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Regular Council Meeting Minutes 4-19-10 Page 6 made clear from the beginning of our discussions with them. For the first three years that they aze going to be a subscriber, they will pay comparable to what they are paying now, the difference being that they are going to be getting 60% more internet and their payment is going to include payment for infrastructure. This was actually something they never seemed to debate very much. They always expected the Village fiber ring to be the best option. It did not take them long to make a decision. The only other update Mr. Esborn has, and this is tangentially related, the County Boazd of Election website allows you to track absentee votes as they come in for the tax levy. If anyone is interested, he can shaze it. There aze about 700 people in the Village who prepared absentee ballots. About 215 of those ballots have come in. You can see the percentages of each Ward, political affiliation breakouts. Nothing really surprising so far. The votes that have come in have been pretty reflective of the demographic of all of the absentee ballots that were sent out. Mr. Esborn can show anyone how to get to that part of the Board of Elections website or he can share with you what we have seen so faz. Council President Buckholtz asked Mr. Esborn if he has some sort of plan, other than his nornnal work in tertns of parlaying the Mayfran connection by following up with the other businesses. Mr. Esbom replied, yes. With having Mayfran on boazd, in our discussions with May&an, the first thing they wanted to know is who can we talk .to that's already on boazd with this and is already using this? We were able to direct them to people at QED. To be able to direct future subscribers to both QED and Mayfran makes it an even better sell. Mr. Esborn further mentioned that at the same time that Mayfran made their decision, QED is up and running and they aze sending us e-mails saying that everything's gone smoothly. You are absolutely right, you do get to parlay back into a stronger case for future subscribers. Council President Buckholtz stated you aze kind of getting a little core IT or shazed services group. They will have something to talk about. In keeping with that, Mayor Rinker asked Mr. Esborn if he can provide an update about his discussions with Greg Zucco from Cuyahoga County on the County Innovation Zone. Mr. Esborn reported that he met with Greg Zucco of the County Department of Development last week. Greg and the Department of Development oversee the Innovation Zone prograin that Beta Drive is in. One of the things he found out from Greg last week is that the Innovation Zone program is actually one of the more progressive and cutting edge programs in economic development, sort of going beyond just the checkbox sort of programs and trying to bring different organizations fogether. He is very very pleased with what we have done with OneCommunity. The whole department seems to think that awazding us the Innovation Zone was a great idea. He is excited at this point to have the department's name attached to tlus project. It was a very productive meeting. He actually has a program specialist who is able to use his experience now to dixect us on moving £orward now that we have a program. A lot of parties aze involved. Adding a footnote to that, Mayor R.inker stated if you recall, when we started this out, it was really kind of slow-going, kind of a glacial start-up, just a dialogue and getting things nuining with the County. This is really very encouraging to see the kind of momentum that's built up.