[Mpls] Ask the Council for a Cost-Benefit Analysis on Citywide Wireless

[Becca Vargo Daggett]

A letter containing the following requests is being sent to the Ways 
and Means Committee of the Minneapolis City Council:

1. The City Council should resolve to initiate a cost-benefit study of 
a publicly owned network. This study should include, at least:  the 
costs of physical infrastructure, the costs of service provision and 
maintenance, the benefits of flexibility to negotiate service contracts 
with multiple vendors over the life of the network, and the benefits to 
citizens of choices among competing service providers.

2. The results of this cost-benefit study of ownership should be 
compared with a cost-benefit study of renting services from a privately 
owned network.

3. The City Council should not agree to enter contract negotiations 
with a single bidder until such a comparison has been done and the 
results made available for public comment.

For more information or to add your name to the letter, visit 
http://www.newrules.org/info/minneapolis.html

Becca Vargo Daggett
Seward