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Orange County Broadband Task Force

Orange County · Orange County Broadband Task Force
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Other Broadband and technologyContracts and procurement

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Two hours, co-chaired by two county commissioners, with the broadband provider's director in the room. Thirty minutes on a stop-gap update from the provider, then a full hour reviewing the mapping of who is and is not served.

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This is the meeting that set up the decision the county commissioners took on 16 June. The county's 2022 partnership with the provider was worth about $10 million and aimed at roughly 6,370 homes; the scope was cut to 5,852 in autumn 2025, 5,859 locations were completed, and about $800,000 of federal pandemic recovery money remained against a December 2026 spending deadline.

An hour on the mapping is how a task force answers the only question that matters at that point: which specific addresses are still without service, and which of them can be reached before the money expires. The answer it arrived at was 105 more locations in two areas, funded in three instalments tied to conduit construction and then fibre splicing and network acceptance, with all work due by 1 November 2026.

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Agenda items (3)

Procedural · 1Minutes approval · 1Staff or committee report · 1
  1. 5 Discussion Item: Lumos Stop Gap Update
    Procedural Broadband and technology
    A thirty-minute update from a Lumos director on the stop gap work, the effort to reach households left out after the original contract's location count was reduced.
  2. 6 GIS Map Review
    Minutes approval Broadband and technology
    An hour reviewing the county's GIS map of broadband coverage with the chief information officer, to identify which locations remain unserved.
  3. 7 Old Business/New Business/Housekeeping
    Staff or committee report Broadband and technologyContracts and procurement
    Thirty minutes from the provider's director on where the build stands.

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