Dane County  
Minutes - Final Unless Amended by  
Committee  
Dane County Broadband Task Force  
Thursday, September 7, 2023  
9:00 AM  
This is a Hybrid Meeting: Attend in person at City-County  
Building, Room 354, 210 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd;  
Attend virtually via Zoom.  
A. Call To Order  
Staff: Jaron McCallum, Lauren Kuhl, Josh Schroeder, Sharon Lezberg, and Majid Allan  
Others: Eric Bathras(AECOM) and Jeff Whitman(AECOM)  
Chair Ratcliff called the meeting to order at 9:02 AM.  
Zentner joined at 9:10 AM.  
10 -  
Present  
KATE MCGINNITY, TODD VIOLANTE, RENEE LAUBER, MELISSA RATCLIFF,  
BOB WIPPERFURTH, DEANA ZENTNER, JOYCE TIKALSKY, PETER WEIL,  
SARAH EDGERTON, and DAVID DIGIOVANNI  
3 - BILL DICKMEYER, ANDREW HOYOS, and JEFF GLAZER  
Excused  
Absent  
2 - MICHELLE JENSEN, and SARAH GHEE  
B. Consideration of Minutes  
1. 2023  
MIN-244  
Minutes of the August 3, 2023 Dane County Broadband Task Force  
Meeting  
Attachments: 2023 MIN-244  
A motion was made by DIGIOVANNI, seconded by WIPPERFURTH, that the  
Minutes be approved. The motion carried by a voice vote.  
C. Action Items  
D. Presentations  
E. Reports to Committee  
1. Updates  
i. Broadband Coordinator update  
Jaron McCallum gave a brief introduction of himself and his backhground.  
ii. PSC Grant  
Jaron gave an overview of the upcoming grant from the PSC. Discussed the option of  
going into a public private partnership with ISP to apply for the grant.  
iii. Newsletter  
Lauren and Sharon discussed upcoming newsletter being sent  
2. 2023  
Discussion and action on AECOM Engineering Assessment Report of  
Recommendations  
RPT-251  
Attachments:  
Updated draft of AECOM Engineering Assessment Report of  
Recommendations  
Violante gave brief introduction of revised report.  
Bathras discussed implementing the feedback from the Task Force into the current  
version of the report. Additional edits from feedback still being implemented.  
Task Force members provided comments on the current version of the report.  
Potential action to be taken at a future task force meeting.  
Deadline of September 21st for additional comments by task force members to be  
submitted to AECOM.  
F. Future Meeting Items and Dates  
G. Public Comment on Items not on the Agenda  
H. Such Other Business as Allowed by Law  
I. Adjourn  
A motion was made by MCGINNITY, seconded by VIOLANTE, that the meeting be  
adjourned. The motion carried unanimously.  
Meeting adjourned at 10:04 AM.  
Minutes respectfully submitted by Josh Schroeder, pending Task Force approval