[1st-mile-nm] REDI-NCNMEDD Telecom Infrastructure Meeting: Tues. 7/1

[Richard Lowenberg]

Following up on the posting sent last week, here's the Northern New Mexico
Regional Economic Development Initiative: Telecommunications Infrastructure
meeting agenda and directions.   rl
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS AGENDA
July 1, 2008

9:00 am	Welcome and Introductions.
	   	Gustavo Cordova, Team Leader
		Barbara Deaux, Executive Director, NCNMEDD

9:15 am	Background on the Regional Economic Development Initiative.
?Its purpose, scope of work, priority initiative and industry clusters?
		Gustavo Cordova, Team Leader

9:30 am	The future of Information Technology in New Mexico
?A briefing on activities and plans on telecommunications by the State?
		Roy Soto, Secretary Department of Information Technology

9:45 am	"New Mexico Integrated Strategic Broadband Initiative".
?A briefing on the proposal and recommendations to the Governor?
		Richard Lowenberg, 1st Mile Institute

10:00 am	What currently exists?  What is planned by Qwest?
?A briefing on telecom plans by Qwest in the four county area?
		Leo Baca and Dennis Pappas,  Qwest Communications

10:15 am	What currently exists?  What is planned by Windstream?
?A briefing on telecom plans by Windstream in the four county area?
		Bill Garcia,  Windstream Communications

10:30 am	Wireless Communications Infrastructure plans
?A briefing by Verizon on how wireless telecom is changing?
	        Susan Darby and Steve Cahn, Verizon Communications

10:45 am	BREAK

11:00 am	A Tribal Government Perspective on Telecommunications
?A briefing on activities and plans  on telecom by San Ildefonso Pueblo?
		Laurence Pena, Tewa.Com Enterprise

11:15 am	Santa Fe Regional Telecom Coalition
?A briefing on the activities and plans of the Coalition?
		Tony Flores and David Breecker, City of Santa Fe

11:30 am	Recommendations for Legislative Session or further study
?Workgroup identifies legislative priorities based on regional criteria?
		Gustavo Cordova, Team Leader

12:00 am	Closing comments ? Future workshop schedule

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The easiest way to find the NCNMEDD offices is to take Siringo Road going west,
turn right on Yucca unto the College of Santa Fe.  There will be two stop
signs, after you pass the second stop sign the road dead ends in a large
parking lot.  The NCNMEDD offices will be on your left.  It is an old army
barracks building.   Go in the front door and they will show you to the
conference room.  The meeting starts promptly at 9:00 am, so be there a few
minutes early.  They will have coffee for you.

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>From the REDI web site:

REDI is one of Los Alamos County?s Progress through Partnering initiatives,
and is funded by increased gross receipts tax revenue from the change in Los
Alamos National Laboratory?s contractor status.

REDI?s geographic area includes Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe and Taos
counties.

Through a Regional Economic Development Strategic Plan, REDI will identify and
begin to implement concrete economic development projects that will improve the
economy and quality of life in the four-county region over the next 25 years.

Los Alamos County has signed cooperative agreements with the county and city
governments in the four-county region for Progress through Partnering
initiatives.

The Regional Development Corporation (RDC) has been selected as the contractor
for the project, and is partnering with the North Central NM Economic
Development District (NCNMEDD).


-- 
Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com

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