Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Utilities Department report

The February 26, 2008 Los Alamos County Council meeting (pdf of agenda) had a discussion of the Utilities Department report on fiber. Eventually, minutes of that meeting should show up on the index of 2008 Council meeting minutes, but currently February 12 is the newest. Other items at that meeting have attachments on the internet, but the Utilities fiber report does not, currently. There is video of that part of the meeting on PAC-8, see PAC-8's video on demand page and select part 2 of the February 26, 2008 meeting. A transcript of the presentation and discussion would be good to have.

Note that the minutes of the January 16, 2008 Board of Public Utilities meeting (pdf) also included a presentation by the Utilities Department regarding fiber. Mr. Monday was more pessimistic about the financial impact of a fiber project at that time than he was at the Council meeting later.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

One issue I think that your city needs to look at are the huge economic developments even at the city and county operational level once you get decent fiber connections to everything. Hints are http://www.ideapete.com/i6dVCM.html and http://www.ideapete.com/6-dimensionalmodeling.html
The scary thing is that it changes the way they work and think. Its a helluva sad thing that a city with the national labs doesn't get fiber but why am I surprised. Has anyone REALLY done a cost benefit analysis as to what it all means

Great work keep it up

( : ( : pete

redhardhat said...

Sigh. Some of the links in this post have already gone stale in less than three months.

PAC-8 has limited storage for county council meeting videos, so the oldest meeting still on the link is March 25. The vintage will keep tracking about 90 days back, I suppose, so February 2008 is gone forever from that source.

And this week, lac-nm.us no longer works to access Los Alamos County web pages, so a manual tweak to losalamosnm.us is necessary to get the Council or Utility Board minutes. Maybe that's an aberration that will be corrected, or maybe somebody decided that lac-nm.us was a bad idea and it would be better to return to the losalamosnm.us scheme that preceded lac-nm.us.

Maybe I can edit the post to change lac-nm to losalamosnm, but maybe not.

This of course shatters what little belief I ever had that Los Alamos County "gets" the internet.