San Francisco R2 CCI - ID #7102

Broadband Infrastructure Application
Submission to NTIA – Broadband Technology Opportunities Program

Submitted Date: Easygrants ID: 7102
Funding Opportunity: Broadband Applicant Organization:
Technology Opportunities Program CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts
Table of Contents
A. General Application Information
B. Executive Summary, Project Purpose, and Benefits
C. Partners
D. Congressional Districts
E. Service Area Details
F. Community Anchor Summary
G. Project Benefits
H. Technology
I. Project Budget
J. Historical Financials
K. Project Readiness
L. Environmental Questionnaire
M. Uploads
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A. General Application Information

Applicant Information
Name and Federal ID for Applicant
DUNS Number 961752131
CCR # (CAGE) 5WVT2
Legal Business Name CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Point of Contact (POC) BRIAN ROBERTS
4155814061
Ext.
brian.roberts@sfgov.org
Alternate POC BARRY FRASER
4155813976
Ext.
barry.fraser@sfgov.org
Electronic Business POC RICHARD ROBINSON
4155814061
Ext.
Richard.Robinson@sfgov.org
Alternate Electronic Business JEANA PIERALDE
POC 4155814061
Ext.
jeana.pieralde@sfgov.org
Name and Contact Information of Person to be Contacted on Matters Involving this Application:
Prefix
First Name Brian
Middle Name Paul
Last Name Roberts
Suffix
Telephone Number 415-581-4061
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Fax Number
Email brian.roberts@sfgov.org
Title
Additional Contact Information of Person to be Contacted on Matters Involving this Application:
Project Role Name Phone Email

Secondary Point of Contact Mr. 4155813976 barry.fraser@sfg
Barry , Fraser ov.org
Environmental Point of Contact
Prefix:
Name: Wycko, William
Suffix:
Telephone Number: 4155759048
Title: Environmental Review Officer
Organization Classification
Type of Organization City or Township Government
Is the organization a small
No
business?
Does the organization meet the
definition of a socially and
No
economically disadvantaged
small business concern?
Authorized Organizational Representative

AOR Name ROBERTS, BRIAN
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Result Notify
Project Title and Project Description
Project Title: San Francisco Community Broadband Opportunity Program
Project Description: The SF CBOP will create a middle mile fiber optic network with the ability to serve
community anchors and provide communications providers an alternative means of reaching consumers.
CCI Priority Checklist
The following items were selected from the CCI Priority Checklist:
1. This project will deploy Middle Mile broadband infrastructure to community anchor institutions.
2. The project will deploy Middle Mile broadband infrastructure and has incorporated a public-private partnership
among government, non-profit and for-profits entities, and other key community stakeholders.
3. This project will deploy Middle Mile broadband infrastructure in economically distressed areas.
4. This project will deploy Middle Mile broadband infrastructure to community colleges.
5. This project will deploy Middle Mile broadband infrastructure to public safety entities.
6. This project will deploy Middle Mile broadband infrastructure and either includes a Last Mile infrastructure
component in unserved or underserved areas or has received commitments from one or more Last Mile broadband
service providers to utilize the Middle Mile components. Any Last Mile components in rural areas do not exceed
20% of the total eligible costs of the project.
7. This project will deploy Middle Mile broadband infrastructure and the applicant has proposed to contribute 30
percent or more in non-federal cost match.
Comprehensive Community Infrastructure Components
The following items were selected from the Comprehensive Community Infrastructure Components:
Middle Mile
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BIP Applicants
Have you also applied to BIP for funding in the sample proposed funded service area?
 No
If Yes, please provide the project title and Easygrants ID number:

Title of Joint BIP Application:
Easygrants ID:
Other Applications
Is this application being submitted in coordination with any other application being submitted during this round of
funding?
 Yes
Easygrants ID Project Title

6322 San Francisco Community Broadband Opportunity Program PCC
6890 San Francisco Community Broadband Opportunity Program SBA
If YES, please explain any synergies and/or dependencies between this project and any other applications.
The SF-CBOP applications for CCI, PCC and SBA funding are closely intertwined and
functionally linked. San Francisco submits this CCI application for funding to extend the City’s
middle mile fiber optic infrastructure to provide broadband access to a core group of community
anchor institutions. Most of these community anchor institutions will rely on this fiber
connectivity to establish or expand public computing centers using PCC grant funding for
hardware, software, connectivity and training. The innovative broadband adoption programs
described in the SBA application will be accessible primarily at these public computing centers.
Thus, the projects and resulting benefits envisioned for SF-CBOP are somewhat dependent on
the combination of infrastructure, hardware, software and training to be funded through the CCI,
PCC and SBA applications.
If the City does not receive CCI funding, our community anchors may be forced to rely on
broadband connections provided by commercial carriers, which will be more expensive and may
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not include symmetrical upload speeds necessary to share large media files. Some community
anchors may be forced to withdraw from the projects. In this event we would request that NTIA
increase funding under PCC and SBA applications. If funding increases are not feasible, we may
be forced to scale back the services to be offered and attempt to secure additional funding or
expand hours and services at the remaining sites to meet program goals.
If the City does not receive PCC funding for hardware and software, community anchors will not
be able to upgrade or expand public computer center services, or indeed provide any SBA
services to certain vulnerable groups. The City would request that NTIA increase SBA funding
or pursue other sources of funding for hardware and software to allow us to meet program goals.
If the City does not receive SBA funding for training and broadband adoption services, public
computing centers may be underused and vulnerable populations may not derive all the benefits
envisioned from the infrastructure and hardware provided under CCI and PCC grants. Again, the
City would request that NTIA increase funding under other applications, or pursue other sources
of funding for the training and services to meet program goals.
The City anticipates combining administrative, technical and operational oversight of all three
applications to save costs and achieve efficiencies. If one or more of the applications is not
funded these cost savings and efficiencies may not be achieved. In that case, the City would seek
funding from NTIA or other sources to pay any additional costs.
Individual Background Screening
Is the Applicant exempt from the Department of Commerce requirements regarding individual background
screening in connection with any award resulting from this Application?
 Yes, Applicant is exempt because it is a unit of a state or local government
If the answer to the above question is "No," please identify each key individual associated with the Applicant who
would be required to complete Form CD-346, "Applicant for Funding Assistance," in connection with any award
resulting from this Application:
Name Title Employer
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B. Executive Summary, Project Purpose and Benefits
Essay Question
Executive Summary of the proposed project:

The San Francisco Community Broadband Opportunities Program (SF-CBOP) network is a
technologically advanced broadband project that will resoundingly achieve all of NTIA’s goals
for BTOP middle-mile infrastructure grants, leverage NTIA’s funding with a 30 percent match,
and enable fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) last-mile partners to serve San Francisco’s
neighborhoods and underserved communities. SF-CBOP will be owned and operated by the City
and County of San Francisco ("City" or "San Francisco"), which has extensive experience not
just in operating communications networks, but also in partnering with non-profit and for-profit
entities to deliver communications services to its neediest residents. On an intangible level, the
network will stand as a symbol of American broadband innovation in a region synonymous with
American technological knowledge. The proposed SF-CBOP network is necessary to (1)
advance the ultimate goal of fiber to the home and business (2) encourage non-incumbent last
mile providers to compete by providing cost-based wholesale middle mile rates and (3) improve
the quality of broadband services for community anchor institutions.
The SF-CBOP will also advance the goals of the recently released National Broadband Plan. In
particular, SF-CBOP will support:
• Goal 1: At least 100 million U.S. homes should have affordable access to actual
download speeds of at least 100 megabits per second and actual upload speeds of at least 50
megabits per second and
• Goal 4: Every community should have affordable access to at least 1 Gbps broadband
service to anchor institutions such as schools, hospitals and government buildings.
SF-CBOP will achieve Goal 1 by bringing 100 mbps broadband connections to San Francisco
Housing Authority low income housing units. Through a public private partnership, the City is
already achieving this in over 400 units. With BTOP funding, the City will be able to accelerate
the expansion of this service to additional SFHA units and design new units to exceed this
standard as it redesigns and rebuilds public housing at Hunters View and six other sites.
SF-CBOP will achieve Goal 4 by bringing gigabit speeds to each San Francisco Public Library
Branch and other community anchor sites. Working with our key partner, San Francisco City
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College, our digital media community and others, these sites will become laboratories of
innovation where the possibilities and potential of a gigabit connection will be discovered.
SF-CBOP will serve the City and County of San Francisco on a middle mile basis. The network
will pass San Francisco’s 329,700 households, 72,000 businesses and 380 community anchor
institutions, including over 50 public safety anchor locations.
SF-CBOP will offer six services on the network, two services for community anchors and four
on a wholesale basis. The two community anchor services will be:
• SF CBOP Connect: 20 symmetrical average peak Internet with burst to 100 Mbps; 100
symmetrical peak on-net with burst to 1 Gbps
• SF CBOP Connect Plus: 250 symmetrical peak average peak Internet with burst to 1
Gbps; 1000 symmetrical peak on-net with burst to 1 Gbps
The wholesale offerings will mirror the two community anchor services and also offer:
• Dark fiber
• Wavelength service at 2.5 to 10 Gbps.
The City is committed to non-discrimination and network interconnection, and as the operator of
the SF-CBOP network, will meet or exceed the BTOP obligations. For the Internet and managed
Ethernet services, the City will comply will all nondiscrimation policies in the NOFA. Any
community anchor or other network user will be able to connect to the Internet service provider
of their choice. SF-CBOP will not employ any traffic management mechanisms, except for
generally accepted technical measures and as required by law enforcement or as necessary to
provide the quality of service guarantees promised to each user on the network. Internet access
shall be provided at reasonable rates based on the negotiated wholesale Internet pricing provided
by the ISPs through interconnection with the local POPs.
In addition to Internet and managed Ethernet service, SF-CBOP will offer dark fiber and
wavelength services on a non-discriminatory basis.
The City will interconnect with the public Internet but also with other private, public, and public
interest networks and entities for purposes of resource sharing and data exchange at two major
network interconnection points with carriers, Internet service providers, and with regional,
national and international networks serving educational, medical, research, and governmental
users, such as Internet(2), National LambdaRail and National Public Lightpath.
The SF-CBOP will be a fully fiber-optic Gigabit Ethernet network serving over 390 anchors and
interconnecting with two Internet points of presence. The system consists of a 35-mile backbone
ring between ten hub sites. Lateral fiber connects each of the anchor sites to the ring. Most
lateral fiber is constructed in a ring topology, providing two survivable routes from most anchor
sites to the backbone. It is also possible to connect each lateral ring endpoint to separate hub
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sites, so that there no single physical point of failure to the site. The backbone will consist of
20.1 miles of 864-count fiber to be constructed new and 15.5 miles of existing city fiber. The
laterals are to be constructed of 48-count fiber, and the drop fibers (the last 100 feet) of 6-count
fiber. Each site will initially be connected over two fibers (larger 237 anchors) or one fiber
(smaller 135 anchors). Last-mile service providers will be able to connect to the fiber at the
Interconnection points, at the hub locations, or at outdoor splice points.
The City will provide managed Ethernet and Internet services through Gigabit Ethernet network
connections using multiprotocol packet label switching (MPLS) technology. Services can be
provided at layers 2 or 3. The network will be capable of providing networks-within-networks
and pseudowire services with quality of service guarantees. The network design will enable the
City to serve anchors requiring HIPAA compliant communications and communications subject
to public safety and other government security standards. It will also enable the City to provide
multiple simultaneous logical links from a single site—for example, to enable a site to
simultaneously obtain connectivity to the public Internet, public safety, confidential medical
information, and public educational networks, without compromising the security or operations
of any one network.
The City has experience in installing and maintaining fiber networks, managing broadband wide
area networks and providing broadband service directly to low income housing developments.
The City has a staff of 23 that have installed and currently maintain 90 miles of fiber as well as a
legacy copper public safety network. These fiber networks support an emergency service
network, an enterprise wide area network known as the ―Fiber WAN‖, a network connecting
public safety radio towers, traffic and transit automation systems and a community video camera
system. The Department has installed dark fiber networks to support City College, the
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco State University and the Bay Area Video
Coalition. The City’s Fiber WAN provides a MPLS network connecting 30 of the City’s major
administrative facilities. The City, together with its non-profit partner the Internet Archive,
provides broadband service to over 3000 units in 10 low income housing development, a portion
of which are operated by the San Francisco Housing Authority.
The overall infrastructure cost of the system is $20,523,180, with Applicant seeking federal
matching funds request of $14,366,226 (30.0%).
San Francisco estimates that there will be approximately 28 anchor institutions, 24,700
households and 5,400 businesses served by third party service providers using the proposed
CBOP network for middle mile services. San Francisco does not propose to offer last mile
services.
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The project will create or save 223 total jobs, of which 70 will be direct, 73 indirect and 80
induced.
Project purpose:
The SF-CBOP project is a critical first step towards meeting the broadband needs of San
Francisco residents and community anchor institutions. The project will create much needed jobs
in the immediate term and support long term economic growth by creating necessary broadband
infrastructure.
Even high-tech San Francisco has a digital divide. According to CPUC data, ten SF census tracts,
representing over 22,000 households, are underserved with 40% or lower broadband penetration.
Unsurprisingly, these tracts are found in the poorest and most economically disadvantaged
communities: the Bayview district, Civic Center/Tenderloin Chinatown , Crocker Amazon and
Visitation Valley. Comprehensive surveys conducted by the City’s Controller in 2007 and 2009
show that certain demographic groups have much lower computer access and broadband
adoption rates than the general population, most notably seniors age 60+ (42%) and low-income
persons, including those with disabilities (41%). African-Americans, Latinos, those with high
school education or less and those who work under 15 hours/week also show significantly lower
broadband adoption rates. These populations fall disproportionately in our underserved areas.
SF-CBOP will extend the City’s existing fiber optic ring to interconnect local government
networks with schools, community anchor institutions and public safety entities. These
interconnections will enable our anchors to do the following:
Serve underserved Areas: SF-CBOP will be capable of connecting over 390 community anchor
institutions including schools, community colleges, hospitals, libraries, fire stations, police
stations, senior centers, and other government buildings through a fiber network capable of
delivering 1 GBps on the network and 250 mbps out to the Internet. We will focus on extending
broadband access to the 50 anchors in underserved areas. Our connected anchors in these areas
will provide computer capacity and training to underserved and vulnerable populations, services
to stimulate broadband demand, spur economic development/job creation, and enhance public
safety communications. Through our last mile partners, we will extend broadband service to
nearly 20,000 end users, nearly 2700 in underserverd areas by the end of the third year.
Provide public computer center capacity, training and services to vulnerable populations:
Through complementary PCC and SBI applications, our community anchors will offer public
computer capacity and broadband adoption services to over 28,000 consumers.
Economic Development: Enable the middle mile network to serve last mile Internet service
providers through public-private partnerships with private carriers to bring broadband access to
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underserved areas in our communities including underserved community anchor institutions, to

attract businesses and spur economic development and to extend service to underserved
residential areas.
Public Safety: The SF-CBOP will extend and complete San Francisco’s public safety grade fiber
network backbone for shared communications and data centers to prevent catastrophic failure in
any one portion of the network. The network will interconnect 52 public safety facilities,
including fire and police stations and the 911 call center. This additional capacity over the fiber
optic network will allow critical radio airway timeto be freed up for incident command radio
communications with first responders, which will increase in-field safety and accountability
during emergencies.
Education and Children: SF-CBOP will connect and interconnect over 130 schools, 28 Libraries
and 6 youth support groups to untold educational resources, bringing the world into the
classroom with interactive high capacity content. Educators now understand that interactive
teaching tools and digital media help students learn collaboration, critical thinking, problem
solving, creativity, and technological and media literacy. SF-CBOP will become a test bed for
such new educational tools, especially online training curriculum utilizing digital media
resources. SF-CBOP will achieve these goals, which are not currently attainable due to the
severe bandwidth limitations, as well as budgetary restraints on our school systems.
Health care: SF-CBOP will interconnect 25 public and non-profit health care clinics that form
San Francisco’s health safety net. Together with an ongoing urban telemedicine project, the new
network will allow patients at neighborhood health clinics access to the City’s Video Medical
Interpretation (VMI) system for language interpretation and to consult with University of
California, San Francisco specialists. The system will enable doctors and hospitals to share
medical files, x-rays, images and other documentation in furtherance of Recovery Act goals.
Finally, SF-CBOP will help stabilize local government finances, one of the ARRA’s primary
goals. San Francisco, as other cities, is experiencing a budget crisis. Funding for infrastructure is
severely restricted by tight fiscal constraints. Even though SF-CBOP is capable of providing a
30% match for the cost of the plan, but for the stimulus money these critical projects would not
be possible. The match is only possible because San Francisco can devote resources that would
otherwise go to necessary internal networking projects to this shared resource. This grant
opportunity enables San Francisco to move forward with SF-CBOP, generate millions of dollars
in savings, and continue to operate a sustainable network for years to come.
Ability to Replicate: SF-CBOP will be designed and managed by local government experts with
years of demonstrated success in fiber network deployment and operation.
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SF-CBOP will serve as a replicable model and will develop best practices and tools that will
inform other communities. Local governments can easily adopt the SF-CBOP model to their
needs.
Recovery Act and Other Governmental Collaboration:

The CBOP will leverage Recovery Act objective and federal and state development programs in
specific ways and is in itself an opportunity for participating San Francisco institutions to
collaborate.
For example, the One-Stop Career Link anchor sites will operate public computing centers
leveraged with approximately $2 million in Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and Community
Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds to create opportunities for job seekers to access
computers and training. The funds received from this grant will greatly expand the service levels
at the One Stop Career Link Centers.
The senior center anchors will strengthen San Francisco’s robust offering of evidence-based
Chronic Disease Self Management Programs (CDSMP), delivered by public agencies, private
hospitals and non-profit CBOs. In addition to local government & private funding, the program
has been competitively selected by the State of California for an HHS-Communities Putting
Prevention Together CPPW- ARRA application. If funded, the City would receive $120,000, and
in a 2nd CPPW-ARRA application with Public Health Department, $350,000 for small group
health promotion trainings in PCC locations, including the senior centers.
Our public and nonprofit health care clinics receiving broadband connectivity under this CCI
grant, along with the City’s Department of Public health, will leverage Community Service
Block Grants and other federal grants to support low income and homeless health care, wellness
and nutrition programs available at the free clinics.
The CBOP will allow new forms of collaboration among participants. The One Stop Shops and
the senior centers plan to use courses on establishing in-home businesses proposed by City
College as part of the companion SBA application within their centers. The City’s CCI
infrastructure will allow remote video collaboration among participants across the City in digital
media creation and job related skill development.
Fit with BTOP CCI Priorities:
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The CBOP project comprises two distinct and meticulously planned technical components:
• Build a Citywide middle-mile fiber backbone network which will extend fiber deep into
residential neighborhoods and offer last mile providers cost-based wholesale rates;
• Provide improved broadband service directly to community anchor institutions
Taken together, these two components will deliver broadband connectivity to a substantial
portion of the City—in particular, to community anchor institutions that have expressed a strong
need for new or improved access to broadband service. And the project specifically and
completely addresses all seven of the NTIA Comprehensive Community Infrastructure (CCI)
model’s preference items:
1. CBOP offers new or substantially upgraded service to community anchor institutions.

The proposed 1 Gbps community anchor fiber backbone network will expand the City’s existing
fiber network to reach 380 senior centers, health clinics, public safety facilities, schools and
libraries.
2. CBOP incorporates a public-private partnership among government, non-profit and for-

profit entities, and other key community stakeholders. CBOP will be owned and operated by the
City and County of San Francisco, but it counts on partnerships with a range of non-profit
entities, community stakeholders, and for-profit companies. For example, last mile providers
such as Sonic.net, Raw Bandwidth, WebPass and Tower Stream have expressed interest in using
the proposed middle mile services to help them reach end user customers. The backbone network
will also connect the anchor sites to the CBOP community intranet and to external partners like
National LambdaRail and National Public Lightpath.
3. CBOP will bolster growth in economically distressed areas. The proposed service area
includes Bay View and Hunter’s Point, two of the poorest neighborhoods in San Francisco.
CBOP will include a 1 Gbps fiber-to-the-premises last-mile infrastructure pilot to residents and
small businesses there, connecting them to education, healthcare, and community services, and
enabling job training, ―homesourcing‖ jobs, and other economic development benefits.
4. CBOP will serve a community college, City College of San Francisco, one of the largest
community colleges in the United States with over 100,000 students. Specifically, the CBOP will
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interconnect with existing fiber network built by the City’s Dept. of Technology, to offer direct
in-network peering connections to other institutions on the network.
5. CBOP will serve public safety entities. The proposed middle-mile fiber network will link
all of San Francisco Fire Department facilities and San Francisco Police Department stations
throughout the City, as well as the City’s Emergency Communications systems and Department
of Emergency Management.
6. CBOP will provide middle mile service in the City’s underserved areas to last mile
service providers who will provide broadband service in these neighborhoods. CBOP has
secured non-binding letters of intent from multiple last-mile broadband service providers that
have agreed to serve San Francisco’s underserved neighborhoods. See letter from Sonic.net.
7. CBOP will contribute a non-federal, all-cash cost match that equals 30 percent of the
total eligible costs of the project.
Is the applicant seeking a waiver of the Buy American provision pursuant to section x.Q of the NOFA?
 No
Is the applicant deliquent on any federal debt?

 No
If Yes, justification for deliquency:
Are you seeking a waiver of any requirement set forth in the NOFA that is not mandated by statute or
applicable law?
 No
Is the applicant a current recipient of a grant or loan from RUS?
 No
C. Partners
Are you partnering with any other key institutions, organizations, or other entities for this project?
 Yes
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If YES, key partners are listed below:
Project Role: Contractor

Name: Kahle, Brewster
Phone: 4152424591
Email: muehlen@archive.org
Address 1: 300 Funston St.
Address 2:
Address 3:
City: San Francisco
State: California
Zip Code: 94110
Organization: Internet Archives
Organization Type: Non-profit Corporation
Small business: No
Socially and economically disadvantaged small business concern: No
Project Role: Sub-recipient

Name: Ryan, Tim
Phone: 4154525352
Email: tryan@ccsf.edu
Address 1: 50 Phelan Ave.
Address 2:
Address 3:
City: San Francisco
State: California
Zip Code: 94112
Organization: City College of San Francisco
Organization Type: Non-profit Institution
Small business: No
Socially and economically disadvantaged small business concern: No
Description of the involvement of the partners listed above in the project.

The City and County of San Francisco Department of Technology will serve as the lead agency,
for SF-CBOP. SF-CBOP’s key partners include Internet Archives and City College of San
Francisco.
Internet Archives – The Internet Archives is a 501(c)(3) organization located in San Francisco.
The Archives’ purpose is to build an Internet library to offer digital access to general public
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historical collections. The Archives has digitized and hosts a large volume of movies, audio
collections and books, which it offers to the public free of charge. Internet Archives has
committed to extending Internet access connectivity to SF-BTOP for community anchor
institutions.
City College of San Francisco – City College is one of the largest community college systems in
the country serving over 100,000 students annually. City College’s active participation in CBOP
will include development of customized curriculum, computer-based training and customized
computer centers for digital media and self-employed business programs.
In addition to these key partners, SF-CBOP will rely upon a large number of commercial,
nonprofit and governmental partners. We will develop public-private partnerships with multiple
―last mile‖ Internet service providers to directly serve San Francisco residents, businesses and
institutions. We will target these services in areas that are underserved by incumbent providers.
Our last mile partners will receive discounted fiber capacity on a non-discriminatory and
network neutral basis, to allow them to serve more customers (and to serve them better) in San
Francisco. All last mile partners have indicated an interest in serving underserved parts of the
City. We have received letters of interest and support from the following providers:
Sonic.net – Sonic, a regional ISP, has expressed an interest in interconnecting with the City’s
CBOP network and building an FTTx network in San Francisco’s underserved neighborhoods
along with other parts of the service area. The company is currently building an open access
FTTx in nearby Sonoma County.
Towerstream Corp.– Towerstream is a wireless Internet service provider (WISP) specializing in
fixed WIMAX service to residential, business and institutional customers in several metropolitan
areas including San Francisco.
Web Pass, Inc. – A Bay Area ISP specializing in metropolitan Ethernet networks.
Raw Bandwidth Communications, Inc.-- Raw Bandwidth is an ISP specializing in wireline
access to residential, business, and community institutional customers throughout San Francisco
and the Bay Area.
Monkey Brains – Another Corporate ISP, LLC DBA Monkey Brains is a local ISP specializing
in the operation of unlicensed wireless networks.
WiLine Networks, Inc. – Foster City, CA based WISP currently serving 500 buildings in the Bay
Area.
Unwired, LTD – A local WISP.
SF-CBOP will extend fiber for broadband connectivity to a large number of nonprofit partners
willing to serve as community anchor institutions. Our community anchor partners will receive
broadband access at cost-based rates, which will enable them to provide public computers,
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training, broadband adoption programs, and to otherwise meet the needs of underserved and
vulnerable populations in the City. Community anchors in every case are deeply rooted within
the neighborhoods they serve, and are well known and trusted by their constituent clientele.
These groups include:
Health Care Clinics – SF-CBOP will interconnect 25 public and non-profit health care clinics
that form San Francisco’s health safety net. The new network will allow patients at
neighborhood health clinics access to the City’s Video Medical Interpretation (VMI) system for
language interpretation and to consult with University of California, San Francisco specialists.
Youth – We will interconnect Beacon centers, Boys and Girls Clubs and other youth
organizations that provide after school programs and other support services to disadvantaged
youth. These groups will use broadband connectivity to provide computer and cybersafety
training, educational skills development and digital media training for middle and high school
students.
Digital Media – We will establish the San Francisco ―Public Broadband Space‖ that includes a
fiber ring to interconnect our public and nonprofit digital media partners. The Pubic Broadband
Space will enable digital media partners to share digital multimedia works, showcase local artists
and producers, and extend digital media training and educational resources to vulnerable
populations. The Public Broadband Space will leverage interest in digital media to drive
broadband adoption.
SF-CBOP will also rely on the efforts of several other government agency partners (including
public safety agencies):
SFUSD – San Francisco Unified School District serves k-12 students at 138 campuses in the
service area. SFUSD will add infrastructure upgrades and computer labs at nine sites and will
offer computer literacy, cybersafety and multimedia instruction to thousands of middle and high
school students.
Public Library – Fiber to 28 City Library branches will support upgraded and expanded public
computer centers that will serve as principal delivery sites for our sustainable broadband
adoption training and programs.
DAAS – Department of Aging and Adult services will coordinate services provided by 42
nonprofit senior center and 6 public housing partners to incorporate broadband connectivity into
a suite of computer center capacity, training and broadband adoption services for seniors and
adult disabled populations.
Department of Emergency Management, Fire, Police – The Department of Technology has
initiated a ―public safety grade‖ fiber ring, and, through BTOP funding, will complete fiber
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extensions to all City public safety locations, facilitating real-time communications and
coordination among agency command centers during an emergency.
D. Congressional Districts
Applicant Headquarters
 California
Project Service States
California
Project Service Areas
California - 8
California - 12
Will any portion of your proposed project serve federally recognized tribal entities?
 No
Indicate each federally recognized tribal entity your proposed project will serve.
Have you consulted with each of the federally recognized tribal entities identified above?
 No
E. Service Area Details

Is the applicant seeking a waiver for providing less than 100% coverage of a service area?
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 No
Project Details
Service Area Type: Middle Mile

Service Area Name: City and County of San Francisco
Rural Classification of the Last Mile Service Area: Non-Rural
Service Status of the Last Mile Service Area: Served
If Service Status is "Underserved" please select at least one applicable option from this list.
The rate of broadband subscribership for the proposed funded service area is 40% of households or less.
Total Square Miles in Service Area: 47

Total Population in Proposed Service Area: 808,976
Total Number of Households in Service Area: 329,700
Total Number of Businesses in Service Area: 72,000
Total Number of Community Anchor Institutions and Public Safety Entities in Proposed Funded Service
Area: 382
Unemployment Rate in the Service Area: 9
Median Income in the Service Area: 73,127
Estimated Percentage of Households with Access to Broadband: 100
Estimated Percentage of Households Subscribing to Broadband: 82
F. Community Anchor Summary

Community Anchor Summary
Schools (k-12) 138
Libraries 28
Medical and Healthcare
28
Providers
Public Safety Entities 54
Community Colleges 10
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Public Housing 26
Other Institutions of
2
Higher Education
Other Community
99
Support Organization
Other Government
2
Facilities
TOTAL COMMUNITY
ANCHOR 387
INSTITUTIONS
Historically Black colleges

0
and Universities
Tribal Colleges and
0
Universities
Alaska Native Serving
0
Institutions
Hispanic Serving
0
Institutions
Native Hawaiian Serving
0
Institutions
TOTAL MINORITY
SERVING 0
INSTITUTIONS
G. Project Benefits
Demographics
Jobs
How many direct jobs-years will be created from this project? 70
How many indirect jobs will be created from this project? 73
How many jobs will be induced from this project? 80
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Methodology used to estimate jobs:

To estimate the number of jobs we used the methodology suggested by the Council of Economic
Advisors. First, we took the total project budget, $20,523,178, and divided the CEA estimated
total dollars per job, $92,000. This produced an estimate of 223 total jobs. We used the 64% ratio
to derive the total indirect and direct jobs – 143, and the induced ratio 36% to estimate the
induced jobs - 80. We based the number of direct jobs on the number of hours for administrative
and management functions divided by the number of hours in an FTE (7822/2080) to get 4 and
the total cost of construction divided by the loaded cost for a City (10,054,000/151,000) to get 66
for a total of 70 FTE. We subtracted the direct jobs from the combined direct+indirect to get the
indirect jobs-73.
Project Impact:
CBOP will level the playing field for community anchor institutions and small-to-medium sized
Internet service providers, by providing much-needed access to broadband to allow these entities
to compete. The CBOP will provide cost-based services as a middle mile provider to a very
wide range of clients throughout the proposed service area, which will be the City and County of
San Francisco. The greatest impact of SF-CBOP will be the benefits to end users—and
especially to the underserved, vulnerable populations and low income residents of San Francisco,
who will benefit from cutting-edge programs, services and training offered by our anchor
partners, and from lower broadband prices and improved service offered by our last mile
partners.
SF-CBOP has identified 397 community anchor institutions that may connect to the network,
including 149 schools (k-12), 27 library branches, 28 health clinics, 54 public safety facilities
(police and fire stations, Department of Emergency Management 911 call center and emergency
operations centers), 10 community college campuses, 24 public housing sites, and 99 other
community support organizations. Community support organizations include senior centers,
youth after school facilities, job placement centers, nonprofit digital media entities and arts and
cultural organizations.
Community anchor institutions are located throughout the service area, and provide a widely
diverse range of services with direct benefits to many vulnerable populations in the City. We
will focus on extending broadband access to the 50 anchors in underserved areas. Through our
companion PCC and SBA grant applications, our connected anchors will provide computer
capacity and training to underserved and vulnerable populations, services to stimulate broadband
demand, spur economic development/job creation, and enhance public safety communications.
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For example, we will connect 42 senior/disabled adult centers, which will allow the centers to
offer training and services to improve senior and adult disabled health, well being and ability to
use broadband services to improve their lives. San Francisco Unified School District and
Beacon centers will provide interactive educational resources and training for middle and high
school students from ESL and low income families.
City libraries will add or expand public computing center capacity at 27 branches plus one
mobile hot spot, which will be capable of serving up to 28,000 City residents who lack access to
broadband at home. Library will also team up with our digital media partners to provide
innovative access to digital media content, training and tools to allow viewers to become
producers, stimulating broadband adoption and teaching valuable skills for workforce
development and public expression and community participation through broadband.
Vulnerable Populations:
The SF-CBOP program will provide service to vulnerable populations two ways. First, English
as a Second Language (ESL) households are overrepresented in the proposed funded service
area. Second, many SF-CBOP anchor institutions will provide services predominately to
vulnerable populations, such as non-white residents, English as a second language residents,
seniors, low income and the unemployed. San Francisco will target communities with higher
than average percentages of non-whites, ESL residents and seniors.
According to the 2000 Census, 45.7% of San Francisco households are designated ESL
households. The City’s health clinics and Community Clinic Consortium will use the network to
support Video Medical Interpretation services which allow patients to receive language
interpretation remotely from a pool of trained medical interpreters. In addition, the instruction
and outreach for our complimentary PCC and SBA will be provided in other languages,
especially Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish, Russian and Vietnamese in order to reach these
populations.
Anchor institutions connected by the network serve a variety of other vulnerable populations, as
explained below.
Non-White: SF-CBOP will concentrate its programs in predominantly non-white communities in
San Francisco. For example, the Library proposes to house training and media labs at the Anna
Walden/Bayview Branch, with a service area that is 47% African American, the Visitacion
Valley Branch, with a service area that is 55% Asian, and the Mission Branch, with a service
area that is 48% Hispanic. Similarly, City College’s South East Campus serves the Bayview
neighborhood.
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Seniors and Disabled: Older adults make up a disproportionate percentage of San Francisco’s
population (18%, projected to be 24% by 2015). The Department of Aging and Adult Services
(DAAS), in collaboration with 24 partnering community based organizations, will meet the
needs of seniors and adults with disabilities by creating 30 new computer centers at community
anchor sites, and upgrading an additional 12 sites where there are a limited computers available.
Low Income: The San Francisco Housing Authority anchor sites will provide computer center
access to San Francisco’s poorest residents. San Francisco Housing Authority provides housing
to over 10,000 San Franciscans with an average household income of $14,882. With BTOP
funds all residents will have broadband access via computers at their development.
Unemployed: The One Stop Shop Career Link Center sites will serve individuals with multiple
barriers to employment. The Library will provide workshops for the unemployed to help build
job skills and work on resumes. City College will develop and offer digital media curriculum,
and programs to encourage in-home business skills, including Business Incubators center,
courses teaching home-based business skills and WiFi Training.
Level of Need:
The proposed SF-CBOP CCI network is necessary in order to (1) advance the ultimate goal of
fiber to the home and business, (2) allow non-incumbent last mile providers to compete by
providing cost-based wholesale middle mile rates and to (3) improve the quality of broadband
services for community anchor institutions. We do not contend that any areas in San Francisco
are unserved or that community anchors cannot currently obtain broadband service. However,
the CBOP network is necessary for the City to have an open broadband infrastructure that will
allow it to be economically viable.
San Francisco’s private broadband infrastructure is fairly typical of urban areas. The City’s
central business district (Downtown and South of Market) are well served by multiple broadband
providers with fiber rings. In addition to AT&T, Level 3, Verizon and others offer facilities
based high speed networks.
Most established residential neighborhoods are served by two terrestrial providers, the incumbent
telecommunications provider AT&T and the incumbent cable provider Comcast, as well as
various cellular carriers. A few neighborhoods—approximately 30,000 homes passed--are also
served by a cable overbuilder, Astound. The AT&T network is a copper network offering digital
subscriber line service (DSL). San Francisco is sufficiently dense and AT&T has a sufficient
number of central offices, such that DSL reaches nearly all homes with the exception of a few
blocks. AT&T has not deployed its fiber-to-the-node ―U-Verse‖ network in San Francisco.
Comcast and Astound offer cable modem service over a hybrid-fiber coaxial system.
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There are some exceptions to this general pattern:

• In a new greenfield developments, Mission Bay, AT&T deployed FTTP.
• Community anchors, such as the school district and library, can get fiber based services,
such as Opt-E-Man. (to be explained later.)
• Large institutuions with heavy bandwidth needs, such as Lucas Film, can afford and
obtain special fiber builds.
• Several small wireless internet service providers (WISPs) offer service in particular
neighborhoods or buildings. Some, such as WebPass and Tower Stream specialize in serving
multi-tenant buildings. (Both companies support the City’s application.)
• The City also operates a Community Broadband Network, providing wired and wireless
services to over 3500 units in public housing and low income housing developments.
The incumbent providers do not intend to build fiber to the home/business (FTTx) and do not
intend to use fiber-to-the-node networks to support competitive last miler providers
The proposed middle mile network will move fiber deeper into San Francisco’s residential
neighborhoods and provide a critical backbone for last mile providers. We have attached letters
of support from several last mile providers including Sonic, Raw Bandwidth, WebPass and
Tower Stream. Sonic a regional ISP has expressed an interest in interconnecting with the City’s
CBOP network and building a FTTx network in San Francisco’s underserved neighborhoods
along with other. Without much fanfare, the company is currently building an open access FTTx
in nearby Sonoma County.
(http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100321/BUSINESS/3211022 ) Quite simply, Sonic
could not consider building a FTTx network in San Francisco without the proposed SF-CBOP
network, but would consider constructing such a network if it is built. Sonic states that
―Interconnection with the City’s network will allow Sonic.net to obtain will middle mile
connectivity that will reduce our cost of doing business and result in lower cost, much higher
speed Internet service to City customers.‖ Essentially, high middle mile costs have made it more
economical for Sonic to build in low density, rural Sebastopol in Sonoma County than in high
density San Francisco.
In San Francisco, competitive last mile service providers are not adequately served by existing
commercial broadband services, primarily due to the excessive cost of connecting end users
network. For example, in its attached letter, potential last mile partner Raw Bandwidth states:
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―Over the past decade providing broadband services, I’ve watched as the Internet bandwidth we
obtain in well-connected datacenters has dropped substantially in cost, while the middle mile
bandwidth (ATM) to connect to our existing ADSL customers provisioned on AT&T’s legacy
wholesale platform has actually risen since that time to the point it costs us significantly more to
move bits across town than it does to move them across the country and internationally. There is
nothing other than the existing virtual monopoly for middle-mile bandwidth (and in the case of
middle-mile bandwidth to connect wholesale DSL circuits leased from AT&T to us, a true
monopoly) that causes this to be.‖
By creating a purely wholesale middle mile network, charging cost-cost based rates for middle
mile services the CBOP would open up competition for San Francisco residents.
Similarly, dark fiber remains is very expensive in San Francisco in the neighborhoods where it is
available and is unobtainable in other neighborhoods. For most or our anchor institutions, these
exorbitant costs have stifled all initiatives to develop local networks or applications that require
dark fiber or dedicated private networks.
For example, City College, San Francisco’s community college, sought, but was unable to find a
private provider to connect its 10 campuses with dark fiber. In 2004 City College issued a
request for proposal (RFP) for a dark fiber network connecting its campuses located largely in
residential neighborhoods. The College rejected all proposals as non-responsive because they
would not supply a long term dark fiber lease as specified in the RFP. The College eventually
found that the only available solution was to have the City build and maintain its fiber ring.
Even those anchor institutions that can afford the high costs will find that existing services fail
to meet their needs. Commercial services are usually provisioned in ways that preclude or
discourage anchor institutions from adopting or testing advanced services, thus inhibiting the
development of new applications or innovative uses of broadband.
For example, the AT&T’s OPT-E-MAN (Optical Ethernet Municipal Area Network) shares
bandwidth with the customer and with other customers, precluding the ability to obtain a
committed data rate. Moreover, GigaMAN (Gigabit Municipal Area Network) and OPT-E-MAN
are limited to 1Gbps. SF-CBOP will be capable of speeds oover 1 Gbps with the right equipment
and optics, or through direct leasing of dark fiber to the anchor customer.
SF-CBOP will provide lower price points, faster speeds and more flexibility than services
currently offered by the incumbent carriers. We envision multiple tiers of capacity at prices that
will allow our anchor institutions to afford more throughput at affordable, cost-based rates. In
addition, SF-CBOP will offer value-added services not supported by GigaMAN and OPT-E-
MAN, such as fast and inexpensive interconnection with the fiber for last-mile providers. SF-
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CBOP will offer dark fiber along the 864-fiber backbone, either as a separate service or as a part
of linking a last mile provider from a peering point to a particular neighborhood.
SF-CBOP will have other unique capabilities not offered by the carriers, such as cross connects
to peering fabrics or cross connects to various providers, offered at the City's direct cost. Any
connected entity (schools, public health, nonprofits) will no longer need to pay for T1s or any
other type of transport to their ISP--they can meet any ISP or other network at the peering point.
Again, this offers higher reliability and quality and lower cost for services. Dedicated fiber also
offers higher security safeguards, necessary for public safety users seeking a dedicated
connection not routed over the Internet (discussed in more detail below).
Once this network connects to the peering point, last mile service providers may find it attractive
to make bulk deals for their services-- which could be Internet, but could also be connectivity to
their applications--perhaps databases, search engines, conferencing networks, VoIP--to any of
the users on the network. This is also a low-cost yet effective way to connect any eligible entity
with dedicated national networks, such as LambdaRail or Internet(2).
Peering capability will be particularly advantageous for our digital media, health care and
education anchors. Anchors may create peering arrangements to connect directly though the
network to reach any of the schools or other anchors without having paying for Internet access,
and without experiencing the latency, uncertainty, and lack of security of transmissions over the
Internet.
From the standpoint of education partners, training materials, multimedia resources and online
distance learning curriculum may be developed in collaboration and distributed to schools and
community colleges and presented to students without reaching the public Internet. In addition,
distance learning courses may be presented in libraries, senior centers or any other community
anchor institution with public computer center capacity, through a dedicated peering
environment.
Public health anchors likewise may share large files such as X-rays, MRI or EKG between
community locations and the doctor at the hospital. These files may be shared over a secure fiber
path that never reaches the public Internet.
Our digital media partners can adopt peering to collaborate on media projects and quickly share
large multimedia files via the dedicated ―Public Braodband Space‖ fiber ring. This would allow
traffic from KQED (San Francisco's Public Broadcasting station), Bay Area Video Coalition
(BAVC) and other media organizations to stay on SF-CBOP, without requiring an Internet
provider that may charge up to $100/Mbps per month. Digital media peering has become popular
in locations like Los Angeles and San Francisco, where commercial studios use dedicated fiber
to deliver digitized film rushes to the director, special effects content to the post-production
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facility and finished programming and commercials from producers to distributors to movie
studios and broadcasters. SF-CBOP can level the playing field by supporting similar
arrangements at affordable costs for our nonprofit and independent digital media producers and
instructors.
SF-CBOP will build the entire network to be ―public safety grade,‖ meaning that the
infrastructure will contain hardening and redundancy features not available though the
commercial carriers. San Francisco built and currently maintains a hardened fiber infrastructure
to a number of public safety anchors, and understands the special needs of public safety
communications. SF-CBOP will be built with the same public safety grade standards.
SF-CBOP will deploy the fiber capacity to dedicate fiber strands exclusively to public safety use.
This will ensure a secure private network for public safety needs. Currently, commercial carriers
do not offer such dedicated fiber loops at prices that are feasible for local government budgets.
This additional wired capacity for stations and dispatch centers facilitate real-time
communications and coordination among agency command centers during an emergency, and
also free up critical radio airway time for incident command radio communications with first
responders, which will increase in-field safety and accountability during emergencies. In
addition, the dedicated fiber can serve as backhaul for proposed wireless broadband networks,
thus lowering the cost of public safety broadband access for mobile and portable applications.
H. Technology
Technology Type
Indicate the technology that will be used to deliver last mile services. The following items were selected:
Wireline - Fiber-optic Cable
Other:
Technology Questions
Methodology for Area Status:
Nine out of 175 census tract areas in the City and County of San Francisco are underserved in
broadband services overall. This analysis is based on the definition of underserved as 40% or
less penetration of terrestrial broadband services. Service penetration was determined based on
statistics provided by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
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The number of subscribers was determined from the March 16, 2008 FCC Form 477 filings by
state video franchise holders and their affiliates. The CPUC projected the number of households
by applying a household growth factor from 2000 to 2008 for each census tract. The growth
factor was calculated using projected households by county from Department of Finance.
The tract areas that were determined to be underserved have service penetration from 19% to
37%. The areas are illustrated in the network design attachments.
Description of Network Openness:
As the operator of the network, the City is committed to non-discrimination and network
interconnection in compliance with the NOFA’s obligations, and, where possible, beyond those
obligations.
The City will offer on a non-discriminatory basis dark fiber services to the commercial sector or
any other community anchor institutions not idenfied as part of this grant over the backbone
portion of the network to be constructed as part of this project. These fibers will be offered on an
open access, non-discriminatory basis to all comers who meet reasonable credit and capability
requirements. Additionally, these strands will be offered at or below prevailing market rates for
dark fiber services.
The City will interconnect with the public Internet but also with other private, public, and public
interest networks and entities for purposes of resource sharing and data exchange. 200 Paul
Street and 365 Main Street are major network interconnection points with carriers, Internet
service providers, and with regional, national and international networks serving educational,
medical, research, and governmental users, such as Internet(2) and National LambdaRail and
National Public Lightpath.
For the Internet and managed Ethernet services, the City will comply will all nondiscrimation
policies in the NOFA. In addition to (or instead of) the Internet service offered by the City, any
connected entity can connect to any other Internet service provider. The City will not employ
any traffic management mechanisms, except for generally accepted technical measures and as
required by law enforcement or measures necessary to provide the quality of service guarantees
promised to each user on the network. These measures will not include prioritizing classes of
traffic or classes of users at the expense of other users. In the event that link capacity or
electronics processing speed are insufficient to provide the services promised in service level
agreements with the users, the City will upgrade the network as necessary. Internet access shall
be provided at reasonable rates based on the negotiated wholesale Internet pricing provided by
the ISPs through interconnection with the local POPs
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System Design:
The city proposes a fully fiber-optic Gigabit Ethernet network serving 397 anchors and
interconnecting with two Internet points of presence. The system consists of a 35-mile backbone
ring between ten hub sites in City College of San Francisco and city government facilities.
Lateral fiber connects each of the anchor sites to the ring. Most lateral fiber is constructed in a
ring topology, providing two survivable routes from most anchor sites to the backbone. It is also
possible to connect each lateral ring endpoint to separate hub sites, so that there no single
physical point of failure to the site.
The proposed backbone consists of 20.1 miles of 864-count fiber to be constructed new in public
transit conduit, on utility poles or on new underground routes, and 15.5 miles of existing city
fiber. The laterals are to be constructed of 48-count fiber, and the drop fibers (the last 100 feet)
of 6-count fiber. Each site will initially be connected over two fibers (larger 237 anchors) or one
fiber (smaller 135 anchors), but this amount can be scaled by changing the splicing in the splice
enclosures. Last-mile service providers will be able to connect to the fiber at the Interconnection
points, at the hub locations, or at outdoor splice points.
The City will provide managed Ethernet and Internet services through Gigabit Ethernet network
connections using multiprotocol packet label switching (MPLS) technology. Services can be
provided at layers 2 or 3. The network will be capable of providing networks-within-networks
and pseudowire services with quality of service guarantees. The network design will enable the
City to serve to anchors requiring HIPAA compliant communications and communications
subject to public safety and other government security standards. It will also enable the City to
provide multiple simultaneous logical links from a single site—for example, to enable a site to
simultaneously obtain connectivity to the public Internet, public safety, confidential medical
information, and public educational networks, without compromising the security or operations
of any one network.
The MPLS network will be facilitated by Cisco Catalyst 6500 switches at the hub sites. The
switches provide the MPLS functionality and the capability for 10 Gbps and 1 Gbps Ethernet
connectivity. If network connections need to be scaled, 1 Gbps interfaces can be upgraded to 10
Gbps, and multiple 10 Gbps connections can be bundled together (on separate fibers or on
separate wavelengths on the same fiber).
Hub sites will have sufficient space for the proposed hub equipment and associated backup
power and HVAC, as well as scalability for future city equipment or equipment of last mile
service providers or interconnected entities. Hub sites will include multiple building entry paths
for entry of interconnected parties.
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Large anchor sites will have Cisco Catalyst ME3400 terminal equipment with redundant power
supplies and the capability to connect to the network at 1 Gbps over one or two fiber paths. The
ME3400 provides full MPLS capability to the network edge.
Small anchor sites will have Genexis FiberXport terminal equipment with multiple VLAN
capability and 1 Gbps connections over a single path. MPLS capability can be extended to these
sites by mapping MPLS VPNs at the core network to VLANs on the Genexis links. The Genexis
equipment costs approximately $200 per unit and provides most of the capability of an enterprise
Gigabit Ethernet gateway at a cost closer to that of a cable or DSL modem.
All equipment, with the exception of the Genexis terminal equipment, has been previously used
on the San Francisco city network. The equipment is proven to be functional, cost-effective and
scalable, and city network staff are trained in its use. The Genexis equipment has been
successfully used in the Amsterdam, Netherlands Citynet Gigabit fiber-to-the-premises network.
Amsterdam is a sister city with San Francisco in the Cisco Connected Urban Development
initiative, and the selection of the Genexis equipment was pursuant to discussions with
Amsterdam about the desirability of the equipment, its suitability for this type of network, and
the means of integrating it into the Cisco Catalyst core environment already operated by the City
of San Francisco.
The City proposes for BTOP to fund the construction of new fiber optics and electronics. The
City will provide 15.5 miles of installed fiber optics, 14.2 miles of installed underground conduit,
access to utility poles through its participation in the Joint Pole Agreement, oversight of fiber
design and construction by its in-house fiber team, detailed base mapping and mapping of
existing utilities and assets, oversight of electronics design and integration by its information
technology network team, and overall coordination by its infrastructure group.
The City chose a fiber optic technology, instead of a wireless technology, in order to provide 1)
the capacity needed by the anchor institutions and 2) middle mile infrastructure with sufficient
capacity and scalability for last-mile fiber-to-the-premises providers and broadband wireless
providers. Because San Francisco is a dense, built-up area, yet has a large service area with
available aerial pole lines, it is naturally well-suited to fiber construction at a reasonable cost.
Because the City has experience in building and operating fiber and has conduit and cable
pathways at its disposal, it can undertake a fiber optic community anchor build at a per anchor
cost well below the average in urban areas.
Is the applicant seeking a waiver pursuant to section IX.C of the NOFA so as to sell or lease portions of the
award-funded broadband facilities during their life?
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No
I. Project Budget
Project Budget
Federal Grant Request Match
Last Mile 0 0
Middle Mile 14,366,226 6,156,954
Total 14,366,226 6,156,954
Project Budget Total: $20,523,180
Match Percent: 30.0%
Projects Outside Recommended Funding Range:
Outside Leverage
Applicant is providing
matching funds of at least
Yes
20% towards the total
eligible project costs?
The $6,156,954 in cash match represents 30% of the total budget. The
match is a grant match from the City. The funding represents money
that would otherwise be used for specific projects to replace or expand
the City's internal, enterprise network that will now be used for the
shared project. Each year the City extends its fiber network
Matching cost detail incrementally to serve additional City buildings, such as fire stations
and health centers. In addition, the City is in the process of replacing
elements of the network. This funding will be contributed to the
shared infrastructure that will serve not only City buildings, but also
community anchor institutions. The funding will be used for
construction and network equipment.
No, this project is not receiving, nor have we applied for any Federal support for
Unjust enrichment
non-recurring costs in the area for which we are seeking an award.
Disclosure of federal We have not received or requested other federal or state funding for this project.
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and/or state funding

sources
The City proposes to construct dedicated fiber optics to 372 anchor
network locations at a cost of $20.3 million. The total capital cost per
unit, including outside plant and electronics, is approximately
$55,000. The per-anchor cost for fiber optic construction alone is
approximately $32,000. This is in the lower half of the nationwide
range ($15,000 to $65,000) for fiber construction to community
anchors as estimated for dense urban and urban areas by the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation (Federal Communications Commission,
―Comments Sought on Cost Estimates for Connecting Anchor
Institutions to Fiber.‖ Public Notice (October 8, 2009)
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-09-2194A1.pdf
(accessed March 9, 2010). Moreover, the connections proposed for
most of the anchors will cover physically diverse ringed routes and
will provide greater value than a standard connection.
The main reasons for the highly favorable per-unit pricing are that the
proposed fiber optic network leverages:
Budget reasonableness • existing cable pathways of the City and transit authorities,
• City access to poles and rights-of-way,
• existing City fiber optics, and
• City staffing and expertise in fiber optic networking and
construction.
Per-item construction costs are commensurate with standard contractor
rates in the San Francisco Bay Area. These include $50 per foot for
new underground construction, $10.50 per foot for new aerial
construction, and $8.20 per foot for new construction in existing
transit conduit.
Prices for electronics are the current unit costs available to the City, or
costs obtained from vendors. Electronics were carefully selected for
their proven performance in the City network or for their success in
similar anchor networks. As an example, the approximately $200
Genexis Gigabit Ethernet fiber gateway is a cost-effective device that
has been widely used in the Amsterdam Citynet, the Case Western
Reserve University ―Beta Block‖ in Cleveland, and other fiber-to-the-
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premises networks for small businesses and homes. It can provide the
full needed functionality for smaller community anchors (e.g., high
availability, multiple port/multiple VLAN, remote provisioning and
management) at a small fraction of the cost of other enterprise-
network CPE devices.
The budget also includes expert contractor support for selected
business, marketing, engineering oversight, and legal services, but the
project maximizes the use of internal City resources for these
functions.
The CBOP program would not be able to proceed without BTOP
funding. San Francisco faced a $438 million shortfall in fiscal year
2009/10. According to the most recent Joint Budget projection by the
Mayor, Board of Supervisors and Controller, the budget shortfall will
Demonstration of need
increase in the next two years.
http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/controller/budget_information
/Joint_3year_Report_FY_2009-10pdf.pdf
Funding for the CBOP does not exist in the City.
Funds to States/Territories
States Amount of Federal Grant Request

California 14,366,226
Funds to States/Territories Total: $14,366,226
J. Historical Financials
Matching Funds
2007 2008 2009
Revenue 3,584,102,000 3,672,587,000 3,680,785,000
Expenditures 3,364,138,000 3,539,270,000 3,648,648,000
Net Assets 1,871,011,000 1,585,056,000 1,305,203,000
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Change in Net Assets from

76,393 -285,955 -279,853
Prior Year
Bond Rating (if applicable) Aa3 Aa2 Aa2
K. Project Readiness
BTOP Organizational Readiness
Based on its extensive preparations and its deep experience with building and operating
communications networks, San Francisco is fully prepared to implement, manage, and operate its
proposed fiber project.
The City and County of San Francisco has owned, maintained, and operated its own
communications infrastructure for more than 100 years. A Public Safety Network of copper
cable plant currently supports a wide range of emergency circuits, for example. And, more
importantly, the City also operates 65 miles of useable fiber optic cable; in the past year alone,
the City installed approximately 8 miles of fiber to connect five police stations, four MTA
facilities, two City Public Utilities Commission locations, and two Port of San Francisco
locations.
At the heart of the City’s organizational readiness is its Department of Technology (DT), which
compares favorably to the most sophisticated cities in the country with respect to internal staff
capabilities and experience regarding fiber networking. From construction to operations, DT
staff have the skills necessary to form the core of a larger team that implements a Citywide
network serving a large percentage of residents and businesses. Alternately, DT staff can act as
expert overseers of outside contractors performing this role, and addressing all aspects of
operations, from sales to billing support systems.
For reasons of oversight and cost-effectiveness, DT maintains an extremely high level of in-
house implementation and operations expertise. DT’s highly capable Public Safety Outside Wire
Division, for example, is responsible for constructing conduit and installing and splicing fiber
optics, and overseeing large-scale fiber optic and conduit construction projects. Further, DT
monitors both the network equipment and fiber optic components of the City’s FiberWAN
project and the public safety network. And the City has an excellent operational record with its
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fiber optic infrastructure. Of the four fiber damages experienced over the past few years, all were
repaired in a matter of hours, with no system downtime.
In terms of customer-facing network management, DT network staff can be seen as having roles
similar to those undertaken by a large facilities-based Internet service provider, including
attending to needs of customers, making physical connections, managing network electronics,
connecting to outside service providers, keeping information secure, hosting information,
managing infrastructure and growing the network to serve increasing demands.
Finally, because it serves the unique needs of a large city government, DT has acquired
specialized expertise that further supports the City’s organizational readiness for this project.
This expertise includes the need for the highest availability and reliability for public safety,
operation of a public safety radio system, compliance with stringent information security
requirements, and overseeing franchising.
Construction and Vendor Contracts

The SF CBOP project will rely primarily on City employees rather that construction vendors to
build the network. The City has a team of 25 skilled outside plant technicians who have built
over 90 miles of fiber networks. Adding the additional 100.1 miles on an accelerated basis will
require hiring additional staff, but can be most efficiently and effectively be performed by City
staff.
The SF CBOP wil rely on existing channels for network equipment. The City will use a
competitive bidding process among pre-qualified vendors to procure network equipment. The
City procures several million dollars worth of network equipment per year in this manner.
Customer Base
The City and County of San Francisco, Department of Telecommunications (DT) currently
provides managed Ethernet services and dark fiber to City departments and a few other agencies.
DT also manages telecom services for the City's 28,000 employees and operates the City's public
safety radio system, but our discussion will focus on fiber based services similar to the proposed
CBOP system.
The City operates a magaged Ethernet, MLPS network that serves City agencies in 30 City
administrative buildings, known as the FiberWAN.
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The City is has completed about 25% of a replacement of its existing legacy copper public safety
wire system with a fiber system that serves the Police, Fire and Emergency Services
departments. The copper system serves stations as well as call boxes.
DT also installs fiber to support private networks for City departments. All of the City's 8 public
safety radio towers are connected by fiber. Due to cost and speed advantages, DT has also
replaced a private contractor for installing fiber as part of the Municipal Transportation Agency's
SFGo traffic light automation system.
DT has also installed dark fiber for a limited number of institutions: City College, SF State
University, CA Academy of Sciences, Bay Area Video Coalition.
DT provides wired and wireless broadband to over 3000 public housing and other low income
residential units.
Licenses, Regulatory Approvals and Agreements

The Applicant will provide Internet access services only, and will not operate as a
telecommunications carrier or a cable/video services operator. Therefore, no FCC, State or local
licenses, franchises or regulatory approvals are required. Applicant will be attaching fiber optic
cables to utility poles and is a member of the area joint pole association, and is therefore
authorized to attach to those poles.
As the Applicant is a combined county and municipal government and controls its public rights-
of ways, no additional permits, leases, or franchise agreements are required to implement and
operate the SF-CBOP project. Applicant will not be entering into any tower leases, equipment
leases, building leases, land leases, and will not be leasing local loops.
SPIN Number
L. Environmental Questionnaire
Project Description
The project will build a fiber backbone network connecting 372 facilities (outer fiber loop and
distribution fiber to buildings). The project will use existing fiber optic connections, conduits for
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underground cable, and poles for aerial construction wherever possible. Where existing conduit
or poles is not available, new underground conduit will be constructed.
No other buildings or new structures will be built. Minor internal modifications will be
performed to the 10 hub facilities to provide the proper environment for network electronics. It is
not anticipated that any existing external structures will need modification. All underground fiber
is anticipated to be installed in already disturbed ground. For buried cable, different
methodologies will be employed depending on City requirements and costs, with least-invasive
methods first:
If existing underground or in-building conduit is available, new fiber can be pulled through.
If an area is open without paving, cable will be plowed into the ground.
Trench and backfill.
Bore with auger, water, or pneumatic devices. Requires a pit dug on each side of the street.
Pot and bore to place underground cable plant in the street.
Where new conduit will be required, standard communications vaults will be installed per City
codes every 500'. Additional attachments may be necessary to bring fiber to sites; these will
follow paths of existing telecommunications installations and will not modify any structures.
Property Changes
The project is designed to minimize cost and environmental impact. Where possible, aerial fiber
installations and existing conduits will be used with little to no ground disturbance. Where
underground installations will be needed, the order of priority outlined above will be used. The
project estimates a total of 125 miles of fiber to be installed. 75 miles will be overlashed or
installed aerially requiring no disturbed ground.
Approximately 50 miles of fiber will be installed underground in City right-of-ways. 15 miles
will be in existing muni conduits requiring minimal ground disturbed. With cable pulling, new
fiber can be pulled through the conduits. While this may involve cleanup, the process is
minimally invasive; it mostly does not require removal of ground. Most conduits can be accessed
from vaults/manholes; where conduit needs to be accessed by drilling, a 3'x3' pit may need to be
dug. Approximately, 35 miles of fiber will need to be installed in new conduits. In cases where
directional boring is required, pits will be dug for the boring equipment. The pits do not usually
exceed 12'x3', and will be located at intervals of at least 100'–500'. Approximately 170 vaults
will be required for access to the new conduit.
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All construction will be in public rights-of-way, usually over paved city streets or in some cases
over private commercial or residential areas requiring easements. No construction will be needed
on public lands managed by the federal government.
Buildings
While no buildings will be erected, underground communications vaults will be needed in
accordance with City codes. These will typically be located in streets and public rights-of-way.
All vaults will be installed in previously disturbed areas, either in public rights–of-way, or in
private or City-government-owned areas. A typical vault measures 36? by 24? and is accessible
from street level.
For 10 hub sites, minor internal modifications may be necessary to create the proper environment
for housing network electronics. These internal modifications may include installation of
equipment and fiber racks, electrical circuits, and HVAC equipment. The City will apply for and
obtain any necessary permitting and approval to make these internal modifications.
Wetlands
Using the National Wetland Inventory, it was determined that a number of wetlands exist in San
Francisco. However, it is not anticipated that any wetlands will be disturbed. Current
construction plans call for construction near some of these locations. Should plans need to be
modified, and crossing wetlands be required, the project will apply for bridge attachments or
utilize existing conduit on any bridge that crosses a wetland area in order to avoid any
construction in a wetlands area. As an alternative option, utilization of an existing utility pole
line will be pursued.
Critical Habitats
There will be no construction in critical habitats. Because of the nature of the project (installation
of fiber on existing utility poles or underground in disturbed ground) it is not anticipated that any
habitats or endangered species will be affected. Please see the critical species list attachment for
further details.
Floodplain
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No construction is anticipated within the floodplains. No FIRMette maps are available because
San Francisco does not participate in this program.
However, see http://sfgsa.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=1761, which shows
designated floodplain areas in San Francisco.
Protected Land
There are 158 sites on the National Register of Historic Places and 49 additional California
Historical Landmarks in San Francisco according to the SHPO (California Office of Historic
Preservation): http://www.ohp.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21482.
There are also 260 local historic landmarks, of which many are also National and State
landmarks: http://www.sf-planning.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=554.
Seven of these landmarks—all of which have existing utility services—may serve as anchor
intuitions for the project. Balboa High School is one example.
However, the route-selection methodology for this project mitigates the risk of impacting
protected sites by utilizing existing poles or constructing conduit in the existing public rights-of-
way. When landmark buildings or facilities need to be connected to the network, such facilities
will not be significantly impacted by the construction of fiber optics. Existing conduit will be
used into facilities where available. The fiber optic connections will follow the existing utility
services (e.g., telephone, electricity, gas) into the buildings where possible. No connection into
buildings is anticipated for which the building does not have prior telecommunications services
installed.
No tribal lands will be impacted by the project.
Coastal Area
The City and County of San Francisco coastal zone management area maps were consulted
(http://library2.municode.com/4201/home.htm?infobase=14145&doc_action=whatsnew). No construction is
anticipated in the coastal management areas.
Brownfield
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While there are eight sites in San Francisco designated as EPA cleanup sites, no construction is
anticipated within any brownfields, although some construction paths may pass over designated
areas.
Existing poles or conduits will be used where available to minimize impact. Should new
underground installations become necessary, vendors will comply with applicable regulations as
part of the regular design and permitting process.
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Uploads
The following pages contain the following uploads provided by the applicant:
Upload Name File Name Uploaded By Uploaded Date

Service Offerings and CCI Service Offerings and Competitor Roberts, Brian 03/22/2010
Competitor Data Data Attachment.xls
Network Diagram Network design_revised.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/22/2010
Build Out Timeline CCI Build-Out Timeline Roberts, Brian 03/22/2010

Attachment_aa_031110.pdf
List of Community CCI Anchor Detail and POI Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010
Anchors and Points of Attachment_SFr.xls
Interest
Management Team Chis A Vein.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Resumes and
Organization Chart
Management Team Joseph John Resume 10.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Resumes and
Organization Chart
Management Team Thomas ULDRICK RESUME.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Resumes and
Organization Chart
Management Team Brian Roberts Resume.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Resumes and
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Organization Chart
Management Team Jack Donohoe Resume.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/26/2010

Resumes and
Organization Chart
Government and Key SFCBOP org chart.jpg Roberts, Brian 03/26/2010

Partnerships
Government and Key Inernet Archive letter of Support.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/26/2010
Partnerships
Government and Key City College SF.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/26/2010

Partnerships
Government and Key Mayor Gavin Newsom BTOP.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010
Partnerships
Government and Key Sonic.net BTOP.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Partnerships
Government and Key SF-Towerstream.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Partnerships
Government and Key webpass SFBTOP.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Partnerships
Government and Key Raw Bandwidth Ltr.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Partnerships
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Government and Key MonkeyBrains SFBTOP-CCI los..pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Partnerships
Government and Key WiLine Networks.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Partnerships
Government and Key Unwired SF BTOP.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Partnerships
Government and Key SFUSD Support.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Partnerships
Government and Key Public Library Support.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Partnerships
Government and Key DAAS Support BTOP.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Partnerships
Government and Key DEM Public Safety Letter.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010
Partnerships
Government and Key SFCCC Health CBOP.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Partnerships
Government and Key BTOP Beacon Letter of Support.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010
Partnerships
Government and Key BAVC BTOP DM Anchor Institution Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010
Partnerships Letter.pdf
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Government and Key BAYCAT.BTOP.Letterof Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Partnerships Support.2010.pdf
Government and Key BTOP KQED Letter of Support.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010
Partnerships
Government and Key 9thSt-SF-CBOP.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Partnerships
Government and Key SHE_BTOP.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Partnerships
Historical Financial SF_Basic_Finance_Statement2008.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Statements
Budget Narrative CCI Budget Narrative attachment.doc Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010
Detailed Budget CCI Detailed Budget Roberts, Brian 03/22/2010

Attachments_FINAL.xls
Pro-forma Forecast SF Community Anchor Network Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

(BTOP Round 2) 03-25-10 Rev
18.xlsx
Subscriber Estimates SF CBOP CCI Subscriber Estimates Roberts, Brian 03/26/2010

Attachment Rev 1.xlsx
Dashboard Metrics CCI Key Metrics Dashboard Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010

Attachment CBOP.doc
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Service Area Data SF CBOP CCI Service Areas Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010
Attachment.xls
Network Maps Proposed funded service area with Roberts, Brian 03/22/2010
community anchors and
backbone_FINAL.pdf
Network Maps Pre-existing service area Roberts, Brian 03/22/2010

map_FINAL.pdf
Network Maps Points of interconnection and Roberts, Brian 03/22/2010

coverage areas_FINAL.pdf
Network Maps Proposed funded and underserved Roberts, Brian 03/22/2010

areas_FINAL.pdf
BTOP Certifications BTOP Certifiations.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010
SF-424 C and D SF 424 C & D SF_CBOP.pdf Roberts, Brian 03/25/2010
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Broadband Infrastructure Application

Submission to NTIA – Broadband Technology Opportunities Program

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

B. Executive Summary, Project Purpose, and Benefits

E. Service Area Details

F. Community Anchor Summary

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

A. General Application Information

First Name Brian

Middle Name Paul

Last Name Roberts

Telephone Number 415-581-4061

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

Additional Contact Information of Person to be Contacted on Matters Involving this Application:

Project Role Name Phone Email

Environmental Point of Contact

Authorized Organizational Representative

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

Project Title and Project Description

Project Title: San Francisco Community Broadband Opportunity Program

CCI Priority Checklist

Comprehensive Community Infrastructure Components

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

If Yes, please provide the project title and Easygrants ID number:

Easygrants ID Project Title

6890 San Francisco Community Broadband Opportunity Program SBA

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

Individual Background Screening

 Yes, Applicant is exempt because it is a unit of a state or local government

Name Title Employer

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

B. Executive Summary, Project Purpose and Benefits

Executive Summary of the proposed project:

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

underserved areas in our communities including underserved community anchor institutions, to

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

Recovery Act and Other Governmental Collaboration:

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

1. CBOP offers new or substantially upgraded service to community anchor institutions.

2. CBOP incorporates a public-private partnership among government, non-profit and for-

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

Is the applicant deliquent on any federal debt?

If Yes, justification for deliquency:

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

If YES, key partners are listed below:

Project Role: Contractor

Project Role: Sub-recipient

Description of the involvement of the partners listed above in the project.

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

Project Service States

Project Service Areas

E. Service Area Details

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

Service Area Type: Middle Mile

Total Square Miles in Service Area: 47

F. Community Anchor Summary

Task: Submit Application - BTOP Applicant Name: Brian Paul Roberts

Historically Black colleges