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Regular Council Meeting 12/19/05 Page 14 Council President Buckholtz asked if there was any discussion. ROLL CALL:AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried Ordinance Enacted JFirst Reading of Ordinance No. 2005-54, entitled "An Emergency Ordinance Authorizing and directing the Mayor to enter into a subscriber services agreement with OneCleveland for the purpose of providing high speed data communications/IP-Based Connectivity." Introduced by Mayor Rinker and Council as a Whole. Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mr. Saponaro, made a motion to suspend the rules of Council requiring an Ordinance to be read on three separate occasions. ROLL CALL:AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried Rules Suspended Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mr. Marrie, made a motion to enact Ordinance No. 2005-54. Council President Buckholtz asked if there was any discussion and indicated that this has been pretty much explained but asked if there were any questions. Mr. Marquardt stated that looking at this, he would like to know if the Wi-Fi is going to support this so that you can power 10 p.c.'s at the AdelphialSBC rate or about 100 at the AOL. He wants to be certain we truly have an understanding of the sizing and limitations of what we are getting into. More information is needed. He is concerned that this is going to include additional costs and liability. The limitation on Wi-Fi is 54 megabytes per second. Adelphia and SBC have 5 %z megabytes per second which means you can power 10 p.c.'s at that rate. Mr. Buckholtz indicated that as many people can log in to wireless. Mr. Marquardt stated that you have a certain bandwith. Mr. Saponaro stated that according to the articles provided on what WiMax can do, there is one which indicates that Wi-Fi connection can transmit up to 54 megabytes per second under optimal conditions. Wi-Max should be able to handle up to 70 megabytes per second. Even once that 70 megabytes is split up between the several dozen businesses or a few hundred home users, it will provide at least the equipment of cable modem transfer rates to each user. Mr. Marquardt indicated that he would like to be certain we know what we are going to get with the service and this system. It is still unclear. How many systems can you power at what rate? Are we putting together something we are going to put out to people and it is not going to work? Do we know what we are putting together here?