13:58:57 So, that's a big deal. Uh, next week will be the second phase of the NCIA comment period for.
13:59:05 Ones that are going to be used on the TBCP program type, and then part of what.
13:59:11 The role of digital equity program was. That's going to change a little bit. I think they're just trying to give it a new name. Everybody seems to not like.
13:59:19 Digital equity, uh. As a name, sorry.
13:59:23 I'm sure that's going to change at some point in time, but they're… I wish that, uh, moving forward.
13:59:29 Uh, also, for myself, for Matty. We are about, uh, I'd say 75.
13:59:37 70% finished with our TBCP grant, but we're about 110 miles of build to El Paso for Mississippi Arrow.
13:59:45 So that's a middle mile project. It's right around 110 miles.
13:59:51 My new data center is about a month away from being finished.
13:59:55 Right now, we're… today I was looking at it, uh, we're installing elevators, and uh… Uh, we're still waiting for a second redundant AC unit to the data center itself for the floor.
14:00:07 We're still waiting for that, so because of the supply chain issues, some of that's coming from.
14:00:13 to him, uh, and the tariffs have kind of.
14:00:17 slowed that whole thing down, so it's, uh, trying to get that second immunity, and then it's kind of been troublesome, but other than that.
14:00:23 We're moving right ahead. Our, uh… I think our… square footage for the building's around 11,000 square feet.
14:00:32 So it's exciting to get into a new building and being able to… it'll house my administration, plus my new, uh, data center floor.
14:00:40 Uh, as a tribe, Ms. Suero is looking at, uh, utilizing AI.
14:00:46 For tribal needs, we're looking at. How to apply that.
14:00:46 Hmm.
14:00:51 in a closed environment, so it doesn't go out to the internet.
14:00:54 We want to take advantage of a lot of the issues that.
14:00:58 surround AI, how to make it, uh… I lose a lot better. We're looking at also making it easier for… Our language preservation.
14:01:08 Uh, training an AI agent to actually understand and know our.
14:01:13 liable to solve. Since our history for, uh, East for Apache is a spoken language, uh, spoken histories.
14:01:21 A lot of those were not, so we're using more under… Uh, COVID, we lost quite a few elderly members, and it was quite a bit of them.
14:01:31 So, you know, I'm trying to find… and there's all kinds of tools, and we call these tools only because.
14:01:37 We want to know and harness that. There's a lot of people that are afraid of this.
14:01:40 But if you understand what it is, and I've been… Uh, having meetings with our leadership when you tell them what it is, and so that we close, it's gonna be… Uh, other issues that surrounded digital sovereignty. Now, how do we preserve that and making sure that doesn't get out into the internet, so…
14:01:57 A lot of that's, uh, at an issue, but I hope to.
14:02:01 kind of pick off this project. You know, we're looking not at the hyperscale AIs, where you have.
14:02:07 acre from acre of service. You're looking at Renee's, uh, picture behind the.
14:02:12 I won't have that kind of a server farm behind me.
14:02:16 I'm looking at having just maybe a quarter of servers to be able to run this AI.
14:02:22 And then, uh, do it on a smaller scale, so a microscope is.
14:02:26 I'm presenting the neat thing about that is if we have interconnection between tribe to tribe.
14:02:32 We can use the, uh, harnessing the power of each of those units together.
14:02:37 And eventually, if you have enough, if you don't have that size of a AI.
14:02:41 But you don't use all the water, you don't use the cooling leaves, you don't have to use all of the power use, so you do it on a smaller scale.
14:02:49 So, those are some of the things that we're working on, of course, uh, on the tribal side, so exciting things are coming up.
14:02:56 And I'm working with a few individuals from the state of Mexico to see if we can get this, uh, working, so… That's coming down the road, so that's my report from the.
14:03:06 And, uh, excluding the musical practice telecom side. That's it. Thank you, sir.
14:03:12 Thank you, Godfried. Uh… Any questions?
14:03:18 comments… Okay, I don't see any. Thank you very much.
14:03:25 Uh, any other, uh… Committee report, or working group.
14:03:30 Update.
14:03:31 I do want to mention something on behalf of Catherine. She had sent a note, um, to me asking.
14:03:38 For some guidance on the legislative working group. Um, she wants to know how to get it stood up, um, get it moving.
14:03:49 Um, she's curious of which committee members may want to join the legislative.
14:03:54 Um, working group, and if there's a way that, you know, in the past, if others of you who have started a working group.
14:03:59 how did you get member… other members to join, um, public members? So, if there's any… any other, you know, information or guidance that you can provide to me or to Catherine.
14:04:11 I'm sure she would greatly appreciate it.
14:04:15 Okay, so I guess if anyone's interested in working on legislative matters.
14:04:20 I believe Catherine's the chair. And, uh, I guess when I just contact Catherine directly, or contact you to… Get a hold of Catherine?
14:04:30 Yeah, yeah, either way, maybe, um, mention both of us, put both of us in that email, just so that we can both be in track of that.
14:04:33 Okay.
14:04:38 Okay, thank you. So again, if anyone's interested, please, uh… reach out. Renee, do we have… I think I asked this, can it be anyone? It just.
14:04:51 There has to be some council members, but can there be other people within the industry.
14:04:56 that share the same vision. of getting people connected.
14:04:56 Yes. Yes, so the… the rule is that it can't have more than, um, the… to meet a quorum.
14:05:06 For… for members, so they… there can't be 7 members on one working group.
14:05:12 Um, but I do believe that any… anyone who's interested can join. I'm just gonna hop into the… resolutions real quick for working groups.
14:05:22 Yeah, and I do remember that, um, when Peter and I were trying to get more members right, there was something where the chair does have to approve it. They can't just, like, be added.
14:05:34 There has to be some discussion.
14:05:34 Okay.
14:05:42 So, a working group shall not include more than 10 voting members. It's 7 at this point, because the council's kind of shrunk a little bit, so… Um… Um, so you can only have about 7 of you working right now, you know, 10, definitely not.
14:06:00 Um, working group members who are not council members shall be selected by the group leader, and it may include Obey staff, members of the public.
14:06:08 And then a working group shall appoint a secretary to be responsible for.
14:06:12 Managing administration functions of the group. So, yes, members of the public are definitely invited.
14:06:22 Achilles, could you mention that to Jeff to see if anyone from the Obey team can be part of this?
14:06:27 I definitely will ask him.
14:06:27 To make sure that… yeah, and I think it's really to make sure we… understand the position of Obey, so when people do lobby.
14:06:37 We get out the right information to our legislators.
14:06:39 Definitely. And we definitely want to work closely with this group so they know everything that's…
14:06:44 on our, you know, legislative plans.
14:06:41 Thank you.
14:06:48 And I put the legislation in the, um…
14:06:48 Okay, so… Yeah, I saw that.
14:06:50 chat. I can't find the Word version, so I apologize for that.
14:06:57 Okay. Okay, so I encourage anyone who's interested in legislative issues and likes to talk to legislators and.
14:07:05 walk the halls to contact either Renee or. Catherine, and see if we can support, uh… good, meaningful broadband legislation.
14:07:17 Okay, any, any other, uh… reports, updates.
14:07:26 Okay? Seeing none, uh… Achilles, do you have anything else? He didn't mention anything about bead.
14:07:32 So, yeah, I'll give you a quick beat update, and then Mark…
14:07:37 Um, we'll talk a little bit about our 3-year strategic plan that we just published.
14:07:42 Um, him and Sandeep played a pretty big role in that.
14:07:40 Okay.
14:07:45 But, real quickly, Ambiid, we did get word back that our regional director,
14:07:51 Um, did in fact approve our plan.
14:07:54 We do still need to get approval from LUFNIC,
14:07:57 Who is, um, the commerce…
14:08:00 In charge of commerce, so we're hoping to get that.
14:08:04 Relatively quickly, we think we haven't gotten that yet, because they like to sort of publish those
14:08:10 in groups, you know, so you get a group of, like, 5 or 6 at once. Um, last Monday, they did a group of, like, 8.
14:08:16 We had one little tiny curing piece that we had to cure last Monday.
14:08:21 Um, or else we probably would have been in that last group, so…
14:08:25 Um, that's kind of the only thing on beat, so I'm…
14:08:27 I'm hoping that we hear it on Monday, knock on wood. I feel like we've all been hoping that for weeks and weeks now.
14:08:33 But, you know, it's been something that's really been really important to all of us at the office. In the case of me and Natalie and
14:08:41 Sandeep, we've been…
14:08:43 working on this since, I think, Sandeep, since 2021, Natalie since 2021?
14:08:49 myself since 2022, so…
14:08:51 We're pretty excited to get this. It's really important to us.
14:08:54 Mark, you got a couple of minutes? You want to talk about the strategic plan?
14:09:05 Certainly.
14:09:08 Renee, Chair, did you, um…
14:09:11 Am I open up… am I opened up?
14:09:13 Alright, thank you so much. I'll put the, um…
14:09:12 Yes, go ahead. Yes.
14:09:15 strategic plan, um,
14:09:18 link in the chat, it's on our…
14:09:20 report library. Um, you know, big call out to Sandeep for all his guidance and content and drive, and uh…
14:09:27 I had brought in some ideas from
14:09:31 prior… prior work I've done and things as well, and so we merged together quite well. I think with, uh, Jeff's direction, we have really…
14:09:38 kind of reset the plan here with Jeff's…
14:09:42 ideas, and Alex, Achilles' ideas.
14:09:44 Of what we need to do to focus. I wanted to share, uh, just a couple of, uh…
14:09:50 If I can do this…
14:09:53 Couple of slides, please, and then…
14:09:57 Do I have that right, Renee?
14:10:02 Thank you so much.
14:10:01 You should be able to do that now.
14:10:11 All right, so the, um, the plan's on the website. It's, uh…
14:10:15 You know, it says we've reset a number of things and have a, uh, quite a, uh…
14:10:20 Colorful. Colorful report. Uh, which has been done for our new, uh, GovX, uh,
14:10:27 PIO. One of the things that called out, we did, uh, you know, we've got this down, we built ourselves, uh, centered around our goals that are come down from…
14:10:36 Executive Proclamation and SB93.
14:10:38 Uh, and we broke ourselves down into a set of initiative, uh, priorities,
14:10:44 That I'll, um, take you through.
14:10:46 Briefly, uh, it's actually a very readable document. We've got things organized in such a way that I think will be a, uh,
14:10:53 Easy to, um…
14:10:56 Easy to see, but our, you know, overall goals, and we just mentioned one of them right up front, is overall
14:11:01 connectivity throughout the state, uh, looking for a bead, but also the continuation. We still have ARPA,
14:11:07 pilot programs, uh, Connect New Mexico Fund programs, the community Wi-Fi we mentioned, we have Student Connect to finish out, too.
14:11:14 So, you know, we're pretty busy within the overall
14:11:17 realm of arm.
14:11:20 of our activities. We ended up with, uh, kind of
14:11:23 organize ourselves into six different major priorities.
14:11:27 statewide connectivity, which is the one I just mentioned as well.
14:11:30 Getting that done. Affordability.
14:11:33 Um, and as you know, this with the bill and the PRC, working with that is Achilles mentioned.
14:11:39 A strategic infrastructure, uh, just what's inside here is a private-public-private partnerships, as well as continuing work and doing work on Middle Mile.
14:11:49 As well as, um, working on…
14:11:52 Maybe expanding and formalizing more of a higher-level EBOT program.
14:11:58 So, uh, Godfrey, you're on, and uh…
14:12:01 steal ideas, but at the same time, uh, maybe we could help out from a more of a statewide perspective.
14:12:06 Uh, from that pers… from that area, is what we were…
14:12:09 thinking.
14:12:10 Sorry about that, Mark. I didn't hear what you said. Uh, I just heard my name, so I called.
14:12:16 I told you we nicked one of your ideas for EBOT and put it in our strategic infrastructure plan.
14:12:18 Okay. Oh, okay, hey, cool.
14:12:22 at a more of a state level.
14:12:22 Actually, I have a… I actually have a meeting this evening at 5 o'clock with D&M to talk about Evo here and read us ourselves.
14:12:31 That's what, uh, convention center.
14:12:34 Wonderful. Well, we have that in, along with public-private partnerships, as well as expanding out Middle Mile.
14:12:40 Uh, data policy, this is Natalie's area.
14:12:42 As well as some activities we need.
14:12:45 to build stronger relationships on permitting.
14:12:48 I think it has to do with, uh, SHPO and state land and BLM and…
14:12:52 coordinations and, uh, you'll see the word pull attachments, and uh…
14:12:57 In this section as well.
14:12:59 digital opportunity, uh, continuing on, uh, device and activity program. And then the last one, number F,
14:13:06 is our network operations. This is the Broadband for Education.
14:13:09 activity. So, we've got ourselves organized in this fashion.
14:13:14 And, you know, if we look at our funding and look at our staff organization,
14:13:18 That's where we are, um, focused.
14:13:22 Focused from that perspective.
14:13:25 Um, there are a, um…
14:13:34 We have some colorful charts and things, but we have a number of initiatives within each one of these, and I'll take you just a minute. I'll take you through strategic infrastructure again.
14:13:42 Uh, but we've been a bit of a dot chart, but it's what it's meant to be is…
14:13:47 Taking our initiatives and making sure that they tie back.
14:13:50 And you'll see the middle stripe is tribal influence, or tribal contribution that's required.
14:13:57 You know, making sure that we've got this wrapped in
14:13:59 the tribal side wrapped in input, um…
14:14:02 Tribal consultation, of course, a number of our projects within ARFA and…
14:14:07 connect the microphone and BEAD will be directly
14:14:11 related to… to them.
14:14:15 So, the basic initiatives are set up. We spend a lot of time kind of fine-tuning these and coming up, and we've got action plans,
14:14:22 performance targets, and…
14:14:25 activities built around that, and so Jeff wants to make sure and…
14:14:30 Alex wants to make sure that we are, you know, getting these kind of in more of an action plan for the year. We do have things broken out in milestones that…
14:14:37 what we're going to try to work on per year.
14:14:41 Here's strategic infrastructure with three big initiatives, as I mentioned, the partnership framework.
14:14:46 The middle mile, and then the EBOT.
14:14:49 And so, I have to let you…
14:14:53 get ahold of this document, take a look at it, maybe reach out to us directly.
14:14:57 For any types of questions and things, or if you feel…
14:15:01 You know, they say, this is really important, when are you going to get started?
14:15:09 That's about all I'd wanted to say, other than the fact that you would do have, on page 10, there's a milestone chart which shows…
14:15:14 some of the major activities and goals that we'd want to do over the years.
14:15:18 So, you know, obviously we need… the 2026 is a big year for us to finish out the ARPA projects, as well as get the Connect New Mexico Fund and Student Connect projects.
14:15:28 And the beads are four-year projects, once we get them started.
14:15:31 We've got to go through the design, setups, NEPA approval.
14:15:35 And then get these shovels on the ground and get things started, so…
14:15:38 And you see affordability, you can see the different blocks of where we wanted to
14:15:43 try to do this, and we did have a… we did have an aspiration or a goal of middle mile in 2028.
14:15:50 Um, on the Strategic Infrastructure Line.
14:15:52 And the network operations side down at the bottom is kind of a continuation.
14:15:56 of the broadband for education and the SEN, and the PFS… the, uh…
14:16:00 E-rate programs that we have.
14:16:02 So Alex or Sandeep, I don't know if you want to add any more comments to it, but I just wanted to give you highlights of what's inside the plan.
14:16:09 called out a couple of items here that may be important to you, if you'd like to talk to us more, I'd be happy to do that.
14:16:17 Thank you, Mark. Achilles, Sandeep, do you have anything else to add, since you guys worked on it?
14:16:23 No, I think Mark did a great job.
14:16:27 No, I… you know, it's a really hard thing to sort of summarize and in under 10 minutes, so Mark…
14:16:33 And uh… you know, you did a really good job, and I… I think…
14:16:38 we all worked really hard on it.
14:16:41 really, Mark, Sandeep, Kevin,
14:16:43 Natalie and a lot of other people on this call, and just team members here, really put a lot more into it than I did, to be honest with you.
14:16:50 Uh, and everyone in the call. I'm more tactical, everyone else is more strategic in the Office of Broadband.
14:16:55 And I just want to thank everybody. I really want to encourage all of you to just take a look at it. It's a lot easier of a read than the last planned.
14:17:04 And it was intentional. Uh, we really…
14:17:07 We're proud of the last plan. We really lurked hard on the last plan.
14:17:11 Because so much of it was about getting all the data points together for BEAD.
14:17:16 And about all the things we thought BEAD was going to be.
14:17:19 And this plan is really about
14:17:22 how we're going to implement BEAD, and then
14:17:25 what comes next, and what all of these working groups
14:17:28 that I've attended as many as I could over the last…
14:17:32 3 or 4 years, I've been on a bunch of these calls.
14:17:35 Whether it's the tribal working group, you know, there used to be, like, a regional planning working group, a permitting working group.
14:17:42 mapping all the different iterations of these,
14:17:46 And I think you'll see a little bit of each one of those influences in this plan.
14:17:49 Because the… all of those voices mattered, and they came out in this, so… just want to thank everybody for their input.
14:17:56 And thank this group for all the time they put in.
14:17:58 And, uh, you know, any questions or comments, please email us, or call us, or…
14:18:03 set up a meeting. We want to talk about it with all of you guys.
14:18:07 our most important stakeholders on all this?
14:18:09 So, thank you.
14:18:11 Thank you, Achilles, Mark, Sandeep, and thank the rest of the team on behalf of the Council for this work, and uh… Again, as Akila said, I encourage council members and the public to contact them.
14:18:24 If you have any questions or comments on the plan, so… Job well done, thank you.
14:18:30 It's…
14:18:32 Uh, any questions on the plan? For many of the council members.
14:18:39 Present. Seeing none… Uh, number 6, public comment.
14:18:48 So, anyone from the public that wants to comment?
14:18:56 Okay, I don't see anyone that makes comments, I guess Renee, take it from here.
14:19:01 Absolutely. Um, the next order of business is for Dermot. May I have a motion to adjourn?
14:19:11 I'd like to adjourn.
14:19:12 So…
14:19:13 Sorry about that. That was Isaac. Making the motion, okay? And then, is there a second?
14:19:16 Yes.
14:19:21 Second, Eli.
14:19:22 Thank you. Is there anybody who is opposed?
14:19:30 Hearing and seeing none, this meeting is officially adjourned. Thank you, everybody.
14:19:33 Thank you, have a great day. Bye.