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Home My WebLink About2.f. Fiber QuotesAGENDA ITEM: Fiber Quotes AGENDA SECTION: Discussion PREPARED BY: Jeff May, Finance Director AGENDA NO. ATTACHMENTS: Quotes, Pages from Elert Associates IT Needs Analysis Report APPROVED BY: RECOMMENDED ACTION: Discussion only. 4 ROSEMOUNT CITY COUNCIL City Council Work Session: May 14, 2008 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ISSUE The issue before the City Council is the consideration of connecting City buildings to a fiber network that would increase the efficiency and effectiveness of City staff. BACKGROUND This item is on the agenda to update Council on the quotes that we have received from Dakota County to connect the Community Center and Fire Station #2 to the County /State's fiber network. I would like to include the Public Works buildings in the discussion as well. We did receive a quote last year to run fiber to that building from City Hall but decided to utilize other options. The quote for that fiber run was $19,800 (that quote would need to be updated it is over a year old now). The quotes from Dakota County for the Community Center ($22,984) and Fire Station #2 ($17,320) are both better than the amounts discussed in Elert's IT Study. We have recently been notified by Frontier Communications that our T -1 line contracts expired at the end of April. We now pay $160 /month each for T -1 lines to the Community Center and the Public Works building. We would be able to eliminate those costs if fiber was run to those buildings. We also pay approximately $90 /month for a DSL line to Fire Station #2 that could potentially be eliminated (after that contract expired) if fiber was run to that building, although we may want to keep that service in place to provide redundancy to the building in case we needed to use the building as our Emergency Operations Center. The cost savings alone does not warrant going forth with putting fiber to these buildings but the increased bandwidth that we would gain at the buildings would increase efficiencies and effectiveness for staff at all locations. We would propose using Equipment CIP reserves to complete the projects. By completing the projects now we will be able to immediately get the T -1 line savings without having to enter into a new contract with Frontier for 2 or 3 years. SUMMARY Staff is looking for direction from the City Council.