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12 DRAFT 276 Perdita Holtz: It is ongoing. My understanding is that there was a contract agreement and there will be a few 277 hundred fewer houses served as a result, and it still was, it was never going to be 100 percent of 278 houses served by Lumos, but there was even going to be slightly fewer. I am thinking it was 279 around 400 if I recall correctly, and I do not remember what the actual number of houses served 280 was for that. 281 282 Lamar Proctor: Well, I will just say it was expanded in my area, in Efland Cheeks, and it is a huge difference, so 1 283 applaud those efforts, and not having to rely on DSL in 2025 is a huge benefit,and I think it does 284 open up opportunities for people to expand their entrepreneurial efforts and to facilitate their 285 working from home, and their general life well-being and access for that to continue to be 286 expanded, so I think that is still a continuing issue, and so I am glad that it is still part of our 287 emerging issues and concerns. I would invite the board to,we can talk about anything that we 288 would like to see added. One thing that I would like to somehow incorporate is some sort of 289 meeting between us and the Board of County Commissioners themselves. I feel like we serve an 290 important function in advising them and diligently going through and giving them another set of 291 eyes, but it would be nice to interact with them at least once or twice over the year to get their 292 personal perspectives because not all of us can go to Board of County Commissioners meetings 293 and see the follow up, but just to generally get their ideas so that when we give an advisory 294 opinion, that we have some foresight into how the Board is going to look at it. I do think we serve 295 an important function as volunteers to give our individual perspectives and the perspectives for 296 our geographic areas or at-large as the case may be, but I think it would be nice if we got to meet 297 with the Board of County Commissioners for some period of time to get involvement with them to 298 understand their way of thinking and their approaches individually to the same issues that we 299 address. 300 301 Statler Gilfillen: I had a comment here. At our last meeting,there was a proposal, I believe it was approved by the 302 Board of a development north on 86. 1 will stand corrected on this but I believe the County 303 Commissioners turned it down 304 305 Perdita Holtz: They did. 306 307 Statler Gilfillen: We approved it and they turned it down. Can any comments be made, and I think that fits exactly 308 what you are talking about here about that. 309 310 Chris Johnston: Well, that was the same one that, originally,we were either at a standstill or it did not approve, 311 yeah,split it.And then the following meeting it turned into more of an approval thing. 312 313 Delores Bailey: I think it would be important to know what happens to things that we sent to the Board. 314 315 Chris Johnston: Yeah. 316 317 Delores Bailey: I agree. That is a good example. 318 319 Statler Gilfillen: I think that is a perfect example you are talking about here. 320 321 Lamar Proctor: Yeah, and that was kind of the impetus when we were talking was that and just specifically that 322 project or that application. So,yeah, that is something I would like to see incorporated into the 323 work plan. 324 325 Perdita Holtz: Sure. Yeah. And it should probably be fairly high up. Maybe Number 2 of Subsection 8. 326 327 Statler Gilfillen: I think related to that,there is a separate issue in this, may be a little bit political but after we have 328 passed on a comment, and we approved it even if it might have been controversial between that 329 period of time and the time the county commissioners have responded. I sense that there were a 330 number of individuals or groups that approached the county commissioners with a different point