Request for Work Session on Enhanced Broadband Capacity, Access and Equity Copyrighted
June 4, 2018
City of Dubuque Action Items # 6.
ITEM TITLE: Requestfor WorkSession on Enhanced Broadband
Capacity, Access and Equity
SUMMARY: City Manager recommending that the City Council schedule
a work session for June 11 , 2018 to discuss efforts to
enhance broadband capacity, access and equity in
Dubuque.
SUGGESTED DISPOSITION: Suggested Disposition: Receive and File; Council
ATTACHMENTS:
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Request for W ork Session on Broadband-NNM Memo City Manager Memo
Staff Memo Staff Memo
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TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
SUBJECT: Request for Work Session to Review and Discuss Efforts to Enhance
Broadband Capacity, access and Equity in Dubuque
DATE: May 30, 2018
Information Services Manager Chris Kohlmann, Public Information Officer Randy Gehl
and Sustainable Innovation Consultant David Lyons request the City Council schedule a
work session for June 11 , 2018 to discuss efforts to enhance broadband capacity,
access and equity in Dubuque.
I concur with the recommendation and respectfully request Mayor and City Council
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Teri Goodmann, Assistant City Manager
Cori Burbach, Assistant City Manager
Chris Kohlmann, Information Services Manager
Randy Gehl, Public Information Officer
David Lyons, Sustainable Innovation Consultant
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TO: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
FROM: Chris Kohlmann, Information Services Manager
Randy Gehl, Public Information Officer
David Lyons, Sustainable Innovation Consultant
SUBJECT: Request for special work-session of the City Council to review and discuss
efforts to enhance broadband capacity, access and equity in Dubuque.
DATE: May 29, 2018
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this memo is to request a special work session of the Dubuque City
Council on the subject of Broadband.
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
Since December 2015 the City has undertaken a Broadband Acceleration Initiative to
increase broadband capacity, access and equity in Dubuque. The established strategy
focuses on public/private collaborations that can reduce the time and cost for new
broadband investments, whether public or private.
In the last two years the initiative has resulted in a doubling of conduit, quadrupling of
fiber and an increase in the number of active private sector carriers in the community
from 3 to 9. One purpose of the requested work session would be to update the Council
on progress to date and future planning under this initiative.
Also, earlier this year the City was presented with a public petition in support of creating
a municipally owned and operated ISP (Internet Service Provider). In follow-up
discussions with local citizens representing that effort, it has become clear that the
present initiatives and strategies that City Staff and partners are pursuing do not meet
the policy or objectives which this group has established.
Specifically, it is their view that any system must guarantee net-neutrality and be
governed and administered by a democratically elected governmental entity. Therefore,
a second purpose of the requested work session would be to allow Council to hear
information relating to a potential alternative policy approach to broadband development
in this community.
RECOMMENDATION AND ACTION REQUESTED
We would respectfully request that a work session be scheduled for Monday June 11 at
6:00 pm to discuss broadband and related items outlined in this memo.
c.c. Crenna Brumwell, City Attorney
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