Sadly I won’t be at the next Task Force meeting – although I’m hoping to attend virtually. Here are the details…

July 15-16, 2012 Governor’s Task Force on Broadband
Meeting in Walker/Cass Lake/Deer River

July 15: Dinner reservation at “The 502” at Chase on the Lake, 502 Cleveland Boulevard, Walker, MN for 7:00 p.m.

July 16:

•  8:00-8:30 Leech Lake Tribal College, 6945 Little Wolf Road, Cass Lake, MN 56633
  • Welcome by Carri Jones, Leech Lake Tribal Chair
  • MIRC Coordinator Mike Jones
• 8:30-8:40 Drive to Temporary Employment Program Offices
• 8:40-9:15 Temporary Employment Program, 6271 Lower Cass Frontage Road, Cass Lake, MN
  • Presentation by Janice Gale, Director
• 9:15-10:00 Drive to Deer River Meeting in Deer River High School Media Center, 101 1st Avenue NE, Deer River, MN 56636
• 10:00-10:15 Welcome, introductions, approve minutes from June 12 meeting
• 10:15-10:30 Public comments
• 10:30-11:15 Tribal issues panel
  • Larry Olson, White Earth, IT Director WERTC
  • Fred Underwood, Fond du Lac, IT Director
  • Leech Lake (invited)
• 11:15-12:00 Subgroup work time (first session: Coordination Across Government Levels and Best Practices/Incentives subgroups)
• 12:00-12:30 Lunch
• 12:30-1:00 Education demo of Telepresence (Ojibwe language class)
• 1:00-1:45 Education panel
  • Fred Nolan, Director of the Minnesota Rural Education Association
  • Curt Tryggestad, Eden Prairie Superintendent (previously Little Falls Superintendent)
  • Joe Silko or Mark Adams, Itasca Area Schools Collaborative
  • Jennifer Dugan, Minnesota Department of Education
  • Matt Grose, Moderator
• 1:45-2:30 Subgroup work time (second session: State of Broadband; Broadband Adoption; and Monitor/Understand Impact of FCC & PUC Decisions, Cost of Broadband  subgroups)
• 2:30-2:50 Report out by subgroups
• 2:50-3:00 Discussion of what is needed for September report by each subgroup
  • Proposed Timeline:
    July 27: subgroups submit outline of what is being worked on and materials
    August 15: staff sends out an initial draft of the report
    August 25: task force members comments due on initial draft
    September 5: staff sends out revised draft
    September 11: task force walk through of report at meeting, final edits
• 3:00-3:15 Other business/Upcoming meetings/Adjourn
  • Infrastructure letter to mayors related to recent flooding