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Burlington Telecom Sale Criteria Public Educational Meeting 12/09/2015

The City of Burlington and the Burlington community have a significant investment in Burlington Telecom’s success and interests in ensuring affordable, effective, and responsive fiber optic services for its residents. To that end, the City is engaged in a public process with the residents of Burlington to determine criteria by which the City should be guided in a future transaction involving the ownership of Burlington Telecom.

A survey that allows respondents to rank the relative importance of different community goals in connection with Burlington Telecom is available on the City’s website at http://www.btcriteria.com/.

Minutes from prior public meetings soliciting input on sale criteria are available here: http://www.burlingtontelecom.net/burlington-telecom-advisory-board/.

This is the third of three public hearings on this issue. Watch the first and second hearings:

The first meeting can be found here: Burlington Telecom Advisory Board: Burlington Telecom Sale Criteria Public Educational Meetings 11/18/2015

Second meeting can be seen here: Burlington Telecom Advisory Board: Burlington Telecom Sale Criteria Public Educational Meetings 11/20/2015

These public meetings and survey are intended to gather feedback from the Burlington community to inform the Burlington Telecom Advisory Board (BTAB). Comments will be considered as the BTAB creates a recommendation regarding these criteria to be presented to the City Council for review and approval. The current schedule, which is subject to change, is for the BTAB to hold a public meeting in early January to review the draft recommendation, which will then be presented (as revised based on public comments) to the City Council for approval at its January 25, 2016 meeting.

Burlington Telecom Sale Criteria Public Educational Meetings 11/20/2015

The purpose of this meeting is to accept public input and solicit comments for establishing the criteria for the sale of Burlington Telecom. Following these meetings, the BTAB will prepare a report and ask for public feedback to be sent to the City Council in February, 2016. The advisory board (meetings are normally the 2nd Wednesday of the month) is made up of: David Provost, Joan Shannon, Karen Paul, and Clem Nilan, Theresa Alberghini DiPalma, Tim Halvorson.

This is the second of three meetings to hear from the public on proposed criteria for the sale of Burlington Telecom. The first meeting can be found here: Burlington Telecom Advisory Board: Burlington Telecom Sale Criteria Public Educational Meetings 11/18/2015

Burlington Telecom Sale Criteria Public Educational Meetings 11/18/2015

This is the first of three meetings to hear from the public on proposed criteria for the sale of Burlington Telecom. Second meeting can be seen here: Burlington Telecom Advisory Board: Burlington Telecom Sale Criteria Public Educational Meetings 11/20/2015

Burlington Telecom Advisory Board Meeting 10/22/2015

Learn more with the BTAB about the conditions of the current contracts with Citibank and Bluewater Group and the limitations these contracts place on the upcoming sale. The advisory board (meetings are normally the 2nd Wednesday of the month) is made up of: David Provost, Joan Shannon, Karen Paul, Clem Nilan, Theresa Alberghini DiPalma, and Tim Halvorson.

Keep BT Local Annual Member Meeting 10/19/2015

Keep BT Local Annual Member Meeting

Please note that there are two vacant seats on the current Board of Directors. There are nominations for these two open seats at the Annual meeting. The vote will take place after the annual meeting with all the nominees and their bios posted for all members to take part.

Burlington Telecom Advisory Board 09/09/2015

The advisory board (meetings are 2nd Wednesday of the month) is made up of: David Provost, Joan Shannon, Karen Paul, and Clem Nilan, Theresa Alberghini DiPalma, Tim Halvorson. Agenda: http://www.burlingtontelecom.net/About-Us/Burlington-Telecom-Advisory-Board

Burlington Telecom Advisory Board 08/12/2015

Burlington Telecom Advisory Board 07/08/2015

Keep BT Local - Brian Lippold 06/14/2015

The Keep BT Local Cooperative holds an open session at the Champlain College Miller Center. The session provides an update on the goals and objectives of the Keep BT Local Co-op and a presentation from Brian Lippold, of Casco Bay Advisors, a seasoned veteran in the field of telecommunications who is advising the Cooperative on a plan to acquire Burlington Telecom. A Question and Answer will follows the presentations. More information: http://www.keepbtlocal.com

Burlington Telecom Advisory Board 06/10/2015

The advisory board (meetings are 2nd Wednesday of the month) is made up of: David Provost, Joan Shannon, Karen Paul, and Clem Nilan, Theresa Alberghini DiPalma, Tim Halvorson. Agenda: http://www.burl ingtontelecom.n et/About-Us/Bur lington-Telecom -Advisory-Board

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