Municipality Best Practices Task Force

In California, many municipalities are investigating the feasibility of deploying municipal networks. This interest should be nurtured and municipalities should be empowered to take the front line in the deployment of next generation broadband. Many of them are documenting their processes and outcomes. Some have created guides. The challenge is to capture the collective experiences of these trailblazers and share best practices that capture both the successes and the failures. Doing this will not only help jump-start other regional projects it will allow successes to be replicated and enhanced and failures to be avoided. These next generation broadband cookbooks should include financial models, technical models, operations models, etc.

The goal of this task force is to identify municipality best practices.

The products of this task force will be:

• Conducting a survey of exemplary city and county deployments and publishing the results.
• Identification of documented processes and outcomes (best practices) and links to detailed information.