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April 6, 2016
The Regular Session of the TECHNOLOGIES BOARD of The Colony, Texas was called to
order at 6:33pm on the 6th of April, 2016 at CITY HALL, in the City :Manager Conference
Room, 6800 Main Street, THE COLONY, TEXAS, with the following roll call:
Bill Swink Absent
Stephen Iioffrnan Present
Joye Grube Present
Joe Zacha Absent
Juan Martinez Present
Roger Morehouse Present
Nicole Love Present
Joe McCourry Mayor Present
Kirk Mikulec Council Liaison Absent
With Five out of Seven members present a quorum was established and the following items were
discussed.
F-1.0- j CALL MEETING TO ORDER
1.1 General announcements none
1.2 Staff announcements none
1.3 Council Liaison announcements none
2.0 DISPOSITION OF MINUTES _
2.1 Acceptance of Technologies Board Minutes for a meeting held on March 7, 2016
Motion to approve -Juan Martinez; second by -Roger Morehouse; motion passed with all
ayes.
3.0 1 CITIZEN INPUT
none
14.0 AGENDA ITEMS _
4.1 Presentation on possible use of Microcellular equipment within City right of ways.
Mike Joyce Development Service Director has been working with Crown Castle, a small
cell network company that is proposing 23 locations for wireless node installations in the
areas of Hawaiian Falls, Nebraska Furniture Mart, and an area near Castle Bills. A
presentation was given by representatives at Crown Castle Manny Derr and Jacob
Iluneycutt. Crown Castle is neutral host provider. The project is initiated by Verizon
Wireless. The purpose of wireless nodes is to increase wireless coverage in an existing
network area.
4.2 Receive update from Chris Vasquez on public WiFi Initiative.
TWC did send a team of people out to walk parks and view the areas. Five Star is in a
design phase. Stewarts Creek, Bill Allen, Lyons Club parks are in a review stage.
4.3 Discuss and consider a possible date change or cancellation of the next Technologies
Board meeting occuring on May 4, 2016.
Chris Vazquez brings to the board a proposed date change just for the Month of May due
to a scheduling conflict. It is proposed that the Technology Board meet on May 91h, 2016,
instead of the 15t Wednesday of the month in May. The board agrees to this one time
change.
4.4 Board to provide direction to staff regarding future agenda items.
The board is requesting an update on the IT infrastructure plan as passed by City Council.
5.0 ADJOURNMENT
With no further business, Stephen I loffinan motions to adjourn at 7:47 p.m. Joye Grube seconds
the motion.
APPROVED:
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Stephen I loffinan, Chairman
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jarcia, Recor i Secretary