Communications Infrastructure Committee

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Thursday, October 4, 2012 - 3:15pm to 5:15pm

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COMMITTEE: COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE
DATE: Thursday October 4th, 2012
TIME: 3:15 p.m.
PLACE: EMBS Meeting Room, Room 128, 510 Broadway, Courthouse, Baraboo, Wisconsin

REASON FOR MEETING:  Regular Special

SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION:
1. Call to Order and Certify Compliance with Open Meeting Law
2. Adopt agenda
3. Adopt draft minutes of September 6th, 2012 meeting.
4. Public Comment
5. Communications

6. Business items
a) Update on recording of County Meetings

b) Update on Towers
i. Update on narrowbanding

c) Update on Fiber
i. EDA Grant Update – construction update - Ellis McFadzen – review of Change Order

d) Resolutions regarding Midwestern Disaster Area Revenue Bonds
i. Approving Midwestern Disaster Area Revenue Bond Financing for Hilbert Communications,
LLC and providing for limited County Guaranty.
ii. Approving Midwestern Disaster Area Revenue Bond Financing for Hilbert Communications,
LLC and providing for Intergovernmental Agreement.

e) Report from Fire, EMS & Police Representative on Communications

7. Next Meeting

8. Adjournment
 

PDF icon 10-04-2012_approved_minutes.pdf (21 KB)

October 4, 2012
APPROVED

Members Present: Tommy Lee Bychinski, Scott Von Asten, Virgil Hartje, Frederick Halfen, Mark Smooth Detter

Others Present: Tim Stieve, Phil Raab, Steve Pate, Kathy Schauf, Kevin Fults, Richard Meister, Marty Krueger, Mike Long

1. Meeting called to order by Bychinski at 3:15 p.m. Compliance with Open Meeting Law was met.

2. Adopt Agenda: Motion by Hartje, second by Detter to approve agenda. Carried.

3. Approve minutes from September 6, 2012: Motion by Detter, 2nd by Halfen to approve minutes. Aye: (4) Bychinski, Hartje, Halfen, Detter, Nay: (1) (VonAsten). Carried.

4. Public Comment - None.

5. Communications – Both the Fire & EMS representatives were not able to attend and had no reports.


6. Business Items:
a. Update on recording of County Meetings: Steve Pate updated the committee on recording of County meetings. Still working on deciding the video equipment that would work for our application. Granicus will be the week of October 8th to provide a demo.

b. Update on Towers. Phil updated the committee on narrowbanding. Infrastructure narrowbanding is completed, but there are still some jail portable radios to update. Phil handed out maps showing where issues have been reported since narrowbanding was completed. Phil reviewed what the cost of adding a transmitter to a site. Evaluation will continue until first part of 2013 and then a plan on what is needed will be developed.

c. EDA Grant Update. Construction is completed just finishing up on a few inspection type items. Tim presented a change order totaling $33,066.20. Motion by Halfen, 2nd by Hartje to approve Change order. Carried.

d. Resolutions regarding Midwestern Disaster Area Revenue Bonds. Todd Liebman presented two resolutions:
1. Approving Midwestern Disaster Area Revenue Bond Financing for Hilbert Communications, LLC and providing for limited County Guaranty;
2. Approving Midwestern Disaster Area Revenue Bond Financing for Hilbert Communications, LLC and providing for Intergovernmental Agreement.
Discussion followed.
Motion by Hartje, 2nd by Von Asten to approve and forward both resolutions to County Board. Carried.

e. Report from Fire, EMS & Police Representatives. No reports.

7. Next regular meeting scheduled for November 1, 2012 at 3:15 p.m.

8. Adjourn: Motion by VonAsten, second by Halfen to adjourn. Carried.