Coordinator report August 27, 2015

There are three sets of minutes to act on. The minutes of Jul 6 reflect
the changes proposed in writing by Chairman Magi at the previous
meeting.

Police Chief Shoemaker will attend to make a report. I have informed him
that the board does not require a continuous police presence and that an
officer on patrol would be sufficient.

MBI's premises count email was received and has not settled the
questions. Moreover the individual at MBI says they won't have time at
least for the next two weeks to provide us with the Warwick data set.
Our Assessors just completed a complete revaluation process and I trust
our data. Someday we will reconcile the information. There is now some
confusion about whether every premises would be provisioned with fiber
under WiredWest or in the alternative only those that sign up. The
latter scenario would be fine if we had a guarantee that the service
ratepayers and not the taxpayers will be making the debt repayment. If
this is on the taxpayers then all residences, in my opinion, ought to be
connected. One of the more population dense WiredWest communities, Otis,
has indicated its withdrawal from the cooperative. Warwick's
subscription to the financial modeling software begins September 1. MBI
wants to attend a Selectboard meeting October 26. I have penned them in.

It was a rough week for Warwick Broadband customers and employees. It
began with routing problems on the cell tower site which resulted in a
nearly weeklong period where secure (https://) traffic would not load in
a customer's browser. That problem was external to us and affected about
sixty customers who as a consequence could not do on-line banking or
even track a USPS or FedEx package. A few hours after we got that fixed
on Wednesday our Mt Grace router locked up. The fix involved a visit to
the hut and a hard reboot. During the week we got more than five inches
of rain and electrical storms which put a number of customers out of
service. During the period we signed up four new customers and have been
able to provision one of them. While we have made much progress on
repairs, we are not out of the woods. Preliminary end of year financial
statements say WBS collected $99,091.00 and had expenses of $82,301.00
yielding a FY15 surplus of $16,790.00. Add that to the prior accumulated
surplus reported of $36,518 and we are in the black to the tune of
$53,308 for Warwick Broadband through June 30, 2015.

I have prepared the document for the Selectboard to vote and sign to
have the Town become an official "intervener" in the FERC pipeline
process. Our letter requesting a local / Northfield scoping session was
replied to. I wouldn't go so far as to say answered.

Annual Town Meeting authorized $500 for household hazardous waste day
and I need approval to sign the MOA for the activity, not to exceed the
appropriated $500.

While we are still shopping for a used bucket truck to be shared by
highway department, broadband and the Tree Warden, I am following up on
Mr. Shepardson's suggestion that we rent
when we need the equipment. We
can insure a rented truck for about $500 per year. I have Brian looking
into a day rate and hourly rate for Brandon's truck which he has
indicated a willingness to rent to us. Our low price point may not buy
anything we would want to own.

I am going to have to get the phone lines serving the fire alarm at town
hall fixed or find an alternate method to communicate as the alarm
company / contractor has indicated that the line problems amount to too
little reliability in case of a real event. One option is a new
controller board that can use the Internet though the industry is
generally skeptical of this route. The vendor suggests that the problem
we experience is related to there really not being any solid copper
circuits any longer.