The city of Monticello needs 65 percent of voters’ support Tuesday to construct a citywide fiber optic network that would provide Internet, cable and telephone services. You can read all about it on the St Cloud Times Online.

Here’s a little bit of an inside scoop from the August Blandin Foundation eNews:

The City of Monticello has been working on a Fiber to the Premises project over the last year with the goal of creating a City owned enterprise to offer telephone, television and very high speed Internet services. The City Fiber Optics Committee has set a date for a community referendum on the formation of a local telephone exchange that will take place on September 18th. The outcome will be important for determining if the City itself will offer voice services. For more information contact Lynne Dahl Fleming at 763 300 8118, Information and Education, City Fiber Optics Committee, or Milda Hedblom, consultant to the City Fiber Optics Committee, 651 645 5051.