Eddan: Here, let me help to make it easier. I’ve attached a City RFP issued in 2006, the final report issued by the consultant and the final staff report that resulted from four years of work on the city wide wi-fi project. The stories I could tell you. Ultimately, the report found that the City’s fiber infrastructure was inadequate to implement such a project – and the City Council didn’t “get it” anyway.
The next story is about the public/private partnership (City, IP Network and Cisco) that applied for a federal ARRA grant in 2010 to build a $35 million fiber optic network throughout the City. Didn’t get the grant. Then my subsequent efforts to pick up the pieces (see attached Executive Summary and powerpoint completed 2 weeks before I left in June 2011). No one has picked up this project since I left.
See Mark – you just have to ask the right person!!! Call me if you have questions.
Work wasn’t wasted – San Leandro has hired me to become its first Chief Innovation Officer to represent Lit San Leandro and create a tech business development strategy in that City.
Debbie
Deborah V. Acosta
Principal, iDOTconnect
Co-Chair, 2.Oakland
Tel: (510) 508-7926