[RTC List] RTC Meeting: Thursday, March 8, 5:30 p.m.

[Kitty Yancheff]

Greetings Members! 
  As you schedule for the week ahead please plan to attend the upcoming General Membership meeting. The following media release, prepared by Rene Agredano provides details on the informative presention to be made by HSU President Rollin Richmond, and Humboldt Area Foundation Executive Director, Peter Pennekamp regarding the Governor's Broadband Task Force:
  Kitty Yancheff
  Administrative Director
  
The Redwood Technology Consortium invites the public to its next general meeting on Thursday, March 8, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., in The Annex at the Humboldt County Office of
Education, 901 Myrtle Avenue, Eureka.
   
  Guest speakers will be HSU President Rollin Richmond, and Humboldt Area
Foundation Executive Director, Peter Pennekamp. Richmond and Pennekamp are members of the Governor of California'sBroadband Task Force. The Broadband Task Force consists of 21 members and is co-chaired by Rep. Michael Liang (House of Representative's Business, Transportation and Housing Committee) and Charles Giancarlo (Cisco Systems Chief Development Officer).

Richmond and Pennekamp's appointments to this committee are critical, 
as they are the only members representing rural California. Richmond and
Pennecamp will review the outcome of the Task Force's first meeting,
which covered various issues affecting rural California, such as

- Uneven distribution of access
- Broadband affordability and reliability,
- And permitting issues, among others.

Please come to this important RTC meeting and learn how broadband 
issues are affecting the overall prosperity and quality of life on the North 
Coast.

RTC meetings are free and the public is encouraged to attend.The RTC is
a non-profit organization representing the North Coast's emerging
Information Technology industry cluster. For more information, visit
www.redwoodtech.org, or contact board at redwoodtech.org.

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