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Two fiber firms, no fiber at Park County Complex

This document was published online on Wednesday, July 30, 2008

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Fiber optics will come to the Park County Complex building and the new Cody library, but not for at least one year.

But with the library planning its grand opening Oct. 4, a way to make Internet connections will be needed much sooner, Park County Commissioner Jill Shockley Siggins told the board recently.

Shockley Siggins said an earlier office space agreement the county made with Eleutian Technology stipulated that the company was given a significant rent discount on one year's office space in return for providing free fiber optics to the county's building.

Under the deal, it would be the county's responsibility to make internal links within the building to its various offices and the new library.

Subsequently, the county also negotiated with TCT, which wants to build a communications building on the Complex grounds.

Part of that deal fell into the category of deja vu: TCT would provide fiber optics up to the building at no cost.

Meanwhile, Eleutian decided to use another method - a microwave system - to obtain its communications links, Mike Conners, the county's chief information officer, told the commissioners July 22.

The commissioners felt Eleutian still should pay for the fiber connection since much of its low-rent year already has passed, and since the company made the initial negotiation for installation of the fiber, even though the commissioners apparently forgot their earlier deal when they later talked with TCT.

“It's going to get there one way or another,” Conners said. “It won't be a big problem.”

He added that Eleutian likely will in some way share in TCT's cost of delivering the fiber.

“We're not going to bear the cost of (installing) it to the building,” Shockley Siggins said.

In the meantime, the new library will utilize a Bresnan Communications connection to the Internet that will be in place by Oct. 4, the commissioners learned.

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