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Electronic village of Abingdon “91st Day”
Subcommittee MINUTES 26 January 2000
12:30 PM The
scheduled meeting of the Electronic Village of Abingdon “91st Day”
Subcommittee held in the Johnston Memorial Hospital Cafeteria was opened by
Albert C. Bradley, Secretary in the absence of both the Chairman and
Vice-Chairman. There were 9
participants present. These
included:
The
minutes of the 7 November 1999 meeting were approved as presented on motion of
Burt Bassham and seconded by Ray Millsap. The
next item for review was the status of new connections, including:
The newly revised Application for Service was the next agenda item. The group reviewed the application
form and discussed it. Mr.
Bradley explained that the new form was revised to include the Town in the
Troubleshooting Procedures on the back of the form. The Town will now take a more active
role in first reaction to a complaint. There
were two suggested revisions to the Service Application form. One was to include the Town in the
applicant’s declaration section on the front page; specifically “I
authorize Sprint, EVA or their designated representatives to
install such equipment as necessary to initiate network services.” The second revision was on the back
page and would increase response time from 4 hours to “24 hours or the next
business day”. The form was
approved with these two corrections.
The next agenda item was a discussion of priorities for extensions of
EVA facilities for budgetary purposes. In
random order, suggested areas for this included: a. Eastern
Abingdon (East Main Street areas) b.
Northern
Abingdon (Residential areas above JMH) c.
South Abingdon
(Martha Washington Inn area) d.
Airport vicinity
(-ies), including West Abingdon e. Other
areas The possibility of a study of market
targets was discussed but no workable way of conducting such a study was
actually found. Under item e,
above, other areas, Ray Millsap reminded us of the future Police Department
and the recreation offices on West Main Street and also of the connection to
the William King Regional Arts Center and County offices that may be in the
offing. Mr. Bradley stated that
the Town was already considering items a & c, above for immediate
extension. Item c would be done
in order to route a direct connection from the Town Shop and the Housing
Authority to the Municipal Building, since the recent addition of a firewall
had removed these two remote facilities from the Town’s network. Routing of this connection would be a
direct one from the Municipal Building, under Main Street at Chincapin Alley
to Park Street, which could allow for extensions to other facilities and
businesses in that vicinity. Discussion
of item d, above, mentioned that NetAccess did not as yet have the proposed
single-mode fiber in place to connect its Abingdon network with that of
Bristol.
After considerable further discussion it was decided that immediate
priorities for EVA extensions should be as follows: 1st
Priority Eastern
Abingdon (East Main Street areas), Northern Abingdon (Residential areas above
JMH, South Abingdon (Martha Washington Inn area). 2nd
Priority Extension to the
William King Regional Arts Center and County offices and future
Police/Recreation offices on West Main Street. 3rd
Priority Airport vicinity
(-ies), including West Abingdon. There
being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 1:50 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
Albert C. Bradley,
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