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Regular Council Meeting 12/19/05 Page 4 appropriation ordinance, 2005-53, is the appropriation ordinance that allows us to operate for January 1, 2006 through March 31, 2006, to put the budget together for 2006 and allow the Village to operate in the interim. It is a normal housekeeping measure. Finally, there is a resolution, 2005-26, that allows the Treasurer of Cuyahoga County to advance to Mayfield Village property taxes that are collected, not waiting for the specific settlement. This allows us to get our money quicker. While Dr. Price and the students were still present, Mr. Buckholtz asked Mr. Brett to explain the OneCleveland, OneMayfield issue and the Wi-Fi, Wi-Max since it will affect the schools, being right in the heart of it. Mr. Brett explained that about two years ago in April 2004, he was present at a presentation of OneCleveland out of Case Western Reserve University which basically affords to non-profit and governments access to the internet backbone at a speed of one gigabyte per second over a ten megabyte bandwith. To put that in perspective, it is about 1,000 times faster than dial-up. It is about seven times faster than a T-l. At that time, Mr. Brett thought it would be a very good thing for the Village to get involved with. With the I- net being provided by the Adelphia settlement, we could have connected OneCleveland to the Village and then interconnected our computers within the Village at a very high speed and have access to the internet at a very high speed. In addition, we could have started setting up Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the Village, serving two practical ends and a third end which is primarily the fact that it would also provide access for businesses along Beta Drive specifically and the Village in general to access ahigh-speed internet backbone. We did not really know the details at the time, but what we did know was that if we went with fiberoptics as the way of transmitting that, we could guarantee distinct channels of the high speed internet. That looked very inviting. Mr. Brett did not know much about the details, but wanted to find out. Mr. Buckholtz added that by creating a OneMayfield and signing on with OneCleveland, we are putting ourselves in high speed connection with all of Cuyahoga County and Northeast Ohio and then showering Mayfield Village and the school system with Wi-Fi and then providing Wi-Max for Beta as a potential development tool. Mr. Brett indicated that in 2004, we were not looking at Wi-Max. We were looking at that point to create a hotspot and daisywheeling. A router would extend the hotspot to another location which would create its own hotspot and then you could open your p.c. and it would access the internet at this very high speed. The primary purpose was you could provide your businesses with access to high speed internet hookup. In fact, on the TIF agreements negotiated with Skoda and the one that we have in negotiation with Omni, we have included as one of the public improvements infrastructure to look at just a fiber cable. That was discussed and it was determined by Council at that time that that was not the route they wanted to go, so it went in abeyance for a year and a half. About six months ago, we started working with Panzica Investments on Beta Drive to help lure higher tech companies on to Beta Drive. One of the projects they have proposed is