the park planning commission. We always always start by standing for the pledge. >> Dear heavenly father, we come before you right now in the name of Jesus and we ask for you to guide our hands for this city as we look over these proposals and
as we make decisions on behalf of this city, for the people of city. And Lord, we ask that you help this meeting just to go really well and for us to understand clearly what's being presented. and we give you all the glory, all the honor, and all the praise. In your name,
>> Amen. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Does our audience have one and anything you can want to address that's not on the agenda? >> Not really. >> Okay. And next we have Clear Wave Fiber.
Who wants to give us your name? >> Yeah. My name is Eric Ryan. Uh I'm the outside plant construction manager for Clearway Fiber. So, uh we presented in front of the city council last week about our proposal for for building in Parker. So, uh we're here today to go
over any any details, any questions you guys may have on on what we're planning to do in Parker. So, I looked over it this morning and currently we're planning on building roughly 70,000 ft of underground fiber optic cable in the city of Parker. Starting uh on the north end of Parker is where we're going to be starting. So I'd like to turn over to
you guys if you guys have any questions for us on how we operate, how we how we function or anything like that. >> Well, if you have any spiel, we know enough to answer qu ask questions. >> Yeah. >> Somewhere between between cliff notes and the reader digest, >> right? Yeah. So
>> everything we do is underground. Um so we use uh directional drills primarily. Um we don't uh currently employ very many uh missile crews. So, uh, it's mostly directional drilling is what we use. Um, like I said, starting on the north side of Parker, u off of Cherry
Street is where we're going to begin. Um, that's where we have everything lined up currently. Uh, that's actually where the service for Parker feeds from. Um, is right there off of Cherry Street. Uh, all underground fiber optic cable, so no copper, no Exfinity issues. Um, so we plan on moving pretty quick. Um, you
know, some of the stuff we've been seeing in this area, we're getting roughly uh 2 to 3,000 feet per day. So, we should be moving. Yeah, we should be moving pretty quick. So, I do have two companies on standby currently that are are eager to do the work. Uh, very reputable companies. I've worked with
them quite a bit since being here at Clear Weight Fiber. So, um, that's kind of the proposal as of right now. Um, and that's kind of where we want to start. >> This will be pure fiber into >> correct. Yep. So, 100% fiber. Yes, ma'am. um is I assume it's linear or at
least has a point of origin a singular point of origin in the event of a disruption i.e. Comcast is putting in something and boogers up in Maryland. It seemed like each Comcast and fiber optics accidentally cut each other's cables on a regular basis, >> right?
>> And I I assume that it's downstream. In other words, if there is an interruption, everybody south of that is going to be affected. >> Uh not necessarily. So initially on the on the first phase of the build uh we don't build in a redundancy right out of the gate but we do plan to build a
redundancy as we do with all areas. So if something were to be cut it would turn over and feed from a different direction. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So >> she was asking a question or had just a query before we started. If it goes from
say the road into your house and your neighbor has the same thing and they cut their table with a tiller or whatever does it interrupt >> other fees. >> So are you talking about on the street? So if say you were being serviced from
your, you know, up the street from your neighbor and they were working in their yard and they cut the the fiber optic built that way >> that would that would interrupt your service. Yes. >> Yep. >> It would. >> How long is a reparation? Does it usually take? Is that a a quick thing? 24 hours, couple of days.
>> It's a it's a very quick turnaround. Uh usually we'll do emergency locates and we'll have guys there on site. Um so my my contractors that I use, they warranty to work for 12 months. So, um I would be the person handling that. So I would actually have somebody there typically within 24 to 48 hours to have something like that fixed.
>> So how do you go from the road to the house? This is just for my own education. >> Yeah. So you have your servicing terminals. So those are built down the road. So, you know, each case will feed so many customers. So, basically what happens is my crews build everything. We put all the facilities in the ground and
then we have drop crews that are on the uh field of operation side and they actually come in and they uh bury the drop from that terminal, that feeding location. If we have to cross a sidewalk or a driveway, we will. And that comes to your house that way. So, that's also all buried all five. >> There's a trench in my front yard or
>> not necessarily. No. Um so, sometimes they'll do things like spade it in. Um, if they have to cross a driveway, they'll they'll employ a drill. So, >> what is the standard depth for burying this stuff? >> Uh, the main line or the stuff going to the house? >> To the house. >> To the house. Depending on the location,
we shoot for anywhere from 24 uh to 36 in is what we shoot for. >> Are there currently any other underground fiber optic or data companies in the area? I know I know like we have Wow and we have here, but
do you know ground or they uh going on power lines. >> Uh from my experience from from my knowledge of the area um Exfinity is primarily aerial. >> That's what I thought. >> Yeah. Aerial. Yep. And then Wow. I believe they're a mix of aerial and underground. >> Yeah. >> Can you tell me a little bit about the
performance of underground during hurricanes? >> Yeah. Yeah. Actually, so I've actually I've worked in uh fiber optic um construction in uh Idaho, Washington, Central Maine, and then now here in Florida. So my my experience with fiber
optics in Maine, wind storms, so winter storms, you know, really nasty stuff. So that being underground in some of the sections we worked on was the only stuff that was actually intact and remained in service. So with hurricanes, we don't have to worry about um you know, water intrusion like you would with copper
Xfinity. Um or you don't have to worry about stuff coming down off of poles. It's all buried. It's protected and it's still operational so long as you have power to your equipment inside your home. >> So if I have a house generator, I can still run Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, all of our feeding locations run off backup
generator and battery power. So, those are all something that will they'll kick on and they'll still keep running. >> From a consumer perspective, what is your cost relative? How does it compare to say Exfinity? I'm a $200 a month Exfinity for basic TV and internet,
>> right? >> What would you guys look? >> So, we would look around the $60 to $70 range. >> Okie dokie. >> Yep. And with uh Xfinity, you also don't look Their internet service isn't symmetrical. So you'll have really high download speed but really really low upload speed. All of our service is
symmetrical. So yep. So if you have one gig, it's one gig up and one gig down. >> So you incur the cost of making it available to every household. That's what you're looking for permission and then the individual consumers will elect to tie in to you. Is there an initial cost of installation for the consumer?
>> No. >> Is there a minimum contract i.e. at least a year for your time in trouble for putting that cable to the house. >> From my understanding, no no minimum contract. Yep. So, >> the goal of Clear Wave is to bring a really good service to the the residents
of, you know, Bay County and not have you guys bogged down with the the confusion and the headaches like you deal with with Xfinity >> and 7G. Did I 7 gig? Is that what I saw? >> That is correct. Yeah, that is a service that is being offered by clearly. >> What how does that compare to five? I
I'm not a I'm not a tech nerd. really fast. >> It's really fast. A very large business or organization >> or a gamer, somebody that's a gamer, >> they won't need that. >> They won't need that. Okay. >> Most most people um you know, I I'll tell you like um 300 megabytes would be
something that an average consumer would still be excessive. That would be, you know, very much excessive. So having seven gig is more like just tell your friends that you have it. So it doesn't really serve a purpose for 99.9% of the people. Yeah. >> Okay. So >> Got it. Thank you.
I do love the idea that in a hurricane because if I hadinity during Michael and I didn't get service for three months after >> so having something buried in the area would be a great >> it would be >> great thing for for our residents.
>> Absolutely. >> And I you're privately held which I like. So no uh no stockholder meetings or profit motives to help sway your decisions. any thoughts about going having an IPO and becoming public later or is that something that happens to
companies like this >> that I would I would default and say would you like to step in and speak on that one because that's outside of my wheelhouse. So just curious >> great job by Eric. So let me introduce myself. It's it's really good to be here. Tony Senorella, director of government relations for Clear Wave
Fiber. And we also have Bob Nicholson, our senior director of construction. So, you got the great team here and we're very excited to be here at Parker. Uh, Eric did a great job answering questions. Um, on a couple things. So, first of all, um, to one of your
questions earlier, we do not have any customers. It is up to us to build and acquire customers. So, that's why we're investing in your community in order to do so. Um, with regard to the question you just asked regarding are we planning
on going public, an IPO, um, I could tell you that we recently merged with a company called Point Broadband. Okay. >> So, we are a growing company now in from Clearway Fiber, four states, now in 12 states >> and you know, we don't know what the
future holds. So, >> you know, it could happen. Um, you know, I could I could tell you my personal feelings on it and what I think and uh, you know, um, but I I think, you know, regardless, we want to make sure that we're doing things right. We're we're very proactive with our communication
with uh, our municipalities and our counties and partnerships. So, we want to continue to do that and enhance that. Um, I can tell you that government relations was not a function of this company before I came on board and we're growing this part of the of the um, this department for the company. So, That
just goes to show and we work handinhand with market development and I think um some of your folks have already been in touch with my counterparts in market development in order to scout out you know city parker and where we want to be. So um so yeah so we're happy about it and uh you know we're looking forward
to partnering with you and and and servicing your residents. >> I think that's my my next question along with that is the active local engagement. I see that's important to me. I help with a lot of the events in the city too. >> Wonderful. Good. >> And so we we do movie nights and
different things from time to time. So we're always looking for partners, not necessarily financially, but partners to be out there and just come and and be out there with us, you know, to to show them what the city has to offer. >> That's perfect. In fact, we we also work hand in hand with our marketing team, community development, and we want to
know about those things. So, uh, you know, we're being more proactive with our communication. We want to know exactly what's happening in the communities that we serve. So, Are you are you based locally or >> our company headquarters is based out of Savannah, Georgia. But again, now we're in 12 different states. We're on calls
with our some folks in Kansas City. Um my colleague and I are in Florida. Uh we're also in Chicago. We're we're everywhere. We got home base here too in Florida. So yeah, we're we're in all the states that we're servicing. Now thinking to the future, not that I
think this will happen in the next two or three decades, >> but would would it be any impediment to say Florida Power and Light wanting to run underground utilities having yours already there? >> To speak on that, no, not at all. So all
of our stuff is located. Yeah, I don't see that being facing, >> but I just wanted to get an idea because we're supposed to be looking out for the future. >> Certainly. And on that point, we just want to be treated as an equal occupier of the right away and that's all we ask. So,
>> in your opinion, what what possible negative could Parker residents have? What what resistance would you think >> is even negative? no negative simply because what we're doing is we're providing competition >> and again uh we don't have any customers
and we want to have customers and we look for specific communities that don't have fiber in the ground already and other than the the Comcast of the world and AT&T and the and the big providers. We want to be that first in the fi in the ground fiber uh option for the
residents and that's why we scouted out Parker. >> I'd like to touch on that if you don't mind. Yeah. Um so if you talk about the negative experience um to be completely honest with you guys, it's construction, right? It's active construction. We're going to be coming through. Customers are going to be upset that maybe we're
in their yard or we're we might hit a utility or something. That that's just part of active construction, right? But one thing I can tell you that separates Clear Wave from other companies that I've worked for in the past is the responsiveness. So Bob here, you know, he's he's my boss's boss, right? And
there's he doesn't say no. You know, let's get it done is is really kind of the motto of Clear Wave. So when there's upset customers, I I'm I'm right there making sure they're handled. You know, things are taken care of and they have a good experience despite their yard, you know, having a drill sitting in their
yard for a couple hours. So yeah, they will experience that. That does happen. That's that's inevitable. But we are here from Comcast or you know AT&T or these other companies. So >> and I think you know there is a rightway so that's there but would it be
something that any resident that may experience some construction around their neighborhood that there will be some canvasing being done. Hey we're going to be doing construction in a couple days or something like that. >> Yeah. So whenever we go um to to gear up for a project um in our system whenever
I have my start dates in will actually go out and hang door hangers. So Every house gets a door hanger saying, "Hey, clear waves coming. They're going to be there's going to be active construction on, you know, starting on, you know, so and so time frame." So, so we make the residents very aware that we're going to be there.
>> We prefer to overcommunicate, but >> that's also with the officials. >> Absolutely. >> Last question. Where do I sign up? >> There you go. I I can tell you prices
right now um of the top two competitors or maybe only two competitors in the area and they're a little bit cheaper. So >> we say there the compet clear. Okay, good. >> This would be a little bit cheaper for us. >> All righty. Way cheaper than the big >> CH.
And then the other one is about on par, but you get more. You definitely get more. >> Okay. >> I like that there's no contract because what happens right now is you get one price a year and then they sneak you up to double or triple the price and then
it takes you know you have to cancel for a month or you can >> Yeah. I mean I myself I I live in Springfield so I mean I don't live that far away from Parker and when we moved here you know we tried to get Xfinity and they're like it's going to cost you 100 bucks just to get installed >> and I was like >> And do you provide the router or how
does that work? >> Yeah, we provide all equipment. So any like mesh systems that are added on that's an additional fee but the router and any any you know customer premise equipment that's all provided by ClearWave. >> Okay. >> So what if someone had their own router available? Would it are you can they use
their own router? >> Traditionally yes. Um I don't want to speak on that say Clearwave for sure but in my experience with any other company any other ISP I've worked for yes that is an option. So >> because that would save some money. You know, I have my own router that instead of paying the monthly fee for sure extra
10, 20 bucks or whatever it >> is. Absolutely. >> Y >> and I assume VIP works over your system as well, the voice over uh telephone. >> Yes, that's correct. >> Any other questions?
>> I'm excited to have underground. >> Yeah, me too. I mean, really, it's, you know, just from my background in it. >> If I could get rid of that nasty cable cable that runs over my car that the birds like to perch on, that'd be that'd be lovely. >> I I hate to disappoint you. They're not
going to remove it when you cancel service. >> I will then. >> There'll be a tree branch in the middle of the night, >> but this would be a step in the right direction for us. I feel like, >> you know, construction, yes, I was already thinking that that's going to be something that you're going to want to communicate. We have a lot of older and
younger but older residents in so you know if you're disrupting their day or seemingly disrupting their day with some big equipment might be >> yeah and and I I take a more proactive approach with how I run construction because um the one thing that I' I've
learned over the years is communities prefer a little bit more of a personal touch when you're they don't want to feel like they're dealing with a massive company. So that's why the managers that I have in the field and myself we actively communicate with residents who have issues and if they have problems, you know, I might be overseeing
construction for Bay County, but I'm also calling an individual customer saying, "Hey, what's going on? What's the problem? I'm going to get it fixed for you." >> Do you have any low income programs or anything like that? >> That I'm not too sure about, you know, from my side. Yeah. So, any other questions?
I think we can do three things. We can approve, approve with comments or deny. >> I make a motion to approve. Got to beat you to it. >> Yeah. >> Go ahead. >> I'll second that. >> There you go. >> All right. >> Okay. Rall's not here. Cal.
>> Yes. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Terry. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> So, we're just an advisory board. You go to the city commission with our blessings. >> When that is, isn't there?
>> Tomorrow is the council meeting. I will um update the agenda to let them know that they approved it. >> Okay. >> And then they'll vote tomorrow. >> Okay. Very good. >> Um the meeting tomorrow is 5:30. >> Do you need representation? Wait there. >> No. Not unless you guys just want to
come sit in >> just hang out. >> Yeah. We're a good place to hang out. >> Yeah. It's very calm here. I like it. >> Okay. >> Wonderful. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. everyone. >> How long would it take you before you
like how long like if it was approved by the city council, how long would that take to install? Like what does that look like? >> So the next we've already got >> so we'll be ready to submit for permit. >> As quick as that permit gets approved,
we'll follow the 811 process. That's where they come out and locate the existing utilities and we'll start construction. >> So is that usually like a year out? It could be it could be as soon as um 30 to 45 days.
>> How long before you can get to my house? >> Question at the end of where they're sorry. So we're building up Lagoon Panama City. >> Well, there's four on the panel that live in the same neighborhood. So we got
dibs. >> Make a note of that. 65 for 600 megabytes. Now the upload speeds like half of that it's like 300. So but for a gig that's that's very good >> at 4,000 ft a day. It won't be long.
>> It will be long. Yeah. Yeah. I do I do a lot of stuff. >> And anything for the good of the association? >> Nothing specific. >> I'm good. Thank you.