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Regular Council Minutes 6-28-04 Page 11 he is very knowledgeable about it but also, he has worked with so many other cities and has seen some of the roads not to go down. So I can think he can prevent us from putting our foot in our mouth or our foot in a hole. So I think the idea of having him in is a good one. He is unavailable on and off for the next couple of weeks. When he gets back, we will probably have a meeting and will have a complete report on it then. Again, I do not know where it stands-but we have to talk to Phil or Mr. Diemertjust tell Adelphia--I don't know where we proceed from here. Just tell them we want it, and to put it in. Council President Buckholtz asked Mr. Diemert, do we have to pass something? It's in the contract that we passed. Mr. Marrie said no; I think it's just a matter of them saying to us to go. Mr. Diemert said yes, that is what they were looking for is direction-whether we'd change our mind on the money or the goods. Mr. Marrie said he suggested-and we talked about it at the last meeting-he suggested- actually more than one person at the meeting [suggested] just take the money rather than the goods. You have your choice because the school can get you far more modern equipment for the money than what they would give you just for the equipment itself. So you are better off taking the money. The school is definitely taking the money for their half share. In conversations at the meeting that I heard-it was pretty much universal that you are better off taking the money and going your own route instead of taking the equipment they are going to give you. The School Board feels some of it-they won't call it outdated-but it is not the most current equipment. And they offered to go ahead and act as our liaison for purchasing the equipment and a guide and aid if we need it. Mayor Rinker suggested Mr. Marrie talk to Frank. Mr: Diemert said they are ready to go- Mr. Marrie added: they just need us to say we're going to take it and I think that's what I am asking for now. Council President Buckholtz asked, since we are going to amend the agenda under New Business, would it be appropriate to just do a motion? Mr. Diemert said we did examine whether or not we could get better cable or upgrades and they didn't want to hear any of that-- Council President Buckholtz said I had Joe send me copies of minutes of that meeting, and the contract because I was concerned with who owns what. I would rather own it all, but the way it reads is they will own the fiber-we are talking about fiber by the way-not cable--and they will own the fiber and they will maintain the fiber to each building and we will own the fiber and we will maintain the fiber that is in the buildings. So, they run it to our buildings and leave it coiled ` -' up and then we take it from there. The only thing I was thinking about at that point was, I didn't want to be married to their services if we want to use the fiber for whatever-but there is nothing in that agreement that precludes us from using that fiber to run anything across it that we want to