[CALL TO ORDER]
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THIS IS A MIC, UH, MAKE-UP MEETING SCHEDULED TO MAKE UP FOR OUR SEPTEMBER, UH, CANCELLATION DUE TO LACK OF QUORUM.
UH, I'VE INTRODUCED MYSELF ALREADY.
I'LL GO AHEAD AND START IF I COULD AT THE VERY FAR END OF THE DIOCESE.
HELLO, I'M NICOLE THOMPSON REPRESENTING DISTRICT NINE.
UH, LILIA SEVERSKY REPRESENTING DISTRICT SIX.
UH, HI, I'M SOPHIE GARAH REPRESENTING MAYOR STEVE ADLER.
I'M DAVE FLOYD REPRESENTING DISTRICT FIVE, STEVEN APODACA REPRESENTING DISTRICT TWO, JEN RAMOS REPRESENTING DISTRICT EIGHT.
AND AS I MENTIONED, HOW MANY OF MY PITS, THE THIRD REPRESENTING MAYOR PRO TEM NATASHA UPPER MADISON FROM DISTRICT ONE.
AND WITH THAT, WE ARE CALLED TO ORDER.
FIRST ITEM IS CITIZEN COMMUNICATION.
AT THIS TIME, WE HAVE NO ONE SIGNED UP, I BELIEVE SO WE'LL PROCEED IN OUR AGENDA
[1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – July 14, 2021]
TO AGENDA ITEM ONE, THE APPROVAL OF OUR JULY 14TH, 2021 MINUTES SHOULD ALL HAVE A DRAFT IN YOUR FOLDER.AFTER A QUICK REVIEW, I'LL LOOK FOR A MOTION AND A SECOND TO APPROVE THE MINUTES AS PRESENTED.
IF THERE ARE NO CHANGES, THIS IS JEN RAMOS.
WE HAVE A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER RAMOS TO APPROVE THE MINUTES AS PRESENTED SECOND AND A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER IS FIRSTLY THAT WE'LL CALL A VOTE ALL IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THE MINUTES AS PRESENTED.
ANY OPPOSED? WE HAVE ONE OPPOSITION, UH, COMMISSIONER GATES, ANYONE ABSTAINING? OH, WAIT, COMMISSIONER GATES.
ARE YOU OPPOSED OR YOU, UH, AFFIRMING THE MINUTES AS PRESENTED? WELL, VOTING MAY BE A CHALLENGE THIS TIME.
I'M NOT CERTAIN, UH, BUT I DO HAVE NINE OR EXCUSE ME, EIGHT IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND EITHER ONE ABSTENTION OR ONE OPPOSED? UH, YES.
COMMISSIONER
GOT YOU AS AN AFFIRMATIVE COMMISSIONER GATES.
THEN WE ARE UNANIMOUS IN OUR APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES WILL REMAIN.
UH, COULD GO AHEAD AND ENTER INTO THE RECORD AS APPROVED AND
[2A. Autonomy Institute Fellow Presentation on Public Infrastructure Network Nodes]
WE'LL PROCEED TO AGENDA ITEM TWO STAFF AND COMMUNITY BRIEFINGS.WE HAVE A PRESENTATION BY THE AUTONOMY INSTITUTE FELLOW ON THE PRISON, UH, EXCUSE ME, PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK NODES.
JEFF, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY.
I GREATLY APPRECIATE THE TIME, UH, CHAIRMAN PITTS AND, UH, COMMISSIONERS.
UM, UH, I FIND IT EXTREMELY EXCITING TO THE ORGANIZATION THAT YOU GUYS REPRESENTS.
UH, WE BELIEVE IT'S A VITAL SERVICE, UM, THAT IS GOING TO BE HIGHLY IMPACTFUL TO COMMUNITIES ALL ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.
AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO TALKING ABOUT, UH, THE PIN NETWORKS AND HOW THE CITY OF AUSTIN CAN HELP END THE DIGITAL WIDE AND ALSO PROVIDE ADVANCED SERVICES TO THE, TO THE COMMUNITIES I'M GOING TO BE SHARING.
UM, UH, SOME SLIDES YOU GO AHEAD AND PICK THAT UP AND JUST TO CONFIRM THAT THE SLIDES DIDN'T COME UP.
SO AS MENTIONED, MY NAME IS JEFF DICKO, UH, CHAIRMAN OF THE AUTONOMY INSTITUTE.
UH, THE AUTONOMY INSTITUTE IS A 5 0 1 C3.
UM, IT'S AN ORGANIZATION THAT'S PRIMARILY FOCUSED ON HOW, UM, INTELLIGENT INFRASTRUCTURE CAN HELP ACCELERATE THE ADOPTION OF NEW INNOVATIONS WITHIN A CITY.
UM, PRETTY MUCH ELIMINATE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE AND ALSO SUPPORTS A LOT OF THE ADVANCED SERVICES THAT'S.
UM, I THINK THE CITY OF AUSTIN, UM, HAS BEEN REQUESTING FOR QUITE SOME TIME.
AND, UM, WE ALWAYS LIKE TO, TO SHARE THIS SLIDE FIRST TOO, TO KIND OF HELP UNDERS UH, COMMUNICATES
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WHERE THE AUTONOMY INSTITUTE FITS.UM, WE DO NOT PROVIDE TECHNOLOGY.
WE DO NOT PROVIDE SERVICES, UM, OR A 5 0 1 C3 THAT WAS ESTABLISHED, UM, AFTER A GREAT COLLABORATION WITH, UH, FEDERAL AGENCIES BACK IN 2018.
UM, AND THE REALIZATION THAT, UH, THERE HAD TO BE SOME TYPE OF, UM, BRIDGE BETWEEN INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT BODIES.
UM, I THINK SOME OF THE INDIVIDUALS ON THE CALL, UM, CAN REMEMBER BACK, UM, UH, ADMIRAL EDMUND'S, UH, PHENOMENAL WORK WORKING WITH, UH, STATES AND INDUSTRY LEADERS IN ESTABLISHING, UM, MCC AND SEMATECH, WHICH WAS FOCUSED ON EMBEDDED SYSTEMS. THINK OF THE, UM, AUTONOMY INSTITUTES, A SIMILAR VEIN, BUT FOCUSED ON THE DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WILL BE CRITICAL TO SUPPORTS, UM, RESILIENT CITIES AND, UH, BETTER RESPONSIVE, UH, UH, SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITIES, UM, THAT CITIES LIKE AUSTIN SERVE, UM, IN THERE'S INVESTORS THAT ARE INVOLVED THERE'S INDUSTRY PARTNERS THAT ARE INVOLVED, BUT MORE IMPORTANT.
UM, WHAT YOU'LL SEE AND WHY WE'RE HERE TONIGHT IS THE LEADERSHIP FROM THE CITY.
AND ESPECIALLY THIS SPECIFIC COMMISSION, UM, WILL HELP, UM, ADOPTS HOW THE STRUCTURE OF TECHNOLOGY GETS IMPLEMENTED WITHIN A CITY THAT REALLY IS CONDUCIVE TO THE AESTHETICS AND THE COMMUNITY, UM, SUPPORT, UM, THAT, THAT, UH, THE CITY IS LOOKING FOR.
UM, AND, UM, THE MAJORITY OF THE FOCUS OF THE AUTONOMY INSTITUTE IS, IS WORKING WITH GOVERNMENT BODIES IN INDUSTRY AND ESTABLISHING LARGE-SCALE PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS.
SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE UNDERLINE COSTS OF THE TECHNOLOGY THAT WE'RE SPEAKING OF TONIGHT IS REALLY SOMETHING THAT CAN BE SUPPORTED BY LARGE, UM, $150 MILLION PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS FUNDED BY PRIVATE, UM, INDUSTRY PARTNERS OR IN COLLABORATION WITH, UM, OTHER WAYS THAT THE CITY MAY DEEM, UM, ADEQUATE.
BUT, UM, THERE IS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNTS OF DOLLARS THAT CAN BE LEVERAGED TO ADOPT THIS INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN A CITY AND PROVIDE BETTER SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY.
AND AS WE'VE EXPERIENCED GETTING THIS CALL GOING, UM, JUST BASIC CONNECTIVITY IN A CITY HAS BECOME A CHALLENGE AT TIMES AS WE GET MORE AND MORE SERVICES LIKE VIDEO, UM, ACTIVATED.
UM, SO WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT INTELLIGENT INFRASTRUCTURE.
UM, THAT PROBABLY MEANS NOTHING TO ANYBODY YET.
UM, BUT WE INTEND TO KIND OF LAY OUT WHAT INTELLIGENT INFRASTRUCTURE IS.
THE IMPORTANT THING TO UNDERSTAND IS IT'S NOT JUST ONE THING.
IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT GETTING BROADBAND ACROSS THE CITY OR 5G OR, UM, INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS THAT PROVIDE SAFETY SERVICES AND VISION ZERO, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, WITHIN THE CITY TO, TO KEEP IT SAFER AND MORE RESILIENT.
IT ALSO AFFECTS PUBLIC PRIVATE, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY APPLICATIONS AND, UH, DISASTER RESPONSE, UM, AND MANY, MANY OF THE CASES.
SO WE, WE USE THE, UM, THESE ARE THE, THE STICKS, UM, STRATEGIC INITIATIVES THAT THE CITY OF AUSTIN HAS LAID OUT.
AND WE TRIED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT THERE ARE IMPACTS EACH ONE OF THOSE, BUT IT'S BEST SUMMARIZE THAT WHAT THIS INFRASTRUCTURE WILL DO IS NOT ONLY PROVIDE BETTER CUNY COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, BUT IT ALSO ADDRESSES WHAT CITIES REALLY NEED TO, UM, THRIVE, WHICH IS THE CREATION OF JOBS, INNOVATION, GROWTH, UM, AND DIVERSITY WITHIN THE CITY.
UM, TONIGHT WE'RE HOLDING, UH, UM, HONE IN ON THE INTELLIGENT INFRASTRUCTURE ITSELF, BUT WE WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT THERE ARE TWO OTHER INITIATIVES THAT THE CITY WILL BE, UM, VITAL IN ITS CREATION.
AND THAT IS, UM, AN ACTIVE DIGITAL TWIN AND A DATA EXCHANGE ON HOW DATA, UM, IS ACTUALLY LEVERAGED IN USE WITHIN THE CITY, COMES DOWN TO, UM, COLLABORATION WITH THE CITY, AS WELL AS THE PRIVATE INDUSTRY.
UM, BUT AS I SAID TONIGHT, WE'RE PRIMARILY FOCUSED ON THE, UM, EDGE INFRASTRUCTURE.
UM, ONE THING I'D HIGHLIGHT RIGHT NOW, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT EDGE INFRASTRUCTURE IS, UM, A CITY BOSTON IS, IS BEEN A PIONEER IN LOOKING AT HOW DIGITAL EDGE INFRASTRUCTURE CAN BE ADOPTED.
UM, IN FACT, IN 1994, UH, THE CITY OF AUSTIN, UM, LOOKED AT, UH, IT ACTUALLY PUSHED OUT AN RFI ON HOW THEY COULD, UM, BETTER SUSTAIN LONG-TERM
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VALUE, UH, FOR INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE CITY.UM, BUT THAT WAS RIGHT BEFORE THE 1996 BROADBAND, UM, ACT ON THE FEDERAL SIDE.
UM, BUT I THINK WE'RE NOW SEEING A CRITICAL REASON THAT IT'S GOING TO COME BACK TO LEADERSHIP FROM CITIES AND STATES ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN ORDER TO SOLVE, UM, THE DIGITAL DIVIDE ISSUES THAT WE'RE WE'RE CHALLENGED WITH TODAY.
UM, THIS HELPS YOU UNDERSTAND THE MAGNITUDE.
UM, THE REASON WHY ALL THE FEDERAL AGENCIES ARE ENGAGED WITH THE AUTONOMY INSTITUTES AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE PULLING IN MANY OF THE INDUSTRY PARTNERS THAT ARE LOOKING TO, YOU KNOW, BETTER SUPPORT CITIES IS THINK ABOUT PAST TIMES THAT LARGE SCALE INFRASTRUCTURE HAS BEEN ADOPTED, UM, EVERYTHING FROM RAIL TO ELECTRICITY, TO THE ROADS, TO THE AVIATION INDUSTRY, UM, WITH THE FAA.
AND I THINK ALL OF US HAVE EXPERIENCED.
IN FACT, WE'RE EXPERIENCING THAT TODAY.
UM, THE INCREDIBLE IMPACT THE INTERNET HAS HAD AND THE DATA CENTERS AND THE CELL TOWERS AND THE ISP THAT HAVE PROVIDED THOSE SERVICES, UM, WHAT IS HAPPENING, UM, AND WHAT A LOT OF THE LEADERSHIP FROM THE CITY OF BOSTON HAS IDENTIFIED IS MANY OF THE TECHNOLOGIES FOR THIS NEXT WAVE, UM, TO PROVIDE RESILIENT SERVICES IS ACTUALLY BEING DEPLOYED, UM, UH, AT A DENSITY MUCH GREATER THAN WE'D SEEN IN THE PAST.
AND I THINK ALL OF US HAVE SEEN, UM, ON ESPECIALLY DOWNTOWN, UM, SMALL CELLS POPPING UP ON, ON CITY CORNERS WHERE YOU'LL SEE A BOX ATTACHED TO A POLE AND AN ANTENNA, UM, ABOVE IT.
WELL, THAT'S USUALLY A SINGLE CARRIER ADOPTING TECHNOLOGY.
AND, UM, RATHER THAN LOOKING AT IT AS A UNIFIED SOLUTION TO SUPPORT MANY DIFFERENT VENDORS, IT'S ALL BEEN A ONE-OFF, UM, SOLUTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN BEEN ADOPTED.
AND THIS HAS LED TO THIS CHALLENGE AND THIS, THIS GRAPHIC DEPICTS THE CHALLENGE THAT THE CITIES, UM, AND THE DEPARTMENTS THAT RUN DELLA, UM, YOU KNOW, MANAGES OF THE, THE, THE CHALLENGES IN THAT.
THERE'S A LOT OF INDIVIDUALS THAT WANT TO PROVIDE BETTER SERVICES IN THE CITY, WHETHER IT BE 4G OR 5G OR WIFI, UM, SERVICES, UM, TO PROVIDE BETTER CONNECTIVITY.
BUT IT ALSO GOES BEYOND THAT THERE'S TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGIES LIKE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE CITY OF AUSTIN ON THE TRANSPORTATION SIDE HAS BEEN STARTING TO ADOPT THINGS LIKE LIDAR AND PROVIDE BETTER SAFETY, UH, TO THE PEDESTRIANS WALKING THROUGH DOWNTOWN THERE'S EDGE COMPUTING SERVICES, THERE ARE SMART CITY IOT SENSORS, AND THEN WE HAVE THE ELECTRIC GRID TECHNOLOGIES ALL COMING INTO THE CITY.
AND WHAT, UM, HAS COMPOUNDED IS IN THE PAST, WE'VE SIMPLY STRAPPED BOLTED OR ATTACHED A PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY OR A NEW DEVICE ONTO CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE.
AND WE'VE REALLY HIT THE PLATEAU WHERE, UM, THE MANAGEABILITY OF THAT IS BECOME VERY DIFFICULT, BUT ALSO THE SECURITY AND LONG-TERM UPGRADABILITY OF IT.
IT DOES NOT REALLY SERVE THE AESTHETICS THAT THE CITY IS LOOKING FOR AS WELL.
AND THIS HAS LED TO THE REALIZATION THAT THIS IS, UM, UH, A SIMILAR CHALLENGE HAS BEEN EXPERIENCED IN THE PAST.
IN FACT, UH, THE PICTURES ON THE RIGHT ARE PICTURES THAT WERE SENT TO US, UM, FROM THE CITIES IN THE PAST.
UM, THESE ARE, UM, PICTURES OF WHEN THE ELECTRIFICATION AND AS WELL AS THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS EXPLOSION TOOK PLACE WITHIN CITIES, WE ENDED UP WITH A HUGE AMOUNT OF, UH, TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVICES, WIRES, PRIMARILY BEING SPRAWLED ACROSS THE CITY AND THE FEAR.
AND THE REALITY THAT WE'RE SEEING IS WITHOUT A SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM, IT WAS GOING TO BE COMPOUNDED.
AND IT WAS GOING TO BE FAR WORSE THAN WHAT WE SAW IN THE, THE TWENTIES AND THIRTIES.
THIS HAS LED THE AUTONOMY INSTITUTES, UM, WHICH, UH, THE FOCUS OF THE AUTONOMY SUIT WAS INITIALLY ON PROVIDING THINGS LIKE AUTONOMOUS SHUTTLES, PICKING UP GRANDMA AND TAKING HER TO THE DOCTOR AND BACK HOME AND ROVERS, YOU KNOW, POTENTIALLY DELIVERING GROCERIES TO PEOPLE'S HOMES AND AUTONOMOUS DELIVERY OF JUST PACKAGES AND ADVANCED CITY SERVICES, BUT WITHOUT SOLVING THIS PROBLEM, NONE OF THOSE NEW, UH, SERVICES COULD BE ACTIVATED.
SO IN WORKING WITH NOW OVER 150 INDUSTRY PARTNERS, A NEW SOLUTION OR A NEW ASSET CLASS HAS BEEN DEVELOPED.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT, WHICH IS CALLED THE PIN AT PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK NODE.
UM, THINK OF IT AS A CONDO, BUT NOT A CONDO FOR PEOPLE,
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BUT A CONDO FOR ELECTRONICS, BECAUSE, UM, WE MIGHT BE LOOKING TO ADOPT 5G AT SCALE TODAY.UH, BUT FOR TWO TO SIX YEARS FROM NOW, IT'S GOING TO BE SIX G AND THEN SEVEN G.
AND WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT IMPLEMENTING OTHER ADVANCED IOT SENSORS IN THE CITY, UM, EDGE COMPUTING, INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION DEVICES, AND THIS PICTURE SHOWS MANY OF THOSE DEVICES, UM, AND TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE ALREADY ADOPTED WITHIN OUR CITY TODAY.
UM, BUT WHAT THIS DOES IS UNIFIES THAT AND ALLOWS MULTI, MULTIPLE SERVICES TO BE DEPLOYED, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, TO CONTROL THE AESTHETICS AND CONTROL, UM, WHAT ACTUALLY GETS TO BE PUT IN THESE, UM, AS A NEW SERVICE DEPLOYED WITH THE CITY, UM, WE EQUATE THIS VERY, VERY MUCH TO WHAT THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS DID TO THE NATION.
IT, IT TOTALLY CHANGED THE DYNAMICS AND THE ECONOMIES OF THE NATION.
UM, UNFORTUNATELY WHERE THE, UM, MANY PEOPLE WILL REFLECT BACK THAT THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS CREATED STARS ACROSS OUR CITIES, BECAUSE THEY BASICALLY ARE RIPPED THROUGH THE HEART OF THE CITY AND USUALLY CREATE, UH, A DIGITAL DIVIDE OR, OR A DIVIDE, NOT A DIGITAL DIVIDE AT THAT TIME, UM, WHETHER THE CITIES, UM, BUT WE ARE ALL REALIZING THERE'S A DIGITAL DIVIDE TODAY.
UM, AND WHAT'S WHAT WE FIND EXCITING ABOUT THIS TECHNOLOGY IS IT NOT ONLY SETS UP, UM, CITIES FOR FUTURE RESILIENCE AND SUPPORTING 21ST CENTURY, UM, SERVICES, BUT IT REALLY ELIMINATES THE DIGITAL DIVIDE AND CREATES STRONGER, UM, MORE, UH, COHESIVE COMMUNITIES, UM, ACROSS THE CITY.
AND THIS ALSO IS CAPTURED THE ATTENTION OF ALL THE FEDERAL AGENCIES REALIZING THAT TWO MAJOR THRUSTS ARE OCCURRING, UM, WITHIN OUR NATION.
UM, ONE THAT WE HEAR ABOUT QUITE OFTEN, UM, WHICH IS BROADBAND AND 5G, UM, THE OTHER IS THE ELECTRIFICATION OF MOBILITY, WHICH IS GOING TO REQUIRE A MASSIVE DENSITY OF CHARGING STATIONS ACROSS THE U S SO WHAT'S, UM, VERY UNIQUE ABOUT THIS NEW INFRASTRUCTURE IS IT AFFECTS MANY OF THE FEDERAL AGENCIES, JUST LIKE IT AFFECTS MANY OF THE, UM, CITY DEPARTMENTS IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN.
YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE AUSTIN ENERGY THAT'S THAT HAS TO BE INVOLVED.
YOU HAVE THE PUBLIC WORKS, OF COURSE YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, TARA AND OTHERS.
AND THAT LEADS TO THE, THE, THE NEED TO HAVE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO HOW TO SOLVE THIS.
AND REALLY, UM, WE BELIEVE IN LOOKING AT WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO WITH GETTING PINS AND GETTING A PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP THAT ALLOWS $150 MILLION INVESTMENT TO TAKE PLACE IN THE CITY, REALLY, UH, AS PARALLEL TO THE, UH, THE 1994 RFI THAT THE CITY OF LAWSON HAS PUT OUT.
THAT'S THAT TYPE OF SERVICE, THAT TYPE OF PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IS, IS ESTABLISHED TO ACCELERATE THE ADOPTION OF THE TECHNOLOGY, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, ACCELERATES THE RE YOU KNOW, THE ELIMINATION OF THE DIGITAL DIVIDE ACROSS OUR CITY.
SO I'M GONNA STOP THERE BECAUSE I THREW A LOT OUT, UM, HOPEFULLY IT WAS VALUABLE TO, TO SEE, AND, UM, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE BEST TO TRY TO LOOK FOR QUESTIONS.
THANK YOU, JEFF, FOR THAT PRESENTATION.
I'M SURE THERE'S GOING TO BE A FEW QUESTIONS HERE FOR YOU.
I SEE ONE APPROACHING HERE SHORTLY.
I SEE YOUR HAND THERE, COMMISSIONER.
UM, I HAVE A QUESTION FOR JEFFREY, UH, YOU KNOW, I WASN'T ASSIGNED YOU TO CEMETERY.
SO WHEN YOU MENTIONED SEVEN NAKED, THEY TRACK A BELL.
SO IF EVERYTHING THAT YOU'RE SAYING, YOU'RE SOUNDING LIKE THE SEMINARY OF THE, UH, CONNECTIVITY INDUSTRY.
SO DO YOU SEE YOURSELF GROWING TO BECOME THE CEMETERY OF THIS BUSINESS? BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS NEEDED.
AND SHE SAID, UM, IT VERY MUCH IS.
UM, I THINK WHAT WE TRY TO DO IS WE TRY TO HIGHLIGHT WHERE SEMATECH CREATED A, AN ENTITY IN AUSTIN ONLY.
AND, AND, AND BASICALLY EVERYTHING TOOK PLACE HERE WHERE WE DO BELIEVE, BECAUSE THE AUTONOMY INSTITUTE WAS ESTABLISHED AND FOUNDED IN AUSTIN.
IT'LL HAVE A CENTER OF GRAVITY FOR, YOU KNOW, A TIME IN AUSTIN, BUT IT'S KEY THAT IN COLLABORATION LIKE THE CITY OF AUSTIN BECOMES THE REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE, BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE CITY OF AUSTIN AND CAN THEN SHARE TO ALL THE OTHER CITIES ACROSS THE U S BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT ONE FACILITY, IT'S ABOUT HOW CAN WE DO THIS ACROSS ALL 50 STATES.
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REALLY TAKES A LEADING CITY LIKE AUSTIN TO HELP ESTABLISH, UM, THE, THE REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE THAT THAT CAN BE REPEATED.THERE'S ANOTHER QUESTION I'D LIKE TO UP TO RECOGNIZE, BUT BEFORE I DO THAT, I'D LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE PRESENCE OF OUR ONLINE COMMISSIONERS WHO ARE NOT PART OF A ROLL CALL, BUT ARE HERE COMMISSIONED DASGUPTA, WHO'S JUST SPOKEN COMMISSIONER ISLAND AND COMMISSIONER GATES.
I WANT IT TO SET A LITTLE CONTEXT BEFORE I TURN IT OVER TO COMMISSIONER RAMOS FOR QUESTION, BECAUSE AS JEFF KNOWS, WE MET FACE TO FACE WHEN THIS TECHNOLOGY WAS INTRODUCED AS A CONCEPT AND COLLABORATION BETWEEN EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDERS HERE IN AUSTIN.
UH, THE FIRE CHIEF, THE POLICE CHIEF, AS WELL AS, UH, CAMP, MAYBE REPRESENTATIVES WHO WERE FOCUSED ON THE, UH, THE DEFENSE APPLICATIONS, UH, THAT WOULD BE COURSE PART OF THIS.
UH, THE, THE MAIN REASON WHY, AS YOU NOTICED, UH, A FOCUS ON BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE, UH, AS JEFF MENTIONED, THE MAIN REASON WHY I WAS MOST EXCITED ABOUT THIS EFFORT IS BECAUSE OF OUR FOCUS AS A COMMISSION ON BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE, OUR FOCUS ON INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE, WHICH THIS SQUARELY PUTS US IN A POSITION TO HELP PROVIDE OVERSIGHT AND, UH, TO BE ABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT BLIND SPOTS ARE CHECKED.
UH, SO WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO TURN IT TO COMMISSIONER RAMOS FOR HER QUESTION.
THANK YOU, CHAIRMAN, UH, TO MALCOLM.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT PRESENTATION.
UH, I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE, UH, THE WORK THAT YOU PUT INTO THIS, BUT THE QUESTION I HAD WAS, UH, THE CITY OF AUSTIN IS RELATIVELY UNIQUE IN ITS OPPORTUNITIES, IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY.
PART OF THE REASON WE HAVE THIS COMMISSION IN THE FIRST PLACE.
AND SO WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE PINS, WITH THIS, UH, POTENTIALLY SET UP THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO CREATE CITY AND COUNTY WIDE BROADBAND INTERNET FOR ACCESSIBILITY TO BE USED ACROSS THE CITY.
UH, AND LIKEWISE, COULD THIS ALSO BE TECHNOLOGY THAT WE USE TO INTERACT WITH PUBLIC UTILITY SERVICES, OR EVEN JUST PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, SUCH AS CAPITAL METRO? IT IS THAT, UM, 100%.
SO, SO, UH, TO, TO GIVE YOU SOME CONTEXT IS, UM, STARTING BACK THREE YEARS AGO, WHEN THE PIN CAME ABOUT, IT WAS MAINLY SOLVING A TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE ABOUT HOW CAN TECHNOLOGY BE INCORPORATED, UM, WITHIN A CITY AND, UH, IN A AESTHETICALLY PLEASING WAY, WHAT THAT QUICKLY, UM, EVOLVED TO THE REALIZATION THAT BY HAVING PINS DEPLOYED IN UNDERWRITTEN AS AS ASSETS.
SO THINK OF THIS AS MORE OF A, A REAL ESTATE CONDO ACROSS THE CITY.
UM, IT REALLY RESOLVED THE ISSUE THAT THE CARRIERS HAVE, WHERE THE CARRIER RIGHT NOW COME INTO A CITY AND THEY CHERRY PICK WHERE THEY DEPLOY, UM, UM, 5G SERVICES, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT CAN ACTUALLY UNDERWRITE THE COSTS FOR THEM TO DEPLOY A SINGLE, UM, SMALL CELL.
THIS TAKES A DIFFERENT APPROACH, REALIZING THAT THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGY THAT CAN BE ADOPTED.
AND BY HAVING PINS DEPLOYED ACROSS THE CITY, THEY GO EVERYWHERE, KIND OF LIKE ELECTRICITY.
WE DON'T PICK AND CHOOSE WHO GETS ELECTRICITY.
EVERYBODY HAS ELECTRICITY, EVERYBODY HAS A TRANSFORMER, UM, THAT ALLOWS POWER TO BE DELIVERED TO THEIR HOME.
THIS FLIPS THE EQUATION VERY SIMILARLY.
AND WHEN LET'S SAY THE PINS WORKING, WE'VE SPENT A LOT OF TIME WITH LIKE CAP METRO AND THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENTS, IF THE PINS ARE DEPLOYED, UM, LIKE IN EAST AUSTIN AND NONE OF THE CARRIERS DECIDE TO DEPLOY THEIR RADIOS, THEIR, UM, YOU KNOW, 5G OR 4G, UM, NETWORKS TO THOSE, THE ECONOMICS TO DEPLOY BROADBAND USING WIFI OR OTHER TECHNOLOGIES BECOMES EXTREMELY LOW COSTS TO PROVIDERS TO COME INTO THOSE COMMUNITIES AND UNDERWRITE THOSE SERVICES TO THOSE COMMUNITIES.
OR EVEN FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE CITY, WE'VE TALKED TO MANY CITIES THAT ARE LOOKING AT UNDERWRITING, THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS OR WIFI TO THE COMMUNITIES THAT DON'T HAVE PROPER SERVICE FROM THE CARRIERS.
UH, YES, GOING TO SHUT OFF.COM ALSO WANT TO ECHO, UM, ALL OF OUR APPRECIATION FOR YOU COMING AND, UH, DOING THE PRESENTATION.
UH, MY QUESTION IS MORE AROUND THE, UM, THE HARDWARE AND A GREAT ABILITY AS YOU ALLUDED TO, YOU KNOW, THESE 5G IS JUST THE LATEST THING.
UM, FOR LONG, IT'S GOING TO BE 6, 7, 8 G.
SO TO WHAT DEGREE, I GUESS, UM, DO YOU, DO YOU THINK IT'S GOING TO BE NECESSARY TO, UH, TO GRADE THE HARDWARE ON AN ONGOING BASIS? UM, ARE YOU FINISHED?
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YEP, THAT'S IT? UM, I, I WOULD SAY A VERY HIGH DEGREE.UM, SO, SO THE, THE NEED TO UPGRADE AT THE EDGE IS GOING TO BECOME MORE OF A REALITY, UM, THAN WE'VE SEEN IN THE PAST.
UM, IF YOU THINK ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF ESPECIALLY CONNECTIVITY WITHIN CITIES OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS, UM, BEFORE IT WAS, IT WAS RADIO TOWERS WITHIN THE CITY AND THE RADIO TOWERS.
WE MIGHT HAVE A FEW, YOU KNOW, LIKE A HANDFUL, MAYBE SIX RADIO TOWERS WERE DEPLOYED WITHIN THE CITIES.
UM, THAT CHANGED DRAMATICALLY IN THE LATE EIGHTIES AND EARLY NINETIES WHEN CELL PHONES, UM, BECAME A BIG THING.
AND YOU ENDED UP HAVING CELL TOWERS, UH, ACROSS THE ENTIRE, UM, YOU KNOW, CITY, THOSE GET UPGRADED QUITE OFTEN.
NOW WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WITH THE, THE, THE PIN, THINK OF THAT.
ONCE AGAIN, THE PIN HAS MANY SHAPES AND SIZES, UM, BUT THE UNDER THE, THE SKELETON OF IT ARE ALL THE SAME.
UM, AND, UM, IT'S DESIGNED IN A WAY LIKE A 19 INCH RACK.
UH, I MIGHT BE TALKING TO TECHNOLOGY, BUT IT, DATA CENTERS ADOPTED A STANDARD CALLED A 19 INCH RACK, UM, UM, AND ACTUALLY 1922.
UM, AND IT'S ACTUALLY STAYED WITH US THAT LAW WAS ORIGINALLY FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS, AND NOW IT'S FOR ALL, UM, COMPUTE, WHETHER IT BE SERVERS OR NETWORK YEAR, OR, YOU KNOW, OTHER OBSTACLE, YOU KNOW, TECHNOLOGY.
UM, THE PIN IS DESIGNED EXACTLY, UM, UNDER THE SIMILAR GUIDANCE WHERE WHATEVER YOU PLUG INTO IT TODAY, IT'S, IT'S REALLY A SLOTS OR A, A CLOSURE THAT ALLOWS 5G TO BE SNAPPED IN TODAY, BUT THEN EASILY PULLED OUT AND IN SNAPPED IN SIX G YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, SIX YEARS FROM NOW.
SO BY TAKING THE, THE CONCEPT THAT THE 19 INCH RACK, UH, FULFILLED FOUR DATA CENTERS, UM, BUT TAKING IT TO THE EDGE, IT TRANSFORMS HOW THE TECHNOLOGY IS DEPLOYED, HOW IT'S UPGRADED, HOW IT'S SECURED, HOW IT'S MANAGED, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, RATHER THAN JUST LOOKING AT S STRAPPING BOLTING OR ATTACHING THINGS TO THE OUTSIDE OF WOOD POLES OR THE SIDE OF BUILDINGS, IT ALLOWS FAR MORE LEADERSHIP AND, AND MANAGEABILITY, UM, UM, FOR ALL OF THESE NEW TECHNOLOGIES.
UH, I'D LIKE TO ASK ALONG THE SAME LINES, AS I RECALL FROM OUR EARLIEST CONVERSATIONS, THE PRESENTATION OF THIS AS EFFECTIVELY INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE GETTING AWAY FROM, OR IF, IF YOU ARE, COULD YOU EXPLAIN THAT DEPARTURE AND IF NOT, THEN, UH, EXPLAIN HOW THAT MIGHT MAYBE HELPS TO, UH, CAST A LIGHT ON WHAT THIS IS.
WELL, YOU COULD DEFINITELY, YOU COULD CLASSIFY IT AS INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE.
UM, UH, I THINK THE KEY THING WE'RE TRYING TO DIFFERENTIATE IS, IS BECAUSE THIS IS GOING TO BE IN CITY EASEMENTS OR STATE EASEMENTS, OR IN SOME CASES, FEDERAL EASEMENTS.
UM, IT'S VERY MUCH ABOUT A PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP THAT SUPPORTS THAT INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE.
SO, UM, MOST PEOPLE THINK OF INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE, MAYBE NOT YOU, BUT A LOT FROM THE INDUSTRY, THINK OF IT AS A, A COMMERCIAL VENTURE, BUT WE SEE THIS VERY MUCH AS A PUBLIC PRIVATE VENTURE, UM, AND IT IT'S CONDUCIVE SUPPORTING, UM, PUBLIC SAFETY.
SO WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME WITH, UM, THE, THE PUBLIC SAFETY, THE FIRE, THE EMS, AND THE APD, AND WHAT TECHNOLOGIES THAT THEY NEED TO DEPLOY AT THE EDGE, BUT IT ALSO SUPPORTS OF COURSE, ALL THE ADVANCED SERVICES THAT CITIZENS ARE LOOKING FOR TO HAVE BETTER CONNECTIVITY AND NEW TYPES OF CAPABILITIES, UM, WITHIN THE CITY THAT THEY'RE PART OF.
UM, BUT, UH, YOU'RE, YOU'RE RIGHT, THAT THIS IS, THIS WOULD BE INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE, UM, UM, IN, IN THE WAY IT'S IMPLEMENTED.
WELL, JUST TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT THEN, UH, BECAUSE AS YOU KNOW, THERE HAVE BEEN EXTENSIVE CONVERSATION, UH, CONVERSATIONS ABOUT COLLABORATING WITH, UH, THE RESEARCH SIDE OF UT, UH, WITH HOUSTON TILLOTSON AND OTHER ENTITIES THAT WOULD BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOME ROLE AND REQUIREMENTS GATHERING AND HELPING TO AID WITH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, UH, IN AN INFORMATION EXERCISE AND CAMPAIGN TO REALLY HELP, TO MAKE SURE TO EDUCATE THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THIS EFFORT.
UH, WOULD YOU SPEAK TO SOME OF THOSE DYNAMICS AND SOME OF THOSE COLLABORATIONS PLEASE? UM, 100%.
SO, UM, IN FACT, JUST LAST MONDAY, UM, UH, A ALMOST $90 MILLION NSF PROPOSAL WAS SUBMITTED, UM, CITY OF AUSTIN, UM,
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WAS THE LEAD CITY AND THE GRANT.SO THIS WAS A, UM, IDENTIFIED BY THE AUTONOMY INSTITUTES IN OCTOBER OF LAST YEAR, THE NSF REACHED OUT AND SAID, UM, WE SEE, UM, HOW THE, THE, THE PIN CAN PROVIDE, UM, CONTINUITY FOR RESEARCH APPLICATIONS AND, UM, PROVIDE A LOT OF, UM, UH, CAPABILITY, UH, FOR, UH, THE SCIENCE ASPECTS, UM, THAT LED TO US WORKING WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AND IDENTIFYING SEVERAL AREAS ACROSS THE CITY OF AUSTIN OR PENS TO BE DEPLOYED.
AND THAT'S, UM, AS I STATED, IT WAS A $90 MILLION, UM, UH, PROPOSAL, UM, AND, UH, FULFILLS MANY OF THE RESEARCH ASPECTS, UM, THAT THE, THE, UH, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS IS LOOKING AT AND REALLY, UM, UH, KIND OF OVERLAPS WITH THE, THE LEADERSHIP, UM, THAT CITY OF AUSTIN AND UT HAVE DONE ON THE, UH, THE RESEARCH PROGRAM THAT YOU GUYS HAVE IN PLACE.
AND, UM, I CAN SHARE, IT'S PROBABLY GOOD TO KIND OF PUT THIS IN CONTEXT OF WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE AND HOW IT WAS SUBMITTED.
UM, I'M GOING TO SHARE ONE WORD GRAPHIC.
UM, ONE SECOND, SORRY ABOUT THAT.
LET ME KNOW WHEN THE GRAPHIC COMES UP, WE CAN SEE IT NOW.
SO, UM, THIS IS SHOWING ONCE AGAIN, THERE'S DIFFERENT PENS, DIFFERENT, UM, CHARACTERISTICS OF PENS.
SO DON'T THINK IT'S, IT'S CRAZY AND IT HAS TO BE UGLY LIKE THIS.
IN FACT, THIS IS, THIS IS SHOWING IT EXPOSED.
THIS IS WHAT A ROLL IT LOOKS LIKE, UM, WHEN IT'S DEPLOYED.
SO YOU DON'T HAVE THINGS THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, HANGING OFF THE SIDE OF IT, IT'S ALL ACTUALLY ENCOMPASSED INSIDE OF THE POLE ITSELF, BUT WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGIES THAT CAN BE ADOPTED TO SUPPORT, UM, THE CITY SERVICES AND COMMERCIAL SERVICES WHERE NSS OD IS THEY COULD ACTUALLY HAVE SPECIFIC CONDOS OR MODULES THAT COULD SUPPORT DIFFERENT EXPERIMENTS.
YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THIS YEAR, FIVE YEARS FROM NOW, 10 YEARS FROM NOW, UM, AND BE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE, UM, UH, WORKING WITH, UM, UH, UNIVERSITIES LIKE THE UNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN.
UM, UM, PART OF THAT, THAT PROGRAM IS HAD, UH, CARNEGIE, MELLON AND PITTSBURGH, UM, AND NC STATES AND RALEIGH, UH, CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, AND WEST LAFAYETTE'S, UM, AND PURDUE, OR INVOLVED WITH THAT AS WELL.
UM, I KNOW THAT THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING PRESENTATION FOR THIS COMMISSION AS A WHOLE.
YOU'VE HAD A COUPLE OF PRESENTATIONS IN WORKING GROUP SESSIONS, AND I INVITE MY COLLEAGUES TO JOIN THOSE WORK GROUP DISCUSSIONS, TO BE ABLE TO ASK MORE IN-DEPTH QUESTIONS NOW THAT YOU WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO BE ABLE TO INTERPRET THIS INFORMATION AND, AND, UH, NATURALLY HAVE MORE QUESTIONS DOWN THE LINE.
IN THE MEANTIME, THOUGH, ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS FOR MR. DE COUPE? YES.
UM, YOU SEEM TO BE DOING A LOT IN CREATING STANDARDS FOR NETWORK NODES.
ARE YOU ALSO WORKING ON THE PROBLEM OF THE FIBER CONNECTIVITY AND ACTUALLY GETTING THE FIBER TO THE NODES? YES, YES WE ARE.
UM, WE'VE NOW WORKED WITH, UM, I THINK THERE'S NINE DIFFERENT FIBER PROVIDERS THAT WE'VE COLLABORATED WITH.
UM, HERE IN AUSTIN, UM, FIBER LIGHTS, UM, IS EXAMPLE WE'RE WORKING WITH FIBER LIGHT RIGHT NOW TO GET FIBER A HUNDRED GIGABIT CONNECTION, UM, FROM A SOUTH, UM, DATA CENTER TO THE AUSTIN PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING CENTER.
UM, SO THEY CAN ACTUALLY BE PART OF A BIGGER COLLABORATION WITH THE DIGITAL TWIN, YOU KNOW, PROGRAM.
UM, BUT I, I WANT TO, TO EMPHASIZE, IT'S GOING TO TAKE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF LEADERSHIP AND COLLABORATION WITH THIS GROUP, WITH THIS COMMISSION AND OTHER PROVIDERS IN THE CITY TO, TO REALLY GET, UM, AN ARCHITECTURE THAT CAN BE SPREAD ACROSS THE ENTIRE CITY.
AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, IT CAN BE REFLECTED BACK TO THE FEDERAL SIDE THAT BECOMES THE NATIONAL STANDARD.
AND, UM, I, YOU KNOW, IN WORKING WITH THE FEDERAL AGENCIES, UM, THEY'VE ACTUALLY SAW WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, UM, WITH THE, THE
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PEN, UM, AND UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF THE AUTONOMY INSTITUTE TO WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE FIRST POWER STATION.AND FIRST DEPLOYMENT OF THE ELECTRIC GRID UP IN NEW YORK IS ONCE THAT ARCHITECTURE WAS DESIGNED AND DEPLOYED, IT BECAME SOMETHING THAT WAS QUICKLY REPLICATED IN MANY CITIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES AND, UM, AUSTIN AS A TRULY UNIQUE POSITION IN THE TYPE OF COMPANIES THAT ARE HERE.
UM, THE CITIZENS THAT ARE VERY SUPPORTIVE OF, OF COURSE CONNECTIVITY AND, UH, THE ADVANCED SERVICES THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE, WE'VE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO.
UH, BUT YOU ALSO HAVE A LOT OF DEPARTMENTS LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE, YOUR, UH, TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENTS UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF, UM, ADJACENT JOHN MICHAEL HAS DONE A LOT FOR SUPPORTING SMART CITY INITIATIVES THAT ALIGN WITH THIS.
YOU'VE GOT CITY OF AUSTIN ENERGY, UM, THAT HAS DONE A LOT TO PIONEER, HOW THEY COULD BE MORE SUPPORTIVE OF, OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES BEING DEPLOYED.
AND OF COURSE, YOU GUYS ARE VERY FAMILIAR WITH, UM, THE, THE, THE FIBER NETWORKS THAT HAVE BEEN DEPLOYED, UM, UM, UNDER THE, UH, UH, THE COLLABORATION OR THE COALITION THAT YOU GUYS ESTABLISHED BACK IN THE, UH, THE LATE NINETIES.
YOU'RE FIRST TO THE GUT NETWORK.
SO, UH, SO WOULD THIS MEAN IF YOU'RE USING THE SAME MODEL AS THE ELECTRIC INDUSTRY, UH, UTILITIES AND THE TELEPHONE UTILITIES, WILL THIS REQUIRE A PUBLIC REGULATED MONOPOLY? UM, OH, I'M NOT A, UM, I THINK WHERE THIS ENDS, UM, IS PROBABLY GOING TO BE SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN IT BEGINS.
UM, BUT I, I THINK IT'S, UM, WHAT'S, WHAT'S PARAMOUNT AND THE LEADERSHIP OF THE CITY THAT DOES LEAD WITH THIS IS THE, THE REALIZATION THAT THIS TECHNOLOGY IS BEING ADOPTED IN MANY OTHER COUNTRIES.
AND, UM, I THINK THE MORE WE CAN JUST ACCELERATES AND, YOU KNOW, ITERATES SOLUTIONS THAT REALLY, UM, MEET COMMUNITY NEEDS AND CREATE A REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE IS, IS, SHOULD BE THE CORE FOCUS VERSUS THE REGULATION, UM, YOU KNOW, BEING, UM, WHAT, WHAT WILL EVENTUALLY HAPPEN AS IT GETS ADOPTED, BUT TO, TO HIGHLIGHT YOU THINK ABOUT COUNTRIES LIKE CHINA NOW HAVE OVER 1 MILLION 5G NODES DEPLOYED IN ALL OF THE UNITED STATES.
WE HAVE YET TO CROSS OVER 25,000.
AND, UM, IT'S REALLY KEY THAT WITH FIBER NETWORKS AND WITH, UM, THIS NEW INFRASTRUCTURE THAT SUPPORTS MANY OF THE KEY TECHNOLOGIES THAT CAN PROVIDE MORE RESILIENT CITIES, THAT WE DO IT IN A SMART, UM, IN AN EFFECTIVE WAY THAT MEETS COMMUNITY NEEDS, BUT THAT WE DO IT FAST.
AND, UM, I THINK THIS WILL LEAD TO, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, ITERATIONS ALONG THE WAY.
UM, BUT LUCKILY THERE'S, YOU KNOW, THE CITY OF AUSTIN HAS A LOT OF GREAT, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, AREAS, UH, TO ACCELERATE THIS, YOU HAVE THE INNOVATION ZONE DOWNTOWN, YOU HAVE THE PROJECT CONNECT INITIATIVE THAT IS GOING TO BE LAYING OUT.
UM, IN FACT, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF, UH, RANDY CLARK, THE CEO, HE HAS A VISION TO PROVIDE, UM, ROBUST SERVICES TO THE INDIVIDUALS THAT RIDE THE BUSES AND THE COMMUNITIES THAT THEY SERVE.
YOU HAVE THE
UM, WE HAVE AN MOU ALSO WITH THE, UH, UH, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR, UM, ADOPTION OF PINS ACROSS THE STATES, PRIMARILY FOCUSED ON THE SH ONE 30 CORRIDOR IN EAST AUSTIN, ALL THESE THINGS.
UM, ONCE AGAIN, ARE GOING TO TAKE ENGINEERING, A LOT OF LEADERSHIP IN A LOT OF COLLABORATION.
UM, BUT I, I FEEL I'VE LIVED HERE FOR OVER 40 YEARS.
I, I FEEL LIKE THERE'S NO, THERE'S NO STATE THAT CAN PULL IT OFF AND CERTAINLY NO CITY, THAT'S MORE PRIME TO TAKE THE LEADERSHIP AND, AND MAKING THIS HAPPEN.
UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING, THE COMPARISON YOU MADE WITH CHINA WITH 1 MILLION, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, 5G TOWERS COMPARED TO 25,000 IN THE U S UH, IS IT TRUE THAT FOR 5G, YOU NEED A WHOLE LOT MORE OF THESE SMALL CELL TOWERS, BECAUSE WHILE IT PROVIDES GREATER BANDWIDTH, IT ALSO NEEDS TO BE REPEATED MORE FREQUENTLY.
SO WE WERE IN CHINA AND, YOU KNOW, A SMALL CITY IS 3 MILLION PEOPLE.
SO I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THERE WOULD BE MANY MORE TOWERS BECAUSE WITHIN A CITY,
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UH, YOU NEED MANY MORE TOWERS TO REACH THE KIND OF BANDWIDTH THAT SUCH A HUGE POPULATION NEEDS, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE SETS IN IS AT 15 MILLION SMALL CITIES THAT 2 MILLION, SO I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THEY WOULD NEED A MILLION, BUT DO WE NECESSARILY NEED A MILLION BECAUSE I TOOK A TRIP FROM HERE TO DENVER AND I SWITCHED OUT OF 5G.THE MOMENT I LEFT THE CITY ALL THE WAY THEN YEAH.
BECAUSE IT'S TOTALLY EMPTY OUT THERE.
BUT, BUT, UM, THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S A PROBLEM WHEN PEOPLE, UM, UNFORTUNATELY IN THE UNITED STATES, WHEN WE THINK OF 5G, THAT CARRIERS HAVE CONVINCED US THAT 5G IS ABOUT DOWNLOADING NETFLIX FASTER.
UM, WHEN YOU LAYER IN THE OTHER SERVICES FOR, UM, A RESILIENT SUPPLY CHAIN, THAT'S WHEN YOU START THINKING ABOUT HOW ARE WE GOING TO ACTIVATE, UM, UH, AUTONOMOUS FREIGHT, UH, CORRIDORS DOWN LIKE I 10 CORRIDOR OR DOWN
AND THAT, UM, IT PROVIDES A LOT OF DOLLARS THAT WILL UNDERWRITE THE PINS AND THOSE LOCATIONS THAT MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SUPPORT IT THROUGH, UM, CONSUMER APPLICATIONS, BUT CAN CERTAINLY SUPPORT IT THROUGH ALL THE FINANCIAL APPLICATIONS AROUND THE SUPPLY CHAIN AND THE LOGISTICS THAT ARE GOING TO BE VITAL TO THE PRODUCTIVITY OF, OF THE NATION AS A WHOLE.
AND, UM, TO THAT POINT, WE, WE CREATED, UM, A SLIDE CAUSE WHAT YOU, WHAT YOU HIT UPON IS THE FOURTH THING IS, UM, RADIO TOWERS, REGULAR MASS THAT WE SEE IN THE CITY.
UM, THOSE, UH, A SINGLE RADIO TOWER CAN COVER THE ENTIRE CITY OF AUSTIN.
AND OF COURSE BACK AT THE TIME OF THE, THE RADIO TOWERS, THAT WAS BROADCAST ONLY THERE WASN'T ANYTHING CALLED DATA CENTERS BACK THEN.
UM, AND THEN OF COURSE DATA CENTERS CAME ABOUT AND THEN, AND THEN CELL CAME ABOUT AND W CELL BEGAN FIRST AS JUST ALLOWING US TO COMMUNICATE VOICE, UH, QUICKLY BECAME DATA NETWORKS.
AND THIS HAD TO BE FAR MORE DENSE THAN RADIO TOWERS.
IN FACT, THERE'S, THERE'S ONLY LIKE A HUNDRED RADIO TOWERS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.
THERE ARE WELL OVER 300,000 CELL TOWERS.
AND NOW WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE MERGER OF THE DATA, UM, AND THE CAPACITY OF THE WIRELESS NETWORK, UM, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE PENS OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS, EXCEEDING 1.5 MILLION ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, UH, TO MEET THESE NEW DATA SERVICES AND PROVIDE THE PROPER SERVICES TO OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY, NOT JUST THOSE THAT ARE CHERRY PICKED BY THE CURRENT VENDORS.
DO YOU COMMISSION US GOOD? THE ROOM FROM COMMISSIONER THOMPSON? BEAVERS.
UM, I SAW IN YOUR SLIDE DECK THAT YOU MADE MENTION OF JOB CREATION ON A COUPLE OF YOUR SLIDES.
AND SO I'M CURIOUS ABOUT, UM, THE TYPE OF JOBS THAT WOULD BE CREATED SPECIFICALLY WITH THIS TYPE OF INITIATIVE, YOU KNOW, ARE THESE JUST LATERAL JOBS FOR THOSE WHO ARE ALREADY IN THE TECH INDUSTRY HERE, OR WOULD THERE BE A WAY FOR FOLKS WHO WANT TO ENTER INTO THE TECHNOLOGY FIELD TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT WITH THIS TYPE OF INITIATIVE IN THAT TYPE OF WORKFORCE? UM, PHENOMENAL QUESTION.
AND I'M GLAD I WAS ASKED BECAUSE I FAILED TO EVEN REALLY TALK ABOUT THAT BECAUSE, UM, WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE, UM, WITH, WITH THE BUILD-OUT OF, OF THIS IT'S, IT'S AT A MAGNITUDE EVEN GREATER THAT THAN THE BUILD-OUT OF THE, THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS THAT STARTED IN 1956, AND IT'S IT'S MANY JOBS THAT EXPAND CAPABILITY, BUT IT GOES FROM THE VERY BASIC, ALL THE WAY TO THE ADVANCED SCIENTISTS THAT IS, YOU KNOW, PIONEERING SOME NEW, NEW INNOVATION.
UM, WE'VE WE SPENT A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF TIME WITH A LOT OF THE, THE FENCES, UM, THAT, THAT HAVE CAPABILITIES TO SERVE THIS.
AND THIS IS A SLIDE THAT WE KIND OF HIGHLIGHT, UM, BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE HIGH END SCIENTISTS.
IT'S ALSO ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AND PEOPLE THAT DRILL.
I MEAN, W WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO REPURPOSE A LOT OF THE PEOPLE THAT USED TO BE DOING, UH, DRILLING FOR OIL TO NOW DRILLING THE HOLES DOWN INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS TO LAY THE FIBER AND THE, THE, THE POWER LINES NEEDED FOR THE ELECTRIFICATION OF MOBILITY.
UM, BUT THERE'S NO WAY YOU CAN LOOK AT THIS AND NOT REALIZE THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MILLIONS OF JOBS ACROSS PRETTY MUCH THE ENTIRE SPECTRUM OF OUR SOCIETY.
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MORE THAN HAPPY TO TAKE OFFLINE AND TALK ABOUT THAT AND COLLABORATE WITH YOU ON DIFFERENT BUSINESSES THAT WE CAN PULL IN AND BRING UP THE SPEED AND FIND OUT HOW WE CAN REALLY HIGHLIGHT THAT ASPECT OF THIS, UM, IN, IN THE COMMUNITY.GREAT QUESTION, UH, QUESTION FROM COMMISSIONER GUERRERO.
UH, AGAIN, THANK YOU, JEFF, FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
UM, I'M PARTICULARLY CURIOUS ABOUT THE PIN PLACEMENT, AND I KNOW YOU REFERENCED THAT, UM, A LOT OF THE FACTORS DETERMINING FACTORS OF THAT CAME FROM A RESEARCH COALITION ACROSS, UM, ACADEMIC AND IN GOVERNMENT.
UM, BUT I WAS WONDERING IF YOU COULD SHARE ANY INSIGHTS, UM, ON THOSE DETERMINING FACTORS WITH US POPULATION DENSITY, DEVICE DENSITY, THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO AS FAR AS WHAT GETS IT HAS TO BE WITHIN THE CITY, AS FAR AS WHERE OUR PAIN WOULD GO.
UM, HAVE YOU NOTICED, UM, THE, THE AT AND T UM, UH, CELL, UH, SMALL CELLS DEPLOYED ACROSS THE CITY? YES.
AND WELL, THINK ABOUT RIGHT NOW THAT DEPLOYMENT SERVES ONE SINGLE VENDOR.
IT DOES NOT SERVE THE CITY KNOW THERE'S NO CITY DEVICES ON THAT.
THERE'S NOT VERIZON, THERE'S NOT, UM, YOU KNOW, T-MOBILE, THERE'S NOT DISH AND OTHERS.
SO IMAGINE THAT HAVING TO BE REPLICATED ON ALL FOUR CORNERS OF THE CITY, UM, AND WITHOUT A NEW APPROACH, UM, ON UNIFYING, HOW TECHNOLOGY GETS DEPLOYED, UM, IT WILL GET FAR WORSE, UM, WITHIN THE CITY OF HOW THE TECHNOLOGY IS DEPLOYED AND WE'VE, WE'VE DONE A LOT.
UM, I, I, MORE THAN HAPPY TO SHARE THE, UM, THE, THE NSF PROPOSAL, BECAUSE WHAT WE DID IS WE WENT THROUGH AND ACTUALLY HIGHLIGHTED, UM, ACROSS THE STATE, ALL THE EXAMPLES OF CURRENT DEPLOYED, UM, TECHNOLOGY AND HOW THAT WOULD CHANGE OVER TIME WITH, WITH, UH, A UNIFIED ARCHITECTURE.
UM, BUT, UM, TO THE POINT OF, OF THE DENSITY IN DOWNTOWN, UM, IF YOU ALSO DRIVE AROUND THE CITY, YOU ALSO SEE AT EVERY SINGLE CONTROLLED, THERE'LL BE A SILVER BOX AT ONE OF THE CORNERS.
UM, THAT SILVER BOX REPRESENTS THE INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION, UH, DEVICES THAT CONTROL THE, THE LIGHTS, THE PEDESTRIAN CROSSING, AND THE OTHER TYPES OF, UM, SENSORS THAT ARE THERE TO TRY TO PROTECT THE CITIZENS, UM, FROM, UM, THE, THE VEHICLE TRAFFIC, UM, THAT WILL EVENTUALLY BE MERGED INTO THE PIN, IF NOT FROM, FROM DAY ONE.
UM, IT'LL BE MARCHED IN, IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
SO YOU'RE BASICALLY REMOVING A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF, OF, OF DEVICES THAT ARE ALREADY IN THE CITY THAT DIDN'T ANSWER YOUR QUESTION OR, OR, OR PLEASE EXPAND IF I, I FAILED.
UM, I VERY MUCH LOOK FORWARD TO GIVING THAT NSF, UM, UM, PROPOSAL, UH, EVERY LEAD.
GREAT, UH, REALLY QUICK, YOU MENTIONED A PRICE EARLIER 90 MILLION FOR THE CITY OF AUSTIN.
WHERE DID YOU GET THAT ESTIMATE FROM? WELL, ACTUALLY THAT'S NOT.
SO THE, THE 90 MILLION WAS BASICALLY ALL FIVE CITIES.
SO, UM, THE, THE W A NUMBER THAT WE CAN, UM, TELL YOU IS WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THE CITY NOW FOR, FOR, FOR THREE YEARS.
UM, THERE'S NOW BEEN PROBABLY, UH, OVER 160 PEOPLE FROM THE CITY THAT HAVE BEEN ENGAGED ON THIS AND HELPING TO LEAD THE, THE COLLABORATION.
UM, WE'VE PROPOSED A, ABOUT $150 MILLION PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP, AND THAT IS BASED OFF OF 800 TO A THOUSAND PINS BEING DEPLOYED, UM, UH, ACROSS THE CITY, THE NSF PROPOSAL, UM, APPROXIMATELY 25 TO 30% OF THAT IS, IS, UH, DIRECTED TOWARDS AUSTIN, JUST BECAUSE AUSTIN WAS THE MOST PREPARED, UM, WITH, WITH LOCATIONS THAT THE PIN COULD BE ADOPTED WITHIN.
WELL, ARE THERE ANY MORE QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME? OKAY.
WELL, ONCE AGAIN, JEFF, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.
AND, UH, WE LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING ONGOING CONVERSATIONS WITH YOU.
AS YOU MENTIONED, UH, THIS COMMISSION WILL CONTINUE TO PLAY A ROLE
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AND LOOK FORWARD TO ENGAGING WITH YOU, EITHER IN THE COLLABORATIONS WITH OTHER ENTITIES LIKE UT HOUSTON TILLOTSON AND OTHER CITY PARTNERS, OR DIRECTLY HERE WITHIN OUR WORKING GROUP SESSIONS, RIGHT.BUT, UM, CHAIRMAN AND COMMISSIONERS, I GREATLY APPRECIATE YOU GIVING US THE TIME, UH, TO PRESENT THIS, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO, TO MANY MORE COLLABORATIONS IN THE FUTURE.
THANK AGAIN, WITH ABIGAIL AND PROCEED IN OUR AGENDA TO AGENDA ITEM THREE NEW BUSINESS, WE'LL
[3A. City of Austin Strategic Outcomes Review]
HAVE A DISCUSSION ON THE CITY OF BOSTON STRATEGIC OUTCOMES, GOT A REEF SLIDE SHARE TEED UP.NOW, THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS INTRODUCED IN 2018 AS PART OF A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT HERE WITH CITY COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR'S OFFICE.
THERE IS A MUCH MORE DETAILED DOCUMENT ONLINE AVAILABLE.
UH, HOPEFULLY WE'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH IT.
IN FACT, REFERRING TO THE LAST PRESENTATION, THERE WAS ALIGNMENT AND MENTION OF THESE OUTCOMES.
I WANTED TO BRING THEM UP TODAY AS PART OF OUR DISCUSSION HERE IN NEW BUSINESS, REALLY, TO HELP TO CENTER OUR COMMISSION.
IT'S BEEN AN INTERESTING YEAR AS WE'VE MANAGED THE TRANSITION FROM BEING COMPLETELY REMOTE WITH THE WAIVER OF THE TAMARA REQUIREMENTS BY THE GOVERNOR, TO THE RECEPTION OF THAT WAIVER, AND THEN NEEDING TO TRANSITION INTO AN IN-PERSON FORMAT.
AND THEN ALSO WITH THE EVOLUTION OF OUR EFFORTS AS A COMMISSION TO GET REMOTE PARTICIPATION ACTUALLY PILOTED, AND THEN A HYBRID MEETING APPROACH NOW AUTHORIZED FOR OUR BOARD AND COMMISSION.
WE CURRENTLY HAVE THREE COMMISSIONERS PARTICIPATING REMOTELY, AND OF COURSE, THERE'S SEVEN OF US HERE TODAY.
SO IT'S AN EXAMPLE OF A COMMISSION THAT HAS SHOWN LEADERSHIP, ADAPTABILITY, AND YET A NEED TO STILL FOCUS ON OUR VISION AS A CITY.
SO WITH THAT IN MIND, I'D LIKE TO JUST GIVE US ALL A CHANCE TO LOOK AT THESE OVER AND TO READ THIS INTO THE RECORD, JUST TO STATE THE VISION.
AUSTIN IS A BEACON OF SUSTAINABILITY, SOCIAL EQUITY AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY WHERE DIVERSITY AND CREATIVITY ARE CELEBRATED, WHERE COMMUNITY NEEDS AND VALUES ARE RECOGNIZED WHERE LEADERSHIP COMES FROM ITS COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND WHERE THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE ARE AFFORDABLE AND ACCESSIBLE TO ALL THAT VISION HAS YIELDED THESE SPECIFIC STRATEGIC OUTCOMES BEGINNING WITH ECONOMIC AFFORDABILITY, EXCUSE ME, OPPORTUNITY AND AFFORDABILITY, HAVING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES THAT ENABLE US TO THRIVE IN OUR COMMUNITY MOBILITY, GETTING US WHERE WE WANT TO GO WHEN AND WHERE WE WANT TO GET THERE SAFELY.
AND COST-EFFECTIVELY SAFETY BEING SAFE IN OUR HOME AT WORK AND IN OUR COMMUNITY HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT, ENJOYING A SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT AND A HEALTHY LIFE PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY CULTURE AND LIFELONG LEARNING, BEING ENRICHED BY AUSTIN'S UNIQUE, CIVIC, CULTURAL AND ETHNIC, ETHNIC, AND LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES.
AND LASTLY, BUT NOT LEAST GOVERNMENT THAT WORKS FOR ALL BELIEVING THAT CITY GOVERNMENT WORKS EFFECTIVELY AND COLLABORATIVELY FOR ALL OF US, THAT IT IS EQUITABLE, ETHICAL, AND INNOVATIVE.
I KNOW THAT WE HAVE THREE CORE WORKING GROUPS IN THIS COMMISSION THAT CENTER AROUND THESE VISION POINTS, THESE STRATEGIC OUTCOMES.
THEY BEGAN WITH OUR DIGITAL INCLUSION, WORKING GROUP, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOM POLICY.
THEY CONTINUE CERTAINLY WITH THE KNOWLEDGE INFORMATION AND DATA STEWARDSHIP WORKING GROUP, AND THEY CERTAINLY CONTINUE WITH THE TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE AND INNOVATION WORKING GROUP.
WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IS TO BASICALLY GIVE US ALL AN OPPORTUNITY TO THINK ABOUT HOW WE'RE OPERATING NOW, CURRENTLY MAKING THE MOST OF OUR OPPORTUNITIES TO BE HERE IN THE SCHEDULED MEETINGS, BUT THEN HOW WE COULD GET MORE PERHAPS FROM OUR WORKING GROUP SESSIONS IN SERVICE OF THESE STRATEGIC OUTCOMES.
AND I'D LIKE TO GIVE US ALL FRANKLY, AN OPPORTUNITY TO OPINE ON HOW WE CAN IMPROVE AS A COMMISSION.
NOW WITHSTANDING SOME OF THE THINGS THAT
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WE'VE OBVIOUSLY BEEN DOING AND A PROUD OF FROM AN ACHIEVEMENT STANDPOINT, WHETHER THEY BE THE ADMINISTRATION OF G TOPS, WHETHER THEY BE IN PROVIDING BRIEFINGS, LIKE WE JUST SAW THAT WOULD IMPACT OUR COMMUNITY AT LARGE, THAT'S ALIGNED WITH OUR OBJECTIVES OR OTHER THINGS THAT WE MAY BE INVOLVED IN AS INDIVIDUAL LEADERS OR MEMBERS IN OUR COMMUNITY.I DON'T WANT TO PUT ANYONE ON THE SPOT, BUT I'D LIKE TO GIVE EVERYONE A CHANCE TO PILE ON THIS AND TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT HOW WE'RE DOING AND WHERE WE CAN GO.
SINCE I'VE MADE THIS A TOPIC OF CONVERSATION.
I KNOW ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAS STRUCK ME IS HOW ACTIVELY INVOLVED OUR COMMISSIONERS ARE AND HOW WE HAVE SPENT A LOT OF TIME IN THOSE WORK GROUP SESSIONS, INVITING PEOPLE IN TO TALK ABOUT CITY BUSINESS, TO TALK ABOUT OUR WORK PLAN AND TO ADVANCE DISCUSSIONS, TO DIRECTLY IMPACT THESE OUTCOMES.
I KNOW WE'VE HAD A CHALLENGE OVER THE COURSE OF SEVERAL YEARS WITH CERTAIN WORKING GROUPS, HAVING MORE OF A ROBUST PARTICIPATION THAN OTHERS, BUT IT'S BEEN ENCOURAGING AS WE'VE SEEN THAT EVOLVE, PARTICULARLY, UH, IN THE MOST RECENT MONTHS WHERE WE'VE ACTUALLY HAD CONSISTENT WORK GROUP MEETINGS AND, AND, AND HAVE ROBUST CONVERSATIONS.
WE'VE HAD SOME CHANGES, UH, WE'VE HAD SOME EVOLUTION AND OUR MEMBERSHIP AND OUR BODY, THERE'S NO OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT, BUT THERE WILL LIKELY BE SOME CHANGES AGAIN, AND WE'LL NEED TO HAVE FUTURE ELECTIONS.
BUT IN THE MEANTIME, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THE CURRENT COMMISSIONERS FELT YOU WERE COMFORTABLE ENOUGH WITH THE DIFFERENT MACHINATIONS OF THE DIFFERENT WORKING GROUPS.
AND TO GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO THROW YOUR HAT IN THE RING OR TO, TO GET MORE INVOLVED IN DIFFERENT WORKING GROUPS, BASED UPON THE OUTCOMES, IF WE COULD LEAVE THOSE OUTCOMES UP, THAT'D BE GREAT.
TWERSKI OH, WE SHOULD PROBABLY FIX THE TYPOS, BUT YEAH.
WELL, THANK YOU FOR NOTICING THAT I'LL MAKE SURE TO PASS IT ON TO OUR PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE.
THEY'RE THE AUTHOR OF THIS DOCUMENT.
UM, I DEFINITELY WOULD LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, RE REVIEW, UM, AT LEAST MY OWN INVOLVEMENT IN SOME WORKING GROUPS.
UM, I BELIEVE I MET IN ONE AT THE MOMENT, UM, BUT HEARING, UM, JEFF PRESENT TODAY AND ALSO SEEING THESE STRATEGIC OUTCOMES, I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY THAT I'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED IN WITH THE TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE AND INNOVATION WORKING GROUP.
UM, I ALSO THINK IT MIGHT BE AN INTERESTING EXERCISE IF ANYTHING, UM, TO SEE POTENTIALLY CAUSE WE KNOW, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, OUR ROLE, UM, IN, IN THE COMMUNITY AND WE KNOW TECHNOLOGY POLICIES, ROLE, UM, AND HOW IT AFFECTS EACH ONE OF THESE STRATEGIC OUTCOMES.
I THINK IT'D BE REALLY INTERESTING EXERCISE FOR US ALL AS WORKING GROUPS TO ESSENTIALLY MAP THESE STRATEGIC OUTCOMES, UM, TO EACH WORKING GROUP.
AND, UM, I THINK THAT WOULD GIVE US SOME GOOD, UM, ALIGNMENT WITH, UH, THE LARGER CITY OUTCOMES AND WOULD HELP US ALIGN OUR WORKING GROUPS TO THE DEDICATED OUTCOMES THAT THE HAS BEFORE.
AND, AND THAT'S A PERFECT SEGUE.
IF WE COULD GO AHEAD AND TEE UP THE NEXT DOCUMENT, THAT IS OUR WORK PLAN.
THIS IS A GOOD STOPPING POINT.
ACTUALLY, THESE ARE INDICATORS AND IT WOULD BE NICE IF WE COULD ACTUALLY DO A SPLIT SCREEN, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S POSSIBLE.
IT'S POSSIBLE TO HAVE TWO DOCUMENTS UP AT ONCE.
UH, BECAUSE WE COULD THEN REVIEW THE WORKING GROUP MEMBER ASSIGNMENTS, UH, AS WELL, AND THEN GIVE OUR NEW COMMISSIONS A CHANCE TO, TO OPINE ON WHICH WORKING GROUPS YOU'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED IN GERMANS.
Y Y Y WHILE YOU'RE TEEING UP YOU COMMISSION NUMBERS, I JUST WANT
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TO MAKE A COMMENT THAT, YOU KNOW, THESE SIX INITIATIVES OUTCOMES, UM, MAYBE AT OUR NEXT WORKING GROUP MEETING, WE SHOULD BE DISCUSSING THIS PARTICULAR TOPIC IN DETAIL.THERE ARE A COUPLE OF THEM THAT OBVIOUSLY JUMP OUT AT ME THAT WE DEFINITELY, THE TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE WORKING GROUP IS OBVIOUSLY FOCUSED IN, BUT THERE ARE A COUPLE OF OTHERS THAT WE MAY NEED TO DELVE INTO A LITTLE MORE DETAILED SO THAT WE CAN REFOCUS A WORKING GROUP.
I, I CONCUR, UH, COMMISSIONER DASGUPTA.
I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GREAT EXERCISE AT EVERY WORKING GROUP MEETING.
UH, AND THEN IF WE CAN ACHIEVE ONE THING, I THINK THAT WOULD ADVANCE THAT OBJECTIVE TODAY.
UH, IF WE COULD ALL KIND OF SETTLE IN, ON WORKING GROUPS THAT WE'D LIKE TO BE INVOLVED IN AND, UH, AND THEN, UH, GET SOME COMMITMENTS ON SCHEDULING AND WHAT WOULD WORK BEST FOR EVERYONE, AT LEAST INITIAL THOUGHTS.
UH, UNDERSTANDABLY PEOPLE MAY HAVE TO GO BACK AND CHECK THEIR CALENDARS IF THEY DON'T HAVE THEM AVAILABLE TODAY.
UH, IF YOU COULD ADVANCE DOWN, UH, ON THE WORK PLAN, DOCUMENT THE WORD DOCUMENT TO, UH, THE FIRST WORKING GROUP, IT'LL BE COMING UP HERE SHORTLY A LITTLE FURTHER AHEAD THERE.
AFTER THIS SECTION, I THINK ANOTHER TWO PAGES DOWN.
SINCE WE'VE GOT THE KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION AND DATA STEWARDSHIP WORKING GROUP ON, UH, AND I KNOW THAT THERE'LL BE A NEED FOR A NEW CHAIR FOR THIS WORKING GROUP.
I'D LIKE TO START WITH THIS WORKING GROUP AS PART OF THIS DISCUSSION, UH, AS A WORKING GROUP, AS A COMMISSION, WE ALL WEIGHED IN ON THESE OBJECTIVES.
UH, THIS ORDER DOES NOT REFLECT AN ORDER OF PRIORITIZATION, BUT JUST TO READ OVER THEM AS A WORKING GROUP, WE IDENTIFIED THAT THE KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION AND DATA STEWARDSHIP WORKING GROUP, SHE'D WORKED TO CITY OF AUSTIN, COMMUNICATES CITY PROGRAMS, RESOURCES, ET CETERA, UH, TO UNDERSERVED AREAS AND WITHOUT ACCESS TO THE INTERNET AND TO HELP CITIZENS ENGAGE USING, UH, CITY OF AUSTIN TECHNOLOGY, FURTHER CAP COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE CITY OF AUSTIN AND UT TO HELP CREATE IN THIS CASE SPEED UP AMERICA, BANDWIDTH MAP, THIRD EQUITABLE BROADBAND GEOGRAPHIC DATA, UH, DATA REPORT, AND ANALYSIS TO MONITOR THE CITY OF AUSTIN WEBPAGE REDESIGN PROJECT COUNCIL VOTE, TABLATURE DATA DATABASE, UH, THE RESIDENTIAL TECHNOLOGY STUDY CITY OF AUSTIN, UT UH, INTER LOCAL AGREEMENT, RESEARCH COLLABORATION, UH, CITYWIDE TECHNOLOGY, PILOT, AND AUDIT ASSESSMENT, UH, THIS QUITE A BIT.
AND IT CONTINUES THERE WITH, UH, WITH MORE ALONG THOSE LINES, INCLUDING SOFTWARE.
UH, WE WERE ALREADY DELVING INTO AN ANALYSIS OF THIS ALICE APD APP, OTHER TECHNOLOGIES, COMMUNITY 3D PRINTING FOR HOMELESS SOLUTIONS, AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES.
THIS IS ONE EXAMPLE, AND THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, OBVIOUSLY, BASED UPON THE OBJECTIVES WE IDENTIFIED, BUT WE COULD CLEARLY SEE HOW MEETING IN THE WORKING GROUP SESSION TO REALLY FOCUS ON.
THESE COULD ALLOW US TO PRIORITIZE SOME OVER OTHERS.
FOR EXAMPLE, AGAIN, NO ORDER PRIORITY HERE, BUT THE RESIDENTIAL TECHNOLOGY STUDY IS SOMETHING WHICH WE'VE BEEN ACTIVELY PROMOTING AND FUNDING AS A COMMISSION THAT HAS EVOLVED NOW TO INCLUDE, INCLUDE QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS THAT WOULD HELP TO INFORM GOVERNMENT THAT WORKS FOR ALL, UH, THAT WOULD HELP TO INFORM ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND AFFORDABILITY, UH, THAT COULD HELP TO INFORM SAFETY, UH, AMONG OTHER THINGS, WITHOUT GETTING INTO THE, YOU KNOW, THE SPECIFIC DETAILS.
SO LUCKILY WE DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE TO, TO REFLECT ON THIS AND THEIR THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS WORKING GROUP AND THE OBJECTIVES UM, IF SOMEBODY IS INTERESTED IN TAKING MY SPOT, THAT WOULD BE FINE WITH ME BECAUSE, UH, I LIKED THE, UM, I'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CO-CHAIR WITH THE TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE GROUP, BUT I DON'T HAVE TIME TO DO BOTH.
SO THIS IS A REALLY COOL GROUP THAT DO A LOT OF INTERESTING THINGS.
THANK YOU FOR THAT, UH, COMMISSIONER FLOYD.
UH, IT HAS BEEN VERY INTERESTING, YOU KNOW, AND, AND
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THERE ARE A LOT OF INTERESTING THINGS, PARTICULARLY ON THE RESEARCH SIDE, UH, THAT ARE UNFOLDING, THAT I CAN SEE THIS WORKING GROUP IS GOING TO BE MORE AND MORE INVOLVED IN.UH, SO IT'S CERTAINLY RIPE FOR CONTRIBUTION AND LEADERSHIP.
ANYONE COULD SEE THEMSELVES PLAYING A, A CHAIR ROLE IN THIS.
AGAIN, THE KEY IS JUST TO BE ABLE TO MAKE YOURSELF AVAILABLE, UH, TO SCHEDULE THESE MEETINGS AND TO HOST THESE MEETINGS.
UH, AND THEN OF COURSE, TO HELP TO GUIDE THE CONVERSATION AROUND OUR OBJECTIVES AS A COMMISSION, UH, NO NEED TO FORCE ANYONE INTO THAT NOW, BUT YOU KNOW, FOOD FOR THOUGHT, HOW OFTEN THESE COMMUNITIES MEET THESE WORKING GROUPS.
I MEAN, UH, THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER SWARSKI, UH, MONTHLY IS THE OBJECTIVE IDEA BEING THAT WE WOULD HAVE ENGAGEMENT IN A WORKING GROUP SESSION BEFORE OUR COMMISSION MEETING, UH, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THE CASE MIGHT BE IF IT'S JUST AFTER, BUT STILL BEFORE THE NEXT MEETING, THAT WOULD BE SUFFICIENT.
CHAIRMAN PITTS, IF I MAY, YES, PLEASE.
UH, YEAH, NO, I DEFINITELY AM VERY EXCITED TO SEE THIS.
AND THIS IS ACTUALLY GOING TO BE SOME OF MY COMMENTARY, LOOKING AT THE PRIORITY OUTCOMES IN COMPARISON TO SOME OF OUR WORKING GROUPS.
IF I CAN MAYBE OFFER THIS RECOMMENDATION BEFORE WE GET FURTHER INTO THE WORK GROUPS, THAT IN ORDER FOR US TO REEVALUATE OUR GOALS AND OBJECTIVES, IT MIGHT BE BENEFICIAL FOR US TO DO WHAT IS CALLED A SWOT ANALYSIS, STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES, AND THREATS.
AND THAT WAY WE CAN FURTHER LOOK OBJECTIVELY AT WHAT IS BEING DONE IN EACH WORKING GROUP FOR US TO BE ABLE TO ANALYZE WHAT OUR OPPORTUNITIES ARE.
I THINK WITHIN OUR BODY, AS A COMMISSION, WE DO HAVE VARIOUS LEVELS OF EXPERTISE AND LIVING EXPERIENCES.
AND I THINK THIS COMES WITH REFLECTING IN OUR PRIVILEGES AND BIASES TO BE ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THESE WORKING GROUPS BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD INTO THE WORK AND REALLY EVALUATE IF WE'RE MEETING THE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THIS COMMISSION.
I THINK THAT'S A GREAT SUGGESTION.
UH, I WOULD DEFINITELY SECOND THAT RECOMMENDATION.
I THINK THAT, UH, SWAT ANALYSIS IS VERY VALUABLE, INVALUABLE TOOL WITHIN BUSINESS AND WITHIN GOVERNMENT.
I THINK THAT WE CAN UTILIZE THAT AT THE WORK GROUP LEVEL AND SURFACE THOSE INSIGHTS UP, I GUESS, COMMISSIONER AMERICA.
AND JUST TO TAKE YOUR RECOMMENDATION A WELL FURTHER, YOU KNOW, LET ME JUST ASK THE QUESTION.
DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO EVENLY PRIORITIZE, UH, JUST AS AN EXAMPLE, ALL EIGHT OF THESE ITEMS OR THE WORKING GROUPS GIVEN OUR LIMITED TIME BANDWIDTH AND ALL THAT MAYBE THE SWAT ANALYSIS CAN HELP PERHAPS GUIDE WHERE OUR FOCUS AREAS, PERHAPS, YOU KNOW, THREE TO FIVE OF THESE ITEMS AND, UM, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THE REST ARE A LITTLE BIT LOWER PRIORITY.
I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS LOOKING AT, JUST FOR EXAMPLE, THIS A WORKING GROUP AND THE EIGHT PRIORITIES, SOME OF THESE CAN BE MOVED INTO SUB CATEGORIES OR SUB OBJECTIVES.
AND SO PART OF THIS IS ALMOST US DOING AN INTERNAL AUDIT.
NOW I HATE TO USE THE WORD AUDIT, BUT YEAH, TO SOME FORM OF ANALYSIS TO REALLY FIGURE OUT HOW CAN WE CAN BE EFFECTIVE WHILE ALSO BEING CONSIDERATE AND FIGURING OUT THE WEAKNESSES.
I MEAN, FOR EXAMPLE, IF WE LOOK AT THE PRIORITY OUTCOMES OF CULTURE IN LIFELONG LEARNING, WE TALK ABOUT THE CITY BEING ENRICHED BY AUSTIN'S UNIQUE CIVIC, CULTURAL ETHIC AND LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES.
YET WE FAIL TO RECOGNIZE SOME OF THE EQUITY ISSUES THAT ARE KEEPING THE CITY OF BOSTON FROM FULLY ENGAGING IN THESE OPPORTUNITIES.
UH, TO YOUR POINT, UH, COMMISSIONER APODACA, THAT'S ENTIRELY THE SPIRIT OF THIS EXERCISE, UH, IN LOOKING AT THIS, I'M LIKE REALLY GLAD THIS IS THE FIRST EXAMPLE BECAUSE IT SPEAKS