. >> what is ctc? >>speaker: columbia >>hat is a vendor, contractor? >>speaker: they are neutral and not trying to push one product. >> how much have we already spent in this dream? i want thera bbe >>speaker: my understanding from work with the departmen of technology to understand expenditures to date 1.2 million of the 2.5 million of the project all beeed expeed and $1 million to the fiber consultant. te thank you. any other allocations out there? >>speaker: the actually uses to date is $1 million for the fiber consund 200,000. >> how is the outside legal counsel collect? >>speaker: the city attorney and league council hasperienit3r okay. all right. t i want to go back to the revenue tax measure that is going to be on the ballot. so we don't really know what the project costs are exactly. we have a round figure. do you have any idea of an estimated figure of what the exact cost may be to customers to the rate ps? this poin be the revenues are still unknown. >> will there be tiered costs? >>speaker: that is an opportunity. deaf thatldefinitely a lowe

. >> we have this information from the ctc study, so i think it was 1.2-1.9 billion. >> okay, thankou v yy m your presentation. let's go to public comment. i see a couple members of the publicere.t thank you for staying here. you have two minutes. >> chris wideman. i have spend 35 years dealing with telecommunications law and policy and half of that time across the street atlities commission. in 2016 the commission by unanimous vote iss a study on telecommunications competition and to the surprise of very few people found that high-speed wired broadband was not competitive. most people in california have one provider, strain i san frans lucky we have two, maybe 2.5. sonic can't get into the underground so that is the half. you have your folks out in the district and out in the city and i was riding through the lenor development the other day. from what i understand their requiring for internet. the internet itself is not the utility, it's the aes the wir a terminate to at&t. the genius o a city wholesale only network is those folks would have the opportunity not just to pick at&t and

san juan from learning from that, we are even more looking to communities, establishing what we call ctcssformation of communities, where there will be a head count of each family in a community. we would know how many people are bed-ridden in that family, there will be a center with solar panels and batteries and refrigerators so that people can have their insulin. we're working together with the illinois institute of technology, carnegie melon university and potentially a university in puerto rico, to come up with some sort of a little gadget that will keep your insulin refrigerated when you have no electricity. mind you, there's no storm in puerto rico, but our electricity grid is so weakened, that, you know -- >> there's still thousands at this time, i know. in fact the latest report we had yesterday was like 11,000 or something along that number was without electricity. >> and you have to know when the talkbout clients.1,000, they're and the average puerto rican family is a family of four. so you're talking about 44 to 60,000 people who still don't have electricity to this day. >> th