ATIC Board Meetings 2004 January 14, 2004 February 11, 2004 March 10, 2004 April 14, 2004 May 12, 2004

ATIC Board Meeting Minutes- may 12, 2004
On-site Attendees:
Diane Bacon (*), Tom Campbell (*), Al Crawford (*), Ron Drake (*), Mark Goldstein (*), Ryan Hickman, Mike Keeling (*), John Kelly (*), Patt Patterson, Al Sterman (*), Jerry Crow (*), Galen Updike (*), Oris Friesen (*), Randy Booze, Ralph Gierish (*), Bob Edgren, Jon Poston, Kelly Harmon, Diane Nowak, John LaGrand, Ted Kraver (*), Carmo Fernandez
Attendees Via Audio or Video Conferencing: Michael Cohen, Randy Frantz (*), Matt McClymonds (*), Shaun Bloyer, Steve Peters (*)

(*) - ATIC Board Members (16 present with a quorum=10)

Many thanks to the Cox Web Conferencing service provided by Cox Business Services for the statewide audio conference connections, and thanks, too, to Lewis & Roca for providing videoconferencing facilities in Phoenix and Tucson.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW:
The next ATIC Board Meeting will be on June 9, 2004, 12:00-2:00 p.m.

Modifications to and Acceptance of Agenda Draft
The agenda was accepted as shown below.

Agenda

1. Modifications to and acceptance of agenda draft
2. Self-Introductions
3. Acceptance of minutes from last meeting
4. Review of Outstanding Action Items as Documented in April 2004 Minutes.
5. Elections of ATIC Officers
6. Committee Reports
• Government Affairs Committee (Mike Keeling, Steve Peters, Kurt Jonckheer, Oris Friesen)
  • Citizens Clean Election Commission (CCEC) debates
  • Government Broadband Development Activity progress report
• Cyber Security Subcommittee (Jerry Crow, Cindy Donaldson)
• ACC Activities (Tom Campbell)
• Arizona Telecommunications Directory (Brad Tritle, Ralph Gierish)
7. Monthly "General Information" Meetings (Mark Goldstein)
   • Next meeting agenda
8. Informational Presentations
   • Jon Poston, Consumer Coordinator for Arizonans for Competition in Telephone Service (ACTS). John will discuss his organization and some current issues of concern for about 10 minutes and take Q&A.
9. Adjourn

Acceptance of Minutes from Last Meeting
The minutes for the April 12 meeting were presented for approval and approved with the addition of Rick Blankenship to the remote attendees list.

Review of Outstanding Action Items
None to report.

Election of Officers for 2004
Traditionally ATIC elects its officers during the 2nd quarter of each year.

MOTION: To nominate and elect the current officers, namely John Kelly, Chair; Oris Friesen, Vice Chair; Mark Goldstein, Secretary; Al Crawford, Treasurer, for an additional one-year term.
MOVE: Galen Updike
SECOND: Ralph Gierish
Passed Unanimously

Committee Reports

Joint Government Affairs/Strategic Planning Committees (Mike Keeling, Steve Peters, Kurt Jonckheer, Oris Friesen)

• Citizens Clean Election Commission (CCEC) debates
  Oris, Mark And Steve reported on the status of the Primary and General Election debate for the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) election on behalf of the Citizens Clean Election Commission (CCEC). ATIC has been selected by the Citizens Clean Elections Commission to host, and web cast, the 2004 primary and general election debates for candidates for the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC).
  
  The debates will be presented in front of a live audience at the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe. With the assistance of AVNET and Kino Communications, the debates will also be web cast real time, and later available for on-demand access from the ATIC Web Site following the debates. This will provide statewide access to the debates.
  
  
  • Primary Debates - Tuesday, July 13, 2004
  • General Election - Thursday, October 7, 2004
  • Real Time and on-demand web cast
  
  
  Both the primary and general election debates will be presented at
  
  The University of Advancing Technology - Auditorium
  2625 West Baseline Road
  Tempe, Arizona 85283-1042
  
  
  The tentative schedule is that the democratic and republic primary debates will be held back-to-back with a 30-minute intermission on the same day:
  • Tuesday, July 13, 2004
    • 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. for the Republican candidates
    • 4:30 p.m. Ð 5:00 p.m. Ð Break
    • 5:00 p.m. Ð 6:30 p.m. for the Democratic candidates
  The General Election debate will be held on
  • Thursday, October 7, 2004
    • 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
• Government Broadband Development Activity progress report
  Galen reported that DOC and GITA are working together to create a mechanism to address telecommunications planning and policy, linked to GADA, 11 regional councils, ATIC and others to be named the Arizona Telecommunications Planning Council. It has been accepted in principle by DOC and GITA, and will soon be promulgated by means of an Executive Order from the Governor. Although it is being created without legislation, it is important hat the legislature buys into this organizational activity. Along those lines, we need to come up with a vision or goals statement for this structure. Steve will organize a joint Government Affairs/Strategic Planning committee meeting to discuss and refine this approach from the point of view of ATIC and its relationship to the new structure.
• Mike Keeling reported that an application was submitted to the U.S. DOC for a TOPS grant, targeted primarily to implement wireless access along the Canamex corridor, with ATIC as an oversight and implementation body. It was subsequently learned that our application did not make the cut and was rejected. We may pursue some other alternatives.
• Privatization
  Mike Keeling reported that the RFP has been issued and is due on May 28. ITAC will be meeting soon to give its approval to the RFP.

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Cyber Security Committee (Jerry Crow, Cindy Donaldson)--
Jerry reported that monthly Committee meetings have resumed at Electronic Data Systems (EDS) from 10 a.m. Ð Noon. The May 10th meeting featured Peter Graves of Boeing on the topic of "Troubleshooting Wireless Networks," and the next meeting is scheduled for June 14 with Melissa Guenther giving a presentation.

Enterprise sponsors are being solicited to host additional luncheon meetings.

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ACC Activities (Tom Campbell) --
Tom reported that there are two main activities going on: One is the FCC Triennial Review and associated wholesale market issues concerning unbundled network element availability. Meetings are on-going. The second has to do with retail markets and a filing that Qwest is expected to submit later in the month.

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Arizona Telecom Directory (Ralph Gierish, Brad Tritle, Mark Goldstein --
The ATD project oversight committee should be reactivated and the project reenergized with the active pursuit of additional telecom vendors, updates, and evolution towards mapping outputs. Ralph indicated that he could no longer take the time to lead this effort, so for the time being Galen will be in charge. Galen introduced Randy Booze, the GIS Technical Coordinator for the City of Mesa, who is willing to lend some assistance to this effort.

The 2 main problems to address are:

1. Develop a map-based visual display for the ATD (which is the easier task), and
2. Develop a map-based visual query facility for the ATD (which is the more difficult task).

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Monthly "General Information" Meetings
The public meeting scheduled for June 10, will be cancelled in lieu of the CCEC ACC Candidates debate to be held a month later on July 13.

Additional public meetings are planned for September 16, and November 18.

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Informational Presentations
Jon Poston, Consumer Coordinator for Arizonans for Competition in Telephone Service (ACTS), gave a brief presentation. ACTS is a nonpartisan, nonprofit statewide consumer group composed of business and residential telephone customers.

Jon's presentation focused on the recent telecommunications case in which the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Washington, D.C., upheld major portions of an FCC opinion that refrained from unbundling next generation broadband facilities. The Court also vacated directives in which the FCC had delegated decision making authority to the state to make impairment findings. The current situation is whether or not the FCC will appeal these findings to the Supreme Court. Three of the five Commissioners wish to appeal, but Michael Powell, the FCC Chairman, wants to accept the Appeals Court decision as final. The deadline for making that decision is June 15, 2004.

Jon requested the ATIC Board to take a position in favor of competition by supporting an FCC action to appeal this decision to the Supreme Court.

Jon observed that the Supreme Court has generally tended to favor competition and is likely to overturn the Appeals Court decision. ACTS would like to see the case sent to the Supreme Court. ACTS and Jon are more than willing to answer questions about this issue. Jon can be reached at 480-473-3321 and at Jon_Poston@Prodigy.net.

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Next ATIC Board Meeting
The next ATIC Board Meeting will be on May 12, 2004, 12:00-2:00 p.m. at Lewis & Roca in both Phoenix and Tucson.

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Adjourn
The meeting was adjourned at 2:00 p.m.

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