Because of the Covid-19 pandemic our regularly scheduled 4th Wednesday meeting will take place on Zoom and we will try to keep it to 1 Hr. this week.

Our Education Committee Agenda is:

1. Welcome & Introductions - 10 Min.

2. Quick update on school reopening - 10 Min.

3. Busing - Make sure 2016 Managed School Choice Task Force Info is supplied to Board and Superintendent and push for adoption. - 5 Min.

4. Get our whole community online - Fight poverty, permit online learning, permit job hunting, permit having online jobs. 30 Min.

   • Please review SWCC meeting results from 8/20/2020. We are building on that: SWCC Minutes 8/20/20

   • What sort of two-tier system will be best to give everyone "good enough" access while incentivizing the Greenlights of this world to offer the top-of-the-line fiber system to those who can afford it.

   • What is the cost to the schools, libraries and City of handing out Cellular based "My-Fi" hot spots?

   • What would the cost of Wi-Fi mesh system be feeding out for free Wi-Fi to poor neighborhoods?

   • What is the relative cost of ease of deployment and maintenance be for free system?

   • What would the best way be for the County to make use of it dark fiber to benefit the community?

5. Walk in items – 5 Min.

Please read the minutes from our last meeting: SWCC Education Committee Minutes 2020-07-22.

Video from this June meeting is at: https://youtu.be/225B4bjGtBk.

Our Meeting will run from 6 to 7 and hopefully we can all find out answers to the above questions.  If you would like to get the Zoom meeting link, please email John Boutet at jboutet@frontiernet.net.  My phone number is 328-4271.