Brant Connects Joint Committee

That the agenda for the January 13, 2023 Brant Connects Committee, be approved.

That the Brant Connects Committee Meeting Minutes of September 8, 2022, be approved.

That the Brant Connectivity Guide be approved; and That staff be directed to investigate an accompanying marketing campaign to launch the Brant Connectivity Guide

The the Brant Connects Committee meeting schedule for 2023 be approved.

Whereas the importance of high-speed broadband to residents is self-evident; Whereas the Brant Connects committee was formed to foster the process of ensuring that all Brant County residents get access to this important service; and Whereas the necessity of accurate broadband mapping information is critical to: A. Ensuring all residents eventually receive high-speed service, and B. Ensuring the taxpayer funds allocated to this task are spent efficiently; and Whereas the current mapping information provided is done in a hexagonal pattern with each hexagon representing an approximate geographic area of 25 square kilometeres; and Whereas if an Internet Service Provider (ISP) provides service to just one premise in a hexagon then the entire geographic area of that hexagon may be considered served by high-speed broadband; Whereas the Federal and Provincial governments have been gathering mapping information from ISP’s regarding the location of their services. And whereas the current mapping information as disseminated from the Federal and Provincial governments cannot be used to accurately map or portray the locations of the services from ISP’s; Whereas the United States government has directed all ISP’s there to provide accurate mapping information twice a year to the FCC for public viewing; And therefore, be it resolved, that the Brant Connects committee call upon both the Federal and Provincial governments to provide to all municipalities, upon request, the accurate mapping lay