Plan today to collect data thats already available, to update older documents where new information exists and include any new research that reveals options that may not have been thought of yet, i want to just be cautious that were not getting into a wide scope that we are looking at whats already been done, that we want to look at areas where other city agencies, what the time mighting for limiting scope. And i think that undergrounding project may be different, you know, using lafco staff, for instance, when we looked at inaudible or how elected officials are elected during, you know, if between election cycles or Something Like that where were not touching on something that the board of supervisors or even other city agencies are doing so were filling a gap for research thats not done any other place. So given the time sensitivity and priority of clean power sf and being available to do other research where other agencies are not called in, i would just request the support from col
Agencies, what the time mighting for limiting scope. And i think that undergrounding project may be different, you know, using lafco staff, for instance, when we looked at inaudible or how elected officials are elected during, you know, if between election cycles or Something Like that where were not touching on something that the board of supervisors or even other city agencies are doing so were filling a gap for research thats not done any other place. So given the time sensitivity and priority of clean power sf and being available to do other research where other agencies are not called in, i would just request the support from colleagues to direct staff to limit scope and im not sure if we should adjust the timeline, but i would like to make sure we limit the scope to, you know, a certain number of hours or also limit the scope of work so that were not getting into doing other agencies work. And im not sure, ill ask you, mr. Freed, for comments on that and maybe the scope is limite
Broad band widely and close the dipblg cal divide but a study submitted to the wall street journal suggests the company is far from completing the goal. In 6 kansas city neighborhoods found in only 10 percent of the residents subscribe to googles fiber service. By contrast, 42 percent of the residents surveyed in nearby higher and middle neighborhoods signed on to google fiber. So i think really what im getting at here is i just want to be cautious that we dont use lafco staff to look at something that could be potentially not reaching a goal that staff really got at as to, you know, the purpose and spirit behind why we would support undergrounding. Supervisor tang requested we look into longterm master plan, alternative Funding Sources, establishing city policies and implementation of the program. And so, you know, in previewing mr. Frieds work plan today to collect data thats already available, to update older documents where new information exists and include any new research that r
This report 2. 0, if you will, can really hammer in on those issues if we so choose. Okay, thank you. There are no other comments from the commissioners at this time so i am going to open this item up to Public Comment. Are there any member s of the public whos like to speak on this item at this time, please step forward. Bruce wolf on behalf of my myself. Im a little more than a little, im very concerned about the discussion that just happened. Lafco had spent considerable amount of time on community broad band after the earth link debacle it spent money on very expensive moneys that proved to be very factual, presented ample project plans, a threephase plan to bring fiber to the premises but starting with just the hub, okay, and then so you go from a hub out to the neighborhoods and then into the homes. And it was a threephase plan, they priced it all out. Its there in your data base. You have it. We had quite a lot of discussion with a lot of people about that. There are a number of
Undergrounding folks see if they know of other folks we can partner with that would help us if we have something that needs to be changed. I would hope so because in perpetuity is a long time. Commissioner crews. Thank you. So i was very interested in our last meeting and supervisor haynes request that we look into undergrounding. Part of that was really around addressing the Digital Divide. So i was interested when i saw a wall street journal article recently that had to do with kansas citys Digital Divide so i want to read really briefly something that i provided to colleagues and to the public. When google launched its Fast Internet Service in kansas city in 2012, the web giant said it wanted to spread broad band widely and close the dipblg cal divide but a study submitted to the wall street journal suggests the company is far from completing the goal. In 6 kansas city neighborhoods found in only 10 percent of the residents subscribe to googles fiber service. By contrast, 42 percent