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1. Authorize the City Manager to enter into a five-year nonexclusive
agreement with Google, Inc. regarding the use of City-owned streetlight
poles for placement of wireless Internet-access transmitters and the
provision of Internet access services.
2. Authorize the City Manager to enter into an agreement with PG&E
relating to the connection of wireless transmitters on City-owned
streetlight poles.

Ok, Who lives near Mountain View and can Attend Tuesday night (11/15) and can Live Blog and set up an IRC channel for this possibly interesting presentation? Or who has access to Mountain View city Cable?

1) Where is the Service Level Agreement?
2) How are privacy issues addressed?
3) How will this effect local advertising in the city? Local Papers, Local TV, Radio?
4) What Kind of wifi is being offered? What vendor is being used? Maybe WFI?
5) How well will this work inside and in multistory buildings?
6) If the National Chains buy up all the top local ad placement - how will mom and pop local businesses compete?
7) What community outreach has occured before rolling out this citywide infrastructure?
8) Back to SLA, if the service is poor, can the city cancel?

No one suggests this is going to be a legit public discussion of the issues since Google World-Wide Headquarters are based in Mountain View, But we can start asking the questions...