1. Greeting
Mark Kurtz, Senior Business Project Manager, Elevate
Elevate, based in Montrose, Colorado
Wholly owned subsidiary of Delta-Montrose Electric Assn
2.5 years, approaching 1,000 miles of fiber plant including our Middle Mile, 6200 internet subscribers, phone subscribers and 500 video subscribers

2. Electric Easements For Broadband Deployment
Middle Mile:
COOPS are member owned – tell the coop story
403 easements needed
Partnered with Region 10, took 18 months, ~ $500K
Easement parties, gift cards, etc.
Private Easement Contractor did the heavy lifting
Distribution easements
95% in DMEA’s Dist Networks in publicly perfected rights of way
5% in private easements that already had electric easments – Had folks sign a commercial comm easement to supplement
Last Mile Easements
Write language to give you service drop easement, service drop easement to connecting parcels, and distribution easements – Make as broad as you/attrny feels is enforceable
SB107
Colorado, especially the western slope, needs long haul perfections in order to procure redundant paths for bandwidth, etc.
Middle Mile, sub transmission easements - the COOP way
Distribution Easements – public rights of way are the key
Last Mile Easements – Service agreement language is imperative
Senate Bill 107 – Helpful, but didn’t address the long haul transmission issue

3. Tell a story “
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
- African Proverb

4. QUESTIONS?
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