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South Bend Redevelopment Commission Regular Meeting —June 28, 2011 $4,000,000 over time, including local money, federal grants, state grants. Building on a network of traffic signals, we spent some money to loop our system. Metronet put on the order of 144 to 288 fibers in each of those conduits creating nearly fifty miles of fiber rings (self - healing rings). The City of South Bend gets reciprocal benefit in the form of 36 fibers everywhere it goes. We have been able to provide redundant fiber connections to the County -City Building building, the police station, our fire stations, our park buildings, our utilities and that gives us a reliability to move data. The city is looking to move to a Voice -Over Internet Platform (VOIP) for telephony. We are able to take data processing at Notre Dame over the Metronet fiber and get a free source of heat to keep our conservatory greenhouse at Potawatomi from closing. There are other neat applications we can do because there's a self - healing 36 fiber loop that the city gets the advantage of. We're going beyond simply interconnecting city buildings with innovative creative applications that we never would have thought of but for the Metronet platform. Metronet has provided everything they've promised in the initial commitment. Mr. Gilot acknowledged that Mr. Varner and he have had a philosophical disagreement since the beginning that the city should have gotten cash dividends or something like it versus the benefit being to support the local economy. Mr. Gilot thinks the city has received a valuable return on its investment. Mr. Varner mentioned that the agreement is about to expire. He feels the city should receive cash rather than some sort of nebulous benefit that may or may not ever be quantified. Also, Mr. Varner said that 36 pair is a lot more fiber capability than the city will ever need for itself. Yet it cannot sell the extra capacity for cash without being in competition with the Metronet. He wishes he'd E