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District staff recommend transferring aging district fiber network to WANRAC, citing $4.9M life-cycle savings
Summary
District staff told the finance committee they recommend transferring ownership of the district’s aging fiber infrastructure to WANRAC after an RFP and E-rate evaluation, saying the move would save roughly $4.9 million over a greenfield rebuild while shifting long-term maintenance responsibility to a specialist vendor.
District staff recommended at the finance committee that the district move forward with a long-term fiber-network plan that transfers ownership of usable existing infrastructure to WANRAC following a competitive evaluation.
The presenter said the recommendation followed an RFP and a seven-member district evaluation committee that examined 20-year cost, service levels and references. "This recommendation is contingent upon transferring ownership of our usable existing infrastructure to WANRAC," the presenter said, adding the selection followed E-rate guidelines and an…
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