And now a word from the only person in the room at the
the Industrial Authority 19 February 2013
with actual experience in bringing Internet broadband access to new areas,
invisible behind the camera but clearly audible,
Gretchen Quarterman:
I’m super-excited about the whole broadband thing,
because you know that’s near and dear to our heart, and our background.
But please be very careful about the buill that’s before the legislature
that will prohibit municipal Internets.
Right now the legislature is trying to take off the table muncipal Internets.
And I think that a municipal Internet would be a really great solution here.
So let your legislator know that’s a bad idea; they shouldn’t take that
off the table from us.
That’s
HB 282, in opposition to which Amy Henderson of Georgia Municipal Association
said:
Broadband is economic development.
Gretchen continued:
At the Chamber’s annual meeting when a local speaker stood up she talked
about the
that’s doing really well right now is
agriculture
and I’m pleased to announce
that
the South Georgia Growing Local Conference will be here in January of 2014
the last weekend, a Friday and Saturday.
It’s an equivalent of the Georgia Organics big conference that they have
in Atlanta.
Except that it’s for south Georgia local growers, farmers, homesteaders.
We just were in Reidsville this last January
and Lowndes County is going to have it next year.
And the whole series of South Georgia Growing Local Conferences (this will
be the fourth) has been organized largely online,
in yet another use of Internet access for economic development,
in this case sustainable local development.
OK, one more:
Rotary Clubs need broadband.
-jsq
Interesting stuff (audit and internal controls,
many meetings,
2 megawatts of solar power,
searching for and
finances of a new office
from
a mysterious seller)
in the items missing from the posted agenda yet presented anyway,
while two staff were elsewhere.
