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Regular Council Meeting Minutes <br />12-15-08 <br />Page 19 <br />Mayor Rinker stated that his recollection from Rich Dugger is that what OneCommunity <br />provides is the value of about 12 or 13 T-1 lines at a fraction of the cost. You are gaining <br />in both directions. <br />Mr. Jones said you are gaining. Now is the time to offer customers better benefits for the <br />same dollar. It's not just to say, let's just give it away or let's keep the price and give them <br />the excellent service, the excellent speed and extra benefit. Give them a Lexus vehicle for <br />a Toyota price. <br />Council President Buckholtz said as a property owner and someone who solely in touch <br />with medical tech software, you don't question at all the advantages of putting a fiber ring <br />in. <br />Mr. Jones replied, let's take the construction company for example, like any other <br />construction business we build four walls and a roof. We are not a technology company. <br />We don't build programs; we don't build software; we don't build servers. What we do at <br />all our construction sites need to be linked back to us so that he has the full trailers that <br />you see on the construction site where people work inside and send data back to my office. <br />He runs phone services over the internet, job charts, there are people in there with laptops <br />that connect back to the office to get documents or blueprints and spreadsheets and other <br />construction software. <br />Council President Buckholtz asked if they are sending blueprints across the wire. Mr. <br />Jones said yes. <br />Mr. Jones said the faster the connection we have at our office, because we supply data from <br />multiple jobsites, the faster that it can come out of his office, the faster the people can get <br />stuff done. With a lot of other companies here, it is now getting to the point where a lot of <br />people are working remotely. Offices that normally could have lived on a T-1 now need <br />more bandwith because they have people who are working from home. They need faster <br />bandwith, the media, their training software or accounting software or anything else. <br />Council President Buckholtz told Eric he is definitely the right guy to sell fiber. When he <br />was talking to the people about the appraisal, he accidentally ran across John Jones. He <br />knows the guy Council President Buckholtz was talking about from Commercial Appraisal <br />downtown who said, I know a guy and think he is out at Alpha Park or somewhere out <br />there. He called him. It turns out John Jones is the Marketing Manager for Preformed Line <br />Products right here on Beta Park. He is not trying to sell his services here. He came up as <br />a favor. They sell the components that allow fiber to go into municipalities by the <br />hundreds worldwide. They are a worldwide company based here on Beta Park. <br />Municipalities are putting in fiber and footing the bill by themselves all over the place. It <br />wasn't until the end of our discussion that Council President Buckholtz said that we were <br />one of a few municipalities that won 'a grant where the County is paying half of this or we <br />are in a partnership for it. Mr. Jones was kind of shocked at that.