Broadband Committee Minutes

Broadband Committee Meeting                               03/21/18

Attendance : Larry Kline, BJ Johnson, Cliff Weiss, George Cane, Kenn Basler

Meeting started  9:00 AM

Committee discussed providers and the state, there is not much to report on. Charter has yet to respond to our requests to meet and discuss their proposal with the committee, rendering a twelve-to- eighteen month roll-out moot.

Cliff Weiss recounted a recent encounter with, Anna Lucy, the lead Charter municipal contact, in which she explained that emails/requests received by her are funneled up the management chain and she cannot respond until permitted to do so. Thus the delay in response to MOnterey

Report - Fiber Connect continues to connect Monterey residents and continues to wire Egremont. Fiber Connect submitted an additional response to MBI, however there has been no notification from the state received by the Monterey Broad- band Committee regarding this response.

Report - Members of the broadband committee met with Egremont and New Marlborough to discuss MBI and broadband. We will continue to work together as a block to develop and implement a strategy to unlock the state/MBI grant monies. New Marlborough, as of this writing, is no longer talking with Frontier. Fiber Connect continues to build out in Egremont while that town is waiting on Charter.

Report - Several members of the committee attended the December 19 meeting of the Five Town Cable Advisory Committee (Great Barrington, Sheffield, Lee, Lenox and Stockbridge) to listen to an update from Charter/Spectrum regarding the deployment and ongoing upgrade in those towns. The questions and subsequent an- swers will help us when Charter schedules to meet with us.

Meeting closed at 11:30 AM