| Background: |
As a part of the work done by the AFN Advisory Committee in fall 2001,
a quarterly report format was developed. This first report was completed
in November 2001 and reports have been submitted for each quarter since then.
The last report was submitted to the council on February 3, 2004 and included
AFN for the period of July 1, 2003 through December 31, 2003. This report
will add the first 3 months of 2004 to that data.
The targets in this report still reflect the original Pro Forma, not the
revised Pro Forma that was adopted by the council on March 18, 2004, as a
result of the Navigant report. This was done for 2 reasons: 1) The months
of Jan-March were done before the report was presented and the revised Pro
Forma was adopted. 2) Staff hopes to change the report to better reflect
the new Pro Forma with revised targets, and this will be done for future
quarterly reports.
During the last quarterly report presented to the Council in February, 2003,
there was concern expressed about the number of cable modem customers that
the revenue allocation report was counting. Since that time, staff has revised
the report so it gives actual connected modems at the end of the month. Staff
didn't have this data for the first months of the year, so we trended beginning
year totals to the actual counts in March to develop the cable modem number
for the first nine months of the year. Therefore cable modem numbers for
July-December will differ from the previous report.
We have tried to point out new targets from the revised Pro Forma where we
can, to give a better sense of where we stand with both plans. |
