What involvement will the local entities have in the ongoing planning?
CVIN/CENIC have already and will continue to involve other stakeholders in the project as it progresses. Through CENIC and its current members, the anchor institutions associated with K-12 and community colleges will be involved in the details of getting their sites connected. Once operational, CENIC has in place procedures these sites already use. Likewise, CENIC will continue to work with the libraries through the San Joaquin Valley Library System and Mountain Valley Library System groups, as well as the State Librarian to ensure their proper connectivity and ongoing service support. CVIN/CENIC has and will continue to engage the Northern Planning Area of California (NPAC) and the Central Planning Area of California (CPAC) groups, under California’s Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee (CalSIEC), in developing an Emergency Services Network that can utilize this infrastructure and the CENIC statewide backbone to interconnect the 80-plus Public Safety Answering Points located
