The Town of Chebeague Island
has received
Broadband Internet Grant funding
and the Town Meeting approved
the operational contracts!
We
hope for construction to start in late 2023 with completion by
August, 2024, if not sooner!
The Town of Chebeague Island
Broadband
Committee
We meet via ZOOM almost every
Monday at 05:00pm
Meeting ID is 326 962 753
Password is 175989
See Committee Members on
Contacts & Links
O U R M I S S O N
Broadband Internet for All - Mission Statement
The
Town of Chebeague Island Broadband Committee advocates for fast, flexible, affordable
and reliable internet
to incentivize business, support schools,
advance the quality of healthcare, connect homes
and facilitate long term
education and socialization of our rural island.
On April 27, 2022, the ConnectMaine Authority
voted to approve our
grant request for $800,000 in funding to be matched by as much as
$975,000 as authorized by Town Meeting in December, 2021,
by a vote of 84 in favor to 18 opposed.
Of the eight (8) awards made out of 23 applying towns or groups of towns,
Chebeague was #1.
Here's the official
notification
At the June 11, 2022 Town
Meeting with about 70 resident citizens in attendance, the broadband
contracts passed easily,
all in favor, save 7 opposed to the Construction Contract and 4 opposed to
the Franchise Contract.
That is 90% and 94%, respectively, in favor of the broadband contracts.
Thus, the citizens of Chebeague Island voted overwhelmingly to make make broadband service available to
every home on the Island
with no increase in property taxes as a result.
The contracts between the Town of
Chebeague Island and Axiom Technologies, LLC,
being fully negotiated and approved, are posted
here.
This website seeks to inform our voters about what true broadband internet is and how it can enrich our community.
Our gratitude goes out to the The [Blue
Hill] Peninsula Utility for Broadband for allowing us
to liberally borrow from their website.
The documentation of our efforts to date may be found in the following links:
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Broadband Discussion Public Zoom Meeting - November 13, 2021 |
Draft Contract documents (Final documents available
here)
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