ATIC Board Meeting Minutes- October 8, 2004
On-site Attendees:
Mark Goldstein (*), Patt Patterson, Galen Updike, Oris Friesen (*), Brad Tritle (*), Jay Flash Miringoff; Ted Kraver (*), Michael Cohen, Tom Campbell (*), Glenn Stoneman (*), Ralph Gierish (*), Todd Blackwood, Andre Briere, Chris Cummiskey (*), Al Crawford (*), Brad Tritle (*), Jerry Crow (*), Ron Drake (*), Nathaniel Bradley .
Attendees Via Audio or Video Conferencing: : Mike Keeling (*), Alecia Miller, Steve Peters (*). Al Sterman (*)

(*) - ATIC Board Members (15) 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 November 10, 2004, 12:00-2:00 p.m. Please make a note of the meetings scheduled for next year in 2005:

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 September 2004 Minutes.
   • Oris to contact Kino for how many hits the primary election debate web page has had.
5. Committee Reports
• Government Affairs Committee (Mike Keeling, Steve Peters, Oris Friesen, Kurt Jonckheer, Galen Updike)
  • State Government Broadband Planning and Support- progress report
  • Citizens Clean Election Commission (CCEC) debates
  • Grant Activity on Wireless CANAMEX
  • New Oversight Committee on Wireless
• Cyber Security Subcommittee (Jerry Crow)
• ACC Activities (Tom Campbell)
• Arizona Telecommunications Directory (Galen Updike, Brad Tritle)
• Discussion on 211 Initiatives (Patt Patterson and Mike Keeling)
• Collaboration Activities Support - Speaker Phone (Steve Peters) Carried over from previous meeting.
6. Monthly "General Information" Meetings (Mark Goldstein)
   • Next meeting agenda
7. Informational Presentations
   • TBD
8. Adjourn

Acceptance of Minutes from Last Meeting
The minutes for the September 8, 2004 Board meeting were presented for approval.

MOTION: To approve the minutes.
MOVE: Ted Kraver
SECOND: Glenn Stoneman
Passed Unanimously

Review of Outstanding Action Items
Oris to contact Kino for how many hits the primary election debate web page has had. There have been a total of more than 500,000 hits since the first pages were created in 2002. We do not have a finer breakdown than this.

Committee Reports

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

• Government Broadband Development Activity Progress Report (Galen and Mike Keeling)
  Galen reported that the Telecommunications Infrastructure Committee (TIC) held its inaugural meeting on October 7, 2004. Twenty-one people were present for this first meeting, which lasted about 2 hours. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, November 16, at 1:30 p.m. The minutes of the October meeting will be made available at http://azgita.gov. All meetings are open to the public.
  
  Chris Cummiskey explained that the Governor's Council on Innovation and Technology (GCIT) Infrastructure committee was reformed in summer and Bill Hardin of Osborn Maledon and Steve Sanghi, CEO of Microchip Technologies are the current co-chairs. Wendy Vitorri, VP and General Manager of Motorola Computer Group, chairs the infrastructure committee to which the TIC reports.
  
  The TIC is looking to develop a strategic plan for the state. Although we will miss the 2005 cycle for the legislature, we will aim to provide input for the 2006 cycle.
  
  Steve Peters called for a well-deserved round of applause for Galen and Chris to make the TIC a reality.
  
  Ted Kraver noted that there is considerable activity occurring in the education arena as a result of GCIT efforts.
• Citizens Clean Election Commission (CCEC) debates
  Oris reported that on Thursday, October 7, 2004, ATIC hosted, and web cast, the General Election Candidate Debates for members of the Arizona Corporation Commission. This web cast, along with the July 13 primary debate web cast, is now available for on-demand viewing from the ATIC Web Site at http://atic.researchedge.com/election/acc04debate.html.
  
  The debates were taped in front of a live audience at the University of Advancing Technology (UAT) in Tempe, and sign language and Spanish language translations were provided. Additional viewing sites were available at three Central Arizona Community College (CAC) campuses. With the assistance of AVNET and Kino Communications, the debates were web cast over the Internet at the time of the debates.
  
  Arizonans now have access to these debates wherever and whenever they have access to the Internet. More than 30 people attended in person at UAT, 5-10 people attended at the CAC locations and another 150 have viewed the web cast. ATIC has also distributed video copies of the debates in English (and Spanish on request) with sign language insets to Arizona's broadcast media.
  
  All seven candidates attended: Three Republicans (Mike Gleason, Jeff Hatch-Miller and Bill Mundell), and two Democrats (Mark Manoil and Nina Trasoff) are competing for the 3 terms expiring in 2009. One Republican (Kris Mayes) and one Libertarian (Rick Fowlkes) are competing for the 1 term expiring in 2007. The debates were moderated by John Kelly and covered water, electric, telecommunications and pipeline safety issues.
• Grant Activity on Wireless CANAMEX (Oris Friesen, Mike Keeling, Mark Goldstein, Galen Updike)
  Oris, Galen and Mark Goldstein reported on this grant from the federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A primary purpose of this grant is to see if we can successfully share bandwidth between Law Enforcement and commercial and private parties. The idea is to bring in the public. About 150 public safety vehicles will be equipped with transceivers (using scalable security levels). This is a demonstration or Proof of Concept grant, focusing on a 30-mile segment of the CANAMEX corridor between Green Valley and Rio Rico, Arizona. Hopefully we can also involve COPLink in the Tucson area as well as the Swift and Knight trucking companies. Since the Arizona constitution does not allow the direct passage of public dollars to private entities, ATIC, as a nonprofit organization is well-suited to play the role of middleman. Galen observed that according to the terms of the grant, Trucksop.net will play the role of ISP. Trucksop.net has over 500 truck stops enabled as hotspots with 802.11. The company already has up to 3000 POPS contracted for. Trucksop.net has been generous with providing access to citizens near the hotspot truck stops. This grant is unique in that it will allow them to provide citizens mobile, rather than fixed, access to the Internet. Swift & Knight will be involved as will the Ames Business Learning Environment (ABLE) from Chandler, Arizona.
  
  Mark suggested that ATIC may need to establish an oversight committee similar to what ATIC has done with the Arizona Telecom Directory (ATD) Project. Subsequently it has been learned that such an approach may not be optimum, in part because of the need to involve various agencies of the State Government. Since funding oversight and management will be under the purview of the Arizona Office of Homeland Security (OHS) and the Arizona Division of Emergency Management (ADEM), and since general strategic project oversight is a normal function of the Government Information Technology Agency (GITA) there is little need for creating yet another oversight organization. Operational decisions will be in the hands of the Program Manager and the principal parties responsible for deployment. There is, however, one new function that does need to be supported. As noted by Glenn Stoneman, it is not immediately obvious how well this project fits within the scope of the ATIC mission statement, which reads:
  "The ATIC mission is to promote and support the adoption of effective public policies for the State of Arizona and local communities that encourage investment and deployment of information technologies and telecommunication services to enable continued

  • educational advancement,
  • enhanced quality of life and
  • economic prosperity for the Arizona community."

  
  
  Therefore, some work needs to be done and a committee is probably needed to set the future direction of ATIC to include activities such as those proposed by this venture. This work will involve modifying the mission statement but, more importantly, issues such as liability will need to be addressed and guidelines will need to be defined for making decisions on future opportunities, grants, etc. The following people expressed an interest in serving on the new committee. I assume that the same people will still be interested in serving on the new committee although its goals are now more strategic than tactical: Ralph Gierish, Patt Patterson, Jay Flash Miringoff, Glenn Stoneman, Al Sterman, Ron Drake, Todd Blackwood, Nathan Bradley, Michael Cohen. Others who wish to participate (remember, you need not be a Board Member to participate) should notify Oris Friesen.

up to agenda

Cyber Security Committee (Jerry Crow)--
Jerry reported that Cindy Donaldson has resigned as co-chair due to lack of time. Jeni Li, who is an InfraGard Board Member and affiliated with other security organizations, has accepted an invitation to replace Cindy as a co-chair.

There will be no meeting in October.

The next meeting will be on Monday, November 8th, 2004, from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon at the Business and Industry Institute in Mesa, AZ. The Business and Industry Institute is located at 145 N Centennial Way. Morris Harmor is assisting.

up to agenda

ACC Activities (Tom Campbell) --
Tom had no report to present. It was noted that the election debates will make ATIC more visible to the commissioners at the ACC

up to agenda

Arizona Telecom Directory (Ralph Gierish, Brad Tritle, Mark Goldstein --
Brad Tritle hosted a re-forming meeting a few weeks ago, and another meeting is scheduled to be held later today.

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Discussion on 211 Initiatives (Patt Patterson and Mike Keeling) --
Mike reported that Phase 1 is a look-up table with call-center capability. Phase 2 is more extensive and should be deployed within the next 12 to 15 months. A contractor has been selected and work is moving forward.

Patt noted that 211 will have a positive impact on homeless people. About 30% of 911 calls are actually 211 type of calls. Homeland Security is a big component of this.

There will be an outreach program to make people aware of this activity.

up to agenda

Collaborative Technology (Steve Peters) --
Carried over from previous meeting. Steve Peters requested $2000 to purchase 2 conference Polycom phones for future meetings. These would be 2 wireless phones with remote microphones

MOTION: To purchase 2 conference Polycom phones for future meetings at a cost not to exceed $2000.
MOVE: Steve Peters
SECOND: Ted Kraver

AMENDMENT: To ask other interested parties to investigate the possibility of getting the phones donated to us.
MOVE: Ralph Gierish
SECOND: Ted Kraver
PASSED: 9-1 with 1 abstention

Mark noted that this is consistent with ATIC's infrastructure 'responsibility' for other groups (such as GSPED) in the past. Todd Blackwood volunteered to talk to PolyCom to see if we could get these donated to ATIC.

up to agenda

Monthly "General Information" Meetings
November 18 meeting is canceled. Next meeting is on February 17, 2005, which is usually focused on legislative activity.

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Informational Presentations
None

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Next ATIC Board Meeting
The next ATIC Board Meeting will be on November 10, 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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