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Show 6 JIMPANQGOS TIMES ,J . December 15,2010 II...--. ;. ,'r' .r'is i l.J t j j "-- l ; ...i r ' ; 1 ; t ' r I. ' - , - ; 1 ' Rapidwave Asks for Height Increase to Bring Faster Internet to Cedar Hills How does the height make it faster?" "The height doesn't make anything faster," Jacobson said. "What it allows us to do is install a different antenna system." Perry asked again about vandalism, wondering whether "if it gets higher, that's going to egg more people to throw rocks at it or shoes at it or climb on it or whatever?" "I can't answer that ques-tion. I don't know." Jacobson said. "This is the only area we've had vandalism in, and it's not our tallest tower, by far." He joked about putting a sign on it saying, Nuclear Radiation. "Well, obviously any van-dalism is not our loss, it's yours," Perry said, adding that he wasn't opposed to the increase. Council Member Ken Kirk moved to approve, contingent on the city offices getting the upgrade offered to the regular customers. The council all voted yea.. The agreement with Rapid-wav- e was signed in 2008 and they pay the city a $250 monthly antenna fee, which increases four percent with each two-ye- ar extension of the agreement, Robinson said. by Harlow Clark Cedar Hills residents look-ing for faster Internet may soon have another option . Two weeks after Wade Robinson brought the city council a peti-tion for Comcast on his street, the council approved a change in its agreement with Rapid-wav- e Wireless, which has an-tennas on two of the city's water tanks. Rapidwave wants to in-crease the antenna on the water tank near Timp Cove Park from 7 to 17 feet. Introducing the item to the council December 7, Mayor Eric Richardson called Rapid-wav- e "a positive force in the community" giving "more in-ternet choices in our city." Assistant City Manager Greg Robinson said, "The city has not received any complaints from any citizens" about either antenna, and Rapidwave has worked to blend them into the surroundings. He said he sees no problems with increasing the height. Council Member Jim Perry asked what the megabit rate would be. The material passed out to the council said 30, but he saw something in Orem adver-tising 40. At this point Rapidwave owner, Sterling Jacobson, in-troduced himself. "We haven't decided what it's going to be marketed as." "Well, what's it going to ac-tually be?" Perry said. "That's a good question. Download speeds will be be-tween 20 and 35 megabits." "You're going to measure it and market it accordingly?" Perry asked. "That's exactly what we're doing now," Jacobson said. He added that currently the 10 megabit service offers five megabit download Speed and three megabit uploading. City offices and Pub-lic Works are getting service through Rapidwave now, and Perry asked if the city would get the higher speeds. Perry had another concern as well. Robinson said Rapid-wav- e has "always very good about taking care of their equip-ment, and also ours," but Perry wondered about vandalism. Johnson said there has been some vandalism. to a camera was cut. Council Member Marisa Wright had a different concern. "Can I ask a really stupid ques-tion, which I'm going to ask. Interlocal Agreement Between American Fork and Pleasant Grove Brings City Offices New Dark Fiber Internet Services Pleasant Grove City Coun-cil approved a resolution last week authorizing the mayor to execute an interlocal agree-ment with American Fork for a contract to lease dark fiber from American Fork for inter-net services to the city offices. This agreement allows Pleasant Grove City to lease the dark fiber which is owned, operated by and maintained by American Fork. Both cities felt that there communities would be bests served through this agreement. The purpose of this agree-ment is for Pleasant Grove to interconnect with American Fork's facilities and to lease dark fiber from American Fork for compensation for the pur-poses of using the dark fiber to transport bandwidth from American Fork's network op-erations center to Pleasant Grove's Police Department building from a Utah Internet Service Provider located in American Fork's Network Op-erations Center. As compensation to Amer-ican Fork, Pleasant Grove has agreed to pay American Fork the one-tim- e interconnection charge and the monthly recur-ring charge. Any changes in compen; ation will be mutually agreed upon by the two cities each year. The city council also ap-proved a resolution to autho rize the mayor to sign an agree-ment with American Fiber for internet services, specifically bandwidth services, to provide internet technology to Pleasant Grove City property. Other action taken by the city council included a resolution adopting the 2010 Mountainland Association of Governments er Hazard Mitigation Plan as required by the Federal Disaster Mitigation and cost reduction act of 2000. The plan requires alt jurisdictions to be cov-ered by er Haz-ard Mitigation Plan to be eligible for Federal Emer-gency Management Agency er funds. The city has expressed concern about mitigating potential losses from natural disasters before they occur, and feels that the plan would be in the best of the city to adopt this plan. Another resolution was passed by the city coun-cil authorizing the mayor to sign an agreement with American Fiber for. internet services, specifically band-width services to provide internet technology to Please ant Grove City properties. The agreement is for a perjod of 24 months and the provisions of this reso-lution shall take effect im-mediately. Cottage Canyon Residents Ask For Traffic Light Feasibility Study During public comment at the Cedar Hills City Council meeting December 7, Spencer Anderson presented a request from the home owners associa-tion at Cottage Canyon for a ty study of putting a traffic light at the comer of Canyon Heights Dr. and Canyon Road. He said it is "the only inter-section that provides an ingress into community from The Cottag-es, the Renaissance, and for Pine Hall Drive," unless you go about three quarters of a mile north, off of Cany on Rd. Anderson added that after the Murdock canal is buried there will be an increase in foot and equestrian traffic and a greater need for traffic regulation. Mayor- - Eric Richardson asked City Manager Konrad Hildebrandt to put the request on the agenda for the Traffic Safety Committee and let An-derson know when the meeting would be. " ' '" . - J V7vAA-- - , rtiirc ! 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