Title: P5 WAN Fiber-Optic Interlocal Agreement

Recommendation:

I recommend that the School Board approve the Fiber-Optic Interlocal agrrement between the School District of Palm Beach County and the Palm Beach County government.

Description:

As instruction becomes more dependent upon technology, one of the greatest challenges our schools face is the need for faster access to network computer resources like the Internet. The Palm Beach County government has an extensive high-speed fiber-optic network that has enough capacity to allow the School District to connect and provide the schools with substantially greater speed and capacity than it has now. An Interlocal agreement has been created that details the costs, service levels, and conditions of the proposed relationship. This cooperative agreement benefits the taxpayers by lowering the cost of providing bandwidth to the schools and sharing the County’s network costs.

Financial Impact:

The financial impact of this agreement for the school District will be to lower the overall cost of providing network connectivity to schools while increasing the capacity of each school’s connection. Costs will be shared with county and other entities using the network. The cost model for the initial phase of five schools will be approximately half the District’s current cost including E-Rate discounts.

For Additional Information, contact:

Joseph M. Moore (MooreJ@palmbeach.k12.fl.us)

Linda Mainord

Attachments (list):
Fiber Optic Calculation.xls
Fiber Optic Agreement.pdf
Q&AP5.doc