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• Terri—County ownership in order to stimulate competition; "over build" • Catharine—many examples of building/owning, building/access, etc; right of first refusal used in Cleveland and worked well; ask what ownership looks like to the vendors; ACTION—Jim to ask County Attorney about ownership???? (ask Jim) • Comm McKee—does anyone have a definitive idea of what ownership model would be? Todd— overall ownership is County owns fiber/conduit that goes from one point of county to other then lease strands of fiber to vendors; let Rverstreet build fiber then give 25 strands of fiber to OC then we can lease out our strands to other vendors; claw back(failure to perform) is good idea then we can take the fiber back and own it; problem with ownership is that someone has to maintain the fiber(not always easy or cheap) and owner of fiber has to pay for problems; thinks we need about$12 million to have a fiber ownership conversation but for$5 million the claw back would work; would be a maintenance charge for leased fiber;Terri—town of Carrboro (worked with NCDOT to put in their own fiber); when Carrboro finally came to table with UNC, MCNC—if county owned fiber, can we connect to MCNC fiber?Todd—yes. MCNC could backhaul to other cheaper providers;would be a cost savings; make it cheaper than other carriers if don't have to perform fiber builds; in addition to $5 million, can reduce county costs, etc to sweeten the pot; MCNC is an option for internet providers to connect to; MCNC is for economic development • Catharine—Treasury has decided that as long as you use funds to unnerved,that system can be used to provide service to the served—could not only serve unnerved but could over build to serve populations that aren't unnerved; State is trying to limit funding to just un-underserved so not supporting overbuild (look up meaning overbuild) • Catharine—Jim aiming for draft to review in 2 weeks (before 8/11)then address concerns/changes(by 8/25) and then if ready, release by NLT 9/8 (drop dead date) • Terri—would be helpful to have completely clean copy of RFP so requests clean copy without tracked changes and no history; ACTION —Jim to sanitize version that he gives to task force— clean copy without changes (by 8/11); have a version for review by 8/6 for discussion on 8/11 • Catharine—vendors like simple; have all be consistent and simple with all questions; Catharine, Kathy and Jim will be working on it • Terri—start with a full list of questions (can do this over email)then can start on RFP • Comm Greene—ACTION: need to know if we can ask vendors questions prior to release of RFP? ACTION -Jim to ask John Roberts • Terri—have 2 people from community who've attended several meetings—do they have a way to communicate w/Task Force their questions/concerns/etcl; yes, currently sending email to Jim and/or to BOCC Next Steps—(all info above) Motion to adjourn—Terri moves; no objections Adjourn—7:11