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File Number: 17-476 <br />Phase 1 installed conduit at the following locations: <br />·A northern alignment, along Doolittle Drive to the City border and around the Adams <br />Avenue Tract; <br />·A loop around Marina Boulevard, Monarch Bay Drive, Fairway Drive and Catalina Street <br />for future Shoreline service; <br />·An alignment along the Alvarado Street & Teagarden Street industrial corridors; and <br />·A critical loop redundancy between City Hall and the Main Library. <br />This contract utilized the remaining grant balance by installing an additional 1.3 miles of conduit <br />along Washington Avenue completing a network loop between the Public Works Service Center <br />on Chapman Road and conduit in San Leandro Boulevard at Polar Way. This alignment also <br />includes conduit to two traffic signals for future signal interconnections and conduit to the San <br />Leandro Hospital and the Ghirardelli Chocolate properties. <br />The total project expanded the City’s communications network capability by installing <br />approximately 9.4 miles of conduit ready to receive fiber optic cables. The City’s fiber optic <br />conduit network now exceeds 28 miles (Attachments - Fiber Optic Conduit Network Map). <br />In addition to promoting growth and creating jobs in the industrial sector, the extensive conduit <br />network infrastructure also provides the opportunity for schools, the community and businesses <br />throughout the City to easily connect to high-speed internet communication service. <br />Lit San Leandro has already installed several connections off the main fiber network and has <br />completed plans to install fiber in the Marina expansion with the emergence of customers along <br />that route. The San Leandro Unified School District has used various portions of the conduit <br />network to connect all District campuses to their high speed data network. <br />The conduit network will attract and create numerous business opportunities specifically related to <br />broadband and innovation, including: <br />·Climatec/Paradox Engineering Smart Lighting Project: In addition to thousands of street <br />and building lights being replaced with energy-saving LED lights, the City is one of less <br />than 100 U.S. cities with a “smart city” platform. This platform provides the City with an <br />open technology architecture that allows a limitless number of applications (e.g. traffic, <br />environmental monitoring, energy, etc.) and data to be developed, implemented and <br />integrated into a single system. <br />·Implementation of the City’s first public Wi-Fi hotspots (“WiFiber”), with the goal of <br />developing Wi-Fi access across San Leandro. This is a key “digital divide” asset, <br />eventually enabling San Leandro residents across all economic groups with access to fast <br />broadband. <br />·National recognition of San Leandro as a leader in “smart city” development through its <br />work with organizations like U.S. Ignite, Smart Cities Council, Next Century Cities and the <br />Global Cities Team Challenge. <br />Analysis <br />On May 1, 2017, the City Council awarded the construction contract for the Fiber Conduit Network <br />Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 10/10/2017 <br />30