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117 FIVE-YEAR BROADBAND IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY OVERVIEW The implementation of the City’s fiber network should be progressive in nature and with the intent of building a redundant, business-class network offering gigabit fiber services throughout the City. Each phase expands the availability of municipal services throughout the City, with the potential to extend fiber to the San Leandro business community. The costs incurred by the City and potential revenue generated vary depending on the business model that will be implemented. RECOMMENDATIONS The City has many opportunities available to expand its network and can capitalize on low cost/no cost options that are typically available for most municipalities – at least those that maintain other utilities, rights-of-way, and capital improvement programs. In other cases, the City will have to design and construct in new areas of the City where these opportunities are not present. It should be noted that these recommendations, roadmap and action plan should be viewed as only one option available to the City and assumes more of a total finance scenario rather than incorporating cost savings from opportunistic builds or grant funding options. The City of San Leandro should continue to look for ways to build on demand and incrementally, meeting demands as they arise, and using a “crawl, walk, run” approach. Recommendation #1: Develop Fiber-Friendly Public Policies Magellan believes that San Leandro’s most immediate strategy to encourage next- generation broadband infrastructure growth is to formalize broadband-friendly public policies. In meetings with the City of San Leandro departments, it was discovered that many progressive considerations are already in place, and informal policies were being formalized that are generally accepted as best practice. The City of San Leandro needs to ensure that it employs conditions for development that include telecommunications assets as a part of the necessary development infrastructure. In support of this strategy, San Leandro should continue to implement broadband-friendly public policy tools. These policy tools influence how broadband services develop throughout the City and show the community and prospective newcomers that San Leandro is serious about promoting broadband growth and accessibility. In addition, it will allow the City to expand its underground conduit and fiber system with savings over more traditional fiber construction methods, allowing the City to take a master planning approach versus deploying in an ad-hoc, unplanned way.