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Governor’s Task Force on Broadband
February 13, 2025
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
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10:00 a.m. – 10:05 a.m.               Welcome
Teddy Bekele, Chair, Minnesota Governor’s Task Force on Broadband
10:05 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.               Approval of minutes from January Task Force Meeting
10:10 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.               Minnesota Legislative Updates
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.               Office of Broadband Development Overview + BEAD and Digital Opportunity Updates
Bree Maki, Executive Director, OBD
Diane Wells, Deputy Director, OBD
Hannah Buckland, Digital Equity Program Lead, OBD
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.               Pole Owner Panel Discussion
Background and overview of approaches to setting pole attachment rates as pole owners and open up for discussion from Task Force members on implications of this on the federal BEAD program.
Eric Clement, Manager of Grid Modernization, Minnesota Power
Mary Jo Woolf, Senior Director, Distribution Business Operations, Xcel Energy
Ty Houglum, Vice President/CIO, East Central Energy
11:30 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.               Break
11:40a.m.—12:00 p.m.                 Other business: Feedback on future meetings, Task Force subgroup topic considerations for 2025, March Meeting Plans, and Wrap-up