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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, April 14, 2014 7:00 o’clock p.m. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Page 1 of 30 ROLL CALL The Orono City Council meeting met on the above-mentioned date with the following members present: Mayor Lili Tod McMillan, Council Members Cynthia Bremer, and Lizz Levang. Representing Staff were City Administrator Jessica Loftus, Finance Director Ron Olson, Assistant City Administrator of Long-Term Strategic Planning Michael Gaffron, Planning Coordinator Melanie Curtis, Public Works Director/City Engineer Jesse Struve, City Attorney Soren Mattick, Consulting City Engineer David Martini, and Recorder Jackie Young. Mayor McMillan called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m., followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. APPROVAL OF AGENDA Item Nos. 7, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 were added to the Consent Agenda. Levang moved, Bremer seconded, to approve the Consent Agenda as amended. VOTE: Ayes 3, Nays 0. APPROVAL OF MINUTES *2. CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION OF MARCH 24, 2014 Levang moved, Bremer seconded, to approve the minutes of the Orono City Council work session of March 24, 2014, as submitted. VOTE: Ayes 3, Nays 0. *3. REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MINUTES OF MARCH 24, 2014 Levang moved, Bremer seconded, to approve the minutes of the Orono City Council meeting of March 24, 2014, as submitted. VOTE: Ayes 3, Nays 0. PRESENTATIONS 4. MEDIACOM BUILD OUT UPDATE – BILL JENSEN Bill Jensen, Regional Vice President, stated Mediacom installed fiber into the City Hall building, and that their interpretation of the original agreement was to build out 19.5 miles by October, 2015. After designing the build-out and laying it out on the map, it was discovered that the actual number of miles of cable was 16.6 miles. Jensen indicated based on their original agreement, Mediacom is willing to expand the area of build-out by two miles to meet the 19 miles that was agreed to. Jensen noted Mediacom would like to accelerate the build-out in 2014 and is now planning on building 9.17 miles this year. Jensen noted the build-out planned for 2014 is depicted in green on the map and consists of the upper left quadrant on the map illustrates the area that will be built out. Construction should commence in the next week or ten days. The plan is to wrap up the total build-out of 16.6 miles by the late summer/early fall of 2015. Jensen stated somewhere between now and this coming fall, Mediacom would like to get together with the City to decide where the additional 2 plus miles should be built out.