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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION March 28, 2011 APPROVED 46 The council heard from the Chris Olson, Police Chief of the City of Blaine, who voiced 47 the need for a new system to eliminate redundancies in the system, as well as the need to 48 get all information and connections where they are needed. 49 50 When the Mayor asked if other counties in the state are involved or have similar efforts, 51 Mr. Palumbo said that this is currently an exclusive effort of Anoka County, possibly 52 because it is the only county with the collaborative structure of a joint council in place. 53 When a council member asked if the program is expected to save costs, Police Chief 54 Olson remarked that past collaborative efforts have allowed cities to minimize their 55 records personnel. In response to a question about maintaining the privacy of records, it 56 was clarified that all necessary protections will remain in place. 57 58 The council will consider the resolution supporting an Anoka County Joint Public Safety 59 Data System and Associated Bonding. 60 61 B) Anoka County Connect Fiber Project—Administrator Karlson introduced those 62 present to discuss the project: Anoka County Commissioner Robin West, Assistant 63 Anoka County Attorney Kathryn Timm, and from AGL Consulting, Fazil Bhimani. Mr. 64 Karlson briefly explained that the Connect Anoka County project would establish a fiber 65 network that would link 145 institutions through a 286 mile fiber backbone. The idea of 66 the project began as a joint national grant application of Anoka County and Zayo 67 Bandwidth Administration. The grant was approved and would fund 70 percent of the 68 fiber construction and initial equipment costs. 69 70 Mr. Bhimani presented an overview of the project using a PowerPoint presentation(on 71 file). It included a summary of the project, an explanation of the obligations of Zayo 72 under the grant and as owner and operator of the system,the obligations of Anoka County 73 to the city(if the city were to sign on) and the obligations of the city as a member of the 74 network. The council received a map indicating the core ring of fiber network(one of 75 three)that would serve the city. 76 77 A council member confirmed that this would be an all new fiber network. There was also 78 an explanation of the day-to-day management planned for the system: the actual physical 79 monitoring of the system would be done by Zayo and there would also likely be an Anoka 80 County center for management. Ms. Timm noted that the County anticipates and has 81 included in the legal documents, the establishment of an advisory board that would deal 82 with management matters. The benefits to the city would be increased capacity, increased 83 bandwidth to facilities and redundancy, as well as cheaper service that what the city 84 currently receives. 85 86 Administrator Karlson then explained that, as noted in his staff report,there have been 87 many questions brought up over the past weeks on this proposal and telecommunications 88 attorney Steve Guzzetta(North Metro Cable Commission) has reviewed the agreement. 89 Mr. Karlson pointed out Mr. Guzzetta's concerns (included in the information provided 90 to the council). Ms. Timm had not seen Mr. Guzzetta's letter but she did receive a