• Will review club financials, dues, and Ukraine Relief

• Window Dresser Meeting - July 14th
  • (Update to follow by Gary)
• Membership Committee Meeting -July 19th
  • (Update to follow by John B)
• Cemetery Clean Up - July 16th at 8 a.m
  • (Please refer to David's email)
• Please update your information in Clubrunner. If you need assistance, reach out to Sylvie or Steve. 
• MREMS membership drive is happening! 
• No Meeting on August 10th
• August 31st - District Director, Caroline Earle ( 8/30 Social Event the night before - more information to come) 
• Jason - discussed RYLA and the opportunity it gives youth to become leaders and build networks. 

• Sylvie was born and raised in Malone, NY on a dairy farm and was the Franklin County Dairy Princess in 2012. Sylvie went to St. Lawrence University to obtain her Bachelor's in Biology. During her time at SLU, Sylvie studied abroad in Rome, Italy for a semester and conducted research on Multiple Sclerosis, ALS and autoimmune disorders for 3 years. Uncertain of what she wanted to do, Sylvie moved to Indiana and completed her Master's in Public Health Administration from IU Bloomington. 
• Sylvie moved back to the East Coast and started as the Blueprint for Health Program Manager for Addison County in 2018 under UVMHN Porter Medical Center. Now, Sylvie works is all aspects of Community Health - food insecurity, health equity, substance use, community collaboratives, quality, etc
• On a personal note - Sylvie was Co-President for the Rotary Interact Club in high school, revived the Rotaract Club at St. Lawrence University and was excited for the opportunity to continue on the Rotary path in Middlebury. Sylvie has a passion to help people and make a difference in the community! 

• Liz - No Name Tag
• Maureen - fined for being on the radio (Maureen is on the radio every week for ACHHH)

• Mike - Thankful for the care provided at UVM Medical Center in Burlington and thank you for all the cards
• Geoff - Thank you for Jim for coming up with a solution to prevent water in the flag sleeves - blasting caps!
• Steve - Happy to have Mike back and for Sylvie's detailed minutes 
• Rebecca - Happy to be engaged - congrats!
• Spence - Thank you to Ben for putting together the projector and for Scott who is helping with Speakers/weekly reminders
• John B - Grateful for the members of the Membership Committee and for next week's meeting
• Eric - Happy to have Mike back and for the Middlebury Rotary Club always supporting the District Level ( Congrats Jason!)
• Tim - Happy to have gone on a Antique Roadshow trip with Wendy and sold 2 Bruins Rings for somewhere in the 5 digits (They belonged to Wendy) 
• Neil - Happy to have the "Trouble-Making" table back together at Rosie's 
• Ben - Happy to be making his own bacon! (A few request for future Breakfast meetings)

• Ellie is the Vice Chair of Maple Broadband - "Maple Broadband is a not-for-profit municipal entity that is working towards making affordable, reliable internet service available to all households and businesses within the district, along with prompt, user-friendly customer service."
• Ellie comes from a background in new technologies and simultaneously works for a Liquid Technology group in South Africa. She was in S. Africa for 10 years working on industry development. 
• Ellie lives in New Haven, VT  - she was born and raised here and is interested in helping providing access to underserved areas in VT through technical assistance and previous experience. 

• This is Communications Union District (CUD) made up of local residents, with the support of local Town Select Boards to promote and expand broad-band. This is designed to help support those who live in on the end of long roads or areas in which commercial providers cannot truly support or provide any service to. (These meetings are public - if you are interested) 
• As a not-for-profit municipal entity, the funds come from other sources. Interestingly, the Federal Government does not regulate broadband which causes issues with quality of service as it is all dependent on the policy of the individual service providers. 
• Why is this important in Addison County? 
  • 39% of Addison is not serviced and ACT 79 and ACT 71 were designed to help address this to provide funds for broadband connectivity to underserved/unserved areas in VT
  • Some stats provided: 
    • Whiting/Orwell - 100% underserved
    • Ripton - 90.5% underserved
• Identified Waitsfield Telecom as the Major network operating partner 
• For every $1 --> $4 goes back into the community

• Phase  1,2,3 consist of the following:
  • High-level design - Network 
  • Planning/Location verification
  • Material pre-purchase of Fiber cable (Some of this has arrived)  
  • Construction bid (currently happening) 
  • Build (September 2022)
  • Subscribers (scheduled for Fall 2022)
• Cost:
  • Total Network Cost - $39.2 Million
  • Grant Funding - $21.8 Million
  • $15.7 in 30years for revenue bonds
    • The more people that sign on, the less expensive it will be as there will be less debt to recover
• Affordability is an important focus of this project
  • Will work to help low-income families (subsidize are/will be available, and will possibly remove instillation fee to make it more affordable) 

• Would like to see partnership with Addison County Community Trust and the mobile home parks 
• What is the marketing strategy?
  • Will work with employers to advertise, go door to door, community partners, etc
  • Will have acquisition incentives to get folks signed up and engage with communities.