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Town Council
Community Forum on Municipal Wireless Services
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1. Introduction:
Laurin Easthom, Council Member
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2. Presentations:
Casey Lide, Associate Attorney, Baller Herbst Law Group, Washington, D.C.
Mr.
Lide is an associate attorney with
The Baller Herbst Law Group, PC, a national law firm based in Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis, Minn., that specializes in representing local
governments and public power utilities in matters involving
telecommunications, cable television, high-speed data communications,
Internet access and wireless telecommunications. Prior to joining Baller
Herbst, Mr. Lide worked in-house for Digital Signature Trust Co., a leading
provider of Internet security and authentication tools. He has also served as
director of policy and networking programs for EDUCAUSE, a national
information technology association of higher education institutions, where he
was responsible for representing the association on a variety of legislative
initiatives, including implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996
and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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Dr. Ray Reitz, Chief Technology Officer, Chapel
Hill-Carrboro City Schools
Dr. Reitz has
worked on technology integration projects in business, government, and
educational settings for more than 20 years. He also has served as a research
editor for Phi Delta Kappa, a member of Compaq Computer Corporation’s
Educational Advisory Council and the American Association of School
Administrators (AASA) Technology Task Force. He holds a bachelor’s degree in
communications from SUNY-Buffalo, a master’s degree in instructional technology
from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a doctorate in education from Indiana University.
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Dr. Shannon Howle Schelin, Director, Center for Public Technology,
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government (Moderator)
Dr. Schelin is the director of the
Center for Public Technology at the University of North Carolina’s School of Government.
She is also a faculty member and teaches several courses in the
Masters of Public Administration program, including research methods, program
evaluation and public policy analysis. Dr. Schelin designed and implemented
the first local government Chief Information Officers Certification program
in the nation. She received a doctorate in public administration from NC
State University, a master’s degree in public administration from
UNC-Charlotte and bachelor’s degree from UNC-Chapel Hill.
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Chad Johnston,
Executive Director, The Peoples Channel, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Mr. Johnston is executive director of The Peoples Channel, Chapel Hill’s
public access television station and community technology resource center. He
also serves as a board member for the national and southeast region of Alliance for
Community Media, a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., representing
more than 3,000 Public, Educational, and Government (PEG) access TV
stations around the country. He is a graduate of Antioch College, where he studied
theater and moving image media with a focus on social change.
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Lynda Goff,
Executive Director, WinstonNet, Winston-Salem, N.C.
Ms. Goff is executive director
of WinstonNet, a community technology nonprofit. She has more than 30 years
in the computer field in the corporate arena for Pacific Telephone, in small
business as owner of a financial and accounting services business, and in academia
at Wake Forest University, where she established the first Project Management
Office for the Information Systems Department. She created the “Thinkpad U
For the Class of 2000,” a program where all students received laptop
computers upon entering the university. In 2003, she began with WinstonNet to
help community-based technology projects. She has published several articles
and wrote a book chapter on “Technology Support” for the case study in
“Electronically Enhanced Education.”
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3. Question and Answer Period:
Dr. Shannon Howle Schelin (Moderator)
Citizens are invited to ask questions and offer comments by attending the
forum, or may call in questions at 968-2888 ext. 368 or email tio@townofchapelhill.org.
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NOTES
FOR COMMUNITY FORUM
My questions for:
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Casey Lide:
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Ray Reitz:
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Shannon Howle Schelin:
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Chad Johnston:
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Lynda Goff:
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Other:
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