Wireless (and Wired) Minneapolis

November 5, 2004

W&M/Budget – Your Committee recommends concurrence with the recommendation of the City’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) request for authorization to initiate a program that will provide Citywide Broad Band Wireless Internet Services to all residential, commercial and institutional users, by proceeding with the following activities:
a) The Business Information Services Department is directed to initiate a Citywide Broad Band Wireless Internet Services project;
b) The proper City officers are authorized to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) to deploy, manage and administer ubiquitous Citywide Broad Band Wireless Internet services;
c) Development of a Citywide Broad Band Wireless Internet services business case based on a public/private partnership and responses to the RFP.
Further, the initiative will be funded by a public/private partnership, with the private sector partner being responsible for all acquisition, design and implementation costs and management of the network
going forward; the City will recover all soft costs expended from the project planning through network completion from the partner upon contract execution.
Adopted 11/5/04.
Absent - Samuels, Schiff.

Staff Report: Wireless Broadband Internet Services

Staff Report: Wireless: Bridging the Digital Divide

April 30, 2004

W&M/Budget - Your Committee recommends approval of the Communications Department
Business Plan (Petn No 269594).

Zerby moved that a work group be formed consisting of members from the Communications Department, Community Planning and Economic Development Department, Community Crime Prevention/SAFE, and the Neighborhood Revitalization Program to design a strategy for community engagement that includes a two-way strategy and recommendations as to how to implement it. Seconded.
Lost. Yeas, 4, Nays, 9 as follows:
Yeas - Zimmermann, Schiff, Zerby, Benson.
Nays - Samuels, Johnson, Colvin Roy, Lilligren, Johnson Lee, Niziolek, Goodman, Lane, Ostrow.

Zerby moved to amend the Communications Department Business Plan as follows:
That the key performance measure listed on page 11 of the Communications Department Business Plan “the successful negotiation of a new franchise agreement with a cable provider that provides all or most of the following desired outcomes: partial or complete funding for an Institutional network, an increase in the Public/Educational/Government access fee per subscriber that addresses gaps identified during a needs assessment and fair compensation for excess capacity currently being utilized by Time Warner” be transferred from the Communications Department to the Finance Department.
Seconded.
Lost upon a voice vote

The report was adopted 4/30/04. Yeas, 10, Nays, 7 as follows:
Yeas - Samuels, Johnson, Colvin Roy, Lilligren, Johnson Lee, Niziolek, Benson, Goodman, Lane, Ostrow.
Nays - Zimmermann, Schiff, Zerby.

January 16, 2004

Lilligren moves that Business Information Services (BIS) be the central organization responsible for all activities related to the development and deployment of a comprehensive City government-wide wireless strategy and infrastructure that integrates with the City’s IT, telephony (including cell phones), radio and data communications environments and that all City departments with the need for wireless communication must engage this organization (BIS) to ensure conformance to overall strategy, standards and the ability to leverage economies of scale.
Lilligren further moves that BIS be the City’s point of contact and coordination related to the establishment of a comprehensive citywide “Technology Agenda” that will involve other jurisdictions and the private sector. Seconded.
Adopted 1/16/04.
[No supporting documents.]

Staff Report: Contract with rClient

December 29, 2003

WAYS AND MEANS BUDGET and ZONING AND PLANNING:
BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS (269307)
Wireless Networking Technology (Wi-Fi): Update by the Chief Information Officer.
[No supporting documents.]

October 10, 2003

Schiff moved to direct the City Coordinator’s office to begin working with the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board on the citywide Wireless Initiative and report back as necessary to the Zoning & Planning Committee as negotiations proceed.
Niziolek moved to amend Schiff’s motion to report back as necessary to the Ways & Means/Budget Committee. Seconded.
Zerby moved to amend Schiff’s motion to report back as necessary to the Zoning & Planning and Ways & Means/Budget Committees. Seconded.
Adopted upon a voice vote.
Schiff’s motion, as amended, was adopted 10/10/03.
Absent - Johnson.

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