{"id":1782,"date":"2007-12-17T06:13:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T11:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2007-12-17T06:13:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T11:13:01","slug":"never-send-a-city-to-do-a-companys-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1782","title":{"rendered":"Never Send A City To Do A Company’s Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Louis Park’s “groundbreaking” municipal wi-fi is no-fi<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The City Council will vote Monday on whether to find Arinc — the Wi-Fi system’s Maryland-based contractor — in default of its contract, in part because the project is months behind schedule.<\/p>\n

Last spring, the city told residents to expect service by June.<\/p>\n

This summer, it told them to expect service by fall.<\/p>\n

This fall, it said to expect service by Nov. 30.<\/p>\n

Now, the city isn’t even guessing.<\/p>\n

Because it is considering legal action against Arinc, “the city is no longer able to provide a current project or service availability schedule,” the city’s website reads.<\/p>\n

The city is “very seriously” considering suing Arinc, said spokesman Jamie Zwilling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, cities throughout the metro have drunk the “digital divide” koolaid; some have added the “green” chaser.\u00a0 Minneapolis is working on its own wi-fi system; Saint Paul has been fighting (and, given that it’s not selected a contractor, I’d say winning) the wi-fi battle for months.<\/p>\n

The council held a closed-door meeting Dec. 3 to discuss the possibility of a lawsuit and what effect it might have on the project’s completion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m guessing “totally scupper”, but what do I know. I’m just an IT geek.\u00a0 Not a city bureaucrat\/”visionary”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

St. Louis Park’s “groundbreaking” municipal wi-fi is no-fi: The City Council will vote Monday on whether to find Arinc — the Wi-Fi system’s Maryland-based contractor — in default of its contract, in part because the project is months behind schedule. Last spring, the city told residents to expect service by June. This summer, it told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}