<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Late on Friday afternoon, the "time certain" for public testimony was changed from 1:45 to 2:45.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B><I>Business Information Services (BIS)</I></B></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#8F180D" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.3px;"><B><I>Public Testimony - Time Certain: 2:45 p.m.</I></B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-indent: -24px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 24px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.3px;">26. Minneapolis Wireless Broadband Initiative:</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 24.0px; line-height: 14.0px"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.3px; line-height: normal;">a) Approve Business Case to pursue a private-public partnership to procure </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.3px; line-height: normal;"><I>Broadband Data Access Services</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.3px; line-height: normal;"> to support the City's internal data communications requirements and provide affordable broadband internet services to City residents and businesses;<BR></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 24px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.3px; line-height: normal;"> b) Authorize proper City officers to implement the pilot phase of the </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.3px; line-height: normal;"><I>Broadband IP Data Access Services</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.3px; line-height: normal;"> program with the two RFP finalists, Earthlink and U.S. Internet; and<BR></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 24px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.3px; line-height: normal;"> c) Authorize proper City officers to negotiate a contract for </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.3px; line-height: normal;"><I>Broadband IP Data Access Services</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.3px; line-height: normal;"> with one or both of the RFP finalists and to return to Council for final approval.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><BR><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Optima; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Optima; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; 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-apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Optima; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Optima; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Optima; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Becca Vargo Daggett</DIV><DIV>Research Associate, New Rules Project, Insitute for Local Self-Reliance, <A href="http://www.newrules.org">http://www.newrules.org</A></DIV><DIV>612-379-3815 x209, <A href="mailto:becca@ilsr.org">becca@ilsr.org</A>, Mobile: 651.283.1850</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></SPAN><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>