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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />To: Honorable Mayor Adams and City Council <br /> <br />From: Julie Feier, City Manager <br /> <br />Date: January 12, 2007 <br /> <br />Subject: Weekly Update <br /> <br /> <br />Charter Cable Dark Fiber Agreement: <br />nd <br />This item is on the agenda for second reading at your January 22 Council <br />meeting. The proposed Master Fiber Agreement with Charter Communications is <br />an agreement to ensure availability of the City’s institutional communications <br />fiber network (“I-Net”) for five years beginning January 1, 2007 at a cost of <br />$414.00 per month per site ($34,776.00 year). As the initial agreement was <br />developed by Thomas Moton, the money is in the budget for this year. The I-Net <br />connects all of the City facilities computer systems and allows them immediate <br />access to internal computer networks. The School District has already begun to <br />make comparable payments to Charter. In 2002 Charter built a system for the <br />City and the School District prior to the approval of their current franchise. The <br />City agreed at that time to provide the necessary equipment to “light” the network <br />at those designated sites. That is why it is referred to as a “dark fiber” agreement. <br />Charter completed the work, and the City obtained and installed the necessary <br />equipment and “lit” the network in 2002. The proposed compensation is well <br />below that of market rates for similar service. The alternative would be to <br />reconstruct our own internal network at roughly $230,000 and bear the burden of <br />continued maintenance costs. <br /> <br /> <br />AT&T Video Proposal: <br />nd <br />This item will be discussed in executive session, after your January 22 Council <br />Meeting. I have included the AT&T Video Agreement information from the <br />December 15 packet and the PowerPoint presentation from the Illinois Municipal <br />League, which included photographs of the video boxes from the November 2 <br />weekly. Since the distribution of the packets, I attended the CALOP Board <br /> <br />