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Hello renters, homeowners, and business owners in North Shoal Creek. Our Neighborhood Plan Contact Team will have our next meeting on Thursday, February 11th at 6:30 PM.  The meeting will be online, and the proposed agenda is shown below.

By the end of this meeting, we should all be acquainted with how to access Trello to see information about the Contact Team, have a plan of action for revising our bylaws, and a prioritized list of plan actions that we can begin working on. If there are other topics you’d like to discuss or any concerns you have about the proposed topics, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Agenda for Thursday, February 11th, 6:30-8 pm

• Prior Business (10 minutes)
  – Call to order
  – Quorum/Attendance
  – Acknowledgement of new members
  – Approval of Minutes
• Items Needing Action (20 minutes)
  – Zoning cases under consideration
  – Bylaws Committee – Identify lead and discuss plan of action
• Implementation Updates (15 minutes)
  – What progress have we made?
  – What are next steps?
  – What’s standing in our way?
• Review and finalize prioritization of Plan Actions (45 minutes)
• Review Action Items for next meeting (10 minutes)

The Neighborhood Plan Contact Team meets quarterly on the second Thursday in February, May, August, and November. Currently, due to Covid-19 restrictions, meetings are online. All meetings are open to the public. For more information, please email nsccontactteam@gmail.com. Renters, homeowners, and business owners in the North Shoal Creek planning area are welcome to attend, so please join us if you’re able.

Four NSCNA Board Members recently had a Zoom meeting with Google representative Daniel Lucio; here’s what we learned from the meeting:

. They are starting on Crosscreek, and are using two contractors: Quanta, which is working on Crosscreek and will move west from there; and BComm, which will start work this week and move east from Rockwood. Trenching, laying the fiber, and cleaning-up is expected to take about 4 weeks, although another estimate says that North Shoal Creek should be completed by the end of the year. Then they move to Rosedale and Brentwood.

. They are using a “shallow trenching” method which requires an approximately 6” wide trench be cut into the street right where the street and curb gutter meet. Depth of the cut will be 6-12”.

. At every other house, they’ll need to cut through the curb and bury the fiber in the right-of-way. It’ll be left there as a 12” spool; this way, when a resident orders Google Fiber it’ll be readily available to extend to the house.

. City of Austin staff has marked all utility lines. However, the markings are occasionally wrong. When that happens, the contractors will need to “pot-hole,” or dig to locate the utility lines.

. It should take about 1 day / block to dig the trench, lay the fiber, and then clean up.

. Watch for a door hanger! When one appears on your door, construction will begin on your street in 48 hours. The street must be clear so construction can proceed. Cars left in the way of construction will be towed away and then brought back; there are no charges for the tow.

. Irrigation systems: if they damage one, they will repair it or will reimburse the owner for the repair expense. NSCNA hopes to have flags available for neighbors to use to mark irrigation lines.

. Please notify Google of any problems with their contractors. Phone #: 877-454-6959.

. Pricing: Internet only. $70/mt.

For more information, call Google Fiber at (877) 454-6959 or go to http://fiber.google.com