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          [CALL TO ORDER]
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          THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE. 
          MY NAME IS NEHEMIAH PITSA THIRD, AND I'M THE CHAIR OF THE COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION. 
          AND I'M CALLING TO ORDER OUR REGULAR SCHEDULED MEETING TODAY, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER THE EIGHTH. 
          UH, AGAIN, AS I MENTIONED, MY NAME IS NIA MAYA AND I REPRESENT DISTRICT ONE. 
          I'LL START DOWN HERE ON THE END, UH, WITH, UH, DISTRICT TWO AND WE'LL MAKE OUR WAY AROUND IN ORDER OF COUNCIL MEMBER DISTRICTS. 
          SO IF YOU'RE ONLINE, YOU CAN CHOOSE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO JUMP IN BASED ON WHERE YOU KNOW, YOU GO STEVEN APODACA REPRESENTING DISTRICT TWO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MALCOLM YATES REPRESENTING DISTRICT THREE. 
          THAT WAS DAY FLOYD, CORRECT? OKAY. 
          I HEARD HIS VOICE. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THEN I GUESS WE SHOULD TELL SOME BEAVERS. 
          OH, RIGHT. 
          SHE SURE IS. 
          HELLO COMMISSIONER IRELAND. 
          OKAY. 
          DIDN'T KNOW IF DISTRICT SIX WAS HERE. 
          UM, MAXINE THE ISLAND REPRESENTING DISTRICT SEVEN, NICOLE THOMPSON REPRESENTING DISTRICT NINE. 
          SO MY DESK UP THERE REPRESENTING DISTRICT 10 AND SOPHIE, I ARE REPRESENTING MAYOR STEVE ADLER. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT. 
          [1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – October 13, 2021]
UH, WITH THAT, THEN WE'LL GO AHEAD AND TRANSITION TO OUR NEXT PART OF THE AGENDA. 
          APPROVING OUR MINUTES FROM OUR LAST MEETING. 
          STRESSED. 
          YOU ALL HAVE A COPY OF THAT? SO WHEN WE'RE READY, I LOOK FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES AND A SECOND, I MOVED TO APPROVE THE MINUTES SECOND. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          WE HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES AS PRESENTED BY COMMISSIONER. 
          DASGUPTA SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER THOMPSON, BEAVERS ALL IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THE MINUTES AS PRESENTED, PLEASE SAY AYE. 
          AYE. 
          ANYONE OPPOSED? NO. 
          OKAY. 
          WE ARE UNANIMOUS IN OUR APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES AND A VOTE OF 10 IN FAVOR. 
          OH, EXCUSE ME. 
          THAT'S NOT IN FAVOR. 
          CAUSE WE HAVE EIGHT IN FAVOR BECAUSE WE HAVE A FEW COMMISSIONERS OUT TODAY TO ONLINE. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          WELL, WE'LL PROCEED THEN TO OUR NEXT PART OF THE AGENDA HERE. 
          HAVE YOU EVER A BUS PART OF OUR AGENDA FOCUSED ON STAFF AND COMMUNITY BRIEFINGS BEGINNING WITH, WELL, JUST TO CLARIFY, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LITTLE SWITCH ON THE ORDER HERE, UH, TO FACILITATE, UH, SOME REQUESTS BY SOME OF OUR SPEAKERS. 
          SO I BELIEVE WE'LL BE BEGINNING WITH A PRESENTATION FROM OUR DIGITAL INCLUSION FELLOW, OR WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO FIRST? LET'S GO AHEAD AND START WITH, TO BE WITH THE HOUSING AUTHORITY. 
          OKAY. 
          SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND RESUME. 
          OKAY. 
          [2.b. HACA Mobile Hot Spot Speed & Connection Testing – Catherine Crago, Head of
Strategic Initiatives, Housing Authority of the City of Austin & Austin Pathways,
and Ashlee Johnson, ACC IT Intern]
WITH THAT SET THEN WE'LL GO AHEAD AND RESUME OUR AGENDA WITH ITEM TWO, B AS TO A PRESENTATION BY CATHERINE CRAIGO, THE HEAD OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVES WITH THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN AND AUSTIN PATHWAYS ON HAKA, MOBILE HOTSPOTS SPEED AND CONNECTION TESTING. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PATIENCE, CATHERINE AND ASHLEY, AS YOU'RE WAITING FOR US TO CONVENE OUR MEETING. 
          OH, ABSOLUTELY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS. 
          MY NAME IS KATHERINE CREGO. 
          I'M HEAD OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVES AT THE HOUSING AUTHORITIES, AUSTIN PATHWAYS, WHICH IS THE NONPROFIT SUBSIDIARY THAT HELPS SERVE OVER 20,000 VERY LOW INCOME RESIDENTS IN AUSTIN EACH NIGHT. 
          THIS PRESENTATION TONIGHT, I'M VERY PLEASED TO BE JOINED BY MY COLLEAGUES AND CO-COLLABORATORS MADDIE DIMOCK PO WHO IS NOW WITH THE STATE OF GEORGIA, BUT WHO HELPED LAUNCH THE TEAM LEAD WHEN SHE SERVED AS AN AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE, IT INTERN AT, UH, AUSTIN PATHWAYS IN THE HOUSING AUTHORITY AND JOHN BRATCHER, WHO IS A, 
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UH, TALENTED AND WONDERFUL PARTNER IN A GOVERNMENT ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE AT T-MOBILE. 
          OUR EFFORTS AT THE HOUSING AUTHORITY HAVE BEEN VERY FOCUSED ON, UM, ON, UH, ENSURING THAT WHEN COVID HIT, UM, WHEN THE GOVERNORS AND MAYORS ORDERS, UH, WERE, WERE ISSUED IN MAY OF 20, SORRY, MARCH OF 2020, UM, THAT WE COULD PIVOT AND CONTINUE TO SERVE RESIDENTS, UM, USING DIGITAL TOOLS, WE HAD ALREADY LAUNCHED A VERY SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN, UH, GOOGLE FIBER, AUSTIN FREENET AND OTHERS TO CLOSE THE HOMEWORK GAP AS SOON AS THOSE DOORS CLOSED. 
          AND, UH, WE BEGAN TO HEAR FROM RESIDENTS, UH, THAT THEY NEEDED THOSE VIRTUAL SERVICES. 
          UM, THEY WERE BEING PROVIDED SOME RESIDENTS WITH, UM, INTERNET SERVICE, CONNECTION, CONNECTIONS, AND DEVICES TO USE FROM A WIDE VARIETY OF PROVIDERS IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          UM, AND MANY OF THOSE PROVIDERS WERE PROVIDING HOTSPOTS. 
          SOME OF THOSE EARLY CALLS THAT WE GOT WERE ABOUT HOTSPOTS, NETWORKING. 
          UM, I'M NOT ABLE TO CONTINUE IN MY JOB. 
          MY CHILD IS NOT ABLE TO STAY IN SCHOOL. 
          I'M NOT ABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH MY HEALTHCARE PROVIDER USING THIS HOTSPOT. 
          AND SO, UM, WE RESPONDED, UM, RIGHT AWAY, UH, TO, UM, TO TRY TO DETERMINE, YOU KNOW, WHAT WAS GOING ON. 
          AND SO THIS PROJECT IS CALLED, UM, PROJECT SNEAKER NET, OR AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE, IT INTERN TEAM, AND OUR, OUR RESIDENT AMBASSADORS WHO WERE OUT IN THE FIELD DOING THIS WORK, UM, FOR OVER A YEAR, UM, NAMED IT THAT BECAUSE THEY PUT ON THEIR SNEAKERS AND THEY CAPTURED THAT SPEED TEST DATA AT THE ADDRESS LEVEL AT OUR PROPERTIES ACROSS AUSTIN, FROM NORTH TO SOUTH ACROSS THE EASTERN CRESCENT. 
          UM, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SO TONIGHT, UM, I'M JUST, UH, YOU KNOW, HAPPY TO BE PRESENTING HERE AND AGAIN WITH MADDIE DINAR KAPOW AND JOHN BRADSHAW FROM T-MOBILE AND WITH MANY THANKS TO, UM, ALMOST 20 AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE INTERNS, 10 OF OUR RESIDENTS AND OTHER FOLKS LIKE JAMES MASON, THE CO-TAUGHT HARMON, UH, WHO'S OUR DIGITAL INCLUSION FELLOW, STAN MCCLELLAN, UH, AT TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY AND OTHERS. 
          UM, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          THE QUESTIONS WE WERE TRYING TO ANSWER WHEN WE GOT THOSE CALLS SAYING THAT, HEY, MY CHILD HAS MISSED FIVE DAYS OF SCHOOL BECAUSE THE HOTSPOT ISN'T WORKING, WE WANTED TO UNDERSTAND IS A SINGLE PROVIDERS, 4G HOTSPOT, THE BEST PRODUCT FOR ALL HAKA PROPERTIES AND ALL PARTS OF TOWN. 
          WE WANTED TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE ACCEPTABLE LEVELS OF SERVICE WERE, UM, USING THIRD-PARTY DEFINITIONS SO THAT RESIDENTS COULD TELL THEIR EMPLOYERS COULD TELL THEIR SCHOOLS, UM, COULD TELL THEIR HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS THAT THEY HAD THE APPROPRIATE CONNECTION, UM, THROUGH THEIR HOTSPOTS TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE RECEIVING THOSE SERVICES AND CONTRIBUTING, UM, IN A VARIETY OF WAYS. 
          WE ALSO WANTED TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND THE COST OF SERVICE FOR WIRELINE VERSUS WIRELESS AND WHETHER OR NOT A RESIDENT AT A GIVEN PROPERTY WAS GETTING A DOLLAR WORTH OF WIRELESS BROADBAND FOR EVERY DOLLAR SPENT X SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          SO OUR SCOPE OF OUR PROJECT WAS OVER A ONE-YEAR PERIOD AND THAT REALLY INTENSE, UM, END TO THAT AS A SEVEN WEEK PERIOD, THAT WAS STAFFED BY, UM, TO AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE. 
          IT WORK-STUDY INTERNS WITH, UH, FOR ASSISTANCE. 
          UM, OUR GOAL WAS TO MAKE A PROCUREMENT RECOMMENDATION. 
          UM, IF WE WERE TO BUY HOTSPOTS FOR HACA RESIDENTS, UM, SHOULD WE, UH, SHOULD WE BUY THEM FOR EACH PROPERTY, UM, WHICH, UH, VENDORS SHOULD BE USED, ET CETERA, UM, CORE ACTIVITIES. 
          UM, MADDIE'S GONNA TAKE YOU THROUGH IN JUST A, UH, DESIGNING THE EXPERIMENT. 
          HOW WOULD WE DO THE TESTING, UM, ESTABLISHING KEY MAPS AND VALIDATING THOSE KEY MAPS, COLLECTING DATA AND EVALUATING, UM, STAKEHOLDER REQUIREMENTS. 
          WE CONDUCTED THIS WORK AT 10 HAWKER PROPERTIES, UM, EIGHT CENTRAL AND NORTH PROPERTIES AND TWO CENTRAL DOWNTOWN PROPERTIES THAT HAVE GOOGLE FIBER CONNECTIONS. 
          SO, UM, ON THE NEXT SLIDE, YOU'LL SEE, UH, ONE OF OUR ACC IT INTERNS, AND YOU'LL REALLY GET THAT SENSE OF SPEAKER NET. 
          UH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THIS IS, YOU KNOW, THIS IS ASHLEY JOHNSON AND, UM, SHE, SHE LED THIS PROJECT THIS PAST SUMMER, UM, BOOTS ON THE GROUND OUTDOORS ONLY. 
          WE DID NOT GO INTO RESIDENCE UNITS. 
          UM, OUR BUILDING MATERIALS, UH, RANGE IN AGE FROM 1939 TO THE 1970S. 
          SO THE OUTDOOR READINGS THAT YOU'RE SEEING, THEY'RE CONSERVATIVE READINGS BECAUSE AS WE KNOW, BUILDING MATERIALS WOULD AFFECT, YOU KNOW, THE HOTSPOTS PERFORMANCE INSIDE A UNIT. 
          ALL 
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OF THE READINGS THAT YOU'LL SEE TONIGHT, UM, WERE GOTTEN OUTSIDE. 
          UM, AND HERE'S, UM, ASHLEY AT NORTH LOOP APARTMENTS, UM, WITH HER HARDWARE IN HAND, UM, GETTING READY TO GET STARTED THERE. 
          SO I'M GOING TO ASK MATTIE, UM, TO, TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF AN OVERVIEW OF THE HARDWARE THAT WAS USED. 
          UM, IN ADDITION TO THAT, TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UM, WHAT SPEED TESTING IS, UM, WHAT WE CHOSE TO DO AND AN OVERVIEW OF ROSEWOOD COURTS AND, UM, HOW SHE APPROACHED, UH, SPEED TESTING AT THAT FIRST PROPERTY, WHERE WE WERE GETTING THE MOST, THE GREATEST NUMBER OF, UM, COMPLAINTS AND CONCERNS ABOUT HOTSPOTS. 
          THANK YOU, CATHERINE. 
          SO I'LL BE TAKING FROM HERE NOW ON, SO ON THE PROPERTY, WE USE A MAC BOOK, WHICH IS A MACBOOK AIR, WHICH IS A 2015 MAC APPLE PRODUCTS. 
          IT HAS A TWO ALCOHOL AND HE'S COME WITH I FIVE, 2015 AS WELL. 
          AND WE CONNECT THOSE MAC BOOK AND I PARTNERED WITH T-MOBILE HOTSPOT, 4G, WHICH WE LOAD FROM T-MOBILE AND T-MOBILE WAS REALLY NICE ABOUT LOWING US, THOSE PASSPORTS. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SO ON THE, ON POVERTY, WE WENT TO THE BROWSER AND WE CHOOSE, WE CHOOSE TO GO WITH A SPEED TEST THAT NOT THAT NET TO DO THE SPEED TEST. 
          AND THE FIRST PHASE THAT WE HAVE WAS WITH PAINT, WHICH IS WITH DISTANCE BETWEEN ME OR USER AND THE SERVER  WE CALL IT, IT WAS A DOWNLOAD, WHICH IS A SPEED, WHETHER WE ARE TRYING TO SEND, TO DOWNLOAD A PICTURE FIVE FROM BURNETT AND UPLOAD SPEED, WHICH IS YOUR SPEED. 
          WE USE TO UPLOAD SOME DOCUMENT ON THE NET. 
          SO AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, WHENEVER YOU SEND A PICTURE FROM A SPECIFIC LOCATION, YOU GET A PINK AND YOU ALSO HAVE A DOWNLOAD AND UPLOAD SPEED, WHICH APPRECIATES IN MEGABITS PER SECOND. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SO AS AN EXAMPLE, THIS IS A MAP OF HORSE WORLD, WHICH IS A PROPERTY BIRD IN 1939. 
          SO IT ORDERS PROPERTY FOR HAKA. 
          IF I AM WHITE, CATHERINE CAUGHT ME FROM HOME. 
          I BELIEVE THIS IS THE OLDEST PROPERTY FOR HER CAR, AND WE'RE AT THIS PROPERTY. 
          PRESIDENTS WERE GETTING SPEED LOW AS ZERO POINT 97 MEGABITS PER SECOND, FOR THE DOWNLOAD, AS FOR UPLOAD, ONE OF THESE THAT DARK COME OUT ARE THESE SPEED. 
          THESE TESTING IS THAT SOME RESIDENTS WERE OKAY GETTING A SPEED HIGHER THAN 10 MEGABITS PER SECOND. 
          WHEREAS SOME WERE GETTING 0.07 MEGABITS PER SECOND. 
          AND SO IN ORDER TO BETTER ANALYZE THE SITUATION, WE DO THE SPEED TEST USING THREE DATA POINTS BY THAT. 
          I MEAN, AT RC ONE, AS AN EXAMPLE ON THE MAP HERE, WE CALL IT, UH, OUR LOCATION WITH A G T I S, AND WE WANT TO SPEED TEST THREE TIME IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE WITH DATA. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SO THIS IS HOW THE SPEED TEST WAS DONE. 
          WE STAND AT A SPECIFIC LOCATION. 
          WE CLICK TO PICK OUR COORDINATE. 
          NEXT STEP, WE CLICK ON A GIS SYMBOL TO REFRESH YOUR LOCATION. 
          AND LASTLY, WE ZOOM, WE FINGER AND THAT, THAT WAY WE GET TO A LONELY TO THEN LATITUDE OF SPECIFIC POINTS. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SO THIS IS JUST A BRIEF LEO IS THAT OF A DATA WE COLLATED ON PROPERTY IN ORDER TO BETTER SERVE OUR STUDENTS. 
          WE REALIZED THAT 20, AT LEAST FIVE TO 25 GIGABITS PER SECOND, TO IN ORDER FOR THEM TO HAVE THEIR CLASSES ONLINE. 
          AND FIRST FRAMING VIDEO, A SPEED OF FIVE TO EIGHT MEGABITS PER SECOND WAS NEEDED. 
          WHEREAS FOR ONLINE, GIMME A MINIMUM OF FOUR 
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MEGABITS PER SECOND, WE NEEDED. 
          SO, AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT HAKA PROPERTIES, YOU KNOW, ARE WE GENERALLY HAVE A HIGHER NUMBER OF CHILDREN PER HOUSEHOLD, UM, THAN SOME OTHER HOUSEHOLDS WE DETERMINED FOR THIS STUDY THAT DURING COVID, WE WOULD REQUIRE A, WE WOULD USE A HIGH USE OR THE FCC GUIDELINES AS THE STANDARD, THE STANDARD THAT WE HOPED, UM, FOR HIM HAKA FAMILIES TO, UM, HAVE, UH, WITH, YOU KNOW, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 2.4 AND 3.2 KIDS PER HOUSEHOLD, DEPENDING ON THE PROPERTY WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF PARENTS WORKING REMOTELY FOR THAT TYPE OF SITUATION. 
          UM, WE BELIEVED THAT A 25 MEG SYMMETRICAL CONNECTION WAS THE BEST CONNECTION TO HAVE. 
          THANK YOU, KATHLEEN, FOR THAT, JOHN, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD? OKAY. 
          I DON'T SEE JOHN THERE AT THIS MOMENT. 
          OKAY. 
          LET'S CONTINUE THERE. 
          OKAY. 
          THE SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          SO THIS IS BRIEFLY YOUR DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHERE IS THAT WE HAVE AT CENTER HEATER AND HOSE WORLD, AS YOU CAN SEE TOO, BECAUSE HERE HEAD MEN WITH SPEED WITH VERY BAD, NO CONDITION, TATO YELLOW, MEAN ACCEPTABLE AND GRAINY MAIN ALLIES. 
          THAT WAS IT. 
          PERFECT SPEED ENOUGH FOR USER. 
          SO AS YOU CAN SEE, WAS, WOULD HAZARD REALLY BAD SPEED. 
          WHEREAS SANTA RITA, SEPTEMBER A LOT OF GRAIN, I MEAN, WE HAVE A SPEED USER, HAVE THE SPEED THEY NEED FOR THE EVERYDAY USE, WHICH IS GOOD. 
          AND NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SO ON THIS SLIDE, THIS IS LIKE A, LET'S SAY THIS IS A BREAKDOWN OF, UH, OF A TEST WE PERFORM ON USING THE MACBOOK FOR LET'S USE THE IPAD, BOTH DEVICE WHERE USE WERE RELATIVELY NEW AND BED 2015. 
          AND WE CAN SEE THAT SANTA RITA COATS AS, AND NOW HE DOT CODE FOR RIGHT BETTER SPEED. 
          AND THE WITH CALL, EVEN THOUGH WE USE THE SAME DEVICE, THE SAME MACBOOK AIR AND THE SAME HOSPITALS, SOME, SOME ISSUE WE HAVE GOING ON. 
          IF WE HAVE SPOTS, THANK YOU, MADDIE. 
          SO THE DEVICE DOES MATTER. 
          THAT'S ONE THING THAT WE LEARNED AND NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          AND SO ONE THING THAT YOU'LL SEE HERE IS THE ONE THING THAT YOU'LL SEE HERE. 
          UM, THESE ARE OUR PRELIMINARY FINDINGS, UM, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE COULD HAVE RIGHT WHEN COVID STARTED, UM, SAID, OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO GO BY HOTSPOT FOR EVERY HOC HOUSEHOLD, IF WE CAN, WE'LL, WE'LL TRY TO FIND FUNDING. 
          UM, UM, AND YOU KNOW, WE'LL COLLABORATE WITH PARTNERS, UH, AROUND THE CITY TO MAKE SURE RESIDENTS HAVE THOSE HOTSPOTS. 
          WHAT WE LEARNED IS THAT FOR THE HOTSPOTS THAT WE TESTED, UM, WE LOOKED AT THE NUMBER OF UNITS SERVED AS MADDIE SHARED AT ROSEWOOD COURTS. 
          UM, THE ROSEWOOD COURTS PROPERTY, THERE'S ABOUT 200 FEET IN ELEVATION BETWEEN THE ROSEWOOD SIDE AND THE, UM, YOU KNOW, UP THE HILL, IF YOU WILL. 
          AND SO SOME OF THOSE UNITS WERE NOT SERVED. 
          SO WE CALCULATED THE NUMBER OF UNITS SERVED BASED ON THE HOTSPOT TESTING AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS ON A PROPERTY. 
          AND THEN WE DETERMINED REALLY THAT THERE WERE THREE PROPERTIES WHERE THOSE HOTSPOTS PERFORMED VERY, VERY WELL. 
          UM, AND THERE WERE OTHER PROPERTIES WHERE, UM, WE, WE CONSIDERED THOSE UNSERVED. 
          WHEREAS THE MAJORITY OF, UM, OUR SIGNALS, THE MAJORITY OF OUR TESTS SHOWED LOWER THAN FIVE MEG. 
          UM, AND OFTENTIMES EVEN LOWER THAN A MEG, UH, DOWN AND UP. 
          AND SO WE DETERMINED THAT WE WOULD NOT PURCHASE HOTSPOTS FOR THOSE. 
          UM, WE'VE BEEN VERY FORTUNATE AGAIN BECAUSE, UH, THIS HAS THE DATA, UH, THAT ENABLED US TO BEGIN HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH JOHN, UH BRATCHER AND OTHER FOLKS FROM T-MOBILE ABOUT K HOW DO WE SOLVE THIS PROBLEM? UM, AND IT FEELS JUST JUMPED TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          UM, 
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YOU CAN SEE HERE TOO. 
          UM, THESE ARE THE MACBOOK AND IPADS, SO IT'S, UH, UM, DOWNLOAD SPEEDS BY PROPERTY AND YOU CAN KIND OF SEE, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT THE GREEN INDICATES THAT WE'RE AT HIGHER THAN 20 MEG, UM, DOWNLOAD SPEED. 
          AND, UM, THE, THE YELLOW INDICATES WE'RE BETWEEN 10 AND 20 MEG. 
          THE RED IS LOWER THAN 10 MEG AND THE BLACK IS LOWER THAN FIVE MEG. 
          AND SO YOU'LL SEE, UM, THE DIFFERENCES AT DIFFERENT PROPERTIES. 
          UM, WHEN YOU START GETTING TO, UM, YOU KNOW, NORTH LOOP, CHALMERS, WEST ROSEWOOD AND CHALMERS EAST, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU SEE VERY LITTLE GREEN THERE. 
          UM, IT'S MOSTLY IN THE OTHER, UM, OTHER CATEGORIES. 
          SO, UM, THAT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT THE DATA. 
          UM, AND THEN GOING FORWARD, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE GOING FORWARD. 
          WE, UM, WE PLAN TO TEST OTHER PROVIDERS. 
          UM, WE HAVE BEGAN TESTING FIVE G UM, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SO WE'LL, WE'LL BE ANSWERING THESE QUESTIONS, UM, GOING FORWARD. 
          UM, WHAT'S THE RIGHT LEVEL OF SERVICE GIVEN THE INDOOR READINGS AND BETTER THAN AVERAGE DEVICES. 
          THESE DEVICES THAT WE TESTED WE BELIEVE ARE FAR BETTER THAN THE AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD HAS. 
          SO THESE ARE CONSERVATIVE AGAIN, CONSERVATIVE READINGS. 
          UM, WE STILL PLAN TO CONTINUE WORKING WITH T-MOBILE AND OTHER PROVIDERS TO DETERMINE HOW WE CAN, UM, ENSURE THAT NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          THEY NEED TO GET THE BEST SIGNALS, UM, TO TEST 5G AND LOOK AT WAYS OF PROVIDING THOSE HIGHER END HOTSPOTS AND AREAS WHERE THEY'RE NEEDED. 
          AND, UM, TO, TO BEGIN DOING SOME COMPARATIVE TESTING, WHICH WAS REQUESTED BY STAKEHOLDERS, FOR EXAMPLE, AT AUSTIN PUBLIC LIBRARY AND BY THE CITY'S DIGITAL INCLUSION FELLOW, UH, HOTEN HARMON. 
          SO THAT'S A BRIEF UPDATE ABOUT OUR HOTSPOT TESTING, AND WE WOULD WELCOME ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE. 
          WOW. 
          WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT PRESENTATION AND FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND ALL THE WORK HERE IN TESTING THESE PROPERTIES. 
          THIS IS REALLY A LOT TO REACT TO AND TO CELEBRATE. 
          UH, I DEFINITELY HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS MYSELF AND I'M SURE MY PEERS DO AS WELL. 
          I'LL JUST GO AHEAD AND LIST OFF A FEW OF MINE IN CASE THEY ALSO RESONATE WITH MY PEERS. 
          UH, SO MY FIRST QUESTION IS ANSWERED BY THE GRAPH THAT YOU PUT UP ABOUT REPRESENTATION EITHER IN UNDERSERVED OR UNSERVED AREAS. 
          AND I THOUGHT IT WAS PROFOUND LOOKING AT THE PRESENTATION, HOW DEMONSTRATIVE IT IS THAT WITHIN THE SAME ZIP CODE, YOU CAN HAVE SUCH GLARING DISPARITY IN ACCESS AND IN CONNECTIVITY AND BROADBAND AND SPEEDS. 
          UH, WITH THAT BEING SAID, I'M REALLY CURIOUS WHEN IT COMES TO, ESPECIALLY WITH THE GLARING CHALLENGE OF ROSEWOOD AND, AND, UH, AS MADDIE INDICATED, UH, BEING THE OLDEST FACILITY HERE IN THE CITY, UH, UH, IMPRINT INCREDIBLY PROFOUND TO ME THAT IT'S THE OLDEST IN THE COUNTRY IN LIGHT OF WHAT THAT MEANS FOR DIGITAL INCLUSION AND OUR NATION WITH OUR HISTORY. 
          UH, SO IT LEADS TO THE QUESTION WITH THAT PROPERTY IN PARTICULAR IN MIND. 
          UH, I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS PLANS TO PROTECT ROSEWOOD COURTS IN ITS CURRENT LOCATION WITH THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF AUSTIN THAT IS PLANNED. 
          AND I'D LIKE TO ASK IF YOU'RE AWARE OF ANY FOCUS ON INFRASTRUCTURE THAT MIGHT HELP T-MOBILE OR OTHER PROVIDERS WITH THAT DEVELOPMENT. 
          UH, I KNOW THAT THAT, THAT THE HORIZON IS A WAYS DOWN FOR THAT. 
          UH, AND THE SOLUTIONS THAT YOU'RE ADOPTING NOW WILL HELP TO MITIGATE AND, AND COLLABORATE. 
          BUT I'M REALLY CURIOUS LONG-TERM FROM AN INFRASTRUCTURE STANDPOINT, IF YOU'RE AWARE OF ANYTHING IN THE PLANS FOR THAT LOCATION TO HELP WITH THIS SPECIFIC CHALLENGE. 
          WELL, I CAN'T SPEAK SPECIFICALLY TO, YOU KNOW, THE PLANS AS THEY EXIST NOW, BUT I CAN SAY THAT IN GENERAL, UM, THERE'S ALWAYS A, A BROADBAND AND INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING COMPONENT OF EVERY, OF, OF, OF EVERY, YOU KNOW, THING THAT WE DO ON PROPERTIES ACROSS THE CITY. 
          UM, THAT'S, THAT'S BEEN UNDERWAY. 
          I DO KNOW THAT, UM, ROSEWOOD, UH, COURTS AS A PROPERTY THAT WILL, UM, HAVE FREE GOOGLE FIBER AND THE NEXT, UM, COUPLE OF YEARS, 
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UM, AS, AS THOSE PLANS FOR ROSE WOULD MOVE FORWARD, UM, THEY WILL, THEY WILL BE INCLUDED AS A FREE GOOGLE FIBER COMMUNITY. 
          UM, AND I KNOW THAT WE HAVE SOME GREAT RESIDENT ADVOCATES AT ROSEWOOD COURTS WHO ARE, UM, WORKING IN OUR SMART CITY AMBASSADOR TEAM AND TO HAVE BEEN MAPPING, UM, THE INFRASTRUCTURE AROUND ROSEWOOD. 
          UM, I WANT TO ASK, UM, I SEE THAT JOHN IS MUTED. 
          I THINK HE, HE, UM, I THINK HE WAS, HE WAS JUST, UM, UM, DISCONNECTED. 
          AND SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT CAN BE HELP UNMUTE HIM IN CASE HE, HE, HE HAS SOMETHING TO ADD. 
          ALRIGHT, HELLO, JOHN? YEAH, DEFINITELY. 
          HEY, SORRY. 
          I WASN'T ABLE TO CHIME IN AND THROUGH THE PRESENTATION, UM, AS I WAS KIND OF MUTED THROUGHOUT IT, BUT YOUR ROLES WOULD COURT, WE IDENTIFIED FROM LOGISTICALLY SOME CHALLENGES BASED UPON HOW TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY. 
          UM, SOME OF THE ISSUES IS THAT WHERE OUR TOWER SIT, UM, TH THE MOST OF THE, SOME OF THE PROPERTY ON THE HILL IS WHERE WE SEE WE RUN INTO SIGNIFICANT, UH, CONNECTIVITY CHALLENGES. 
          AND SO WE DO HAVE INFRASTRUCTURE PLANS AS WE'RE, UM, GROWING, UH, OUR, OUR CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE AND ADDING NEW TOWERS, UH, MONTHLY. 
          AND SO, UH, SOME OF THOSE PLANS DO INCLUDE UPGRADING, UH, IN THOSE ZIP CODES OF BACK THAT WILL COVER THAT ROSEWOOD COMMUNITY. 
          THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          CAUSE I KNOW THAT WE WANT TO DO OUR PART, OF COURSE, AS A COMMISSION TO ENCOURAGE THAT KIND OF DEVELOPMENT. 
          I HAVE NO DOUBT BASED ON KEVIN'S LEADERSHIP, THAT THE FOCUS WILL BE ON THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY. 
          AND SO WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DOING OUR PART AS A COMMISSION, AS A CITY TO UPLIFT THAT PROPERTY AND THE OTHERS WHERE THE CHALLENGES EXIST. 
          I'VE GOT A FEW OF THE QUESTIONS, BUT I'LL, I'LL TABLE THOSE FOR NOW AND OPEN IT UP TO THE REST OF MY PEERS FOR ANY QUESTIONS. 
          HI. 
          YES. 
          DID YOU WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT PRESENTATION? UM, GREAT TO SEE A LOT OF WORK THAT WENT INTO THAT. 
          UM, I WANTED TO ASK ABOUT, UM, ACTUALLY SOMETHING THAT WE WERE DISCUSSING EARLIER, UM, ABOUT, UH, THE CONSIDERATION THAT YOU ALL TOOK INTO TESTING DIFFERENT DEVICES. 
          I KNOW YOU, UH, SUGGESTED THAT YOU WERE INTERESTED IN TESTING OUT DIFFERENT, UM, CARRIERS. 
          UM, BUT AS YOU KNOW, WE KNOW YOU ONLY GET THE SPEEDS THAT YOUR NETWORKING HARDWARE IS CAPABLE OF PARTICULARLY MAC BOOKS SINCE 2013, HAVE, YOU KNOW, SUPPORTED TWO TO THREE STREAMS OF, UH, 80 MEGAHERTZ WIDE CHANNELS, RIGHT. 
          WHICH IS SIGNIFICANTLY GREATER THAN PROBABLY ANY OF THE DEVICES THAT LET'S JUST SAY THE AUSTIN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT IS PROVIDING TO ITS STUDENTS. 
          UM, SO I WANTED TO UNDERSTAND IF THERE WAS MORE PLAN TO PERHAPS REASSESS WITH OTHER DEVICES AS WELL. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          COMMISSIONER. 
          I MEAN, THIS IS SPOT ON THAT THE DEVICE DOES MATTER. 
          UM, PROVIDING A DEVICE IS NOT A ONE AND DONE. 
          WE DO HAVE, WE'RE FORTUNATE TO HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, DONATIONS COME INTO HOCK FOR HACA RESIDENTS THROUGH THE PC, UM, COMMUNITY LOAN PROGRAM, UM, AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE, AND A VARIETY OF LOCAL COMPANIES, THE AUSTIN FORUM ON, ON, UM, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY ACTUALLY PROVIDES DEVICES, UM, THAT OUR RESIDENTS USE. 
          AND SOMETIMES THERE'S A PERCEPTION THAT IF A RESIDENT HAS A DEVICE, UM, YOU KNOW, SAY LIKE IN 2017 THAT RESIDENT RECEIVED A REFURBISHED DEVICE, WHICH HAS GREAT, YOU KNOW, UM, CONSUMER LIFE. 
          UM, BUT THAT CONSUMER LIFE IS STILL AT TWO OR THREE MEGA PROGRAM ON, UM, A DEVICE IT'S, IT'S STILL A DEVICE THAT, YOU KNOW, WILL NEED TO BE REPLACED. 
          AND, AND IN A FEW YEARS IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO USE, UM, YOU KNOW, NEWER BROWSERS AND, AND INCREASED FUNCTIONALITY. 
          SO, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UH, WE'VE BEEN DOING IS, UH, OVER THE YEARS IS, UM, GATHERING INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT KINDS OF DEVICES PEOPLE HAVE AND HOW OLD THEY ARE. 
          UM, ONE OF THE BEST QUESTIONS WE CAN ASK IS, UM, YOU KNOW, DO YOU HAVE A DEVICE? YES OR NO? IS IT WORKING YES OR NO? BECAUSE ABOUT HALF OF THE TIME SOMEONE WILL SAY, WELL, IT'S NOT WORKING. 
          I'M SAVING TO GET IT FIXED. 
          UM, OR, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE'S GOING TO HELP ME FIX IT. 
          AND THEN THE LAST, DOES IT WORK FOR EVERYTHING YOU WANT IT TO DO? AND THEN WE'LL FIND OUT, UM, THAT YES, IT HELPS ME CHECK MY BALANCE. 
          BUT, UM, WHEN I TRY TO PLAN A TRIP, UM, USING, YOU KNOW, MY LYFT APP OR MY VOUCHER, IT, IT, IT HANGS UP. 
          AND SO, UM, THOSE DEVICES ARE, ARE REALLY AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF ALL THIS, UM, THE AMBASSADORS, 
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OUR SMART CITY AMBASSADORS. 
          THIS IS A PROJECT THAT THEY'LL BE WORKING ON AND, AND THERE'LL BE SELECTING THE DEVICES THAT WE TEST AS WE GO FORWARD AT OUR NON GOOGLE FIBER PROPERTIES. 
          THANK YOU FOR HIGHLIGHTING THAT. 
          GREAT QUESTION. 
          THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER. 
           COMMISSIONER DASGUPTA HAS A QUESTION, BUT I HAVE LOTS OF QUESTIONS. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, IF YOU COULD SHARE A COUPLE AND WE'LL GET A CHANCE TO, FOR SOMETHING. 
          OKAY. 
          MY FAULT. 
          I, HI, KATHERINE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          THIS IS SUMMIT. 
          UM, SO MY FIRST QUESTION IS WHY WERE THE MEASUREMENTS DONE OUTDOORS WHEN THE STUDENTS DO THEIR HOMEWORK INDOORS? SHOULDN'T WE TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE FACT THAT THEY, THAT THE, THE, THE CONDITION OF THE WALLS OUTSIDE THAT WILL MITIGATE, THEY REDUCE SOME OF THE BANDWIDTH, UH, THEY ARE GOING TO COME INTO PLAY. 
          SO WHY NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THOSE FACTORS? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. 
          UM, COVID ONLY, UM, OUR INTERNS AND OTHER HACA RESIDENTS WERE NOT COMMITTED TO GO INSIDE THE UNITS. 
          UM, BUT HOWEVER WE DID ALSO, AND THIS IS NOT REPORTED HERE, BUT WE ALSO, UH, RIGHT WHEN COVID STARTED, WE CONDUCTED A, WHAT WE CALLED THE HAKA AT HOME LEARNING PROGRAM. 
          SO WE SHIFTED FROM LET'S SOLVE THE HOMEWORK GAP TO LET'S MAKE SURE THAT THREE KIDS IN A HOUSE CAN BE IN SCHOOL TOGETHER IN THEIR HOME, THE AT-HOME LEARNING. 
          AND SO, UM, AT OUR GOOGLE FIBER PROPERTIES AND NON GOOGLE FIBER PROPERTIES, WE CONDUCTED ABOUT 380 SURVEYS. 
          A PART OF THAT SURVEY WAS, HEY, UM, WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO RIGHT NOW, COULD WE DO A QUICK SPEED TEST? UM, SO THAT, UM, THEN NOW TO THE, TO THE OTHER COMMISSIONERS POINT, PEOPLE ARE USING A WIDE RANGE OF EQUIPMENT. 
          UM, SO WE WERE ABLE TO CONDUCT TO GET ABOUT, YOU KNOW, A HUNDRED DATA POINTS, UM, FROM, FROM INSIDE FOLKS HOMES AND TO HELP THEM TROUBLESHOOT, UM, WHETHER THEY HAD A WIRELINE CONNECTION OR A WIRELESS CONNECTION, UM, TO MAKE IT WORK. 
          BUT ABSOLUTELY THAT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, IDEALLY WE EXPLORED WITH, UM, A COUPLE OF SPEED TEST PROVIDERS, THE POSSIBILITY OF LICENSING, UM, LICENSING TOOLS THAT THEY USE TOGETHER, SPEED TEST JUST FOR HACA RESIDENTS, JUST SO WE, AS HAKA COULD HAVE A VIEW ACROSS ALL OF OUR PROPERTIES ABOUT THE SPEEDS FOLKS WERE GETTING INSIDE THEIR HOMES. 
          AND SO THAT WE COULD ALSO, YOU KNOW, HOLD PROVIDERS ACCOUNTABLE WHEN THOSE SPEEDS WERE FAR, FAR LESS THAN, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE CONSUMER WAS PAYING FOR THAT WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE. 
          EXACTLY. 
          DO YOU HAVE A FOLLOW-UP QUESTION? CAN YOU, OH YEAH. 
          SO THE, THE NEXT QUESTION I HAVE IS THAT, WHY DID YOU USE APPLE PRODUCTS? BECAUSE THEY ARE AMONGST THE MOST EXPENSIVE WHEN A LOT MORE ORGANIZATIONS WITH A LOT OF, UH, UH, UM, YOU KNOW, WINDOWS BASED PRODUCTS THAT ARE AVAILABLE, UH, THAT ORGANIZATIONS WILL GIVE AWAY, WHICH ARE A WHOLE LOT CHEAPER. 
          AND SO THE QUESTION IS, SHOULD WE BE DEPENDENT ON THE KIND OF BOXES THAT ARE AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE STUDENTS OR THE, OR THE RESIDENTS? AND IF SO, IF THERE'S GOING TO BE A VARIETY, SHOULD THEY BE A STANDARD CONFIGURATION THAT YOU MEASURE AGAINST? AND, AND, AND IN YOUR NEXT MEASUREMENT, SHOULD YOU BE MEASURING UP TO THE PORT FROM WHERE YOU CONNECT THE WIRE TO THE BOX? COULD YOU REPEAT THAT COMMISSIONER? DOES THAT, COULD, SHOULD WE BE MEASURING UP TO THE PORT, IT'S UP TO THE PORT IN THE HOUSE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A SHORT WIRE THAT CONNECTS FROM THAT PORT, LET'S SAY ROUTER OR MODEM, OR WHAT HAVE YOU, FROM THERE, IT GOES TO THE BOX, WHICH THE STUDENT OR STUDENT'S PARENTS ARE USING TO DO THEIR WORK. 
          SO SHOULD THERE BE A STANDARD INTERFACE UP TO WHICH YOU MEASURE? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. 
          SO FIRST ON THE EQUIPMENT, UM, THESE WERE APPLE PRODUCTS, THEY'RE PROBABLY, THEY WERE ABOUT FOUR YEARS OLD AND YOU'LL SEE THE SPECS ON THE, ON THE PRODUCTS THEY ARE. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          UM, AS WE SAID, MUCH BETTER THAN AVERAGE, UM, THE, UH, AS, SINCE COVID STARTED, YOU KNOW, WE THINK THAT, UM, CHROMEBOOK, UH, WOULD BE IDEAL TO MEASURE ON THE CHROMEBOOKS. 
          IT WOULD BE IDEAL CAUSE THAT'S WHAT, YOU KNOW, SCHOOLS ARE PROVIDING, UM, ON, ON DELL LAPTOPS, WINDOWS, MACHINES, ET CETERA. 
          THERE'S CERTAINLY A LOT, UM, THAT WE COULD DO TO GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE IN-HOME ON, YOU KNOW, SORT OF UBIQUITOUS EQUIPMENT, UM, THAT RESIDENTS HAVE. 
          IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT AT HAKA, UM, WE HAD A WONDERFUL PARTNERSHIP WITH A CORPORATION THAT PROVIDED, UM, SEVERAL HUNDRED, UH, SEVERAL HUNDRED, UM, APPLE PRODUCTS. 
          BUT TO YOUR POINT, UM, NO, I MEAN, UH, 
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THAT'S NOT STANDARD ISSUE AND IDEALLY, UH, IN FUTURE ITERATIONS, WE'LL HAVE, UH, A STANDARD ISSUE, UM, MEASUREMENT, UM, MEASURING UP TO THE PORT. 
          YES, THAT'S ANOTHER DIMENSION AS WELL. 
          AND I HOPE THAT IF WE'RE ABLE TO, UM, REPLICATE THIS OR TRANSITION AND SCALE IT TO KIND OF ONGOING AND HOME MEASUREMENT, UM, WE'LL BE ABLE TO GRAB, YOU KNOW, JUST WHEN SOMEONE SPEED TESTS, UM, WE'LL BE ABLE TO GRAB ALL OF THE DATA, YOU KNOW, W WHAT TYPE OF MACHINE WERE THEY USING? WHAT BROWSER WERE THEY USING, ET CETERA. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH, CATHERINE. 
          AND THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTIONS, I GUESS COMMISSIONER YES. 
          IS ONE OF THE FACTORS THAT YOU USE TO DETERMINE THE BANDWIDTH THE TIME OF DAY. 
          I KNOW THAT WITH MY CONNECTION, IT VARIES CONSIDERABLY. 
          YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. 
          AND I'LL JUST GIVE A QUICK RESPONSE, YOU KNOW, UM, AND THEN ASK, YOU KNOW, MAYBE JOHN AND MUDDY TO COMMENT AS WELL. 
          UM, THIS WE'RE CALLED, WE CALL THIS DATA IT'S ON THE SLIDES, YOU KNOW, ANECDOTAL DATA, UM, THE RIGHT WAY TO DO THIS. 
          YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE REALLY LOOKING AT ROSE, WHEN WE DISCUSSED THIS WITH OUR FRIENDS AT TEXAS STATE AND OTHERS IS TO GET MEASUREMENTS ALL DAY LONG FROM INSIDE THE UNIT. 
          UM, WE DISCUSSED THE POSSIBILITY, FOR EXAMPLE, OF, UM, WORKING WITH RESIDENTS TO SELECT WHAT'S CALLED A WALL WART, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT COULD BE PUT IN THE WALL, UM, IN THE ELECTRICAL SOCKET THAT MAYBE WAS CONNECTED TO DEVICES THAT A RESIDENT WOULD CONNECT TO A DEVICE THAT WAS JUST CONSTANTLY TAKING MEASUREMENTS. 
          RIGHT. 
          UM, AS MADDIE SAID, WE HAVE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 10 AND 30 MEASUREMENTS PER, UM, UM, FOR KEY MAP POINT, UM, DURING SCHOOL, WE TOOK THOSE MEASUREMENTS BETWEEN EIGHT AND 10 IN THE MORNING, AND THEN, UM, AFTER 3:00 PM. 
          UM, SO, BUT AGAIN, IT'S, IT'S ANECDOTAL DATA, IT'S DIRECTIONALLY CORRECT THE DATA THAT WE HAVE REFLECTS OUR USER'S EXPERIENCE. 
          UM, BUT IT IS, UM, THERE'S MUCH TO DO. 
          AND MAYBE JOHN, YOU COULD SPEAK TO TIME OF DAY AS WELL. 
          YEAH, THERE, THERE IS, UH, GONNA BE CONTINUED VARIATIONS AND IN CONNECTIONS, UH, BASED UPON TIME OF DAY BASED UPON, YOU KNOW, LOCATION ON THE PROPERTY. 
          SO YOU'RE GONNA SEE, YOU'RE GONNA SEE THESE, THESE BIG SKEWS ON, ON ACCESS AND WHAT THE CONNECTION LOOKS LIKE. 
          UM, BECAUSE OF ALL THE KIND OF BARRIERS THAT YOU'VE MENTIONED THE DEVICE, THE TIME OF DAY, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WHERE YOU'RE AT OR DIRECTIONAL OR BIO DIRECTIONALLY ON THE, ON THE PROPERTY. 
          SO ALL THESE THINGS CAN REALLY SKEW THE RESULTS IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. 
          SO I THINK THAT THE CONSTANT RUN THAT THEY'RE LOOKING TO DO IN THE FUTURE, WE'LL PROVIDE, YOU KNOW, MORE IN LINE DATA WHERE YOU CAN PUT TOGETHER AVERAGES, UM, GOING FORWARD. 
          ALRIGHT, THANK YOU FOR THE ANSWERS. 
          GREAT QUESTION. 
          THANK YOU FOR THOSE ANSWERS. 
          UH, ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? OKAY. 
          UH, IT LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE MORE QUESTIONS. 
          I BRIEF PLEASE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THE NEXT QUESTION YOU MENTIONED ABOUT GOOGLE FIBER. 
          SO GOOGLE FIBER IS NOT AN END ALL BECAUSE IT ONLY COMES UP TO THE BUILDING. 
          WHAT HAPPENS, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE THE FIRST MILE LAST MILE, RIGHT? IT'S WHAT YOU CONNECT TO THE OUT, YOU KNOW, THAT OUTLET OF GOOGLE TO THE ACTUAL PC THAT CAN SLOW YOU DOWN. 
          SO IF IN THOSE PROPERTIES THAT YOU GET GOOGLE FIBER, ARE YOU GOING TO REWIRE THOSE BUILDINGS? YOU HAVE PLANS TO DO THAT, SO THAT THERE TRULY IS GIGABIT SPEED AT THE, AT THE, AT THE LAPTOP. 
          YES, COMMISSIONER, WE, UM, FORTUNATELY OUR AGREEMENT WITH GOOGLE FIBER ENABLES EVERY UNIT TO HAVE ITS OWN, UM, YOU KNOW, FIBER CONNECTION AND UNIT. 
          THERE'S A FIBER JACK AND A NETWORK BOX IN THE UNIT. 
          UM, AND SO THE, THE GOOGLE FIBER SPEEDS, WE'RE SEEING THROUGH THE FIBER JACK, UM, WITH WIRELESS OR RANGE, BUT GENERALLY, UM, THAT THEY'RE CLOSE TO A THOUSANDS MEGS SYMMETRICAL, UM, WITH A WIRELINE CONNECTION TO A DEVICE. 
          AND THERE'S SOMEWHERE BETWEEN, YOU KNOW, 104 HUNDRED SYMMETRICAL WITH A, UM, WHAT'S THE WIRELESS, UM, FROM THE, THE FIBER JACK IN THE UNIT. 
          SO YES, WHEN WE DEPLOY GOOGLE FIBER, UM, THE FIBER IS IN THE WALLS AND EVERY UNIT HAS A JACK AND OR A JACK AND AN, AND A NETWORK BOX AND NIU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANKS FOR THAT QUESTION. 
          WELL, THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT PRESENTATION. 
          I DO HAVE MORE QUESTIONS, BUT I KNOW WE'RE GOING TO BE IN COMMUNICATION AND WE DO HAVE 
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OTHER SPEAKERS AS WELL. 
          SO WITH THAT, I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR WORK ON THIS. 
          UH, I UNDERSTAND, UH, ASHLEY MAY NOT HAVE BEEN IN TODAY, BUT IF YOU COULD THANK HER AS WELL FOR HER, HER, UH, HELP DURING OUR TOWN HALL. 
          UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH, MADDIE AND JOHN FOR YOUR HELP TODAY AND YOUR PERSPECTIVE, WE LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, GAINING MORE INSIGHTS FROM YOU IN THE FUTURE. 
          YOU'LL HAVE A NICE EVENING. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY, SO WITH THAT, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND PROCEED IN OUR AGENDA. 
          AND NOW WE'RE READY FOR AGENDA ITEM TWO, A OR TWO B LET'S START TO SING. 
          CONTINUE ON TO TWO C. 
          OKAY. 
          HAVE RHONDELLA FOLLOW UP. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          SO 
          [2.c. Briefing on the Reliable and Affordable Broadband for All Project – Khotan
Harmon, Leadership Austin Fellow]
WITH THAT, THEN WE'LL CONTINUE WITH THE GIN ITEM TWO SEED BRIEFING ON THE RELIABLE AND AFFORDABLE BROADBAND FOR ALL PROJECT BY COLTON HARMAN, OUR FELLOWSHIP, A SENIOR LEADERSHIP AUSTIN FELLOW FOR 20 2021. 
          WELCOME COTON. 
          THANK YOU, CHAIRPERSON. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GOOD EVENING, COMMISSIONERS. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS INVITATION. 
          I'M SO EXCITED TO BE HERE WITH YOU ALL. 
          UM, I AM PATTAN HARMON, THE 2021 LEADERSHIP AUSTIN DIGITAL INCLUSION FELLOW WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN. 
          AND I HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE OF HAVING WORKED WITH THIS COMMISSION AND THE TARA TEAM IN AUSTIN THIS PAST YEAR ON THIS FELLOWSHIP. 
          UH, I WOULD LIKE TO START BY THANKING CHAIRMAN PITTS FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND SUPPORT AND INPUT THIS PAST YEAR, AS WELL AS THE COMMISSIONERS. 
          UH, ALL OF YOU HAVE BEEN SO WONDERFUL IN GIVING ME FEEDBACK, SUPPORTING, UH, THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE. 
          AND, UH, YOUR INPUT HAS BEEN VERY INVALUABLE. 
          I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE TARA TEAM. 
          UH, RONDELLA HAWKINS, JESSE RODRIGUEZ, BABBAGE RUIZ, PATRICK GORMAN, WHO HAVE BEEN A DREAM TO WORK WITH. 
          AND SOME TEAM MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN INCREDIBLE THOUGHT PARTNERS AND STRATEGIC THINKERS WHO ARE NO LONGER AT THE CITY, BUT HAVE DEFINITELY LEFT THEIR MARK ON THIS PROJECT WITHOUT ALL THESE FOLKS. 
          UM, I COULD NOT HAVE DONE THIS PROJECT THIS YEAR. 
          JOHN SPEARS, DANIEL HONKER, AND AMELIA KRISHNAN, UH, INCREDIBLE STRATEGIC THINKERS AND WONDERFUL GO-TO, UH, FOLKS WHO WILL REALLY HELP, UH, GIVE SHAPE TO THE PROJECT AND ALL THE INCREDIBLE STAKEHOLDERS YOU HEARD FROM ONE TONIGHT HAKA. 
          AND WE'VE HAD SO MANY THAT WE WORKED WITH AND THE AMAZING KATHERINE CRAIGO, SO COLLABORATIVE, ALL OF THESE FOLKS HAVE REACHED OUT AND WE REALLY TRY TO BUILD A STRONGER BASE, UH, THAT WE COULD BUILD A PROJECT ON. 
          SO I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME, UH, FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          I'LL TRY TO GO QUICKLY. 
          I KNOW YOU ALL HAVE THIS PRESENTATION IN HAND AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. 
          SO I KNOW DANIEL'S DRIVING THIS FOR ME TONIGHT. 
          THANK YOU, DANIEL. 
          IF WE COULD PLEASE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE AND I DON'T HAVE TO REVIEW WHAT THE DIGITAL EQUITY IS. 
          IT'LL BE HERE IN THE SLIDE FOR YOU ALL. 
          LET'S GO PLEASE TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          AND THEN MAYBE THE NEXT ONE. 
          THIS IS JUST OUR PRELIMINARY AS PART OF THIS. 
          UM, AND I CAME ON BOARD WITH THREE DELIVERABLES, A COMMUNITY ASSET MAPPING, A FEASIBILITY PLAN, AND A STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT COMPONENT. 
          AND, UM, THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, THE GOAL, UH, WAS TO DEVELOP A TIMELINE FOR DELIVERABLES. 
          IT BECAME VERY QUICKLY APPARENT THAT WE HAD THREE HORIZONS. 
          IN FACT, THE CIO TEAM, UH, HELPED STRUCTURE GIVE STRUCTURE TO THE CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS HORIZON. 
          I'M VERY GRATEFUL TO THEM THAT WE COULD MAKE IT INTO CHUNKS SO THAT THINGS COULD BE FOCUSED ON AND WE COULD EXECUTE VERY QUICKLY RIGHT NOW. 
          I JUST WANT TO ORIENT US. 
          WE ARE WITHIN HORIZON ONE PHASE, ONE OF THE THREE-YEAR CYCLE. 
          SO THAT MEANS WE'RE JUST FINISHING THE FIRST YEAR. 
          WE HAVE A COUPLE MORE YEARS. 
          SO TO D THIS PAST YEAR HAS BEEN ALL ABOUT FOUNDATION BUILDINGS. 
          SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE FOCUSED ON THAT. 
          SO NEXT, UM, I WAS BROUGHT IN NEXT SLIDE PLEASE, TO LOOK AT GATTON, UM, AS, UH, EVALUATE AND ENGAGE THEM FOR POSSIBLE DIGITAL EQUITY SOLUTIONS THAT DID NOT WORK OUT THE WAY IT WAS. 
          UM, AND WE GOT, THIS IS WHAT THEY SHARED WITH US IN TERMS OF, UM, WHY IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO UTILIZE GATTON. 
          AND AS IT'S TURNED OUT IS GOING TO BE PART OF A LONGER TERM COLLABORATION AND DISCUSSION. 
          I'M HAPPY TO ADDRESS THIS, UM, MOVING FORWARD, BUT I JUST WANTED TO PUT THIS OUT THERE. 
          SO, UM, THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, DANIEL. 
          UM, SO AS SOON AS WE REALIZED THAT WAS NOT A POSSIBILITY, THE FELLOWSHIP WAS QUICKLY RE-IMAGINED 
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AND IT BECAME A DIGITAL INCLUSION FELLOWSHIP FOCUSED ON UNDERLYING CAUSES AND ISSUES WITH AN EQUITY MINDSET AND IT WAS ON SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY-DRIVEN SOLUTIONS. 
          SO THERE WAS A HIDDEN DELIVERABLE THAT WE TRIED TO IDENTIFY, WHICH IS TELL ME WHAT THE PROBLEM IS. 
          THAT SEEMED TO BE THE DELIVERABLE. 
          AND WE BECAME VERY DATA-DRIVEN TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS THE CURRENT CHALLENGE, WHAT HAS THE COMMUNITY GONE THROUGH, UH, SINCE COVID AND ONE OF THE CHALLENGES WITH THAT, OF COURSE, WITH DATA, AS YOU KNOW, QUANTITATIVE QUALITATIVE LIVED EXPERIENCE, THOSE ARE THE AREAS THAT WE FOCUSED ON, BUT ONE OF OUR BIGGEST CHALLENGES WAS COVID SURVEY FATIGUE. 
          HOW DO WE ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY WHEN THEY'VE ALREADY BEEN ENGAGED? UM, LONG-TERM SINCE COVID DURING COVID WITH THEIR DATA. 
          SO WHAT WE DISCOVERED NEXT SLIDE PLEASE WAS THAT THIS IS THE CENTRAL DRIVING QUESTION BEATING IN THE HEART OF THE PROJECT, WHICH IS HOW DO WE IDENTIFY, REACH AND ENGAGE AUSTINITES WHO ARE MOST ISOLATED FROM THE RESOURCES AND SERVICES OF THE CITY. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, AND WILL BE DISCOVERED AS THAT PRE COVID. 
          THERE WERE ASSAM CHALLENGES, BUT THE AFFORDABILITY AND SKILLS WERE PRIMARY BARRIERS. 
          WE WANT TO SEE IF THAT WAS TRUE GOING FORWARD. 
          WE WANTED TO SEE IF THE CRESCENT OF OPPORTUNITY IN EAST AUSTIN IS STILL THE AREA TO FOCUS ON, AND WE WANTED TO SEE WHO HAS THE HIGHEST BARRIERS TO DIGITAL ACCESS. 
          SO NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          UM, WE BECAME VERY DATA-DRIVEN AS I MENTIONED, AND WE BEGAN TO LOOK AT HOW WE CAN ANALYZE THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY DATA WE HAD HEARD ABOUT, UM, THERE WERE A CERTAIN NUMBER OF CHILDREN LIVING IN POVERTY. 
          WE WANT TO VERIFY THAT DATA AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY LOOKING AT IT CORRECTLY. 
          AND THEN WHAT WOULD BE THE DIGITAL INCLUSION SOLUTION FOR THAT? UH, WE WANTED TO UNDERSTAND THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF OUR RESIDENTS. 
          SO WE PARTNERED WITH MEASURE AUSTIN AND DID THE RESIDENTIAL TECHNOLOGY QUALITATIVE SURVEY, AND IT'S GOING TO BE COMPLETED IN FEBRUARY OF NEXT YEAR, Q1 2022. 
          AND THEN WE ARE EXPANDING THE RESIDENTIAL TECHNOLOGY QUANTITATIVE SURVEY THROUGH A, AN EXPLORATION OF A PARTNERSHIP WITH TRAVIS COUNTY TO SEE IF WE COULD DO A COUNTYWIDE, UH, POSSIBLY EVEN REGION RESIDENTIAL TECHNOLOGY, QUANTITATIVE SURVEY, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SO WE NEEDED TO BE GUIDED BY A COMMON VISION, AND WE REALIZED VERY QUICKLY THAT THERE ARE FOUR PRIORITIES OF AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL FOR HOMELESSNESS, EARLY CHILDHOOD WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND FOOD AND HOUSING INSECURITY ALL FOCUSED ON RELIEF AND RECOVERY. 
          SO ONE THING THAT WE DECIDED VERY QUICKLY WAS THAT WITH THE ATTENTION OF SIGNIFICANCE RESOURCES THAT THE COUNCIL WAS PUTTING, UH, FROM THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN, 106 MILLION, AND SOME CHANGE FOCUS ON RESOLVING THE HOMELESSNESS AND THE HOUSING ISSUE AND RELATED CHALLENGES. 
          WE SHIFTED TO THE NEXT PRIORITIES TO SEE IF WE COULD HELP WITH THAT NEXT PIECE. 
          AND THIS IS WHAT WE DISCOVERED. 
          WE DISCOVERED THAT THERE WERE 34,000 CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF SIX LIVING IN POVERTY IN THE AUSTIN AREA. 
          AND THAT WAS VERY SURPRISING. 
          AND SO IT BECAME VERY APPARENT THAT THERE ARE CURRENTLY ONLY 3000 CHILDCARE SPOTS AVAILABLE FOR THEM. 
          SO IT'S A SUPPLY SIDE ISSUE, AND WE WERE LOOKING AT THIS ON, IN TERMS OF HOW TO SUPPORT FAMILIES AND STRENGTHEN COMMUNITIES BY HELPING PARENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE WORKFORCE. 
          THAT WAS THE FOCUS OF PURSUING THIS DATA. 
          AND, UM, WE STARTED LOOKING AT SOLUTIONS AND THOUGHT, GOSH, WE LANDED ON EARLY CHILDHOOD SHARED SERVICES MODEL THE BACK OFFICE MODEL FOR ALL DAYCARE BUSINESSES, REGARDLESS OF THEIR SIZE AND ZIP CODE. 
          AND THEN LOOKING AT CHILDCARE AS A GATEWAY TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. 
          SO WE HAD TO TEST THESE ASSUMPTIONS. 
          DID WE UNDERSTAND THE DATA? NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SO WHAT WE DID IS WE STARTED LOOKING AT AND STARTED JOINING A GROUP TO LOOK AT TECH ENABLED, SHARED SERVICES. 
          AND SO, UM, IF WE CAN GO PLEASE TO THE NEXT SLIDE, UM, AND THEN WE STARTED DOING SOME OUTREACH AROUND DATA. 
          WE WANTED TO FIGURE OUT, IS THERE A DIGITAL INCLUSION COMPONENT TO THE TECH ENABLED, SHARED SERVICES? AND WE WORKED WITH UNITED WAY WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS, CAPITAL AREA, WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS, RURAL CAPITAL AREA. 
          AND IF WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, WHAT WE DISCOVERED WAS THAT INDEED THERE IS A NEED FOR, AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE FIVE PRONGS OF DIGITAL INCLUSION FOLKS ARE ASKING FOR DEVICES. 
          THEY WANT ONGOING TECHNICAL SUPPORT. 
          IF THESE CHILDCARE PROVIDERS ARE HOLDING A BABY, THEY WANT TO BE ABLE TO USE THEIR PHONE, TO GET THE TECHNICAL 
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SUPPORT. 
          THEY NEED SOMETHING SUPER EASY. 
          THEY WANT MORE TRAINING ON HOW TO USE THE TECHNOLOGY DEVICES. 
          THEY NEED HELP WITH CONNECTIVITY AND INTERNET CONNECTION, OPTIONS, AFFORDABILITY. 
          AND WE THINK THE CONNECTIVITY AND AFFORDABILITY IS GOING TO BE SERVED THROUGH THE BULK PURCHASING THAT'S PART OF SHARED SERVICES NEXT, PLEASE. 
          SO HERE'S WHERE WE'RE AT. 
          THERE IS A SHARED SERVICES COMMITTEE THAT IS CREATED, UM, BETWEEN AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY. 
          WE HAVE CONDUCTED TECH ENABLED SURVEY, AS I JUST SHOWED YOU, WE'VE CONDUCTED VIRTUAL FOCUS GROUPS TO REVIEW, UH, THE SURVEYS AND THE FINDINGS. 
          AND THEN THERE IS A TECH ENABLED, SHARED SERVICES ALLIANCE CO-DESIGN TEAM. 
          THE CONSULTANTS ARE BEING HIRED TO FACILITATE A CO-DESIGN TEAM THAT WILL INCLUDE ABOUT FIVE TO SIX CHILDCARE PROVIDERS. 
          FOCUS WILL BE ON DIVERSITY IN TERMS OF PROGRAM SIZE LOCATION ON LEADERSHIP, AND EQUALLY AS IMPORTANT AS ALL OF THESE AS THE LAST BULLET THAT CITY HAS ALLOCATED $11 MILLION OF THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN FUNDS TO CHILDCARE AND FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES, 750,000 OF THAT IS GOING TO GO TO SUPPORT THIS SHARED SERVICES ALLIANCE. 
          SO FROM ASSUMPTION AND THOUGHT TO LOOKING AT THE DATA, RUNNING THE DATA, ANALYZING THE DATA, GETTING A PROGRAM IN PLACE AND NOT GETTING THE FUNDING. 
          I JUST WANTED TO SHOW YOU ONE CYCLE OF WHAT IT MEANT FOR US TO BE DATA-DRIVEN. 
          SO THE NEXT SLIDE, UM, IS THE ACS DATA ANALYSIS WE WORKED WITH PARTNERED WITH CHILDREN'S OPTIMAL HEALTH, AND THEY ANALYZED AND CREATED A SERIES OF FILTERABLE DATA TABLES BASED ON THE ACS 2019 YEAR, UM, AVERAGE DATA. 
          AND THEY ARE USING DATA PROVIDED BY CITY OF AUSTIN. 
          THE TABLES INCLUDE CENSUS TRACK IDS, COUNCIL, DISTRICT ID, AND ZIP CODE ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRACK WITH DATA RELATED TO INTERNET ACCESS AND DEVICES. 
          SO HERE'S A SAMPLE OF THAT, THE QUESTION. 
          SO THIS ARE SOME OF THE WAYS THAT THE TABLES CAN BE FILTERED. 
          SO HOUSEHOLDS WITH ONE OR MORE COMPUTING DEVICES. 
          ISN'T IT INTERESTING THAT THESE TWO, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE LOOK AT THIS TOGETHER, THAT THEY ARE SORT OF, UH, THEY FIT TOGETHER. 
          UH, THE SECOND ONE FITS RIGHT INTO THE FIRST ONE HOUSEHOLDS WITH NO COMPUTING DEVICES. 
          AGAIN, THAT CRESCENT OF OPPORTUNITY IN EAST AUSTIN IS HIGHLIGHTED NEXT SLIDE. 
          AND WE'LL DEFINITELY COME BACK AND I'M HAPPY TO ENTERTAIN QUESTIONS. 
          THE NEXT QUESTIONS, THESE ARE JUST SAMPLE QUESTIONS TO SHOW YOU WHAT'S POSSIBLE WITH THIS DATA ANALYSIS HOUSEHOLDS WITH NO INTERNET ACCESS QUESTION OF AVAILABILITY VERSUS HOUSEHOLDS WITH INTERNET ACCESS, BUT NO SUBSCRIPTION OR ADOPTION. 
          JUST AGAIN, YOU SEE THE CRESCENT OF OPPORTUNITY IS LIT UP. 
          AND THE NEXT THING IS NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE THEN, UH, UH, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT I LIKE TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION AND GET YOUR GUIDANCE ON IS HOW GRANULAR WE CAN GO. 
          THERE'S AN UNCERTAINTY OVER WHEN WE ACTUALLY LOSE RELIABILITY OF THE DATA. 
          AS YOU KNOW, AS WE SLICE THE DATA, THE LESS RELIABLE IT BECOMES ON RACE, ETHNICITY, AGE, INCOME, ET CETERA. 
          SO THAT POSES ANOTHER INTERESTING CHALLENGE, WHICH IS WHAT SHOULD BE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE AND WHAT SHOULD BE USED INTERNALLY, PROFESSIONALLY AS A TOOL BY THE CITY, DEMOGRAPHER ECONOMIC DEPARTMENT, PLANNING INNOVATION OFFICE EQUITY OFFICE. 
          SO THIS IS A VERY POWERFUL TOOL. 
          HOW DO WE ENSURE THAT THE COMMUNITY HAS ACCESS TO IT YET? THE DATA IS RELIABLE. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          AND THEN THE, UM, THESE ARE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FROM CHILDREN'S OPTIMAL HEALTH. 
          THEY'RE GOING TO COME AND MAKE A PRESENTATION TO YOU, UM, IN NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE, BUT ABOUT THEIR, I WOULD LOVE FOR THEM TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THEIR METHODOLOGY. 
          THEY HAVE DONE A DIGITAL INCLUSION STUDY OF THEIR OWN AND SURVEY. 
          WE'D LOVE FOR THEM TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU AND GET YOUR INPUT. 
          AND THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS AROUND DIGITAL INCLUSION ARE TAKEN FROM THE UT LAW, TEXAS BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION, CIVIL RIGHTS CLINIC FROM A DOCUMENT CALLED PLANNING FOR DIGITAL INCLUSION IN TEXAS. 
          SO THOSE ARE THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS AND STOH OF COURSE MEANS THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH. 
          UM, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          DANIEL. 
          AND SO THE QUALITATIVE SURVEY IS THE COMMUNITY LIVED EXPERIENCE THAT IS TAKING PLACE RIGHT NOW. 
          UM, WE HAVE, UH, WE HAVE MEASURE AUSTIN, DR. 
          RITA TAYLOR, WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO WORK AT MISSION CAPITAL AUSTIN. 
          URBAN TECHNOLOGY MOVEMENT WAS INITIALLY INVOLVED. 
          THERE ARE A SERIES OF FOCUS GROUP EIGHT, TOTAL ONE IN PERSON THEY'RE RUNNING BETWEEN DECEMBER OF THIS YEAR. 
          UM, AND JANUARY OF NEXT YEAR, JUST THESE TWO MONTHS. 
          AND THEN WE'LL BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THE DATA IN FEBRUARY. 
          HERE'S SOME DEMOGRAPHICS CURRENTLY FOR YOUR REVIEW. 
          ALSO, IT MIGHT BE INTERESTING TO LOOK AT THAT 
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LAST, UM, BULLET, WHICH IS ABOUT THE LANGUAGES THAT THESE, UM, FOCUS GROUPS ARE BEING CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH, SPANISH. 
          AND ALSO WE WANTED TO, SINCE WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE THE NEW LIST AUSTINITES ARRIVING IN AUSTIN FROM AFGHANISTAN, POSSIBLY USE THAT GROUP AS A BASELINE IN TERMS OF DIGITAL INCLUSION. 
          SO THERE WILL BE A SESSION THAT'S TRANSLATED IN DARIAN POSTURE FOR OUR AFGHAN NEW FRIENDS. 
          AND THEN THE NEXT SLIDE I WOULD LIKE TO SHOW YOU IS THE QUALITATIVE SURVEY SAMPLE QUESTIONS. 
          THESE ARE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT THEY'RE USING IN THE FOCUS GROUPS. 
          WE'LL GIVE YOU A QUICK MOMENT TO REVIEW THEM THIS, OF COURSE YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THIS DOCUMENT AS WELL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THEN THE NEXT SLIDE PLEASE IS THE QUANTITATIVE SURVEY AND THE FOCUS WILL BE ON AFFORDABILITY, ACCESS, ADOPTION DEVICES, TRAINING BARRIERS, AND NEEDS FOR RESIDENTIAL TECHNOLOGY, USE DIGITAL INCLUSION AND EQUITY. 
          CURRENTLY WE'RE EXPLORING THE PROCESS OF SCOPE AND SCALE AND FINANCIAL INVESTMENT AND THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS. 
          AND SO, UM, LET'S SEE. 
          WE CAN GO. 
          UH, LET'S SEE. 
          SO LET'S STOP THERE AND, UH, I'LL SEE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ANYTHING THAT HAS BEEN SHARED SO FAR BEFORE WE PIVOT TO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH, COLTON. 
          UH, I DO WANT TO JUST MAKE A STATEMENT OF HOW WONDERFUL THE PRESENTATION IS AS YOU KNOW, I'VE GOTTEN A PREVIEW OF THIS REPORT. 
          UM, I DO WANT TO MAKE A STATEMENT PERTAINING TO, UH, THE GATTON PIECE. 
          UH, I WOULD BASICALLY LIKE TO ASK, UH, MY FELLOW COMMISSIONERS TO TABLE THEIR QUESTIONS PERTAINING THAT COMPONENT TO A WORKING GROUP SESSION SO WE CAN GET IN DEPTH, UH, WITH YOUR INSIGHTS AND FEEDBACK ON WHAT TRANSPIRED, IF THAT WOULD BE FAIR. 
          YES. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH, UH, WITH THAT, THEN I'LL OPEN IT UP TO OTHERS FOR ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME. 
          THANK YOU, CHAIR GETS VERY GOOD. 
          LET ME GO TO IDENTIFY COMMISSIONER DUSK. 
          I'M DONE PLEASE. 
          HI. 
          GOOD. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          HELLO COMMISSION. 
          UH, EXCELLENT PRESENTATION. 
          SO I HAVE A QUESTION, YOU KNOW, YOU TALK ABOUT DIGITAL IN DIGITAL INCLUSION REQUIRING ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE AND RELIABLE BROADBAND, SO THAT THAT'S, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT WE NEED IN ORDER FOR DIGITAL INCLUSION TO HAPPEN, BUT IS THERE A PREFERENCE FOR WHETHER IT SHOULD BE WIRED OR WIRELESS BECAUSE YOU KNOW, EACH ONE HAS A DIFFERENT COST FUNCTION ASSOCIATED? YES. 
          WHAT A GREAT QUESTION. 
          AND WHEN WE GET INTO THE MODELS THAT YOU ASKED ME TO LOOK AT BOTH NATIONALLY AND IN THE STATE, I THINK WE'LL SEE THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS. 
          UM, SO I DON'T HAVE A CURRENT TECHNOLOGY RECOMMENDATION. 
          I HAVE A RECOMMENDATION ABOUT HOW TO GO ABOUT ADDRESSING YOUR RECOMMENDATION THAT WILL COME UP AT THE END OF THE PRESENTATION. 
          AND IF I DON'T ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, PLEASE ASK ME AGAIN. 
          IF I DON'T ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, I MEANT, OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, SIR. 
          OKAY. 
          IT SEEMS LIKE THERE ARE NORTHERN QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME. 
          OKAY. 
          PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTINUE. 
          WONDERFUL. 
          IF WE COULD PLEASE, DANIEL RESUME THE SLIDES. 
          IT'S THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WAS THE ANOTHER COMPONENT THAT YOU ASKED ME TO LOOK AT. 
          AND, UH, THE, WHAT WE WERE LOOKING AT WAS THAT, UM, MY CHARGE WAS TO REACTIVATE ENGAGED COLLABORATIONS ACROSS SECTORS OF STAKEHOLDERS IN A WIDE REACHING AND COMMUNITY WIDE EFFORT. 
          IF WE COULD GO PLEASE TO THE NEXT SLIDE, DANIEL, THANK YOU. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          AND SO I JUST WANT TO SHARE THAT, YOU KNOW, THE AFRICAN PROVERB, IF YOU WANT TO GO FAST, GO ALONE. 
          IF YOU WANNA GO FAR GO TOGETHER, THAT BECAME THE GUIDING PRINCIPLE FOR BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE CROSS SECTOR SOLUTIONS AMONG THEM BETWEEN THESE GROUPS. 
          AND I KNOW YOU HAVE SEEN THIS SLIDE BEFORE, AND LET ME REPORT BACK TO YOU. 
          WHAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE YOU'VE SEEN THE SLIDE. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SO I'M HAPPY TO REPORT THAT WE'VE HAD OVER 400, UM, ONE-ON-ONES MEETINGS PRESENTATIONS AT THE CITY LEVEL, AT THE REGION LEVEL AT, UM, STATE LEVEL AND NATIONAL LEVEL IN THESE, UH, ARE THE VARIOUS GROUPS THAT WE'VE BEEN OUT TO. 
          SO I'M JUST GOING TO SHOW YOU SOME OF THE, UH, JUST, THIS IS A LIST FORMAT. 
          LET'S GO TO THE NEXT, UM, SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SO HERE ARE SOME OF THE FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY THAT WE'VE BEEN BUILDING VERY STRONG AND DEEP COLLABORATIONS WITH THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          HERE ARE THE STAKEHOLDERS FROM THE SOCIAL SERVICE SECTOR THAT HAVE BEEN ENGAGED THIS YEAR. 
          AGAIN, BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS OF TRUST BECAUSE WE CAN ONLY MOVE AT THE SPEED OF TRUST. 
          NEXT, PLEASE. 
          HERE ARE THE ACADEMIC AND TECHNICAL. 
          I WON'T GET INTO EXACTLY WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING WITH THEM, BUT I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER THAT THERE'VE BEEN SOME WONDERFUL LEARNING AND COLLABORATION AMONG THEM BETWEEN EVEN SOME 
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OF THEM. 
          AND FOR US WORKING DIRECTLY WITH THEM. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          THESE ARE THE GOVERNMENT STAKEHOLDERS AT THE CITY LEVEL. 
          THIS IS WONDERFUL THAT THERE'S BEEN SO MUCH ACROSS, UM, SILOS. 
          WE'VE BEEN REALLY BREAKING THROUGH AND CONNECTING. 
          AND I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF COLLABORATION GOING ON WITHIN THE CITY AS WELL. 
          WE ADJUST THAT THIS YEAR, IT BECAME EVEN MORE PRONOUNCED IN THE CENTRAL TEXAS REGION. 
          UM, WE'VE BEEN WORKING OF COURSE WITH TRAVIS COUNTY, PAUL HOPPING GARDNER, THAT MANY OF YOU KNOW, AND, UH, LOVE. 
          HE'S JUST SO AMAZING. 
          HE'S BEEN, WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH HIM. 
          CAPITOL AREA. 
          COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS HAS BEEN VERY INSTRUMENTAL AS WELL AS OTHER GROUPS. 
          THANKS TO JOHN SPEARS ON HIS VISION FOR TEXAS CITIES AND COUNTIES COLLABORATIVE FOR BROADBAND. 
          THAT BECAME A REALITY AS HE MOVED TO HARRIS COUNTY. 
          AND WE WERE WORKING WITH HIM VERY CLOSELY ON REACHING OUT, LEARNING ALONG WITH TRAVIS COUNTY, SAN ANTONIO, EL PASO, DALLAS HARRIS COUNTY, AND HOUSTON. 
          WE ARE SHARING LEARNINGS RESOURCES, DATA, POLICY PRACTICE HAS BEEN WONDERFUL. 
          AND OF COURSE WE ARE BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS AT THE STATE LEVEL WITH THE NEWLY DEVELOPED BROADBAND OFFICE AND GREG , WHO'S THE DIRECTOR AND HIS TEAM. 
          AND WE'VE ALSO MET, UM, WITH THE TEXAS STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES COMMISSION TALKING ABOUT ANCHOR INSTITUTIONS IN PARTICULAR LIBRARIES. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SO I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT FOR A QUICK SECOND, IN TERMS OF INTERDEPARTMENTAL WORK WITHIN THE CITY, UM, INTER DEPARTMENTAL DIGITAL EQUITY, COLLABORATION HAS BEEN FRONT AND CENTER WITH ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS, AS WELL AS AN INTERDEPARTMENTAL, UH, TECH TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP. 
          THAT WAS BY INVITATION ONLY TO GIVE FEEDBACK ON THIS PROJECT. 
          AND WE'RE ALSO PARTNERING WITH VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS ON FUNDING STRATEGIES THAT INNOVATION, ONE OF THEM INCLUDES OUR DEAR PARTNER FROM HACA AND CATHERINE CRAIGO, UM, AND THE AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT. 
          SO VERY EXCITED TO EXPLORE THAT FURTHER. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          WE ALSO, WE'VE BEEN VERY, UH, CONSCIENTIOUS IN, UH, INCLUDING THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY THROUGH THE VARIOUS CHAMBERS INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS, TECH INDUSTRY, AND AS WELL AS TECH INSPIRED, SHARED SERVICES COMPANIES, JUST LOOKING AT ALL OF THAT. 
          AND SO NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          AND WHAT HAS COME THROUGH ARE THE FIVE PILLARS OF SUSTAINABLE DIGITAL INCLUSION SOLUTION, THE KEY DRIVERS FOR INCLUSION AND OUTCOME. 
          THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED THAT WE STARTED WITH THREE AS, YOU KNOW, INTERNET CONNECTIVITY, DEVICES AND TRAINING THAT FANNED OUT INTO AFFORDABILITY. 
          OF COURSE, INFRASTRUCTURE IS NUMBER ONE, BUT AUSTIN IS SO BUILT OUT. 
          WE LEFT THAT OFF. 
          IT COULD BE SIX, BUT RIGHT NOW IT IS FIVE AFFORDABILITY, CONNECTIVITY, AND, UM, DEVICES TRAINING ON THOSE DEVICES. 
          AND REAL-TIME IT SUPPORT. 
          SO LET ME STOP THERE AND SEE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE I MOVE TO MODELS ON BEST PRACTICES FROM THE STATE AND NATIONALLY, UNLESS YOU CHAIR PITS, YOU'D LIKE ME TO CONTINUE, KEEP GOING. 
          UH, I WOULD LIKE TO JUST ASK W MAKE ONE STATEMENT BEFORE YOU CONTINUE, UH, PERTAINING TO THE STAR AND THE DIFFERENT LISTS. 
          UH, UH, THANK YOU FOR REVISITING THE STAR AS IT ARTICULATES THE DIFFERENT PART THAT PLAYERS IN THE ECOSYSTEM, UH, WITH, UH, EXPLORING SUSTAINABLE CROSS SECTOR SOLUTIONS, UH, WITH THE COMMISSION RIGHT THERE AS AN INTERSECTION BETWEEN COMMUNITY AND GOVERNMENT. 
          I GUESS THE ONE THING THAT I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I SPOKE TO WAS SINCE WE ARE ALL GOVERNMENTAL APPOINTEES, UH, DEDICATED SPECIFICALLY TO ADVISING CITY COUNCIL, UH, THAT WERE ALSO INCLUDED IN THE LIST OF GOVERNMENT STAKEHOLDERS IN ADDITION TO COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS. 
          OH, THANK YOU. 
          I'LL MAKE A NOTE OF THAT. 
          UH, BUT OTHERWISE I THINK I'D LIKE TO LET YOU CONTINUE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          ALL RIGHT, DANIEL, LET'S JUMP OVER NOW TO, AND, UH, WE'RE GOING TO NOW LOOK AT MODELS AND BEST PRACTICES. 
          GO AHEAD PLEASE. 
          SO THERE ARE MANY, MANY, MANY, MANY MODELS. 
          HERE ARE JUST A KEY FEW THAT MIGHT BE USEFUL. 
          I'M NOT GOING TO GO IN DEPTH IN ANY OF THEM. 
          YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE THE PRESENTATION BECAUSE I WANT TO GET TO THE LEARNINGS AND THE RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          UM, SO HERE IS THE LIST WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT VERY, VERY QUICKLY. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          UM, SO DETROIT IS ALL ABOUT COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE. 
          WHAT AN INCREDIBLE JOB THEY'VE DONE. 
          THEY ACTUALLY EVERYTHING'S COMMUNITY LED. 
          THEY EVEN HAVE COMMUNITY ELECTIONS AND COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE. 
          THAT MEANS THAT THEY ACTUALLY PAID PEOPLE TO BE CHAIRING DIFFERENT COMMITTEES. 
          AND I HIGHLIGHTED FOR YOU. 
          IT'S ABOUT 5,000 A YEAR DEEP COLLABORATION, THAT VERY, VERY STRONG CORPORATE SECTOR. 
          AND THEY WANTED US TO FOCUS THAT AUSTIN HAS SPECIFIC, UH, IDENTITY AND STRENGTHS THAT OTHER 
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PLACES MAY NOT HAVE. 
          FOR EXAMPLE, DETROIT, BECAUSE OF THE AUTOMAKERS BEING THERE IS VERY FOCUSED ON EQUITY AND MOBILITY. 
          SO THEY WANTED US TO DEVELOP OUR OWN OR IDENTIFY OUR OWN STRENGTHS. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          UM, THEY WANTED TO, UH, THEY, THEY HAVE INTERESTING CREATIVE FUNDING MODELS. 
          AFTER YOU LOOK AT THIS, I'M HAPPY TO CHAT WITH THIS, ABOUT THIS. 
          THAT'S GOING TO BE THE NEXT PHASE. 
          WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT FUNDING APPROPRIATE TWO STAGES, AND THIS MIGHT BE A WAY TO GO FORWARD SINCE WE HAVE ALL OF THESE GREAT PARTNERSHIPS WITH HIGHER ED, BUT JUST A QUESTION MARK, AS A HOLDER, UM, REALLY, UM, DETROIT WAS TEACHING US MAYBE THE FUNDERS DON'T KNOW THE ANSWERS AND THEY'RE PART OF THE EQUATION. 
          SO NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          UH, WHAT WE LEARNED FROM NEW YORK CITY WAS THE PINK MOTHERSHIP. 
          I'M USING THAT TO CAPTURE YOUR ATTENTION AND INTEREST SO THAT YOU WILL READ THIS LATER. 
          BASICALLY MOTHERSHIP IS A 1500 HUB FOR LARGER WIRELESS NETWORK. 
          UH, NO ONE MANUFACTURERS IT AND THEY ARE NOT BEING SOLD. 
          THEY ARE CO-CREATED IN PARTNERSHIPS AND AGREEMENTS SO THAT THEY CAN MAINTAIN AND TRANSFER KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE INTERNET AND INTERNET USE AND CONNECTIVITY INTO THE COMMUNITY. 
          EVERYTHING IN NEW YORK IS ABOUT SOCIAL JUSTICE AND, UH, NEXT SLIDE, THESE DEMYSTIFYING, UM, THE INTERNET TO TRANSFER OWNERSHIP, KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING. 
          SO THEY ARE VERY GOOD AT COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND THEY BELIEVE VERY STRONGLY. 
          THIS IS NOT AN INDIVIDUAL SOLUTION. 
          THIS HAS TO BE COMMUNITY AND GROUPS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY COMING TOGETHER, SOLVING TOGETHER AND GETTING ONLINE TOGETHER. 
          SO NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          WHAT WE LEARNED FROM PORTLAND WAS HOW TO PROTECT VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES FROM HARM. 
          THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT DATA AND TECHNOLOGY MAKE OUR LIVES BETTER, AND THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY AVERT ARM FOR COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE BEEN HARMED. 
          THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN REVERSE ENGINEERING TECH SOLUTIONS THAT ARE COMING IN AND THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN P THREE. 
          THEY'RE INTERESTED IN A PRIVATE PUBLIC COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS. 
          THE FOCUS HAS TO REST ON EQUITY. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          CORTLAND ALSO, UM, REALLY IS TRYING TO REMEDY A HISTORY OF RACISM. 
          THEY HAVE BANNED THE USE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION BY PRIVATE ENTITIES. 
          AND THEY'RE SAYING THEY WERE TEACHING US THAT THE PROCESS, THE CONVERSATION TO POLICY TAKES ABOUT TWO TO THREE YEARS. 
          SO INTERESTING THAT IT CONFIRMS OUR HORIZON ONE. 
          SO WE'RE FINISHING PHASE ONE OF HORIZON ONE, SO WE'RE MORE OR LESS ARE ON SCHEDULE. 
          AND THAT THEY SAID DIGITAL INCLUSION IS FOUNDATIONAL TO SMART CITIES. 
          SO THAT WAS REALLY INTERESTING. 
          NEXT LINE, OAKLAND UNDIVIDED, THANKS TO COMMISSIONER APODACA. 
          WE HAD A GREAT CONVERSATION WITH THEM. 
          WHAT AN INTERESTING GROUP. 
          THEY ARE STRONG, STRONG CORPORATE RELATIONSHIPS. 
          THEY ACTUALLY GOT A $10 MILLION GRANT FROM A FORMER NOW, FORMER TWITTER CEO, JACK DORSEY VERY MUCH FOCUSED ON EDUCATION AND ENSURING THAT A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE MOST VULNERABLE OF THEIR STUDENTS, OF THE HAVE ACCESS TO COMPUTERS, RELIABLE CONNECTION, AND ONGOING TECH SUPPORT. 
          UM, AND ALSO THEY ARE WORKING TOWARDS BUILDING A COMMUNITY OWNED NETWORK, VISIBILITY OF FIBER MESH NETWORKS ON PRIVATE LTE SOLUTIONS. 
          SO WE ARE GOING TO BE FOLLOWING UP AND LEARNING WITH THEM MORE. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SO SHIFTING TO THE TEXAS MODEL. 
          SO DALLAS IS ALL ABOUT SPEED OF INNOVATION, FAILING FAST, FAILING FORWARD, AND THEY HAVE FOUND A PUBLIC PURPOSE TO DEVELOP THE FIBER NETWORK. 
          THEY CONDUCTED THE WORK VERY, VERY CLOSELY WITH, UH, DALLAS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT. 
          UM, THEY HAVE IDENTIFIED 75,000 STUDENTS WHO LACKED CONNECTIVITY AND THEY, UH, DEPLOYED A SURVEY WITH THE ISD THAT AN 80% OF RESPONDENTS SAID THE CITY OR D ISD SHOULD PROVIDE CONNECTIVITY. 
          THEY HAVE SECURED $40 MILLION FROM ARPA FUNDS AND ANOTHER $3 MILLION TO EXTEND THEIR WIFI NETWORK. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          HOUSTON. 
          OH MY GOODNESS. 
          THEY HAVE FOUR FUSE FELLOWS WORKING AT THE SAME TIME TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF HISTORICALLY UNDER-INVESTED COMMUNITIES. 
          THEY HAVE ONE FELLOW LIKE ME FOCUS ON LACK OF BROADBAND INTERNET ACCESS, ANOTHER ON ACCESS TO HIGHER PAYING JOB. 
          ONE FOCUSED ON NATURAL DISASTER RELIEF AND ANOTHER ON FOOD INSECURITY. 
          AND I'LL LEAVE THIS FOR YOU TO REVIEW VERY INTERESTING THAT THEY ARE TRIANGULATING FROM EVERY WAY POSSIBLE TO SOLVE THE DIGITAL INCLUSION PROBLEM. 
          NEXT, PLEASE, SAN ANTONIO, SAN ANTONIO HAS BEEN A WONDERFUL PARTNER. 
          WE LEARNED FROM THEM HOW TO THINK THROUGH COMMUNITY ADVISORY GROUPS AND HOW TO CONTINUE WITH WIDE-SCALE 
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CROSS COLLABORATION. 
          THEY BELIEVE VERY STRONGLY THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS TO BE A TRANSLATOR FOR COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY THAT WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE USER EXPERIENCE. 
          AND ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT LAST QUESTION ON THIS SLIDE HAS STAYED WITH ME, AND I WOULD LOVE TO EXPLORE THAT FURTHER. 
          WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF PUSHING TECHNOLOGY OUT TO OUR COMMUNITY BEFORE THEY ARE READY? SO THAT'S WHY THE DETROIT MODEL PORTLAND MODEL OTHERS ARE COUNTERBALANCING. 
          WHAT WE'RE LEARNING ON. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          IF I MAY JUST A BRIEF INTERJECTION, WE'RE RUNNING A LITTLE OVER TIME. 
          IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND JUST PRIORITIZING SOME OF THE CHOICES. 
          YES, SIR. 
          LET'S JUST KEEP GOING. 
          GO, GO, GO. 
          LET'S SEE. 
          OKAY. 
          WE'RE RIGHT. 
          EXACTLY. 
          SO HERE ARE SOME OF THE KEY LEARNINGS FROM THE MODELS I SPEAK OFFERING ESSENTIAL AFFORDABLE PACKAGES. 
          SOME ARE, UH, UH, TYING IT TO FREE AND REDUCED LUNCH, AND THAT'S JUST NOT SUFFICIENT FOR EVERYONE. 
          UH, BROADBAND SOLUTIONS ARE OFTEN TIED TO UTILIZING EXISTING BUILT INFRASTRUCTURE AND ANCHOR INSTITUTIONS. 
          COMMUNICATION IS KEY. 
          ACCESS IS IMPORTANT, BUT DIGITAL LITERACY IS ESSENTIAL. 
          SUSTAINABILITY PLAN MUST LOOK AT COST CULTURE AND TRAINING AND DUE TO PANDEMICS LONG TAIL PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO LET TECHNOLOGISTS, UM, TECHNICIANS INTO THEIR HOME. 
          NEXT ONE, PLEASE. 
          UH, THE MOST VOCAL MAY NOT REPRESENT REAL CHALLENGES. 
          SOMETIMES SOME OF THE MOST VULNERABLE GROUPS ARE NOT THE MOST VOCAL. 
          THE CORE ISSUE IS NOT TECHNOLOGY IS TRUST. 
          I CAME UP AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN, AND THE CITIES WERE SAYING THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN TECHNOLOGY IN SEARCH OF A SOLUTION. 
          THE SOLUTION HAS TO MATCH TO WHAT IS IMPORTANT FOR THE CITY, AND THEY WANT PARTNERS WHO ARE, UH, UNDERSTAND EQUITY AND DIGITAL RESILIENCE IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT. 
          CITIES HAVE TO BE AGILE AND RESPONSIVE TO SHOCKS AND DISRUPTIONS AND MISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN, SEVERE WEATHER, DISRUPTION, CYBER ATTACKS, AND EMERGENCIES NEXT, PLEASE. 
          SO RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BEST PRACTICE OF PRACTICES. 
          EXCUSE ME. 
          DRIVE FOR PARTNERSHIP IN ALL ASPECTS, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IS KEY. 
          CREATE A VERY SMALL AGILE DIVERSE AND ENGAGE ADVISORY BOARD FOR THIS WORK, UH, CONSIDERED COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE. 
          THE WAY THAT DETROIT HAS. 
          AND THEN THE LAST THREE ARE FROM SAN ANTONIO DIRECTLY. 
          WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS REALLY CONSIDERED HUNDRED UP HUNDRED DOWN SYMMETRICAL, UM, CONNECTED DEVICES THAT NEED TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS THAN THE ABILITY TO ACCESS INTERNET AND THE REASONS FOR ADOPTION. 
          NEXT ONE, PLEASE. 
          SO LEVERAGING INNOVATION AND TRANSPORTATION CAME UP AGAIN AND AGAIN. 
          SO HOW CAN WE RETHINK WHEN WE'RE BUILDING ROADS ALSO BUILD TRANSIT AND INTEGRATE TECHNOLOGIES FOR BROADER CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS? SHAREEF BOARD HAS GARBAGE TRUCKS OUTFITTED WITH MINI COMPUTERS, WITH GPS TO DETECT OR HOMES ARE CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET AND THAT GENERATES DATA. 
          THEN, THEN IT CREATES INTERACTIVE MAP. 
          AUSTIN, METRO HAS 60% OF WRITERS AND FIVE ROUTES. 
          THAT WAS VERY SURPRISING FOR ME. 
          SO COULD INTERNET SPEED TESTING BE DONE ON AN ONGOING BASIS? THE TECHNOLOGIES MOUNTED ON MOBILE BUSES OR OTHER THINGS IN THESE NEIGHBORHOODS AND ROUTES. 
          AND THEN LOOKING AT, I KNOW THAT CITY OF AUSTIN IS DOING SMART MOBILITY, COMMUNITY-BASED WIFI, SOLAR TREE. 
          SO REALLY KEEP EXPANDING. 
          AND THEN THIS WHOLE IDEA OF THE URBAN CORE AND DENSITY IN THE URBAN CORE, ESPECIALLY FOR AUSTIN CHALLENGE, OF COURSE, WITH COMMUTE TIME REFOCUSING A DISCUSSION ON THE NEED FOR MORE DENSITY, TEXAS IS A WHOLE OTHER SYSTEM THAT EVERY OTHER SYSTEM THAT WE'VE LOOKED AT IT'S AN ECONOMIC SUCCESS. 
          IT DOES NOT FOLLOW ANY OTHER MODELS YET. 
          IT IS VERY LOW TAX BASE. 
          SO HOW TO PAY FOR THE SERVICES THAT ARE NEEDED, REALLY LOOKING AT T3 OR P THREE PLUS COMMUNITY TO FILL IN THE GAPS NEXT, PLEASE. 
          OKAY. 
          KEEP GOING, PLEASE. 
          DANIEL NEXT PLEASE. 
          AND THEN, SO WHERE WE ARE, THE BROADBAND CHALLENGES STILL REMAIN GEOGRAPHY WHERE PLACES WHERE THE SIGNAL DOESN'T REACH BUILT ENVIRONMENT. 
          AS WE TALKED TO SOME HOUSING AUTHORITIES THAT WE HEARD AS WELL, UH, CONSTRUCTION DO NOT ALLOW FOR EASE OF PENETRATION AGING INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          THE ISP ARE NOT UPDATING THE INFRASTRUCTURE LACK OF TRUE COMPETITION ON PRICES, LACK OF AGREEMENT AND SUFFICIENT APPROPRIATE, NEEDED SPEED AND STRENGTH, UH, LACK OF ADOPTION, TOO. 
          LACK OF UNDERSTANDING. 
          UM, PEOPLE HAVE SECURITY CONCERNS. 
          THEY CAN'T AFFORD IT. 
          THERE'S LACK OF TRUST NEXT, PLEASE. 
          AND SOME EMERGING CHALLENGES, LIMITATIONS OF THE DATA AS WE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE. 
          AND ANOTHER THING THAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT FCC WAS GIVEN FUNDING TO IMPROVE ITS ISP BROADBAND MAPPING. 
          AND THEN THE NEWLY CREATED TEXAS STATE BROADBAND OFFICE IS WORKING ON TEXAS BROADBAND MAP. 
          CONNECTED NATION HAS ISP DATA. 
          NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES HAS SPEED TESTS. 
          CHILDREN'S OPTIMAL HEALTH HAS ANALYZED OUR DATA AND OUR PARTNERS LIKE 
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HAWKER ARE CONDUCTING THEIR SPEED TEST AND CONNECTION TESTS ATX IS STILL BEING PLANNED. 
          SO WE'RE MOVING MORE AND MORE TOWARDS MAPPING. 
          UM, STRUCTURE DOES WITH FUNDING. 
          WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT AND THEN WE NEED A PROCESS FOR VETTING COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS. 
          THAT'S THE, ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES THAT HAS ARISEN. 
          PEOPLE WANT TO UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS. 
          IT NEEDS TO BE TRANSPARENT. 
          IT NEEDS TO BE COORDINATED. 
          IT NEEDS TO BE NEEDS-BASED AND IT NEEDS TO BE SOMEHOW CENTRALIZED. 
          WHATEVER THAT MEANS. 
          QUESTION NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          WE'RE ALMOST AT THE END. 
          SO DIGITAL, UH, UH, SUBSIDIES, WE CAN LOOK AT THE AFFORDABLE BROADBAND BENEFITS, $30 A MONTH PLUS $50 ONE-TIME DEVICE SHARED SERVICES CONNECTIVITY. 
          CURRENTLY, OF COURSE, AS YOU KNOW, FCC IS TWENTY-FIVE THREE, A RECOMMENDATION IS TO GO HUNDRED HUNDRED SYMMETRICAL AND, UM, CAN WE SUPPORT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS TO REQUIRE ISP, TO PROVIDE ADDRESS LEVEL SPEED TESTS, TO ENABLE GRANULAR MEASUREMENTS AND GO A HUNDRED HUNDRED? THAT'S A QUESTION FOR YOU ALL AND THEN SCALING THE DEVICES, TRAININGS, AND THEN WE DEFINITELY NEED IT SUPPORT NEXT SLIDE. 
          AND HERE'S WHAT'S AHEAD. 
          SO WE'VE DONE A LOT OF RESEARCH, A LOT OF OUTREACH SET THE FOUNDATION, WE'RE GOING TO COMPLETE THE DATA COLLECTION ANALYSIS CONDUCT THE FEASIBILITY STUDY BASED ON THE DATA THAT HAS BEEN COLLECTED, CREATE A DIGITAL INCLUSION ROADMAP, REFRESH AND UPDATE THE DIGITAL INCLUSION STRATEGIC PLAN, UH, BEGIN TO HOST SMALL SCALE AND FREQUENT SPEED TESTS AND TARGETED AREAS DRAWN AND ANALYZE THE DATA. 
          WE NEED A TECHNOLOGY VETTING PROCESS FOR RFPS, UM, AND SOLUTIONS PURSUE FUNDINGS TARGETED AT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND RESILIENCE AND LOOKING AT NATIONAL FUNDING. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          AND HERE'S OUR, THE PLANS. 
          WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AN AFFORDABLE CONNECTIVITY BENEFITS SUMMIT, AND WE'RE HOPING TO COLLABORATE WITH YOU TO HOST THAT. 
          UM, THAT'S FOR ALL THE ISP AND COMMUNITY GROUPS COMING TOGETHER AROUND THAT 50 SUBSIDY PLUS $30 A MONTH, AND THEN DIGITAL EQUITY SUMMIT. 
          UM, THIS WILL BE FOR BUSINESSES, VENDORS, FUNDERS, ANYONE WHO WANTS TO WORK WITH AUSTIN, TRAVIS COUNTY REGION ON DIGITAL, UH, EQUITY. 
          THEY CAN COME TO THE SUMMIT AND UNDERSTAND HOW TO WORK WITH EVERYBODY SO THAT THEY'RE NOT RUNNING AROUND. 
          EVERYBODY'S GETTING TALKED TO AS IT IS, AND THEN CONTINUE TO LEARN. 
          AND THEN LASTLY, THERE IS A DROP DEAD DEADLINE COUNCIL RESOLUTION DIRECTION TO THE EQUITY OFFICE. 
          PUBLIC INFORMATION ON TARA IS TO REPORT BACK IN APRIL. 
          AND THIS I DO WANT TO READ BECAUSE IT'S VERY SPECIFIC ASSESS, IDENTIFY, EXPLORE, DEVELOP VIABLE, SUSTAINABLE LONGER-TERM SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF DIGITAL EQUITY AND TARA TEAM IS GOING TO BE READY BY MARCH. 
          SO I THINK THAT IS IT. 
          I RAN THROUGH IT AS FAST AS I COULD SHARE PITS. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE, EVERYONE. 
          SURE, SURE. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          CO-TAUGHT FOR THAT. 
          AND BECAUSE OF THE TIMEFRAME OF FRAY, WE DON'T REALLY HAVE TIME FOR ANY QUESTIONS, BUT BASED UPON THE FACT THAT THIS IS A ROBUST REPORT AND WE'D NEED TO REALLY GET INTO THIS IN A WORK GROUP SESSIONS, I'M HOPING THAT WE COULD ALL AGREE AND I'LL ASK FOR THAT BY MOTION OR VOTE. 
          ONCE WE GET TO THAT SECTION OF OUR AGENDA TO THEN INVITE COLTON BACK AND THEN THE ALL ACTUALLY DIVE INTO THIS REPORT IN THOSE WORKING GROUP SESSIONS. 
          SO GREAT. 
          THANK YOU AGAIN SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK COTON. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          YOU'RE WELCOME. 
          OKAY. 
          [2.a. Telecommunications and Regulatory Affairs update – Rondella Hawkins, TARA
Officer, Financial Services Department]
SO PROCEEDING WITH OUR AGENDA NOW, DELIGHTED TO INVITE, UH, RHONDELLA HAWKINS, WHO OF COURSE IS OUR PROGRAM DIRECTOR FOR THE TERROR OFFICE, THE TEAR OFFICER, RATHER WITH THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS UPDATE. 
          HELLO. 
          RONDELLA HELLO? GOOD, GOOD EVENING. 
          I AM HAVING SOME PROBLEMS WITH MY VIDEO. 
          SO, UM, FORGIVE ME, I HAVE, UH, HAPPY TO, UH, AND THANK YOU FOR THE INVITATION TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE, A LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY UPDATE. 
          I DID PROVIDE A HARD COPY IN THE, UM, IN YOUR PACKET AND, AND SO I JUST, UH, THERE'S A LOT OF, UH, THERE'S THERE'S, UH, UH, CONGRESS LEVEL AND, UH, FCC LEVEL AND A STATE LEVEL. 
          AND I WILL, I'LL JUST HIGHLIGHT A FEW THINGS AND AGAIN, I'M TRYING TO GET MY, I WAS HAVING TROUBLE BEFORE, SO THERE I AM. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, SO YEAH, SO, UM, I JUST WANTED TO, JUST TO HIGHLIGHT, UM, UM, IN CONGRESS WE HAVE, UH, A PRESIDENT BY HE SIGNED THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AND JOBS ACT, UM, AND THERE ARE A NUMBER OF BROADBAND PROVISIONS, 
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UH, THAT INCLUDES, UH, 65 BILLION, UH, FOR BROADBAND RELATED PROJECTS IN CYBERSECURITY GRANTS. 
          UM, THERE IS A, UM, THERE WAS 42 POINT 45 FOR FOUR OR 5 BILLION IN BROADBAND EQUITY ACCESS AND DEPLOYMENT PROGRAMS. NOW THESE FUNDS ARE GOING TO BE AVAILABLE TO STATES THAT APPLY FOR FUNDS AND THE ALLOCATION METHODOLOGY IS BASED ON A FORMULA. 
          AND NOW THAT I BELIEVE WE WENT NOW THAT WE HAVE THE BROADBAND OFFICE, UM, AT THE STATE LEVEL OF THE CONTROLLER'S OFFICE. 
          UM, I IMAGINE THAT THAT THE FUNDING WILL LARGELY GO TO THAT OFFICE, BUT THAT'S JUST AN ASSUMPTION, BUT IT IS, IT IS REALLY FOCUSED ON DEPLOYING CONNECTIVITY, BROADBAND, AND UNSERVED AND UNDERSERVED AREAS, UH, FIRST AND, UH, THERE'S FUNDING FOR DATA COLLECTION, BROADBAND MAPPING AND PLANNING, UM, ALSO, UH, PROVISION FOR, UH, PROVIDING AFFORDABLE BROADBAND AND MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS AND LOW AND MODERATE INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          UM, AND THEN ALSO THERE IS, UM, ANOTHER, YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST KINDA THROWING AROUND THESE NUMBERS BILLION 2.7, $5 BILLION UNDER THE DIGITAL INCLUSION ACT. 
          AND IT'S TWO NEW GRANT PROGRAMS. UM, THE STATE DIGITAL EQUITY CAPACITY GRANT PROGRAM AND DIGITAL EQUITY COMPETITIVE GRANT PROGRAM. 
          AND AGAIN, THESE ARE FOCUSED ON DIGITAL INCLUSION, UH, BUT I THINK ONE, ONE, UH, PROGRAM THAT, UM, THE CITIES CAN DEFINITELY, UM, CONTINUE WORKING ON EVANGELIZING AND OUTREACH WORKING WITH, UM, COMMUNITY-BASED BASED ORGANIZATIONS, UM, IS THE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE TEMPORARY EMERGENCY BROADBAND BENEFIT PROGRAM, UH, THAT WAS A TEMPORARY PROGRAM AND IT ACTUALLY EXPIRES THE END OF THIS OF THIS YEAR. 
          AND, UM, THE, THE, THE NEW NAME IS THE AFFORDABLE CONNECTIVITY BENEFIT HOUSEHOLDS PROGRAM OR THE ACD, UM, NOT TO MAKE ANYTHING CONFUSING, CHANGING THE NAME FROM THE EDB TO THE ACB. 
          UM, THAT'LL BE CHALLENGED IN ITSELF. 
          UM, BUT SO AS PERMANENT PROGRAM IS $30 A MONTH SUBSIDY FOR INTERNET SERVICE FOR HOUSEHOLDS UP TO 200% OF POVERTY THAT QUALIFIED FOR OTHER FEDERAL BENEFITS, UM, YOU KNOW, SOCIAL SECURITY, UM, VENTURE VETERANS, PENSION, UH, THERE'S JUST A NUMBER OF, UH, UM, YOU KNOW, ELIGIBLE REQUIREMENTS AND, UM, AND A RELATED MATTER THERE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF, I THINK, UM, THEY'RE BUSY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE, UH, HOW DO YOU TRANSITION FROM SOMEONE THAT'S GETTING THE EMERGENCY BROADBAND BENEFIT PLANNED, OR THE SUBSIDY TO THIS, TO THIS ACB? I THINK THEY'RE WANTING TO TRY TO MAKE IT A SEAMLESS TRANSITION OF JUST CONVERTING FOLKS. 
          UM, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF DETAILS TO BE WORKED OUT. 
          BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THIS SUBSIDY THAT THIS, THIS 30, YOU KNOW, $30 A MONTH, UM, IS NOW A PERMANENT PROGRAM. 
          AND SO, UM, IN THE COMING DAYS, WE WILL BE DOING A LOT TO, UH, YOU KNOW, IN THE COMING DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS, UH, WORKING CROSS SECTOR COMMUNITY WIDE ON, ON, UH, PROMOTING THIS PROGRAM. 
          AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT ONCE WE HAVE THE SUMMIT WITH THE, UM, THE ISP, IS THOSE PARTICIPATING IN THE, IN THE PROGRAM, THAT WOULD BE REALLY GREAT INFORMATION FOR THEM TO, UM, PROVIDE, UH, WHAT THEY'RE DOING BECAUSE NOW THAT IT'S A PERMANENT FUND, UM, A PERMANENT PROGRAM, I'M HOPING THAT THERE WILL BE, UH, INCREASED, UM, OUTREACH AND MARKETING, UH, FROM THE PROVIDERS TO, TO THE SUBS, TO OUR, TO OUR, TO OUR RESIDENTS AND THOSE IN NEED. 
          UM, SO, AND I'M NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH, THERE'S ANOTHER BILLION FOR OUR MIDDLE MILE INFRASTRUCTURE, BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE'S A REALLY LARGE INVESTMENT IN BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          IN ADDITION TO THE, YOU KNOW, THE TRANSPORTATION AND WATER WASTEWATER, UM, FUNDING, UH, THAT WAS SET THAT'S IN THIS BILL. 
          UM, AND THEN JUST, I'M NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH THIS LIST. 
          THERE'S A LOT OF BILLS THAT HAVE BEEN FILED, UM, THAT IS, YOU KNOW, EMPHASIZING, FOCUSING ON BROADBAND AND CYBERSECURITY. 
          AND, UM, I'M JUST, I JUST LISTED THESE, UM, THERE'S SO MANY, AND I DON'T HAVE A STATUS OF HOW, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THE LIKELIHOOD OF THEM PASSING OR NOT, BUT THERE'S, YOU KNOW, BROADBAND AND UNSERVED AND I, AND CYBER SECURITY. 
          UM, UH, LET'S SEE. 
          THERE'S ONE HERE THAT SEE IS, UM, OH GOODNESS. 
          IT WAS A ANTI DIGITAL REDLINING, UM, WHICH, UH, 
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IT WOULD REQUIRE THE SEC TO ISSUE A NOTICE OF INQUIRY RELATED TO DIGITAL RED LINING AND PRO PROHIBIT DIGITAL RED LINING. 
          UM, BUT THERE'S A WHOLE SERIES OF, UH, UH, BILLS THAT I JUST WA UM, IDENTIFY THEM, IDENTIFY THEM FOR YOU AND AT THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, UH, THIS WEEK, THE, OF THE US SENATE, I RECONFIRMED THAT CHAIR, WOMAN, ROSA, JESSICA ROSENWORCEL. 
          UH, SHE IS THE FIRST WOMAN, UH, TO BE THE CHAIR OF THE FCC, UM, AS THE FIRST FEMALE CHAIR AND THE 86 A YEAR HISTORY OF THE FCC. 
          AND SO, UM, SHE'S BEEN A REAL CHAMPION FOR DIGITAL COLLISION FOR, I MEAN, SPECTRUM. 
          UM, SHE'S JUST BEEN A REAL CHAMPION AND I PRAY, ESPECIALLY FOR DISTANCE LEARNING. 
          AND, UH, IT'S JUST, IT'S JUST, IT'S REALLY, I THINK, LIKE GOOD NEWS. 
          UM, AND THEN, UH, RELATED TO THE AFFORDABLE CONNECTIVITY PROGRAM, THERE IS, UM, A PUBLIC NOTICE, UH, IT'S, IT'S RULEMAKING SEEKING COMMENT ON THE FINAL RULES TO IMPLEMENT THIS AFFORDABLE CONNECTIVITY PROGRAM. 
          AND, UM, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I, I REPEAT THAT THE, UH, DECEMBER 31ST IS THE FCC CONSIDERS AT THE END OF THE OTHER DATE. 
          UM, BUT ALSO THE BEGINNING ON WHICH, UM, THE, THE NEW PROGRAM WILL, WILL, UH, WILL BEGIN. 
          AND, UM, WE ARE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS OFFICERS AND ADVISORS AND, AND SOME OTHER NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. 
          AND SO THERE ARE COMMENTS BEING FILED. 
          UM, THEY HAVE CONSUMER, THEY HAVE BOTH, UM, THE FEEDBACK THAT THE, UH, UNITED WAY HAKA. 
          UM, THERE'S JUST A VARIETY OF, OF, UH, I THINK SOME IMPROVEMENTS TO STREAMLINE THE, THE ENROLLMENT PROCESS. 
          AND, BUT THERE'S ALSO SOME REALLY, REALLY GOOD BEEN SUCCESS STORIES TOO, UM, WITH FOLKS THAT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO, UM, GET THAT SUBSIDY. 
          AND THEN, UM, FINALLY WE, UM, HAVE, UH, AT THE STATE LEVEL, I THINK HO TAN, UM, SHE REFERRED, YOU KNOW, HB FIVE OF THE 87TH LEGISLATURE, UH, ESTABLISHED THIS NEW BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE AND THE TEXAS COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE. 
          AND THAT BILL BECAME EFFECTIVE JUNE 15TH. 
          AND THIS OFFICE HAS QUITE, UM, THEY HAVE A, A LOT OF, UH, OF, OF WORK AHEAD OF THEM, BUT WE'RE REALLY EXCITED THAT WE HAVE A STATE BROADBAND OFFICE. 
          WE WERE LIKE ONE OF FIVE STATES IN THE COUNTRY THAT DID NOT HAVE A STATE BROADBAND OFFICE. 
          AND, UM, THAT IS, UM, HAVING AN OFFICE MANY TIMES HAS BEEN A CONDITION OF GETTING FEDERAL FUNDING. 
          AND SO THEY ARE GOING TO AWARD SOME GRANTS AND LOANS. 
          THEY'RE GOING TO CREATE A BROADBAND MAP, UM, INDICATING AREAS ELIGIBLE FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, AND THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE DONE WITHIN A YEAR, UH, OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE BILL. 
          UM, THEY'RE GOING TO BE CREATING, UM, AN, UH, STATE BROADBAND PLAN TO BE UPDATED. 
          THAT'S WITHIN A YEAR OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THAT BILL. 
          THAT'S JUNE 15TH, 2022. 
          UM, THEY'RE GOING TO, YOU KNOW, LOOK AT THE SPEED, UH, SETTING, WHAT SHOULD THIS SETTING THE EFFECT OF SPECIAL SPEED FOR THOSE THAT UNDERSERVED AREAS AT 25 3, UM, AND, AND JUST ALSO JUST WORKING AND, UM, ENGAGING COMMUNITIES, UM, ABOUT, ABOUT, UH, BROADBAND AND, UH, WORKING CLOSELY WITH, I THINK RURAL, I THINK THE LARGE EMPHASIS REALLY IS ON RURAL WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF UNCONNECTED AREAS OR UNSERVED AREAS, BUT, UH, WE ARE, UH, AS  MENTIONED, WE ARE ENGAGED WITH, UH, FRED CONTI WHO'S THE DIRECTOR, UH, OF, OF THAT OFFICE AND, UH, YOU KNOW, PROVIDING SOME OF THE INFOR INFORMATION RESOURCES, UM, FROM THE CITY OF AUSTIN AND SOME OTHER COMMUNITIES, UM, HOUSTON AND TARRANT COUNTY AND SAN ANTONIO. 
          SO THAT THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF WORK DONE AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL. 
          AND, UH, WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WANTING TO PARTNER AND JUST ESTABLISH A GOOD WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH THAT, WITH THAT OFFICE. 
          AND ONE FINAL THING, UM, THE FCC, THEY WERE GIVEN THE FUNDING FOR UPDATING THESE, THE MAPS, THE BROADBAND MAPS. 
          AND I BELIEVE THAT IT'S NOT GOING TO BE TILL LIKE MID OR LATTER PART OF 2022, UM, THAT, THAT THOSE ARE GOING TO BE ROLLED OUT. 
          UM, I, I JUST WANTED TO, I KNOW THAT THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT HAVING, UM, QUANTITATIVE AND VERIFIABLE DATA. 
          UH, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT SOURCES, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S ONE AREA 
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OF PRIORITY THAT, THAT WE HAVE. 
          UM, SO THAT IS, UM, THAT'S ALL I HAVE, AND I'M HAPPY TO ENTERTAIN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH ONE DELLA FOR THAT REPORT REALLY APPRECIATE IT. 
          AND ALL YOUR WORK, OF COURSE, FOR THE CITY AND, AND SUPPORT OF OUR COMMISSION. 
          I DO ACTUALLY HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS. 
          I KNOW WE'RE REALLY PRESSED FOR TIME, I GUESS IF I COULD. 
          I JUST WANTED TO ASK YOU PERTAINING TO THE MAPPING, WHICH YOU JUST MENTIONED, BECAUSE IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING WITH THAT TIMEFRAME THAT MIGHT CREATE SOME LAGS BASED UPON THE FACT THAT THEY'RE LOOKING TO FUND BASED UPON THE MAPPING DESIGNATION OF UNSERVED OR UNDERSERVED AREAS, IS THAT YOUR UNDERSTANDING AS WELL, THAT UNTIL THAT MAPPING IS COMPLETED, THAT THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO EFFECTIVELY FUND BASED ON THOSE DESIGNATIONS, THE, UH, ARE YOU REFERRING TO THE STATE? YES, YES. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO MY, MY UNDERSTANDING WAS THAT THE STATE IS GOING TO LOOK TO DISPERSE FCC, UH, EXCUSE ME, UH, FUNDING BASED UPON FCC DESIGNATIONS, MAPPED DESIGNATIONS OF UNSERVED OR UNDERSERVED AREAS. 
          SO I'M JUST IMAGINING THEM THEN THAT IT'S GOING TO REQUIRE A DELAY TO THAT MADNESS IS COMPLETED FOR THE FUNDS TO BE DISTRIBUTED. 
          IT WAS THAT FAIR. 
          NO, THAT, THAT MAKES SENSE. 
          AND THESE FEDERAL FUNDS ARE OVER THE COURSE OF A FIVE-YEAR PERIOD. 
          THERE'S AN INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          UM, THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL NOW, MANY COMMUNITIES, UM, IN TEXAS HAVE ALREADY, UH, THEY'VE UTILIZED THAT CONNECTED NATION, UM, FOR DOING MAPPING MANY COMMUNITIES IN MANY COUNTIES. 
          AND I DON'T NOT KNOW IF THAT WILL SUFFICE THAT THOSE MAPPING EFFORTS WILL SUFFICE. 
          UM, THEY'RE, THEY'RE PRETTY DETAILED. 
          AND FROM WHAT WE'VE SEEN, IF YOU GO TO THE CONNECTED NATION, UH, WEBSITE, IT'LL SHOW EXAMPLES OF SOME OF THESE MAPS THAT HAVE BEEN DONE IS THAT YOU CAN GO TO A CERTAIN AREA AND SEE LIKE THE SPEEDS AND WHETHER OR NOT IT'S A FIBER CONNECTION OR, YOU KNOW, THE TYPE OF CONNECTION. 
          UH, SO I DON'T KNOW THAT I REALLY DON'T KNOW. 
          I DON'T WANT TO ANSWER THE QUESTION AFFIRMATIVELY, CAUSE I'M NOT QUITE SURE ABOUT THE TIMING. 
          THAT'S FAIR. 
          WE CAN CIRCLE BACK. 
          I GUESS WE SHOULD BE THANKFUL THOUGH THAT THE FIVE-YEAR TIMELINE THAT IT COULD MEAN FUNDS ARE DISTRIBUTED IS AS EARLY AS 20 TO 22 IN THE FALL. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO THAT'S GOOD. 
          THE LAST QUESTION IS REGARDING THE ACB, I SEE AN OPPORTUNITY, AS YOU SUGGESTED, AS WE DID WITH THE EMERGENCY BROADBAND BENEFIT ACT TO INVITE CARRIERS BACK IN TO PRESENT ABOUT THEIR PERMANENT SOLUTIONS AND WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE DOING, WOULD YOU AGREE? YES. 
          YES. 
          WE, WE DEFINITELY AGREE AND YEAH, I THINK IT'D BE A REALLY GOOD OPPORTUNITY EARLY, UM, YOU KNOW, EARLY IN FIRST QUARTER, 2022, UM, THAT'S WHY WE PLUGGED IT IN FOR THE SOMETHING WE CALL IT A SUMMIT OR PSYCH. 
          YEAH. 
          THIS WOULD BE THE COMMISSION WOULD HOST IT. 
          AND AS YOU'VE DONE IN THE PAST, BRINGING THE ISP IN, WHY ARE, WHY ARE WIRELINE AND WIRELESS? THOSE THAT ARE PARTICIPATING IN PROGRAM UNDERSTOOD. 
          THAT'S GREAT. 
          WELL, THANK YOU BRIEFLY. 
          ANYONE WHO HASN'T ASKED A QUESTION, I'LL GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO ASK A QUESTION HERE TODAY AND I'LL HAVE TO ASK US ALL TO FOLLOW UP OTHERWISE. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, GREAT. 
          WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH MANDELA FOR YOUR TIME AND PATIENCE. 
          OH, I'M SORRY. 
          WE DID ACTUALLY. 
          YES. 
          COMMISSIONER, I'M SORRY. 
          WE SHOULD ASK YOU TO HAVE TO GIVE COMMISSIONER GATES A CHANCE TO ASK FIRST, THANK YOU FOR THIS PRESENTATION. 
          THIS IS A LOT OF INFORMATION AND IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S A LOT OF MONEY FLOATING AROUND. 
          AND THE QUESTION IS HOW THE CITY OF AUSTIN CAN SNAG SOME OF THIS MONEY. 
          SO HOW CAN THE CITY OF AUSTIN BE PROACTIVE IN MAPPING OUR AREAS OF UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES SO THAT WE ARE ALSO CONSIDERED TO GET SOME OF THIS MONEY? BECAUSE, UH, MY IMPRESSION FROM YOUR PRESENTATION WAS THAT THE EMPHASIS IS GOING TO BE ON RURAL AREAS, IS THAT, ARE THOSE ASSUMPTIONS CORRECT? AND THE CONVERSATIONS, UM, THAT WAS HAD, UM, AND THIS IS AT THE STATE LEVEL, THERE'S A GOVERNOR'S BROADBAND FAN COUNCIL, UM, THAT, UH, ACTUALLY WAS CREATED TWO TO FOUR YEARS AGO. 
          BUT, YOU KNOW, AT FIRST THEIR CONVERSATIONS WERE BASICALLY AROUND THE, UM, RURAL, RURAL, AND THEN KIND OF BEGINNING. 
          AND THEN TOWARDS THE END, IT WAS LIKE RURAL, UNDERSERVED, URBAN, THERE ARE UNDERSERVED AND UNSERVED PARTS OF URBAN URBAN CITIES IN TEXAS NOW. 
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UM, I DO THINK, I DO THINK THAT THE PRIORITY, ALTHOUGH WE CERTAINLY ADVOCATED THAT SHOULD BE URBAN. 
          I THINK THAT SOME OF THE PRIORITY WILL BE FOR RURAL IN THE BEGINNING, BUT THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY'RE SETTING UP THE OFFICE, THIS STATE BROADBAND OFFICE. 
          AND, UM, WE GOT TO FIGURE, YOU KNOW, ONCE WE KNOW SOME OF THE CRITERIA AND I THINK ONCE SOME OF THAT IS RELEASED AND WE'LL HAVE A BETTER, A BETTER IDEA. 
          SO IN THE MEANTIME WE HAVE TO WORK LOCALLY, UM, ON, YOU KNOW, ON, ON CONTINUING THE EFFORTS, UM, THAT WE, THAT WE HAVE UNDERWAY, BUT WE SEE A FUNDING OPPORTUNITY. 
          WE WILL CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW, W WE'RE WE'LL BE MONITORING AND MONITORING AND THEY CAN ENSURE THAT WE KEEP A BIRD'S-EYE, YOU KNOW, BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF WHAT'S GOING ON. 
          SO, SO WE GET SOME FUNDS IF WE CERTAINLY CAN. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          NOW I THINK WE HAD A BRIEF QUESTION FROM COMMISSIONER DASGUPTA. 
          OH, SO, YOU KNOW, I, I'M DELIGHTED TO HEAR ABOUT THIS $30 A MONTH REBATE. 
          UH, HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT THE PROVIDERS DON'T INCREASE THEIR, UH, BILL BY $30? SO AT THE END OF IT TO THE END CUSTOMER, IT'S STILL THE SAME AMOUNT I W I WOULD HOPE. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, WE, WE CERTAINLY CANNOT, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, REQUIRE WE DON'T HAVE OVERSIGHT OVER OR OVER, OVER THE PRICING, BUT, UM, I WOULD CERTAINLY HOPE THAT SINCE THIS IS A NATIONAL PROGRAM AND IT'S FUNDED BY, YOU KNOW, FEDERAL DOLLARS FCC, THAT THE PRESENTING THOSE TYPES OF, UM, UH, WHAT IS THE YEAH. 
          AND THOSE TYPES OF, UM, OCCURRENCES THAT THEY REPORTED, UM, THERE'S NOTHING TO PREVENT. 
          WE WOULD JUST HOPE THAT THAT THAT WILL NOT BE DONE. 
          RIGHT. 
          I GUESS IF I CAN, JUST TO KIND OF CLOSE THAT OFF AS WE'VE SPOKEN TO IN THE PAST, UH, WE CAN PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM ALL TO COMPETE FOR AFFORDABILITY. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT WE CAN DO BY SHOWCASING WHAT THEY'RE OFFERING. 
          SO AT LEAST WE CAN HELP IN THAT REGARD BECAUSE NO ONE WANTS TO BE THE MOST EXPENSIVE. 
          I ASSUME IF THEY'RE ALL TRYING TO OFFER SOMETHING AFFORDABLE. 
          UM, BUT IF THAT'S THE GOAL, SO WE'LL FIND OUT, ALL RIGHT, WELL, THANK YOU. 
          ANYTHING WE WILL CERTAINLY, AND IF WE WOULD HEAR OF ANY OF THOSE SORTS OF THINGS, WE WOULD CERTAINLY, UM, YOU KNOW, TAKE, TAKE THAT INFORMATION TO THE APPROPRIATE REGULATORY AUTHORITY. 
          I MEAN, JUST TO REPORT IT AS A CONSUMER PROTECTION, THANK YOU VERY WELL SAID. 
          RHONDELLA THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, WITHIN THAT, WITH THAT, THEN I HAD TO SAY, WE HAVE TO CUT OFF THE QUESTIONS HERE, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FROM DELLA FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          UH, WE COULD, WE'D LIKE TO BOOK YOU FOR ONE OF OUR WORKING GROUP SESSIONS. 
          ALSO, MAYBE WE CAN DIVE INTO SOME OF THESE ACTS AND GET A LITTLE MORE UNDERSTANDING, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR NOW. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WITH THAT, THEN WE'LL PROCEED IN OUR AGENDA. 
          THANK YOU AGAIN, MANDELA, LET'S SEE, UH, PROCEEDING 
          [3.a. Digital Inclusion Week Art Competition – Jesse Rodriguez, Interim Program
Manager, Financial Services Department (discussion and possible action)]
TO AGENDA ITEM. 
          NOW, THREE, A DIGITAL INCLUSION WEEK ART COMPETITION BY JESSE RODRIGUEZ, OUR INTERIM PROGRAM MANAGER FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT. 
          TAKE IT AWAY, JESSE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, CHAIR PITS. 
          UM, I'LL BE VERY QUICK. 
          THE, UH, WE HAVE ANNOUNCED THE AWARDEES FOR THE DIGITAL INCLUSION WEEK ART COMPETITION. 
          UM, WE'VE ALREADY REACHED OUT TO THE, UH, THE, THE ARTISTS THEMSELVES AND THEIR, THE PARENTS TO NOTIFY THEM. 
          SO, UH, YOU KNOW, IF ANY OF THEM HAVE TUNED IN THIS, WON'T BE THE FIRST TIME THEY'RE HEARING ABOUT IT. 
          UM, I'M GOING TO RUN THROUGH THE TOP THREE AWARDEES REAL QUICK, UNLESS CHAIR PITS WANTED TO READ THROUGH. 
          I'LL GIVE YOU. 
          OKAY, WONDERFUL. 
          SO OUR FIRST PLACE AWARD WINNER WAS THE RA OH PAPA WHO, UH, WENT TO GUERRIERO THOMPSON ELEMENTARY. 
          SO YOU'LL SEE HIS SUBMISSION ON THE FIRST PAGE HERE ON THE SECOND PAGE, WE HAVE THE SECOND PLACE AWARD WINNER, UH, SAMA LUGAROO WHO WENT TO JAMES BOWIE HIGH SCHOOL. 
          AND AS SHE GAVE SOME GOOD CONTEXT ON HER SUBMISSION AT THE BOTTOM THERE, IF YOU WANTED TO TAKE A READ THROUGH, UM, I HAVE A SOFT SPOT FOR, UH, THE ART COMPETITION. 
          SO, UH, I ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO LOOK AT IT, LOOK THROUGH THIS AND WHAT THE INSPIRATIONS ARE. 
          UM, OUR AND OUR THIRD PLACE AWARDEE WAS ISABELLE CALL, UM, WHO 
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WENT TO CANYON VISTA MIDDLE SCHOOL. 
          UH, I DID WANT TO MENTION THAT THE AGES OF THE ARTISTS. 
          SO OUR FIRST PLACE AWARD WINNER WAS 11. 
          UH, SECOND PLACE WAS 14 AND OUR THIRD PLACE WAS 11. 
          SO VERY YOUNG ARTISTS, UH, EXCELLENT SUBMISSIONS HERE, UH, WERE GOING TO BE DOING A LOT OF WORK GOING INTO NEXT YEAR TO EXPAND OUR PARTNER BASE ON THIS AND TRY AND REACH MORE FOLKS AND SPREAD THE WORD FARTHER. 
          UM, IT'S A PROGRAM THAT IS VERY NEAR AND DEAR TO OUR HEART. 
          UM, AND, UH, YEAH, I THINK, I THINK THAT'S ALL, OH, I DID HAVE ONE FINAL NOTE NOTE ON THIS ITEM. 
          UM, UH, IN CURRENT CONVERSATIONS WITH THE AUSTIN PUBLIC LIBRARY, DO YOU HAVE THESE, UH, ARTWORKS HOSTED IN ONE OF THEIR GALLERY SPACES? UM, SO, SO THAT IS IN THE WORKS. 
          AND WITH THAT, I THINK THAT'S ALL THAT I HAD. 
          I'LL BE VERY QUICK ITEM HERE AND I'M TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT Y'ALL HAVE. 
          OH, THIS IS WONDERFUL. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT, JESSE. 
          AND FOR THAT UPDATE ABOUT THE ARTWORK BEING HUNG VERY STRAIGHTFORWARD. 
          I HAVE NO QUESTIONS, ANY QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT. 
          WELL GREAT. 
          THANK YOU AGAIN. 
          CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN TO ALL THE WINNERS. 
          CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WITH THAT, 
          [3.b. Digital Equity and Inclusion Town Hall – Chair Nehemiah Pitts III (Commission
discussion and possible action)]
THEN WE'LL PROCEED WITH OUR AGENDA NOW TO AGENDA ITEM THREE, B THE DIGITAL EQUITY INCLUSION TOWN HALL, WHERE I'LL BE ADDRESSING THE DIGITAL INCLUSION EQUITY AND TOWN HALL THAT WE HOSTED ON OCTOBER 9TH, UH, REALLY HOSTED BY MISSION CAPITAL THAT WE'VE HELPED TO FACILITATE, UH, THANKFULLY WITH THE FOCUS REALLY, OF COURSE, AS WE DO AS A COMMISSION ON DIGITAL EQUITY AND INCLUSION, UH, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          I DON'T WANT TO BORE YOU BY READING THIS TO YOU, BUT IT SPEAKS TO THE DYNAMICS REALLY WHEREIN WE WERE OBLIGED AS WE ARE STILL MAINTAINING AN ACTIVE CHALLENGE WITH THE DIGITAL DIVIDE, UH, PERSISTENT, AND YET ONLY BOLSTERED BY THE PANDEMIC TO FIND A WAY FOR PEOPLE TO SHARE THEIR STORIES AND EXPERIENCES SO THAT WE CAN THEN HELP TO ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES. 
          UH, WE HAVE EXAMPLES OF CREATE A SOLUTION AND PROBLEM SOLVING WITH THE HELP OF NONPROFIT PROVIDERS HERE LOCALLY THAT WE PARTNER WITH AND THIS TOWN HALL, UH, WHILE BEING HOSTED BY MISSION CAPITAL INCLUDED, COMMUNITY MEMBERS SPEAKING AND SHARING THEIR EXPERIENCES THAT HAVE EITHER BEEN CURRENT MEMBERS OR SERVICES OR RECEIVED, BUT RATHER THE RECIPIENTS OF SERVICES OR MEMBERS OF PROGRAMS OR PREVIOUS MEMBERS OF PROGRAMS OFFERED BY UNITED WAY AND THEIR FAMILY PATHWAYS PROGRAM, AS WELL AS THE HOUSING AUTHORITY COMMUNITY OF AUSTIN OR HAKA AND THEIR PROGRAMS. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, ONCE AGAIN, A VERY DELIGHTED TO HAVE THE PARTICIPANTS JOIN US FOR THIS EVENT. 
          UH, JUST TO GIVE YOU A BRIEF RUNDOWN ON THE RECORD OF WHO WAS ABLE TO JOIN US. 
          AS I MENTIONED, THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER AUSTIN PALLA, SYLVESTRI THEIR DIRECTOR OF FAMILY PATHWAYS. 
          LEO LILIANA WENT THIS LUGO AS THE FUNDING GARCIA TO DEANNA AT AMANDA'S ROLE GARCIA, EXCUSE ME, ROLE ALVAREZ IS SEVILLE TORRES AND DASIA GALENE DAVIS, UH, WITH THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN AND AUSTIN PATHWAYS. 
          OF COURSE, CATHERINE CRAIG WAS, I MENTIONED THE HEAD OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVE INITIATIVES THERE, LUPA GARCIA, THE SMART CITY AMBASSADOR AND CLIENT IRENE ENSLEY, THE VP OF RESIDENCE COUNCIL AND CLIENT, AS WELL AS ANNA CLAIRE, WHO WAS ON BRIEFLY EARLIER. 
          SHE'S A GOOGLE PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR AND ASHLEY JOHNSON, THE ACC IT INTERN WHO WORKED SO HARD ON THAT SNEAKER NET PROGRAM THAT WE ALL HEARD ABOUT EARLIER TODAY, UH, ALL JOINED IN TO OFFER THE PERSPECTIVE AND HELP, UH, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE AND HERE, JOINING THAT CONVERSATION LIGHT IT, OF COURSE, TO BE PART OF IT AND TO HELP TO FACILITATE, UH, WITH FELLOW COMMISSIONERS. 
          UH, I KNOW THAT, UH, MANY TRIED TO PARTICIPATE, BUT WE HAD SOME SCHEDULING CHALLENGES AND NOT EVERYONE WAS ABLE TO JOIN AN ALL THEY WOULD HAVE IF THEY WERE ABLE TO. 
          I WAS DELIGHTED THAT, UH, COMMISSIONER STEVEN APODACA FROM DISTRICT TWO AND COMMISSIONER MAXINE ISLAND, UH, FROM DISTRICT SEVEN, I APOLOGIZE FOR THE TYPO IN THE SLIDE DECK THERE. 
          I DID NOT MEAN TO, TO, UH, UH, ASSIGN COMMISSIONER ISLAND A LEADERSHIP ROLE, UH, THAT WAS A TYPO FROM OUR PREVIOUS PARTICIPATION FROM OUR FORMER VICE CHAIR, UH, AMONG THE ELECTED OFFICIALS AND STAFF. 
          UH, WE WERE, WE'RE PRIVILEGED TO BE JOINED BY MAYOR PRO TEM, NATASHA HARPER, MADISON, 
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WHO WAS ABLE TO JOIN AND OFFER INSIGHTS AND ASK GREAT QUESTIONS. 
          UH, AND, UH, I KNOW THERE ARE OTHER LEADERS IN THE CITY THAT WANTED TO ATTEND AND THAT WOULD HAVE ATTENDED, BUT AGAIN, SCHEDULING CHALLENGES PROHIBITED THAT. 
          UH, SO I LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, US HAVING A MORE ROBUST PARTICIPATION IN THE FUTURE, UH, BEING ABLE TO NAVIGATE THOSE SCHEDULING CONFLICTS. 
          AND THEN LASTLY, OF COURSE, AS I MENTIONED, UH, OUR NONPROFIT COHOST, DR. 
          RADER REDA, TAYLOR, APOLOGIZE FOR THAT, NOT BEING LISTED, UH, THE SENIOR CONSULTANT AND DATA EVALUATION EXPERT FOR MISSION CAPITAL AND CHELSEA. 
          HEARTNESS THE MEMBERSHIP MANAGER. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          UH, JUST THE WHOLE UP HERE, ACTUALLY, YOU CAN BACK UP. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO TO HOLD UP HERE, UH, THE MAIN THING I WANTED TO CONVEY, UH, IN PART ONE OF THE SUMMARY REPORT IS HOW THANKFUL I AM FOR ALL THE PARTICIPANTS SHARING THEIR LIVED EXPERIENCES AND THEIR STORIES. 
          UH, THERE WAS GREAT RESONANCE AMONGST THE STORY, PEOPLE SHARING THEIR EXPERIENCES, UH, SPEAKING TO A NEED FOR PEER LEVEL GUIDANCE AND TRAINING, UH, WHETHER IT'S FROM SPANISH SPEAKERS TO SPEAK TO FELLOW SPANISH SPEAKERS OR SENIORS, TO THEN SPEAK TO FELLOW SENIORS AS EITHER SPANISH SPEAKERS OR SENIORS SPOKE TO THEIR EXPERIENCES OF LITERALLY GUIDING OTHERS AS AMBASSADORS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES TO LEARN HOW TO USE SERVICES, TO GAIN COMFORT, OR REALLY JUST BEING EXTREMELY CREATIVE AND HEROIC, TO BE ABLE TO NAVIGATE CHALLENGES, UH, WHILE MANAGING MULTIPLE KIDS TO PURSUE CAREERS, UH, SOCIAL SERVICES, UH, AND ANYTHING THEY CAN FOR THEIR FAMILIES, UH, TO PROVIDE AND TO BE, AND TO MAINTAIN, UH, JUST A REALLY IMPRESSIVE, UH, PRESENTATION OF, OF CREATIVITY AND, AND ADEPTNESS AT RESILIENCY. 
          AND I THINK THAT'S THE KIND OF THING THAT WE REALLY LOOK TO SUPPORT HERE AS A COMMISSION AND AS A CITY WITH A GOAL OF GOVERNMENT THAT WORKS FOR ALL AND SATISFYING ALL THE OTHER STRATEGIC OUTCOMES, WHICH WE KNOW DIGITAL INCLUSION ALIGNS TO. 
          SO IN PART TWO, NOW THAT WE HAVE FINALIZED THE DICTATION OF THE ACTUAL TOWN HALL ITSELF, UH, WITH THE SUPPORT OF OUR TARA OFFICE, I LOOK TO DO A MAPPING TO BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE SPECIFIC DATA CHALLENGE POINTS THAT WE'LL LOOK TO THEN MAP TO SOLUTIONS. 
          ALTHOUGH I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S CLEAR THAT FOR EACH OF THE REPRESENTATIVES ACTION HAS ALREADY BEEN TAKEN TO HELP THEM WITH THEIR SPECIFIC ASKS. 
          UH, WE'VE ENGAGED IN TWO FOLLOWUP MEETINGS SO FAR, UH, AM VERY THANKFUL THAT WE HAVE A WIDENING TENT THAT INCLUDES IDEATION ABOUT ALL KINDS OF THINGS LIKE CO-LOCATION OF SERVICES, WHICH PROVED TO ALSO BE A PERSISTENT CHALLENGE FOR, UH, FAMILY MEMBERS WITH CHALLENGES WITH DIGITAL DIVIDE AMONG OTHER THINGS. 
          SO, UH, THIS IS AGAIN PART ONE OF THE REPORT. 
          I LOOK FORWARD TO SHARING PART TWO WITH YOU ALL VERY SOON. 
          UH, NEXT SLIDE AND FINAL SLIDE. 
          SO THIS AGAIN SPEAKS TO THE FOLLOW-UP AND THE PROGRAM IDEATION. 
          I LIKE TO OPEN IT UP TO ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU ALL MIGHT HAVE UNDERSTANDING, OF COURSE WE'RE PRESSED FOR TIME AND THAT WE'LL GET INTO THIS MORE LATER. 
          OKAY. 
          IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME. 
          I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          BUT AT THE SAME TIME, UH, JUST WANT TO REITERATE WHAT A JOY WAS AND IN PERTAIN, AS IT RELATES TO, UH, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION, UH, IT'S CLEAR THAT THERE'S A REAL NEED FOR THIS ACT OF STORYTELLING AND PEOPLE TO HAVE THIS LIVED ASSURANCE, LIVED EXPERIENCE SHARING. 
          AND SO WHAT I'D LIKE TO SEE IS IF THERE WAS AN APPETITE FOR US TO AGREE AND TO VOTE, TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS, EITHER ON A SEMI-ANNUAL OR QUARTERLY BASIS, WHERE WE ON A ROLLING CALENDAR, WE CAN WORK TO MAP TO THOSE DATES WHERE WE'LL ALWAYS BE INVITING PEOPLE TO COME IN AND TO SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES, UM, LOOKING FOR A SECOND FOR THAT TYPE OF EFFORT. 
          OKAY. 
          WE'VE GOT A SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER DASGUPTA. 
          I MOVED TO SECOND. 
          OKAY. 
          SO I HAVEN'T MADE THE MOTION MYSELF AND IDENTIFYING THAT'S BEEN SECOND BY COMMISSIONER DASGUPTA I'D LIKE TO GO AHEAD AND HOLD A BOAT ALL IN FAVOR OF US DOING EITHER QUARTERLY OR SEMI-ANNUAL LIVED EXPERIENCE SHARES WITH OUR COMMUNITY, PLEASE, UH, ACKNOWLEDGED BY SAYING AYE. 
          AYE. 
          ANYONE OPPOSED? GREAT. 
          SO WE'RE UNANIMOUS IN THAT. 
          I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          THAT MAKES OUR VOTE EIGHT AND OH, IN FAVOR OF THAT. 
          AND WE'LL CERTAINLY BE PURSUING THAT FORMERLY IN THE WORKING GROUP AND WE'LL SPEND SOMETHING UP FOR WHAT THAT MEANS TO US ALL AT THE NEXT COMMISSION MEETING, 
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WHICH BY THE WAY, WILL LIKELY NEED TO BE, IT MAY NEED TO BE A SPECIAL CALLED MEETING DEPENDING UPON HOW MUCH BUSINESS WE HAVE. 
          SO THERE'S SOMETHING THAT TO KEEP IN MIND. 
          UH, BUT WITH THAT, THEN WE'LL GO AND CLOSE OUT THAT AGENDA ITEM AND PROCEED 
          [3.c. Election of Officers – Vice Chair (Commission discussion and action)]
TO AGENDA ITEM THREE C ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 
          AS I ALLUDED TO EARLIER, UH, WE HAVE A VACANCY, UM, AND OUR VICE-CHAIR ROLE DUE TO THE RESIGNATION OF COMMISSIONER, UH, ALEXANDER, UH, VICE CHAIR, ALEXANDER, DAVID ALEXANDER, UH, APPRECIATE HIS SERVICE, UH, FOR THE SEVERAL YEARS I'VE BEEN ON THE COMMISSION. 
          AND, UH, WITH THAT IN MIND, UH, I'D LIKE TO BEGIN THE PROCESS BY ACKNOWLEDGING THAT I HAVE A RECOMMENDATION OR AT LEAST A NOMINATION I'D LIKE TO MAKE, I'D LIKE TO GIVE ANYONE A CHANCE THAT LIKE THEY WOULD LIKE TO THROW THEIR HAT IN THE RING FOR THIS EFFORT. 
          UM, JUST SO YOU KNOW, UH, WITH THAT BEING SAID, UH, SO THEN I'LL WITHHOLD MY NOMINATION UNTIL ANYONE ELSE HAS A CHANCE TO THROW THEIR NOMINATION IN THE RING. 
          UM, BUT I DO HAVE ONE IN MIND, UH, IF INTERESTED, I'D LIKE TO NOMINATE A COMMITTEE SHIRT, COMMISSIONER THOMPSON. 
          WELL, IT LOOKS LIKE SHE'S NOT INTERESTED AT THIS TIME. 
          UH, I'D LIKE TO NOMINATE COMMISSIONER'S STUPID APODACA. 
          OKAY. 
          APPRECIATE THAT. 
          ARE YOU INTERESTED IN ENTERTAINING THAT NOMINATION COMMISSIONER MURDOCCA I WILL ACCEPT YOUR NOMINATION. 
          THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER. 
          IS THAT ISLAND? OH, IT'S COMMISSIONER ISLAND. 
          YES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          ANYONE ELSE BEFORE I MAKE MY NOMINATION NORMALLY COMMISSIONER AS SHE'S SHAKING HER HEAD. 
          I THINK THAT, THAT MEANS SHE'S GOING TO PASS ON THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, I DEFINITELY APPRECIATE THE WORK OF COMMISSIONER APODACA IN THIS SHORT TIME. 
          UH, AND HAVING SAID THAT I HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE LONGSTANDING WORK, UH, WITH NOMINATING MY PEER COMMISSIONER, DAVE FLOYD, UH, FOR THE ROLE AS VICE CHAIR, UH, HAVING STARTED WITH HIM SINCE MY ENTIRE TIME ON THE COMMISSION. 
          UM, SO WITH THAT, THEN WE'LL HOLD A VOTE, ASSUMING, UH, WELL, LET ME MAKE SURE, UH, COME COMMISSIONER FLOYD. 
          WOULD YOU LIKE TO ACCEPT THAT NOMINATION? THANK YOU. 
          YES, I WILL ACCEPT. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THAT WAS IMPORTANT DETAIL. 
          UH, OKAY. 
          WELL, GREAT WITH THAT THEN, UH, WE'LL HAVE TO HOLD A VOTE, UM, IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT WE HAVE A COMMISSIONER AND A TENURED COMMISSIONER, UM, I GUESS I'LL HAVE TO DEFAULT, JESSE, LET ME ASK YOU, IS THERE A PROCESS WE HAVE IN PLACE FOR THIS THAT'S DISCERNED EQUITABLE? SO I BELIEVE, AND I'M LOOKING UP THE RULES NOW. 
          I THINK THAT IN ORDER TO BE CONFIRMED, UH, AS A, UH, TO, UH, OFFICER POSITION, THERE NEEDS TO BE A MAJORITY OF THE COMMISSION IN FAVOR. 
          SO, UH, I'M, I'M, I'M LOOKING AT OUR BYLAWS NOW TO CONFIRM, BUT I BELIEVE IN ORDER TO BE NOMINEE OR IN ORDER TO BE APPOINTED, UH, EITHER CANDIDATE WOULD HAVE TO RECEIVE SIX VOTES, SO, OKAY. 
          SO THAT'S INTERESTING. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE HAVE EIGHT COMMISSIONERS OBVIOUSLY PARTICIPATE IN THE CALL TODAY. 
          UH, THAT MEANS SIX OF YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR THE WINNER. 
          THAT'S INTERESTING. 
          UH, SO DOES THAT MEAN WE HAVE RUN-OFFS UNTIL WE GET TO SIX VOTES? I BELIEVE. 
          SO. 
          GIVE ME, GIVE ME ONE MOMENT. 
          UH, IT MIGHT BE A LONG NIGHT. 
          IT COULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR LEADERSHIP. 
          IT COULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR LEADERSHIP. 
          UH, WE ONLY HAVE TWO NOMINEES. 
          UH, NO. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, UM, W WE'RE I GUESS LET'S START WITH THE VOTE AND THEN WE'LL SEE WHERE WE ARE, AND THEN WE'LL DETERMINE IF WE NEED TO HAVE SPEECHES OR, OR, UH, RUNOFFS. 
          SO THEN, UM, THIS WILL BE THE FIRST ELECTION THAT I'VE OFFICIATED AS CHAIR OF, OF ANOTHER OFFICER. 
          SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, UM, I NEED TO WAIT TO DECIDE WHO WE'RE GONNA VOTE FOR FIRST EQUITABLY IS THEY HAVE A COIN? NO, I KNOW WE'RE NOT A CASH. 
          JERRY, PEOPLE LIKE THAT SO MUCH THESE DAYS, UM, COMMISSIONER THOMPSON IS LOOKING FOR A COIN FOR US. 
          HEY, THAT WORKS. 
          THAT WORKS. 
          WE'LL TAKE IT. 
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EXCUSE ME. 
          IT WAS ON ITS WAY. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, SINCE COMMISSIONER DOP, BECAUSE OF A DOG IS IN THE ROOM, I'LL LET HIM CALL IT IN THE AIR. 
          YOUR DEFENSE, TRUST ME. 
          IT'S IT'S IT SETS YOU CAN COME UP. 
          YEAH, I CONFIRM HANDS. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WITH THAT, THEN WE'RE GOING TO VOTE FOR COMMISSIONER DACA FIRST. 
          UH, AND, UH, I'D LIKE THIS, IT HAS, THIS, HAS THIS PROCESS BEEN WITH MULTIPLE CANDIDATES? IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A VERBAL PROCESS. 
          I RECALL THIS BEING A WRITTEN ONE. 
          NO, IT'S ALWAYS BEEN, UH, ON CONTESTED. 
          IT'S REQUIRED TO BE A, UH, IN THE OPEN VERBAL VOTE. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          AND, AND BY THE WAY, I JUST DID CONFIRM, UH, THE WAY THAT THE BYLAWS ARE STATED. 
          IT SAYS OFFICERS SHALL BE ELECTED ANNUALLY BY A MAJORITY VOTE OF THE BOARD, UH, AS REQUIRED. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT, THEN, SO WITH THAT, THEN WE'LL GO AHEAD AND DO A ROLL CALL, VOTE ALL IN FAVOR OF COMMISSIONER APODACA, UH, NOMINATION AS VICE CHAIR, PLEASE SAY, AYE. 
          AYE. 
          AYE. 
          AYE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE HAVE THREE IN FAVOR OF COMMISSIONER APODACA AT THIS TIME. 
          OKAY. 
          SO NOW THEN ALL IN FAVOR OF COMMISSIONER FLOOR AT THIS TIME, PLEASE SAY, AYE. 
          AYE. 
          AYE. 
          AYE. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT'S I BELIEVE FOUR. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE HAVE ONE ABSTENTION SO FAR. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL ABSTAINING. 
          OKAY. 
          AND ONE OF STITCHES. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE HAVE, WE HAVE FOUR VOTES FOR COMMISSIONER FLOYD AND THREE VOTES FOR COMMISSIONER APODACA. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO, AND WE HAVE ONE EXTENSION. 
          SO NOW, THEN THE QUESTION REMAINS, UH, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT'S GOING TO HELP YOU COMMISSIONER GUIRO WITH YOUR NOMINATION CHOICE? UH, YES. 
          I'D LIKE TO JUST BRIEFLY HEAR INTEREST IN EXPERIENCE THAT YOU BOTH COULD BRING TO THE COMMISSION AS VICE CHAIR. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          SO THEN IN FAIRNESS, SINCE COMMISSIONER OF DACA GOT TO GO FIRST ON THE VOTE, I'LL LET COMMISSIONER FLOYD GO FIRST AS THE MOST TENURED COMMISSIONER ON HIS RESPONSE. 
          YEAH. 
          I'VE BEEN ON THE COMMISSION SINCE 2015. 
          I'VE BEEN VICE CHAIR AND CHAIR BEFORE THAT WAS SEVERAL YEARS AGO. 
          UM, I'VE ENJOYED WORKING WITH, UM, THE TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE INFRASTRUCTURE GROUP. 
          I'VE BEEN ON THAT FOR A LONG TIME. 
          UM, IT'S BEEN, IT'S BEEN A GREAT EXPERIENCE. 
          UM, I'VE ALSO DONE, UM, THE, A LONG TIME AGO, DID THE G TOPS AWARD, BUT ENJOYED THAT. 
          SO JUST GENERALLY I'VE, I'VE ENJOYED BEING ON THE COMMISSION AND, UM, BEING INVOLVED WITH THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE FOR A LONG TIME. 
          UM, AND, UH, HAVING TO STEP UP INTO THE VICE CHAIR LEADERSHIP ROLE. 
          UM, YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COMMISSIONER FLOYD AND OUR COMMISSIONER APODACA. 
          WELL, THANKS SO MUCH. 
          UM, RECOGNIZING I AM A NEW COMMISSIONER, I THINK I WOULD BRING, UH, A LOT OF ENERGY, UH, TO THE, TO THE ROLE REALLY EXCITED TO, TO STEP UP, UH, ASSUME A LEADERSHIP POTENTIALLY ASSUME A THAT SHIP POSITION. 
          UM, MY EXPERIENCE FOCUSED ON CHANGE FOR LARGE TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATIONS, UM, IN THE WORKPLACE I THINK, UH, WILL HELP ME BRING A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE TO, UM, TO THE COMMISSION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU FOR THAT, MICHELLE COM. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, WELL THEN, OKAY, SO COMMISSIONER APODACA, UH, WHO NOMINATED YOU AGAIN? COMMISSIONER ISLAND. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THEN, UH, ONE LAST THING, I GUESS, IN FAIRNESS, COMMISSIONER ISLAND, UH, WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD ANYTHING TO YOUR NOMINATION SUPPORT, UH, BEFORE I MAKE ANY FINAL, LAST STATEMENTS FOR MY NOMINATION SUPPORT? SURE. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, JUST AS A NEW COMMISSIONER MYSELF AND BEING INVOLVED, UM, IN SOME OF THE WORKING GROUP SESSIONS, I HAPPENED TO HAVE WORKED WITH COMMISSIONER APODACA QUITE A BIT ON SOME OF THESE DIFFERENT, UM, ENDEAVORS. 
          AND I THINK THAT HE IS CONSTANTLY ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS. 
          UM, HE'S VERY, UM, INVOLVED, I WOULD SAY, IN ALL OF THE MEETINGS AND MAKING SURE HE'S, HE'S ATTENDING THEM AND, UM, JUST BEING VOCAL ABOUT CONCERNS AND THINGS. 
          AND SO I THINK, UM, FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN AS A NEW COMMISSIONER COMING IN, UM, YOU KNOW, HAVING THAT PERSPECTIVE AND SOMEBODY THAT'S 
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NOT AFRAID TO, UM, INQUIRE HAS BEEN QUITE USEFUL AND HELPFUL AS WELL AS WE MAKE DECISIONS. 
          YOU'RE RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          AND, UH, I GUESS THEN AS THE ONE WHO NOMINATED VICE A SKEWED ME, UH, COMMISSIONER FLOYD, UH, I HAVE TO ECHO THE SAME SENTIMENT, UM, THAT HE'S BEEN A STEADY PARTICIPANT IN THE WORKING GROUP MEETINGS, WHICH HAS BEEN SO CRITICAL TO MAINTAIN OPERATIONS OF THIS COMMISSION, UH, AS WELL AS PARTICIPATING IN ENGAGING IN THE COMMISSION MEETINGS. 
          UM, I ADMIT THAT HIS EXPERIENCE, HIS PRIOR EXPERIENCE AS VICE CHAIR AND CHAIR IS SOMETHING WHICH WASN'T A FAULT THAT MADE HIM AN EASY CHOICE FOR ME AND MAKING MY NOMINATION AND WHY I FEEL SO COMFORTABLE WITH THAT NOMINATION. 
          UH, AND I GUESS WHY FEEL SO STRONGLY, ALTHOUGH I DO APPRECIATE, UH, COMMISSIONER APODACA, HIS WILLINGNESS TO, TO STEP INTO THE ROLE AS WELL. 
          SO WITH THAT, THEN I GUESS WE'LL DO ANOTHER VOTE. 
          AND THEN OUT OF FAIRNESS, WE'LL START WITH COMMISSIONER FLOYD. 
          UH, SO ALL IN FAVOR OF COMMISSIONER FLOYD, PLEASE SAY, AYE. 
          AYE. 
          AYE. 
          AYE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE HAVE THREE, I THINK I HEARD, I HEARD COMMISSIONER THOMPSON HEARD MYSELF, HER COMMISSIONER  AND OF COURSE MR. FLOYD, RIGHT. 
          SO FOUR AGAIN. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          NOW ALL IN FAVOR OF COMMISSIONER APODACA, PLEASE SAY AYE. 
          AYE. 
          AYE. 
          AYE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO NOW WE HAVE A TIE AND UM, IN THE INTEREST OF TIME, I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG WE CAN GO AROUND LIKE THIS. 
          UH, WE CAN DO COST-WISE SHARES OF THE WORKING GROUP LEVEL. 
          UH, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN DO CO VICE CHAIRS OF THE COMMISSION BECAUSE NEITHER ONE HAS RECEIVED A MAJORITY. 
          SO BY, BY THE BYLAWS WE'RE WE CAN'T, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO IN THIS SCENARIO. 
          SO CAN WE FLIP A COIN FOR IT? THERE'S ANOTHER OPTION. 
          IS THAT IN THE BYLAWS? WELL, YEAH. 
          WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF, UH, I KNOW THAT EVENTUALLY WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO CUT THIS MEETING OFF, SO, AND THAT ISN'T THE BYLAWS. 
          SO, SO, UH, THE TWO, THE FIRST QUESTION, THE OFFICE, THE OFFICERS ARE DEFINED IN THE BYLAWS. 
          THERE'S ONLY TWO POSITIONS, THERE'S THE CHAIR AND THE VICE CHAIR. 
          SO THERE ISN'T A PROVISION FOR CO VICE CHAIRS. 
          UM, SO I DON'T THINK THAT THAT'S AN OPTION BASED ON MY READING. 
          UM, THE BYLAWS ALSO SAY THAT THE OFFICERS ARE TO BE ELECTED ANNUALLY BY A MAJORITY OF THE VOTE OF THE BOARD AT THE FIRST REGULAR MEETING. 
          AFTER APRIL 1ST IN THE EVENT, A CURRENT OFFICER BECOMES INELIGIBLE TO SERVE AS AN OFFICER. 
          THE BOARD MAY HOLD AN EMERGENCY ELECTION AS NEEDED. 
          UH, SO WITH THE WAY THAT I INTERPRET THAT IS THAT THE BOARD SHOULD COME TO A FINAL VOTE AS PROMPTLY AS IT CAN AFTER A VACANCY OCCURS. 
          BUT I DON'T THINK THAT IT PROHIBITS US FROM TABLING, UH, THIS IF, IF NEEDED. 
          GREAT. 
          YEAH, I DON'T INTERPRET IT AS THAT AS PROHIBITING THAT EITHER. 
          SO WITH THAT, THEN, UH, WE'RE GOING TO TABLE THE VOTE. 
          JEREMY, I PROPOSE A POSSIBLE SOLUTION. 
          UH, LET'S SAY THE NEXT ELECTION IS A JUNIOR, WHEREVER, LET'S SAY SIX MONTHS. 
          SO WE HAVE THREE MONTHS WITH COMMISSIONER APODACA AND THREE MONTHS WITH FLOOD COMMISSION FLIGHT SPLIT, SPLIT THEM HALF AND HALF HALF THE TIME COMMISSIONER FLIGHT AND HALF THE TIME COMMISSIONER. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          AND IN THE SPIRIT OF TRYING TO MOVE THE BALL FORWARD, UH, AT THE SAME TIME, THEN HOW WE DECIDE WHO GOES FIRST, UH, COINS. 
          RIGHT, RIGHT. 
          UH, OKAY, WELL, UH, WE'RE GOING TO TABLE IT. 
          I APPRECIATE THAT THOUGH. 
          UH, BECAUSE THAT'S DEFINITELY A DECISION I'M GOING TO MAKE THAT QUICKLY. 
          UM, I THINK WE PRETTY MUCH ARE OBLIGED TO, UM, AND THIS WILL GIVE EVERYONE A CHANCE TO THINK FURTHER ABOUT THEIR NOMINATIONS AND THEN WE'LL GO FROM THERE, BUT THANK YOU FOR THE SUGGESTION. 
          WE PUT UP SOCCER GOALPOST AND WE HAVE SHOOTOUT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          WELL, THANK YOU FOR THAT AGAIN. 
          I WANT TO ALSO MENTION, UH, UH, CHAIR PITS. 
          IF, IF YOU DO NEED ANY SUPPORT BETWEEN NOW AND THE NEXT COMMISSION, I BELIEVE BOTH OF US WOULD BE AVAILABLE TO PROVIDE ANY SUPPORT TO YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YEAH, I AGREE. 
          YEAH. 
          QUICK QUESTION. 
          SURE. 
          COMMISSION COVER. 
          PERFECT. 
          PROBABLY JESSIE. 
          UM, CAN WE CALL A SPECIAL CALLED MEETING FOR LITERALLY JUST A VOTE AND 
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PERHAPS WITH THAT VERY SPECIFIC AGENDA MIGHT, UH, GET MORE COMMISSIONERS INTO THE VOTING PROCESS? YEAH, I THINK SO. 
          I THINK, UM, IT'S INTERESTING THAT THE OUTCOME WILL BE A VOTING PROCESS THAT EXTENDS BEYOND ONE MEETING BECAUSE THAT'S NEVER THE CASE. 
          SO THAT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT, RIGHT? BECAUSE IT MEANS THEN THAT CAMPAIGNING OBVIOUSLY CAN CONTINUE ONCE THIS MEETING IS OVER, BUT IT IS WHAT IT IS. 
          RIGHT. 
          WE HAVE NO CHOICE, I DON'T THINK. 
          UM, SO I'M NOT ADVERSE TO THAT. 
          I WAS ALREADY THINKING THAT WE MIGHT NEED ANOTHER SPECIAL CALLED MEETING JUST FOR BUSINESS. 
          UM, SO I WOULDN'T WANT TO DO IT JUST FOR THAT, BUT, BUT, BUT IF YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE OPEN TO DOING ANOTHER SPECIAL CALLED MEETING FOR THAT AND ANOTHER MAJOR ISSUE, UM, YOU KNOW, THEN THAT WOULD BE, I THINK THAT'D BE FINE. 
          WE JUST HAVE TO ALL AGREE TO IT. 
          UH, AND OF COURSE, UH, GET IT SCHEDULED WITH THE CLERK'S OFFICE. 
          DOES HE WANT, DOES EVERYONE SOUND SUPPORTIVE OF THAT? IT DEPENDS, BUT GENERALLY SPEAKING WITHOUT SPECIFIC DATES IN MIND. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          GREAT. 
          GREAT. 
          WELL THEN I THINK WE'VE GOT THE CONSENSUS ON THAT. 
          WE DON'T NEED TO, TO DISCUSS THAT ANY FURTHER, I WOULD THINK. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          LET'S MOVE FORWARD IN OUR AGENDA THEN, UH, QUICKLY. 
          UH, SO NOW TO 
          [4.a. Digital Inclusion, Civic Engagement, and Strategic Technology and Telecom Policy
Working Group]
ITEM FOUR COMMISSION UPDATES BEGINNING WITH THE DIGITAL INCLUSION CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOM POLICY WORKING GROUP. 
          UH, SO I'D LIKE TO BEGIN BY, UH, OF COURSE ACKNOWLEDGING ALL THE THINGS TODAY THAT WERE FOCUSED AROUND DIGITAL INCLUSION THAT WE SPOKEN ABOUT. 
          I'M VERY THRILLED OF COURSE, BY THE WORK OF OUR LEADERSHIP, AUSTIN, DIGITAL INCLUSION FELLOW, AND, UM, AND THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THAT PARTNERSHIP, UH, TO DEEPEN, UH, PARTICULARLY WITH, UH, THE LEVEL OF ACCESS, UH, THAT COLTON IS MAINTAINING AND HER PERSISTENT COLLABORATION THROUGHOUT THE ECOSYSTEM AROUND DIGITAL INCLUSION. 
          UM, THERE'S CLEARLY TONS OF LEGISLATION IMPACTING DIGITAL INCLUSION THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET INTO MORE INTO IN THE, UH, WORKING GROUP SESSIONS. 
          SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO GET INTO THAT THERE. 
          UH, WE DID ACTUALLY HAVE, WE DO HAVE THE G TOPS, UM, LETTER OF INTENT DEADLINE APPROACHING THIS WRITING. 
          OH, EXCUSE ME. 
          UH, IN A FEW WEEKS HERE, JANUARY 9TH. 
          RIGHT? SO, UH, ALL NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS OUT THERE OR INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE FOCUSED ON OR THINKING ABOUT BEING INVOLVED AS A NONPROFIT LEADER, FRANKLY, BECAUSE LETTER OF INTENT REALLY MEANS JUST THAT ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS HAVE SERIOUS COMMITMENT AND IDEA AND BE WILLING TO PUT THAT ON PAPER IN ORDER TO START THE PROCESS FOR DETOX FUNDING. 
          SO KEEP THAT IN MIND AND PLEASE THROW YOUR HAT IN THE RING. 
          WE NEED ALL THE HELP THAT WE CAN GET IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          UM, ALSO WANT TO SPEAK TO DIGITAL INCLUSION AND THE PROCLAMATION, WHICH I WAS HONORED TO SPEAK, UH, FOR, AS I MENTIONED DURING OUR LAST COMMISSION MEETING. 
          UM, AND, UH, REALLY JUST DELIGHTED THAT SO MUCH ATTENTION IS FOCUSED ON ALL OF OUR WORK HERE AT THE CITY AND REALLY THE ATTENTION WE'RE GETTING, UH, FROM THE STATE AND, AND JUST THE WHOLE MOMENTUM FOCUSED AROUND BROADBAND, I THINK IS SOMETHING WHICH ONLY SERVES US AND OUR EFFORTS TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY. 
          SO UNLESS THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH A SUFFICIENT UPDATE, I'D SAY FOR THAT WORKING GROUP. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          THEN 
          [4.b. Knowledge, Information, and Data Stewardship Working Group]
WE'LL PROCEED WITH THE AGENDA NOW TO AGENDA ITEM FOUR B THE KNOWLEDGE INFORMATION AND DATA STEWARDSHIP WORKING GROUP. 
          THIS WILL BE A BRIEF ONE. 
          UM, WE'RE STILL IN THE PROCESS OF NEEDING A CHAIR FOR THIS WORKING GROUP. 
          UM, I, DUE TO A SCHEDULE CONFLICT WAS OBLIGED TO CANCEL THIS WORKING GROUP MEETING AND KNOWING HOW HARD IT WAS FOR US TO GET THIS ONE, KEEP THIS ONE SCHEDULED AND ATTENDED. 
          UM, I OPTED IN, AND REALLY FRANKLY, WITH THE TIMING RIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING OPTED NOT TO EVEN BOTHER REACHING OUT TO, TO YOU ALL, TO TRY TO SCHEDULE THAT MEETING. 
          UH, BUT IN THIS FORMAT TODAY, I WOULD LIKE TO TRY TO GET A SENSE FROM THOSE IN THE ROOM, WHAT TRULY CAN WORK AS A STANDING MEETING AND TO PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ANYONE TO PROVIDE LEADERSHIP AT THE WORKING GROUP LEVEL. 
          UM, AND THIS IS SOMETHING WHICH AS AN, AS AN ASIDE, BUT IT RELATES TO EARLIER CONVERSATION. 
          UM, I DO, I DO RECALL IN MY CAREER BEING VERY THANKFUL THAT I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO, TO CHEER A WORKING GROUP BEFORE I OPERATED IN A LEADERSHIP ROLE FOR THE COMMISSION. 
          UM, AND I, IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR ANYONE 
          [02:10:01]
ELSE THAT WANTS TO MAYBE KIND OF TIP TOE IN KIND OF CHECK IT OUT A LITTLE BIT BEFORE THEY ACTUALLY DO IT. 
          UH, SO THAT'S JUST FOOD FOR THOUGHT, NO PRESSURE, BUT IN THE MEANTIME, WE'RE NOT OBLIGED TO HAVE, OR REQUIRED TO HAVE A CHAIR, BUT WE ARE OBLIGED TO ACTUALLY HAVE THESE WORK GROUP MEETINGS. 
          SO, UM, ANY THOUGHTS ON, I REALLY JUST WANNA GO AROUND THE ROOM, UH, YOU KNOW, A DAY OF THE WEEK, A WEEK OF THE MONTH, UH, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW WE HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE WORKING GROUP MEETING ON WHAT THE, THE FIRST MONDAY WE HAVE THE DIGITAL INCLUSION WORKING GROUP MEETING ON THE FIRST TUESDAY OR SECOND TUESDAY, SORRY AT, SO, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT A CANVAS HERE, A WHITEBOARD FOR THE KIDS WORKING GROUP. 
          SO I REALLY KINDA WANT TO GO, YOU KNOW, PERSON BY PERSON. 
          UM, AND MAYBE WE CAN FOCUS AVAILABILITY, UH, YOU KNOW, MEMBERSHIP ON AVAILABILITY, OR I DON'T KNOW. 
          I JUST KNOW WE NEED TO HAVE MORE PARTICIPATION. 
          OTHERWISE THE RESPONSIBILITIES FROM THIS WORKING GROUP, WE'RE GOING TO GET DIVIDED AND THEN GO TO THE OTHER TWO WORKING GROUPS BASICALLY, AND RALEIGH GONNA GET A WHOLE LOT BUSIER. 
          SO WHO, WHO IS CURRENTLY ON THIS WORKING GROUP? SO CURRENTLY, UH, COMMISSIONER ISLAND, UH, MYSELF AND I, NOPE, THAT'S IT? YEAH. 
          WE HAD TO WAS ISLAND MUST COMMISSIONER, ALAN, MYSELF AND VICE-CHAIR ALEXANDER. 
          AND IN THE PAST WE HAD OTHER COMMISSIONERS THEN UNFORTUNATELY, UM, ONE OF THOSE SLOTS HAS NOT BEEN FILLED YET. 
          WE'RE STILL WAITING FOR, UH, OF COURSE THE VICE CHAIR TO BE REPLACED IN HIS ROLE, UH, RATHER EXCUSE ME, THE DISTRICT. 
          SO, OKAY. 
          SO ANY, UH, COMMISSIONER DARRYL, UH, IN ANY DAY OF THE WEEK THAT MIGHT WORK FOR YOU, UH, OR WEEK OF THE MONTH THAT MIGHT WORK FOR YOU FOR THAT MEETING? OKAY. 
          UH, I'M IMPARTIAL TO WEEK OF THE MONTH, UH, THURSDAYS AND FRIDAYS OR THURSDAYS AND FRIDAYS. 
          OKAY. 
          SO A DIFFERENT DAY BEING AT A TIME. 
          THAT'S GOOD. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, COMMISSIONER ISLAND, UH, UH, THURSDAYS AND FRIDAYS. 
          GOOD FOR USE AS WELL. 
          UM, THURSDAYS ARE FRIDAYS ARE NOT PROBABLY GOOD. 
          UM, BUT DO MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, I CAN DO THURSDAY, WHICH IS THE NEXUS. 
          UM, DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE AVAILABILITY ON THURSDAY? OKAY. 
          I WAS GOING TO SAY THE OPPOSITE. 
          I COULD POTENTIALLY JOIN IF THERE WERE AVAILABILITY ON FRIDAY. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT'S REALLY THE ONLY DAY OF THE WEEK. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, UM, WE HAVE THREE COMMISSIONERS, UM, THAT ARE AVAILABLE ON THURSDAYS AT THIS TIME, WHICH IS THE MAKINGS OF A WORKING GROUP. 
          SO I'M AFRAID WE HAVE TO TAKE, WE CAN GET, UH, SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, THEN HOW ABOUT, UH, SINCE WE KNOW THAT GOING PAST THE SECOND WEEK PUSHES US TO, AFTER THE COMMISSION MEETING, RIGHT. 
          AND ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT THE SECOND WEEK, AND IT BEING A THURSDAY, WE'RE GOING TO ALWAYS BE AFTER THE COMMISSION MEETING. 
          SO BE IT. 
          UH, SO IF THIS SOUNDS GOOD, THEN, UM, WHY DON'T WE AGREE TO HAVE OUR WORK GROUP MEETINGS AT FOUR O'CLOCK ON THURSDAYS, UH, THE SECOND WEEK OF THE MONTH. 
          AND WE CAN REVISIT THE TIME IF YOU WOULD LIKE, BUT THAT WORKS THAT'S ON THERE FIRST. 
          THE NEXT ONE WOULD BE IN JANUARY. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          IF YOU HAVE A CALENDAR, WOULD YOU MIND TELLING US THE DATE? UM, THE SECOND WEEK OF JANUARY WOULD BE THURSDAY, JANUARY 13TH. 
          SO STARTING WITH THE 13TH, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT'S GOOD FOR EVERYONE. 
          THAT'S A, THAT'S GOOD FOR ME. 
          OKAY. 
          AND, UH, COMMISSIONER FLOYD, DID YOU HAVE AVAILABILITY ON THURSDAY? YOU SAY AT FOUR O'CLOCK ON THURSDAY? UH, YES. 
          I SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL NOW WE'VE GOT A FULL ON WORKING GROUP HERE. 
          COOL. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          GREAT. 
          WELL THEN WITH THAT, UH, I THINK THAT RESOLVES THE BUSINESS FOR THIS WORKING GROUP. 
          [4.c. Technology, Infrastructure, and Innovation Working Group]
I'D LIKE TO PASS IT OFF, UH, WITH AGENDA ITEM FOUR C UH, TO THE CO-CHAIRS, UH, COMMISSIONER  COMMISSIONER, FLOYD OF THE TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE AND INNOVATION WORKING GROUP. 
          SO I'VE GOT THE NOTES PRINTED OUT, SO I CAN START IN A QUESTION OF FLOYD YOU CAN JOIN IN AFTER THAT. 
          [02:15:01]
WOULD THAT WORK? YES, PLEASE PROCEED. 
          GOT OKAY. 
          UM, WE HAD A MEETING, VERY INTERESTING MEETING ON MONDAY. 
          THAT'S OUR, THE FIRST MONDAY OF THE MONTH WE MEET. 
          AND WE'VE HAD A COUPLE OF CONVERSATIONS WITH A GENTLEMAN BY THE NAME OF JEFF . 
          I ASSUME THAT'S HOW YOU PRONOUNCE THE NAME. 
          UH, HE IS, UH, SPEAKING OF HE'S LEADING A, UH, UH, SORT OF LIKE A TASK FORCE, UH, TALKING ABOUT INTELLIGENT INFRASTRUCTURE THAT, UH, UH, IS CONCEIVING OFF OF, UH, INSTALLATION OF WHAT ARE CALLED PINS, PUBLIC INTER INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK NODES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, AS SORT OF LIKE A, LIKE THE BASIC BUILDING BLOCK TO ENSURE WHO BILL PUT IS 5G SERVICE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. 
          AND THERE'S, UH, A GREAT DEAL OF URGENCY IN GETTING THIS, UH, IMPLEMENTED. 
          AND OF COURSE, HE'S LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS WITHIN THE CITY OF AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY, ET CETERA TO GET THIS GOING. 
          UH, HE, YOU KNOW, HE EMPHASIZED THE URGENCY BY SAYING NATIONWIDE. 
          WE HAVE 15,000 OF THESE PINS AND THESE PINS AWAY ELEGANT STRUCTURES WHERE, UH, DIFFERENT PROVIDERS CAN, UH, CAN INSTALL THEIR, UH, TR TRANSMIT, YOU KNOW, RE YOU KNOW, THE RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTING DEVICES. 
          AND, UH, HE MADE THE POINT THAT IN CHINA, THEY ALREADY HAVE ONE AND A HALF MILLION NATIONWIDE, AND WE HAVE ONLY 15,000. 
          SO WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO TO CATCH UP. 
          AND, UH, UM, WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT IS THAT CITIES, THE, THE PROBLEM THAT TH THAT HE'S RUNNING INTO IS THAT CITIES UNDERSTAND BRICK AND MORTAR STRUCTURES. 
          WHEN THEY, LIKE, WHEN THEY HAVE, UH, THESE BOND PACKAGES, WHAT HAPPENS, THEY BUILD ROADS, THEY BUILD BUILDINGS, ET CETERA, BUT TO TALK ABOUT PINS IS SOMETHING THAT GOES BEYOND THEIR, UH, THEIR, THEIR, UH, LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. 
          SO THEY USUALLY WAIT FOR SORT OF LIKE A GROUNDSWELL OF SUPPORT FROM THE CITIZENS BEFORE THEY GO FORWARD. 
          SO THAT'S THE HURDLE THAT WE NEED TO CROSS IN ORDER FOR US TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS PROJECT. 
          SO WE'RE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION WITH THEM EVERY TIME. 
          AND WHAT WE'D LIKE TO DO IS TO BRING HIM TO THIS, UH, TO THIS COMMISSION IN A FUTURE MEETING AND SEE HOW THIS WORKING GROUP AND THIS COMMISSION CAN WORK WITH HIM TO MOVE THIS BALL FORWARD. 
          YEAH, LET ME JUST CLARIFY A LITTLE BIT, UH, CAUSE JEFF HAS PRESENTED FOR US BEFORE. 
          UM, AND SO, UH, THE KEY THING I THINK THAT WE'RE AT NOW, AS WE'VE GOTTEN TO THIS POINT, JEFF IS ALREADY ALIGNED WITH, UH, RESOURCES AT THE STATE LEVEL. 
          JEFF HAS ALREADY, UH, JEFF, WHO WAS THE, UH, FELLOW AND S PRESIDENT OF THE AUTONOMY INSTITUTE. 
          UM, THEY'VE ALREADY IDENTIFIED PORTIONS OF AUSTIN WHERE PINS WILL ADD DIRECT VALUE AND IMMEDIATELY IMPACT THE DIGITAL DIVIDE. 
          UH, THE, THE KEY THING WHERE THE COMMISSION PLAYS A ROLE, UH, REALLY IS IN OUR ROLE AS COMMISSIONERS WITH DIRECT CONNECTION TO CITY COUNCIL AND OUR ABILITY TO THEN ENGAGE IN COMMUNITY EDUCATION ABOUT THESE PINS BEGINNING WITH OUR COUNCIL DISTRICTS AND SHARING THE ADVANTAGES OF THIS INTELLIGENT INFRASTRUCTURE BASICALLY. 
          AND SO HE SEES OUR COMMISSION AS PLAYING A KEY ROLE BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT WE HAVE A FOOTPRINT THAT ENCOMPASSES CITY COUNCIL AS DIRECT ADVISORS TO CITY COUNCIL, AND BECAUSE WE'RE EFFECTIVELY RESPONSIBLE FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND THEREFORE ARE NATURALLY POISED TO LEAD AN EDUCATION EXERCISE, UH, INFORMING THE CITY ABOUT THE CONTENTS. 
          SO THAT'S ALL IT WANTS TO DO TO TINDER CHECK THERE, COMMISSIONER FLIGHT. 
          DID YOU WANT TO ADD ANYTHING? UM, OKAY. 
          CAN YOU, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES. 
          YES. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, YEAH, I THINK IT WAS IN ADDITION TO, YOU KNOW, WE TALKED ABOUT BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE. 
          I MEAN, I THINK THE OTHER THING I THINK HE WAS REITERATING IN TERMS OF GETTING INFORMATION OUT TO THE PUBLIC WAS THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS FACILITATES A LOT OF THE, THE, UH, FUTURE FORWARD-LOOKING SERVICES THAT PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN, UM, FACILITATING, UM, UH, CONNECTED MOBILITY AND, UM, SORT OF THE BETTER 5G SYSTEM. 
          UH, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HE POINTED OUT WAS THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK OF 5G AS SORT OF, YOU KNOW, FASTER DOWNLOAD TIMES FOR, YOU KNOW, MOVIES OR SONGS 
          [02:20:01]
OR, YOU KNOW, STREAMING OR WHATEVER, BUT REALLY THAT, THAT, LIKE THE REASON THAT BECOMES IMPORTANT IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, LET'S SAY COMPARING OUR 5G CONNECTIVITY TO CHINA IS THAT IT'S, IT'S A NEXT STEP IN OUR ECONOMIC EVOLUTION. 
          AND THAT, THAT WE AS A CITY, ESPECIALLY A CITY THAT ON THE FOREFRONT OF THE TECH INDUSTRY DOESN'T WANT TO BE LEFT BEHIND. 
          AND SO I THINK HE WAS HOPING TO GET THAT MESSAGE OUT, UM, TO THE PUBLIC AS PART OF HIS BUILDING OF A GROUNDSWELL. 
          I THINK, I THINK THE IMPORTANT POINT IS IT'S REALLY, UH, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE MULTIPLE POINTS HE WAS MAKING, FIRST OF ALL, IT'S THE OVERCOMING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IS ONE OF THEM. 
          SECONDLY, IT'S RAISING THE LEVEL OF, YOU KNOW, THE WATER, OKAY. 
          THIS IS A BUSINESS PREROGATIVE, THIS IS A BUSINESS PRIORITY, WHICH IS WHY CHINA'S PUSHING IT SO HARD. 
          SO BESIDES BEING A BUSINESS PRIORITY, IT'S ALSO A PRIORITY TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD AND WHERE HE SEES US PLAYING A ROLE IS TWOFOLD. 
          UM, CHIP IT'S MENTIONED ONE ABOUT OUR ABILITY TO, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR OUTREACH. 
          THE OTHER ONE IS TO GO TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND POSSIBLY THROUGH A MOTION SAYING THAT, THAT EACH OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, AS WELL AS THE MAYOR SHOULD BE SUPPORTING THIS AND MOVING THIS BALL FORWARD. 
          YEAH, YEAH. 
          I'D SAY THAT'S VERY ACCURATE. 
          I THINK THE ONLY OTHER THING I WOULD ADD IS HE DEFINITELY SEES AUSTIN, UH, IN AN OPPORTUNE POSITION TO PLAY LEADERSHIP ROLE, UH, RIGHT. 
          THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, CLEARLY WE'VE GOT SOME CATCHING UP TO DO WITH CHINA, BUT MEANWHILE, OUR CITY IS POISED TO REALLY LEAD BY EXAMPLE FOR THE REST OF THE COUNTRY AND THE STATE, FRANKLY. 
          THAT'S ALL I HAVE OR WE HAVE. 
          OKAY, WELL, GREAT. 
          DID HE ON THE QUESTIONS FOR THIS WORKING GROUP OR, OR FEEDBACK ON THIS TOPIC? OKAY, GREAT. 
          WELL THEN WE'LL 
          [FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS]
GO TO FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. UH, SO WE, WE DO HAVE A FEW ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN, UH, PUSHED AROUND, UH, BASED UPON THE CANCELLATION THAT WE HAD IN NOVEMBER, UH, FOR ONE, UH, A BY OUR NEW CHIEF RESEARCH AND STRATEGIC INITIATIVES, OFFICER SERINA, SERINA, ALBAN, SERENA ALBA, THE SHE'LL BE, UH, ALL OF A SURENO, EXCUSE ME. 
          UH, SHE'LL BE PRESENTING IN JANUARY AND AS AGREED TO, SO THAT'LL BE PART OF OUR, UH, AGENDA IN JANUARY. 
          WE KNOW, UH, THAT WE HAVE A NEED TO BRING IN CARRIERS AS WE TALKED ABOUT. 
          UH, SO WE SHOULD CERTAINLY BE LOOKING AT THAT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. 
          WE'RE GOING TO HAVE PART TWO OF THE REPORT AND THEN A NEED TO DISCUSS IN DEPTH ACTIONS AND OR IDEATE ON, UH, WAYS TO ADDRESS THAT AS A BODY, BEYOND THE WORKING GROUPS. 
          UH, THE CHALLENGES MENTIONED, UH, FROM THE TOWN HALL. 
          THOSE ARE JUST SOME OF THE THINGS. 
          SO I THINK WE'VE GOT, AND THOSE ARE THE THINGS TOP OF MIND, JESSE, THERE ANY, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT WE KNOW HAS BEEN PUSHED THAT I'M NOT THINKING OF YET? I DON'T HAVE A SPECIAL CALL THEN THE VOTE FOR THE VICE CHAIR? UH, CERTAINLY VERY GOOD POINT. 
          YES. 
          IF WE DON'T HAVE A SPECIAL CALL MEETING, THEN THE VOTE FOR THE VICE CHAIR AS WELL. 
          VERY IMPORTANT. 
          I HAVE A VERY BRIEF UPDATE ON LETTERS OF INTEREST RECEIVED. 
          YES. 
          WELL, OKAY. 
          I'M JUST GOING TO SHUT DOWN. 
          IT'S PART TWO OF THAT REPORT GOING TO INCLUDE PUBLISHING OF THE VIDEO THAT THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE ACTUAL SESSION. 
          NO, I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT THAT UP. 
          SO THE, AND THIS WILL GIVE ME A CHANCE TO ASK JESSE ABOUT THAT. 
          SO THE, THE NEW VERSION. 
          OKAY. 
          SO LET ME GIVE SOME CONTEXT AS WELL. 
          UH, SO THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE VIDEO, UH, WAS ABOUT 635 MEGS. 
          WE HAD TO MAKE SOME, WE HAD TO COURSE, UH, TRANSCRIBE AND MAKE SOME EDITS. 
          UH, WE GAVE THAT TO ATEC SENSE TO MAKE THAT X FOR US. 
          AND, UH, I'M NOT SURE WHY, BUT THAT VERSION OF THE VIDEO WAS 5.6 GIGS. 
          I, I THEN WENT BACK AND, UH, RECREATE, DID THE EDIT MYSELF, UH, USING MOUND SOFTWARE. 
          AND MY VERSION IS ONLY ONE GIG. 
          SO THAT'S THE VERSION. 
          I JUST FINISHED IT TODAY. 
          SO THAT'S THE VERSION I'M GOING TO GIVE TO JESSE TO THEN UPLOAD FOR SHARING ON EITHER OUR DECA 
          [02:25:01]
PAGE OR A DESIGNATED PLACE WHERE WE'LL HAVE CONTENT FOR THESE TOWN HALLS TO KEEP IT AS A LIBRARY. 
          BUT IT DOES REMIND ME ABOUT A POTENTIAL FUTURE AGENDA ITEM THAT I'D BE INTERESTED IN GETTING A CHECKUP, UH, EARLY NEXT YEAR. 
          I'M FROM AB A PD ON, UH, THE PROGRESS AND WORK THAT THEY'VE DONE WITH, UH, ADDRESSING THEIR BACKLOG FOR ALL OF THEIR VIDEO FILES. 
          YEAH. 
          UH, THAT THAT'S, UH, A UPDATE. 
          I WOULD SECOND, AS WELL AS AN UPDATE ON, UH, APD ONE, THAT APP, WHICH THEY WERE USING IN A KIND OF A GENERAL UPDATE FROM APD MIGHT BE HELPFUL. 
          YEAH. 
          UH, ADDITIONAL ITEM COULD BE INVITING JESSICA TO COME AND TALK AT SOME FUTURE COMMISSION MEETING. 
          OH YEAH. 
          CERTAINLY, CERTAINLY. 
          UM, I KNOW THAT, UH, THE TIMING OF OUR NEXT ENGAGEMENT WILL BE KEY. 
          I THINK WE WANT TO TRY TO INVITE SOME PLAYERS WITH, UH, THE CITY, UH, FRANKLY, IT'S ENGAGED IN THE WORKING GROUP SESSION WITH JEFF BEYOND US. 
          UH, AND THEN SPRINGBOARD FROM THAT INTO, YOU KNOW, UH, WHETHER WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UH, JOHN GAIDEN OR, UH, UH, OR OTHER PLAYERS THAT ARE WORKING ON THESE ISSUES. 
          RIGHT. 
          WHICH LEADS ME TO ANOTHER POINT THAT WE BROUGHT UP BRIEFLY AT THE WORKING GROUP MEETING. 
          WE TALKED ABOUT PROJECT CONNECT AND HOW THEY COULD BE FACILITATORS IN MOVING THIS FORWARD, BECAUSE WHEREVER THEY PUT A NEW RAIL LINE IN THOSE ARE THE AREAS WHERE MOST OF THE DEVELOPMENT IS GOING TO BE MIDDLE INCOME, LOW INCOME HOUSING, WHICH IS WHERE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE WOULD HAVE TO BE RESOLVED. 
          SO AT SOME FUTURE POINT, WE SHOULD INVITE THE PROPER REPRESENTATIVES, SOME DUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP AND BRING THE TWO TOGETHER. 
          UH, I COULDN'T AGREE WITH YOU MORE. 
          I COULD NOT AGREE WITH YOU MORE. 
          WE, IT WOULDN'T BE A BAD IDEA FOR US TO, AND, YOU KNOW, BIKE THEM TO THE SAME MEETING. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, UM, NOT AS SOON AS THE NEXT MEETING, BUT RIGHT. 
          AT SOME FUTURE MEETING, NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE MEETING. 
          RIGHT, RIGHT. 
          CONCUR, UH, COMMISSIONER GATES. 
          YES. 
          UH, THESE TWO ITEMS, I'M NOT SURE IF THEY SHOULD BE IN A WORKING GROUP OR IN THE, UH, IN THE COMMISSION, BUT, UH, WE DO HAVE THESE PENDING ITEMS. UM, THE COUNCIL VOTE DATABASE AND THEN THE REMOTE PARTICIPATION. 
          AND IT SEEMS THAT, UH, BOTH OF THESE ITEMS ARE NOW IN THE HANDS OF THE, UH, CITY CLERK'S OFFICE. 
          AND SO WE NEED TO EITHER GET, UH, AN UPDATE OR SOMETHING FROM THEM. 
          UH, JESSE, WE'D LIKE TO ADD TO THAT, PROVIDE SOME INSIGHT RATHER. 
          YES. 
          UH, I HAVE A QUICK UPDATE ON THE REMOTE PARTICIPATION ITEM. 
          SO THE CITY COUNCIL HAS APPROVED, UH, OR HAS ELIMINATED A LOT OF THE BARRIERS THAT REQUIRE IN-PERSON PARTICIPATION AT COMMISSION MEETINGS BY COMMISSIONERS. 
          UH, THE CLERK'S OFFICE IS IMPLEMENTING THAT CHANGE AS OF APRIL. 
          UH, SO FOR JANUARY AND FEBRUARY AND ALL SPECIAL CALLS IN BETWEEN, WE'RE STILL GOING TO HAVE THE IN-PERSON. 
          AND THE QUORUM REQUIREMENT BEGINNING IN APRIL IS, UH, WHEN MYSELF AND CHAIR PITS WILL REMAIN IN PERSON AS REQUIRED. 
          BUT, UH, BEYOND THAT REMOTE PARTICIPATION WILL BE PERMITTED. 
          JESSIE WILL, THE VICE CHAIR BE REQUIRED TO BE IN PERSON. 
          THE VICE CHAIR WILL NOT BE REQUIRED TO BE IN PERSON ON THE LESS THAT CHAIR IS UNABLE TO PARTICIPATE AT ALL. 
          AND THAT'S GOOD FOOD FOR THOUGHT, RIGHT. 
          PERTAINING TO THE VICE-CHAIR BECAUSE OF, I GUESS IN FAIRNESS, UM, WE COULD STILL HAVE ADDITIONAL NOMINEES. 
          UM, I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE REQUIRED TO LIMIT THE PROCESS TO THE NOT RIGHT. 
          SO WE HAD A NOMINATION PROCESS. 
          WE HAD AN ELECTION THAT DIDN'T NO OUTCOME, SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO DO THAT ALL OVER AGAIN. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO GOOD FOOD FOR THOUGHT YOU CAN BE A VICE CHAIR AND STILL PARTICIPATE REMOTELY. 
          SO KEEP THAT IN MIND FOR THOSE, ALL THOSE WHO ARE NOMINATED FOR VICE CHAIR, KEEP THAT IN MIND. 
          OH, I HAVE A FULL ONE QUESTION TO THAT. 
          YES. 
          LET'S SAY THERE'S A SITUATION WHERE THE CHAIR IS UNABLE TO ATTEND IN PERSON. 
          IF A VICE CHAIR THEN TAKES HIS PLACE, WOULD THAT BE SUFFICIENT TO ENSURE QUORUM? 
          [02:30:02]
I BELIEVE SO. 
          UH, THE, THERE, I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE PERMITTED FOR THE CHAIR TO PARTICIPATE REMOTELY, BUT FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE MEETING, THE VICE CHAIR WOULD BE ACTING CHAIR. 
          YEAH. 
          RIGHT, RIGHT. 
          SO THE VICE CHAIR WILL BE ACTING CHAIR DURING THAT MEETING AND THEY'D HAVE TO BE HERE AT CITY HALL. 
          YES, THAT'S RIGHT. 
          THAT'S UNDERSTOOD. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          THAT MAKES SENSE. 
          COOL. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR ANY OTHER THOUGHTS ON FUTURE? OH, COMMISSIONER GATES, PLEASE. 
          SO DID THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE GIVE ANY INDICATION OF THE REASON FOR THE DELAY? IN OTHER WORDS, THERE'S SOME TECHNICAL ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE RESOLVED. 
          YES. 
          MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THEY'RE WORKING CLOSELY WITH CTM AND ATX N TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, THEY HAVE THE CAPACITY TO SUPPORT THAT DIRECTION. 
          AND IT'S NOT A QUESTION OF IF THEY DO, IT'S JUST MAKING SURE THAT EVERYTHING'S IN PLACE. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION. 
          COMMUNICATES. 
          IT IS AN IMPORTANT FOLLOWUP POINT. 
          OKAY. 
          ANY OTHER THOUGHTS ON FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS AT THIS TIME? WE HEARD ONLY THE ANSWER TO THAT PARTICULAR QUESTION. 
          WHAT ABOUT THAT SPREADSHEET REPORTING ALL THE CITY COUNCIL DECISIONS BASED ON THE SPREADSHEET, THAT ORIGINAL REQUEST, WHICH HAS BEEN SUPPORTING TABLATURE THREE YEARS? NO. 
          SO GO AHEAD, JESSE. 
          MY UNDERSTANDING, UH, WHERE WE LEFT THIS IS, UH, IN THE LAST UPDATE THAT WE HAD FROM THE CITY CLERK, JEANETTE GOODALL THAT, UH, THEY UNDERSTAND THE REQUEST, BUT THAT THIS ISN'T IN THEIR TOP PRIORITY TO MOVE ON. 
          AND AS FAR AS I'M AWARE, THIS ISN'T IN FRONT OF, UH, YOU KNOW, CITY COUNCIL FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION. 
          I THOUGHT THAT CITY COUNCIL HAD ALREADY GIVEN DIRECTION THAT THEY WERE GOING TO REPORT BACK WITH SOME OPTIONS AND THEN GO FROM THERE. 
          BUT SO CITY COUNCIL HAS NOT DECIDED ON AN OPTION. 
          IS, IS THAT NOW WHERE IT STANDS? YES. 
          UH, SO THERE'S SOME, SOME COMPLEX TIMELINES IN THAT THE COMMISSION'S INTEREST PROCEEDED THE COUNCILS, UH, BY A COUPLE MONTHS. 
          AND THEN THE COUNCIL, UH, PASSED A RESOLUTION THAT DIRECTED THE CLERK'S OFFICE TO PROVIDE OPTIONS. 
          THE CLERK'S OFFICE THEN PROVIDED THREE OPTIONS. 
          BUT, UH, I THINK THAT THERE WERE, UH, THERE'S AS FAR AS I'M AWARE, THERE'S BEEN NO ACTION SINCE. 
          UM, SO I MIGHT HAVE TO GO BACK TO THAT RESOLUTION AND SEE IF THERE'S BEEN ANY ACTION OR MOVEMENT THAT I'VE MISSED CHIP IT'S. 
          UH, AGAIN, I'D LIKE TO REITERATE THE ORIGINAL REQUEST. 
          I THINK WE, YOU KNOW, THE REQUEST WAS GOING FORWARD THAT TABULATION SHOULD HAPPEN IN A SPREADSHEET FORM NOT TO GO BACK AND REESE, YOU KNOW, STORE ALL PREVIOUS DECISIONS IN THIS TABULATED FORM, WHICH WAS WHERE THE MOST OF THE EXPENSES WERE COMING IN. 
          WE STILL INSIST THE SOLUTION SHOULD BE A LOOKING FORWARD TYPE OF SOLUTION FOR ALL FUTURE MEETINGS SO THAT WE CAN, YOU KNOW, WE CAN COME UP WITH A SIMPLER SOLUTION CAUSE IT'S KIND OF EMBARRASSING. 
          IT'S BEEN SITTING THERE FOR THREE YEARS. 
          UH, YEAH. 
          YOUR POINT IS WELL TAKEN. 
          UH, I HAVE TO ADMIT, I DON'T FIND IT EMBARRASSING BECAUSE IT'S OUT OF OUR HANDS. 
          UM, SO YEAH, NO, AS A COMMISSIONER, I'M NOT EMBARRASSED BY THAT PERSONALLY. 
          UM, BUT NONE OF THE CONDITIONS WE ARE QUOTE UNQUOTE EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY. 
          SO I KNOW I'M AN APPOINTEE, I'M NOT AN EMPLOYEE OF THE CITY. 
          UH, I ADVISE THE CITY. 
          AND SO TO YOU, UH, BUT, UH, YOUR POINT IS TAKEN, RIGHT? BECAUSE WE UNDERSTAND THE VALUE FOR THIS, TO OUR COMMUNITY. 
          WE UNDERSTAND THAT THEY'RE WANTING TO USE TECHNOLOGY TO BE ABLE TO GAIN INSIGHTS ON HOW PEOPLE VOTE. 
          I MEAN, THAT'S REALLY WHAT IT AMOUNTS TO. 
          LIKE THEY'RE DOING ANOTHER CITIES. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, WE'LL, WE, I THINK WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS JUST TO CONTINUE TO WORK THROUGH THE SYSTEM, TRY TO ELEVATE THAT PRIORITY. 
          AND A LOT OF THE FACT THAT WE ALL HAVE A COUNCIL MEMBER WHO COULD WEIGH IN ON THIS, WE MIGHT WANT TO START BY GETTING CONFIRMATION OR VALIDATION FROM OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT THEY SUPPORT IT AND THEN GO FROM THERE. 
          ARE YOU DOING THE RIGHT TO MIND? OKAY, THAT'S A GOOD IDEA. 
          I THINK LET'S ALL DO THAT INDIVIDUALLY. 
          AND THEN WE CAN KIND OF TAKE IT FROM THERE. 
          AND THAT WAY WE CAN AVOID AT LEAST FEELING ANY KIND OF, YOU KNOW, FEELING OF EMBARRASSMENT FOR THIS AS A BODY SAYS, IT'S REALLY NOT UP TO US. 
          ALRIGHT, GREAT. 
          WELL, IF THAT SOUNDS GOOD, THEN WE CAN MOVE ON TO OUR FINAL AGENDA 
          [02:35:01]
ITEM, WHICH IS A GERMAN. 
          I NEED A MOTION TO ADJOURN. 
          AND A SECOND, I MOVE TO A JUNE 2ND AND I HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN BY COMMISSIONER SCOOP AND SECOND SPOT COMMISSIONER APODACA AND THOMSON BEAVERS ALL IN FAVOR OF THE GERMAN. 
          PLEASE SAY, AYE. 
          AYE. 
          ANYONE OPPOSED? NO, WE ARE ADJOURNED. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH, EVERYBODY. 
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