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El Mirage council approves five-year Wired Fiber agreement to add backup optical route
Summary
Council approved a five-year agreement with Wired Fiber to add an optical-fiber provider and increase available bandwidth; staff said the wired service will cost about $350/month and raise capacity, with a net monthly increase of roughly $75 for the fire station circuit.
The El Mirage City Council approved a five-year service agreement with Wired Fiber on April 21 to add an optical-fiber internet provider and expand the city's available bandwidth.
City IT staff described the contract as a backup and bandwidth-increase measure rather than a wholesale replacement of the city's primary Cox circuits. "This wired fiber is $350 per month. We currently have a Cox business Internet connection for $275 per month, so effectively the delta or the change... is gonna be $75 a month," IT staff member Tom said during the meeting.
Council members raised questions about reliability, outages and the contract's protections. Councilmember Aldridge asked for stronger termination and service remedies; City Attorney explained the agreement allows early termination with reimbursement for any pro rata waived installation charges and contains a mutual indemnity clause. "There is an early termination ability... the city can terminate early, and the only cost to the city would be to recover pro rata nonrecurring charges," the city attorney said.
Supporters said the additional provider creates redundancy useful for disaster recovery and to prevent service interruption. After questions about costs and contract language, Vice Mayor Parsons moved to approve the five-year Wired Fiber agreement; the motion carried by voice vote.
The contract was described on the record as a five-year agreement (approved by council), with staff noting the city would decommission one fire-department Cox business circuit once the wired fiber was operational and would reconfigure bandwidth routing across systems.
Next steps include finalizing installation scheduling and executing the service agreement; staff said they would pursue standard contract redlines as appropriate.
