Number
130594
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Resolution authorizing the Commissioner of Public Works to install fiber and provide network connectivity at the expense of and for the use and benefit of the BloodCenter of Wisconsin.
Analysis
This resolution authorizes the Commissioner of Public Works to install fiber and provide network connectivity at the expense of and for the use and benefit of the BloodCenter of Wisconsin. This will provide the BloodCenter of Wisconsin access to and entry into the WiscNet/BOREAS-Net Abilene/Internet2 education community node located at the Department of Public Works Network Operations Center (DPW-NOC).
Body
Whereas, The City of Milwaukee wishes to enhance the health of individuals and families, promote healthy neighborhoods, and safeguard the health of the Milwaukee community; and
Whereas, For more than 65 years, the BloodCenter of Wisconsin has helped provide a safe supply of blood to hospitals, saved and enhanced lives through blood drives and the Wisconsin Donor Network and the Wisconsin Tissue Bank, and helped doctors detect rare diseases and develop innovative new diagnostic methods, treatments and cures; and
Whereas, The BloodCenter of Wisconsin has requested the assistance of the City of Milwaukee in obtaining high-speed network connectivity to the internet through WiscNet at its expense; and
Whereas, WiscNet is a not-for-profit association established to further education, research, economic development and public service in the state of Wisconsin by creating and operating a digital communications network interconnecting public and private organizations including the provision of internet services; and
Whereas, Common Council Resolution File Number 051269, adopted on February 7, 2006, authorized the Commissioner of Public Works to execute an agreement between the City of Milwaukee and the WiscNet Association to establish collocation facilities within the City of Milwaukee and that made it feasible for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to become a node on BOREAS-Net; and
Whereas, This collocation facility enables Milwaukee area educational and cultural institutions to gain access to WiscNet and the next generation internets including: BoreasNet, Abilene/Internet2 and other national and international networks, and further enables connectivity between higher education and cultural institutions within the City of Milwaukee including: Marquette University, Milwaukee Area Technical College, Milwaukee Public Television, Discovery World, Pier Wisconsin, VISIT Milwaukee, and Milwaukee World Festival, Inc.; and
Whereas, The City of Milwaukee owns dark fiber and can provide network services in certain routes that would be beneficial to the extension and enhancement of the BloodCenter of Wisconsin to further its mission; and
Whereas, It would be in the best interests of the City of Milwaukee to facilitate connectivity within the City for the BloodCenter of Wisconsin; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the Commissioner of Public Works is directed to install dark fiber and to provide network connectivity at no cost to the City in certain routes where capacity is available to enable the BloodCenter of Wisconsin to connect to the WiscNet/BOREAS-Net collocation facility at the Department of Public Works Network Operations Center (DPW-NOC).
Requestor
Department of Administration - ITMD
Drafter
ITMD/DH
LRB149059-1
TWM:lp
8/27/2013