{"id":309313,"date":"2025-10-16T23:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309313\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T23:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:52:19","slug":"kirtland-city-council-to-consider-contract-for-fiber-internet-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309313\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirtland City Council to consider contract for fiber internet service"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kirtland City Council is considering whether to approve a contract with an Ohio company to install a new internet service in the city.<\/p>\n

As part of the proposed contract, Chagrin Valley Gig<\/a> would install a fiber-optic internet service in the city in the coming years. The service would offer a standard plan with minimum upload and download speeds of 1 gigabit per second, while cheaper plans would be available with lower speeds.<\/p>\n

The city legislation described high-speed broadband internet as a \u201ccritical need\u201d that affects Kirtland\u2019s vitality and quality of life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic has manifested the importance of high-speed broadband services for employment, education, consumerism, telemedicine and other resident needs to successfully function and compete in today\u2019s society,\u201d the legislation stated.<\/p>\n

CVG is operated by Ohio Gig<\/a>, a company which operates community internet services throughout the state. CVG will serve Lake, Geauga and Cuyahoga counties.<\/p>\n

The proposed contract states that the company also offers a support center in Ohio.<\/p>\n

A news release said that Ohio Gig is \u201cdedicated to bringing reliable high-speed internet to the rural and underserved communities that major telecommunications companies have left behind.\u201d It has more than 5,800 subscribers and more than 700 miles of internet lines in Ohio.<\/p>\n

Ohio Gig was founded by Kirtland-area resident Dett Hunter and is led by his son, Drew Hunter, the release added.<\/p>\n

The news release said that all of the company\u2019s employees are local to their communities. The company also invests in local communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cOhio Gig believes there\u2019s no reason rural communities \u2013 the largest representation of the state of Ohio \u2013 should have the fewest options for high-speed internet,\u201d the release said. \u201cBy serving residents, local businesses, government facilities, schools, hospitals and emergency services, Ohio Gig is taking future-proof underground fiber internet to every underserved rural community willing to partner with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the contract proposal posted to the city website, CVG would cover the expenses of designing, engineering and operating an underground-first network, but would work in cooperation with the city. The city would need to approve the initial planning and final design before construction, and would work with CVG to identify priority areas of service.<\/p>\n

The company would work to provide internet service to all houses and businesses within the city\u2019s jurisdiction. The city and CVG would work to get permission to build the fiber network in areas served by homeowners associations, but the company would not be required to construct a network in areas where it did not receive a city permit.<\/p>\n

CVG would work to \u201csubstantially complete\u201d the network four-and-a-half years after it started ground work or a year had passed from the approval of the agreement, whichever would come first.<\/p>\n

The company would offer discounted service rates and no installation costs for at least the first two years. It would also provide internet access to City Hall, the Kirtland Community Center and both city fire stations for internal city needs, along with three intersections for intersection monitoring purposes.<\/p>\n

The contract also includes language that would allow the company to operate a point of presence center in the city, according to a discussion between company representatives and city officials at a Kirtland City Council Utilities Committee meeting earlier in October.<\/p>\n

Council voted in March 2023<\/a> to request proposals from providers to construct a new fiber internet service in the city. It said at the time that most city residents received service from one of two companies, though only one company offered what the federal government considered true broadband connectivity.<\/p>\n

Council\u2019s next meeting is Oct. 20 at 7 p.m at Kirtland City Hall, 9301 Chillicothe Road. The contract is set for its third reading at that meeting, which is typically when council holds a vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirtland City Council is considering whether to approve a contract with an Ohio company to install a new…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":309314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[156353,156352,156355,59182,712,156351,156354,156356,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-309313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-chagrin-valley-gig","9":"tag-contract-for-fiber-internet-service","10":"tag-drew-hunter","11":"tag-fiber-optic-internet","12":"tag-internet","13":"tag-kirtland-city-council","14":"tag-kirtland-area-resident-dett-hunter-and-is-led-by-his-son","15":"tag-ohio-gig","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115386537887624788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}