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providers will provide Important input Into the planning process. Timing for this RFI can be determined in the study and whether the City wants to issue it earlier or later in the process. H. Grant Opportunity Analysis Magellan's senior consultant and grant expert, Sherry McCuiler will be participating and working with Santa Ana to analyze any grant opportunities for Santa Ana. Sherry has over 18 years' experience In In broadband planning, fundraising, deployment and operational management. Her work has helped communities raise over $376 million in public and private funding for advanced broadband infrastructure deployment and service provisioning, including $1015.6 million in 2017 to date for Newport Utilities, a municipal utility serving rural Cocke County, Tennessee, and for Matawa First Nations Management, a nonprofit organization serving five remote First Nations communities In remote northwestern Ontario, Canada. The grant and loan awarded to Newport Utilities are building a fiber-optic Smart Grid communications network for its electric distribution system and a Fiber to the Premise broadband network for Newport Utility customers. The grant award to the Matawa First Nations communities was the largest such award in the history of Ontario and will transform healthcare, education, safety and security, and economic development and entrepreneurial support for the remote communities. I. Financial Models Magellan will evaluate the current financial and budgetary environment for the network. We believe that Santa Ana's decislon-making process for network development needs to include financial analysis of the proposed hardware solution and the operational costs that Santa Ana will Incur In deploying the selected solution. These operational costs Include more than equipment service contracts; the selected solution will have financial Impacts across many aspects of Santa Ana's operations. We want to make sure these are evaluated so the City understands all financial impacts to the organization. Once documentation Is complete, we propose to analyze current and future needs for Santa Ana's network. Magellan proposes that we ask and answer the following key questions in the needs assessment: • What are the long-term needs of Santa Ana's current customers including types of service, bandwidth scalability, performance, and reliability? • Can Santa Ana expand its service offerings to attract new customer segments? if so, what customer segments are anticipated and what services will these customers require? • Are Santa Ana's products and services competitive in the market and how can the expanded network create competitive advantages for Santa Ana to expand Its customer base In the community? • What is the current environment in metropolitan area networking that Santa Ana should consider for Improve competitiveness and meet current and future customer needs? • How Is the network currently managed and what operational goals does Santa Ana want to achieve in expansion of Its network? w msnnliai> advlcnrs mm 16 2017 Wgobn.AdAsor8