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Minutes June
8th, 2004
GorgeNet Meeting Room
Attendees
Wes Lannen, USDA—RUS Telecommunications
Glenn Phillips, GorgeNetworks
John Gerstenberger, Hood River Electric Coop
Lee Curtis, MCEDD
Mary Gumm, Sprint
Kate Dugan, MCEDD
John McSherry, Port of Skamania
Sal Sahme, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
Consultant Team
Scott Keillor, HHPR
Todd Chase, FRI
Karen Jones, KJDesign
Adrian Pearmine, IBI Group
Website and Draft Gorge Telecom Plan Evaluation
• Warm Springs tribe prefers "tribal government"
as a name
• Include reference links to free WiFi sites
• Include fiber optics and cell coverage and wifi
to the table and legend
• Provide "What’s Happening" column
instead of current events
• Reference Benefits to Teleconsortium members in
draft plan/report
• CGEDA is more appropriate lead agency on some strategies.
Add column that shows lead agency
• Reference State of Oregon Health Care Consortium
as piggy back strategy
• On list of strategies change priority of item III.3
to Low; item IV.1 to medium
• Include links to local providers’ webpages
Marketing Ideas
• Note that Newsweek has new article that lists Hermiston
as top wireless area.
• Improve the number and perhaps placement of cell
towers in the region. People traveling through and to our
area are not likely to think of us as being a "wired"
community if they can't even use their cell phones.
• It would be helpful to create freeway signs designating
WiFi areas in the communities.
Next Steps
• Glenn will give Adrian a list of GorgeNet’s
WiFi Hotspots.
• Consultants will prepare an updated draft website
up for providers to review and provide input.
• Consultants will send out a draft Gorge Regional
Telecommunications Plan to GT members to ask for feedback
at the next meeting.
• Next Meeting: July 12th at 1:30 at GorgeNet meeting
room.
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