9-24-09 Meeting Minutes

St. Lawrence County
Information Technology Advisory Committee
Meeting Minutes
09/24/09
2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Human Services Center 2nd floor Conference Room


Laura Perry called the meeting to order at 2:03 p.m.

Minutes were approved for July 30, 2009 meeting.

Presentation/Discussion: Jim Wright and Tom Sauter from DANC made a presentation to the committee and discussion regarding OATN rates, structure, and economic development pricing for hard to serve communities. Mr. Wright handed out and briefly reviewed the history and presented the perspective of DANC. Mr. Wright indicated that one of the goals is to create an environment for customers to have choices. A potential solution that DANC considered was to have an individual case billing where you can take a unique service linking various sites.
They are looking into economic development funding.

The IT Committee further discussed various potential solutions for broadband services to hard to serve communities to include the need to be able to divide the service so that it can be fair depending on the usage of the service.

Stimulus Project Status:

a. Clarkson/Adirondack Wired Initiative—
Kevin updated the committee indicating that they submitted two applications
1-Public access computing center located in ten different areas in the Adirondack Park area.—Blue Mountain Lake is up and running.
2-Broadband adoption-DANC, COUNTY, STATE, and Clarkson all came up with matches for this program.

Whether funded or not they will be moving this program forward. Goal is to create 2018 jobs by 2018. November 7th is the announcement date.

b. NYS-Rob Hack indicated no update with the state

e. SLC Chamber--Customers by Nov 1 according to the contract-turn the first fiber on Monday. Potential customers are very excited.

Waddington – Norfolk—scheduled for Nov 13
Morristown-still negotiated for attachment—referred to Verizon.

Newton Falls Grant—Tom Sauter mentioned that after a long delay SLC has executed a contract with NYS putting $60 k into this project.. Base infrastructure is already there. Contract allows county to submit on a quarterly basis to receive reimbursement.