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Presentation on McKinney Broadband Initiative and Request for Proposal Results
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Direction for Strategic & Economic Growth
Enhance the Quality of Life in McKinney
MEETING DATE: August 16, 2022
DEPARTMENT: City Manager's Office
CONTACT: Trevor Minyard, Director of Strategic Services
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
* N/A.
ITEM SUMMARY:
* The presented item is meant to serve as an update on the ongoing McKinney Broadband Initiative, and share results from the recent RFP scoring.
* The City Council will consider acting on a resolution at the August 16th, 2022 regular meeting that would allow for the city to begin negotiations with SiFi Networks McKinney, LLC to deliver on the four recommendations of the Broadband Assessment Report and Recommendations adopted by the city council February 15th, 2022.
* The Broadband Assessment Report and Recommendations, completed in partnership with HR Green, Inc., provided recommendations and summarized the current condition of broadband access in the City of McKinney. Specifically, the plan recommends,
o Community infrastructure base: Work with the provider community to develop a tech base that moves towards a FTTP model.
o City facilities: Expand the current, city owned fiber ring to City facilities that could benefit from connectivity but have not had fiber deployed to them.
o City economic development: In addition to having excellent connectivity that could come from Recommendation 1, the McKinney Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) could initiate pilot projects to enhance certain properties and attract certain businesses or business types.
o Adoption: There are people and groups in McKinney who might have access to broadband, but because of financial reasons, language barriers, age related challenges, etc. are not able to adopt (or purchase) broadband services.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
* In the Summer of 2021, the City Council approved the continuation of staff's work on evaluati...
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