To address it in its entirety but helps create the conversation and enable the foundation for moving some of these things forward and i think the report accurately captures this broader picture of internet use and identifies vulnerable populations and the role should be to provide infrastructure as we are with the proposed expansion of our Fiber Network sf Wifi Services previously discussed etc. And my role should be to promote pervasive gig byte services in every neighborhood and an opportunity to creatively looking at funding opportunities and different ways to make this available for people in all areas of the city regardless of their socioeconomic situation. So i wanted to address a couple of things the connectivity plan and what we talked about yesterday, is not absent of a Municipal Network vision. What its focussed on right now most prominent ly is the fiber backbone that we want to create to connect primarily our municipal facilities right . Thats the obvious urgent need that w
Costly to provide free hardware or refush refurbished hardware. Supervisor christiansen. Listening to the connection noises that supervisor mar played for us, are there things that we that we should be doing to pave the the way literally for this to happen in the future talk about retro theres lots of neighborhood in the in the city that still have overhead wires and i know that there are plans that the city has to put conduits in streets that are torn up that sort of thing and are some of those programs potentially helpful down the line if we ever get to a point of becoming better wired . Yes supervisor christiansen i think those opportunities would definitely help and the city of santa monica is a good example they have a program now called incremental municipal broadband and they are doing exactly that so as other projects are executed and streets are dug up they are putting in their Municipal Fiber Network and its going a little bit at a time but they get another couple of blocks i
Many of us have a lot to be thankful for today, but even as the u. S. Economy starts to sputter back to life, millions of americans remain unemployed and theyre suffering. Many find themselves falling out of the middle class and falling into poverty. There are more People Living in the suburbs than in cities and we have been following three families as they confronted poverty. They face losing their homes and their future, yet never losing themselves. Diane is the kind of do it all mom you often meet in the affluent suburbs of boulder, colorado. Were going to get some groceries. Pasta, rice. Cereal. A gallon of milk possibly and eggs. Shes an ambitious Human Resource executive with a masters degree, a husband, three kids. And a comfortable home. So what is diane doing here . Youre entitled to the government commodity today. Can you use Rice Krispies . Yeah. And a food pantry. I never thought wed be in this predicament so many unknowns. They didnt see it coming. Three years ago when the
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