Staff Report.Library BroadbandPREPARED BY: Ryan Baker
Library Director
Reviewed by: Town Manager, Town Attorney, and Finance Director
110 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 ● (408) 354-6832
www.losgatosca.gov
TOWN OF LOS GATOS
COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT
MEETING DATE: 05/16/2023 ITEM NO: 10
DATE: March 8, 2023
TO: Mayor and Town Council
FROM: Laurel Prevetti, Town Manager
SUBJECT: Approve a California State Library Negotiated Contract with Columbia
Telecommunications Corporation for Continued Service of the Library’s
Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California Broadband
Connection and Servicing
RECOMMENDATION:
Approve a California State Library negotiated contract with Columbia Telecommunications
Corporation for continued service of the Library’s Corporation for Education Network Initiatives
in California broadband connection and servicing.
BACKGROUND:
The Library’s internet broadband is provided through a partnership with the California State
Library and the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC), which was
administered by the Califa Corporation from 2015 through 2022. In 2022, the California State
Library began transitioning administration of the program to the Columbia Telecommunications
Corporation (CTC). As part of this transition, it is necessary for the Library to enter into a new
contract with CTC to continue our subsidized broadband service.
The CENIC broadband program provides highly subsidized rates for broadband internet service
for the public through the CalREN broadband infrastructure that connects the majority of public
libraries, public colleges and universities, and K-12 schools in California.
The terms of the contract are approved by the California State Library and are therefore non-
negotiable.
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FISCAL IMPACT:
No fiscal impact. Funding is already included in ongoing Library operating budgets. Rates are
heavily subsided through State funds.
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT:
This is not a project defined under CEQA, and no further action is required.
Attachment:
1.Contract agreement between Library and CTC