfiche WebLink

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to home cable company wants to charge$4k; PEMC quotes$5k/household for fiber to the home; Bertie County is$15k/household for fiber;grants are funding$1000/path; Earl—if OC was to move forward with towers(phase 1)is OpenBB ready to get service out to people it would be able to reach—manpower,equipment,etc.;AF:will need to evaluate equipment and manpower need to determine schedule; part of discussion would be that OpenBB could/would move forward quickly,without hesitation or exception;AF:extensive competition for talent and significant impact on manufacturers,chip shortages,cargo delays, etc—will be hard to hit high number given these constraints o Earl—how many installers now and how many would be required to do 1000 homes(19/day for a year to get 5000 household installs); 1000 would require 10 technicians so would need to staff up;JN: know fixed wireless won't be able to get to every one of 5000 houses;<ASK WHAT THE GOAL DATE WAS—2 years?????>(Call dropped during discussion); how to determine"take rate" to be able to get a more accurate estimate?; 5000 comes from "where Spectrum isn't"so only single landline provider(DSL—CenturyLink);JN: all calculations were pre-pandemic; o Paul:does the 5000 number account for hotspots?JN: no, don't have map data for hotspot coverage; data caps and throttling are concern;AF: did anything OpenBB presented surprise us? Sally—surprised by cost versus cost of other solutions; also by how much of own money invested Jim/Travis/Jeff—discuss RFQ/RFP; - working on last summer;something Finance/Legal/Construction team were working on; RFQ said have $30 million to spend, help us spend it;don't know what technology is required but know we want to partner with someone; not just handing over$30million and say"get'er done" - discussion around differences between RFP/RFQ/RFI - RFQ—request for qualifications,and a design/build construction project;AMS felt would be adequate for getting design services - Sally—we know generally what our problem is,and that one solution isn't going to solve it;want bidder to help clearly define the problem and propose a solution - Todd—what would like to see group do is empowering the County—take money coming from Feds, use it to put fiber on streets to 5000 homes then choose vendor that could take advantage of fiber to get internet to the home;one time in a generation to get money for this; Paul agrees—doesn't know how long schools will be able to afford hotspot costs of$40k/year;Terri agrees w/Todd as well; put out RFI to see which providers might be interested; lease fiber to vendor then use$$to cover cost of maintaining fiber - JN—CTC(vendor for Ting);did strategic plan and would be interested in doing plan for fiber, parts list and price it out from soup to nuts;then left with infrastructure that we'd be responsible for lighting up (one approach); plan/price for fiber network for County;design process would take 6-9 months - Todd—short term idea =>StarLink-county pays$500 then homeowner pays the monthly fees; use telephone poles for fiber-to-home so need to get friendly with PEMC;thinks could build infrastructure within 2 years; MCNC did 2400 miles in 2 years - Paul—fiber to the street—AT&T and Spectrum both have fiber past every house on 54;Spectrum charged $3000 to get it from street to house - Earl—money has to be spent by 2024 - Jeff Sural—RFP/RFI for County to install own fiber, need to have more discussion about legalities(see bill that Jeff Oust sent); bill has changed how state operates; next step is to finish RFP - Earl—proposes to discuss short term (fixed wireless)and fiber for long term;get more info;Sally—Jim to prepare RFP for group to review;Jim:can do RFP and get information about"county run fiber project" and bring it back to the group Defer approval of minutes(for last two meetings) until next meeting ACTION—Jim to bring RFP and "county run fiber project"