Implementation Status

2024 Q3 Status Update

Summary Activities continue to implement the Strategic Plan’s goals and strategies. Since the last project update the following activities occurred. See Notable Accomplishments and Updates for detailed information. The County and City of San Rafael continued activities from the work plans of their Local Area Technical Assistance (LATA) Grants. Work must be completed by October … Continued

2023 Q3 Status Update

Summary Activities continue to implement the Strategic Plan. Since the last project update, the County and City of San Rafael continue activities in the work plans of their Local Area Technical Assistance (LATA) Grants. Last week, Marin County, in partnership with EntryPoint Networks, applied for $11 million to build fiber infrastructure in coastal Marin. IST … Continued

2023 Q2 Status Update

Activities continue to implement the Strategic Plan, set up an operational entity, and seek funding. Since the last project update, the County and City of San Rafael began activities in the work plans of their Local Area Technical Assistance (LATA) Grants. Marin County also brought on an intern, Andrew Popov, a rising Junior at Terra … Continued

2023 Q1 Status Update

Activities continue to implement the Strategic Plan, set up an operational entity, and seek funding. Since the last status update, the County and City of San Rafael entered into contracts with a consultant to implement the work plans in their Local Area Technical Assistance (LATA) Grants. Notable Accomplishments and Updates Goal 1: High-quality broadband … Continued

2022 Q4 Status Update

Work continues to implement the Strategic Plan, set up an operational entity, and seek funding. Since the last status update, grants totally nearly $900,000 were awarded to better define broadband expansion projects across Marin. Notable Accomplishments and Updates Goal 1: High-quality broadband is available to everyone in Marin Strategy 1: Assist with the deployment of … Continued

2022 Q3 Status Update

Work continues to implement the Strategic Plan, set up an operational entity, and seek funding. Sincethe last project update, the Digital Marin Strategic Plan was adopted by the City of San Rafael, bringing the total to six adoptions by Marin’s local government entities. Notable Accomplishments & Updates Goal 1: High-quality broadband is available to … Continued

2022 Q2 Status Update

Work continues to implement the Strategic Plan, set up an operational entity, and seek funding. Since the last status update, the Digital Marin Strategic Plan was adopted by the Mill Valley City Council and the Town of Tiburon, making five adoptions by Marin’s local government entities. Notable Accomplishments Adoption and Letters of Support: In … Continued

2022 Q1 Status Update

The last three months were busy for Digital Marin as it moved from being a project to create a Strategic Plan to implementation of the Plan, beginning with setting up an operational entity and seeking funding. Since the last status update, the Digital Marin Strategic Plan was adopted by the Marin County Board of Supervisors, … Continued

2021 Q4 Status Update

What a year! We began 2021 with a brand-new Executive Steering Committee (ESC) and our consulting firm, Magellan Advisors, was still doing initial interviews with stakeholders. Our ESC reached out in their communities to pull in more people with diverse perspectives. That effort eventually added more than 500 registered stakeholders and thousands of survey, focus … Continued

2021 Q3 Status Update

Another milestone reached. We were concerned we wouldn’t have much to report, but on the contrary, we have shifted into high gear. We received the Needs and Options Report from Magellan Advisors and are mining it for insights. Combined with completion of the draft Needs Assessment Report, we are exiting the fact finding and analysis … Continued

2021 Q2 Status Update

We have reached the end of the beginning. Magellan delivered their Technical Memo, the first in a series of products they handed off to us through May. The Government and Emergency Management work group was the first to submit their findings. The other groups will follow with their analysis and findings in the next few … Continued

2021 Q1 Status Update

An explosion of data is coming in now that the surveys, focus groups, and interviews are all going full speed. The outreach is working as we planned. We’ve uncovered more community connections and are finding additional allies. While the level of participation from business owners is less than we hoped, we understand that they are … Continued

2020 Q4 Status Update

Digital Marin continues to have good momentum as 2020 draws to a close. The Executive Steering Committee (ESC) is working to establish teams to lead community outreach, the consultants, Magellan Advisors, are collecting data on current assets, and the GoDigitalMarin.org website is live. The project is about a month behind the original schedule, but we … Continued

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