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