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Planning and Zoning Commission Minutes October 16, 2003 Paqe 5 Mr. Hill said to Mr. Monroe that the Board was told by the carrier that the FCC had some type of regulation that they had to provide service to 100 percent of the people in a given area. Mr. Moore said who ever told the Board that, he is going to assume did not know the law. He said there are nine carriers that are licensed in each community. They contain a build-out schedule and they must provide service to 75% of the market by a given date. That is what the permit say and it is stated right on each permit. Mr. Starnes said we should be' on or better than that in Cabarrus County he would think. Mr. Moore said the reality is that every community whether it knows it or not needs this service if only from an economic development perspective, ft should want the service. The iss. ue is the rational logical orderly deployment of the service in a manner that gets the service out there as rapidly as possible, but at the same time has the minimum impact on the community. This should not and normally is not a contentious situation. Mr. Moore said their first job is to enable the Board to make informed decisions. The policy is the Board's to establish and their job is to make sure when the Board set that policy and when you make decisions, you are making truly informed decisions knowing what all of your options are and what the ups and downs of each of those options is. Then, the Board makes the decision and their job is to carry that decision out for them. There second job is to get them permitted as fast as possible with a minimum impact on the community. Mr. Starnes asked what does the ,Board need to do to move from here. The Chair said she feel that the Board and the communities need a better representation. Mr. Monroe said he would like to suggest that somebody do one thing. Go to their website and read some of their e-mails from some of their clients.