Letters of Support
I am writing to express support of the grant application from the WA-RBC to bring high speed internet access to the Mt. Baker Foothills and other locations throughout Whatcom county.
Broadband service is not only pivotal to the development and long-term success of businesses in the Mt. Baker Foothills region but is necessary for providing basic and continued education and other opportunities to the residents in our region.
Anna Ehnmark
Executive Director
Technology Alliance Group for Northwest Washington
Broadband service is not only pivotal to the development and long-term success of businesses in the Mt. Baker Foothills region but is necessary for providing basic and continued education and other opportunities to the residents in our region.
Anna Ehnmark
Executive Director
Technology Alliance Group for Northwest Washington
I fully support the WA-RBC's grant application to provide our community with high-speed Internet service.
I speak for many of my neighbors when I say we badly need the service and look forward to your success in helping provide it.
Jeremy Standen
I speak for many of my neighbors when I say we badly need the service and look forward to your success in helping provide it.
Jeremy Standen
I am writing in support of this grant application from the WA-RBC to provide high speed broadband Internet access into the Mt. Baker Foothills region, and other locations throughout Whatcom County. These are rural, low income, mining and timber-impacted communities in our county that have long languished behind some of our other areas.
The establishment of a broadband infrastructure would be very beneficial in
helping to jump-start their local economy. Whatcom County certainly supports this grant application and hopes that you will consider approving funds for this important addition to the community. Many residents of the Mt Baker Foothills area have expressed to me their wish for the service, particularly over the last year or two. The time is certainly right to move this forward, with your help.
Pete Kremen
Whatcom County Executive
The establishment of a broadband infrastructure would be very beneficial in
helping to jump-start their local economy. Whatcom County certainly supports this grant application and hopes that you will consider approving funds for this important addition to the community. Many residents of the Mt Baker Foothills area have expressed to me their wish for the service, particularly over the last year or two. The time is certainly right to move this forward, with your help.
Pete Kremen
Whatcom County Executive
Our problem is that we currently live without access to high speed Internet or cell phone service. As technology advances this area is being left further and further behind. Modern communications can no longer be managed adequately through dial-up service.
We are incredibly excited about this opportunity to work with the WA-RBC. They clearly have the capacity to move us toward the solution we need. I beg you to give serious consideration to this grant request. It is not an overstatement to say that the economy of our community cannot continue to survive much longer without the high speed communication service that so much of the rest of the world now takes for granted.
Linda Dorsett
Management Consultant
Active Community Volunteer
We are incredibly excited about this opportunity to work with the WA-RBC. They clearly have the capacity to move us toward the solution we need. I beg you to give serious consideration to this grant request. It is not an overstatement to say that the economy of our community cannot continue to survive much longer without the high speed communication service that so much of the rest of the world now takes for granted.
Linda Dorsett
Management Consultant
Active Community Volunteer
We own Gallup Creek Consulting, Inc., a small consulting and research firm that specializes in business and NGO work. We have been residents for 18 years and have suffered far too long from being forced to use dial-up Internet service because it is the only thing available this far into the Cascade Mountains.
The last contract we had was a major research study for the Department of Homeland Security. We nearly lost the account when I was unable to attend conferences of the national staff because of the lack of fast Internet service.
I can honestly tell you that access to fast Internet service would have a great impact upon our business and the number of RFPs we could evaluate and choose to write.
A fast Internet connection would be most beneficial to the Glacier area. Thank you very much for moving this project forward with the WA-RBC. I look forward to the day such service is operational.
Lou J. Piotrewski, Ph.D.
Principle, Gallup Creek Consulting, Inc.
The last contract we had was a major research study for the Department of Homeland Security. We nearly lost the account when I was unable to attend conferences of the national staff because of the lack of fast Internet service.
I can honestly tell you that access to fast Internet service would have a great impact upon our business and the number of RFPs we could evaluate and choose to write.
A fast Internet connection would be most beneficial to the Glacier area. Thank you very much for moving this project forward with the WA-RBC. I look forward to the day such service is operational.
Lou J. Piotrewski, Ph.D.
Principle, Gallup Creek Consulting, Inc.
The Northwest Economic Council - Watcom County (NWEcon) is pleased to offer its support for the WA-RBC.
The scope of this project will launch a far-reaching and broadly impacting investment into infrastructure that will leverage resources, expertise, and communities and will establish connectivity for current and further resilience and opportunity.
From the recent assessments completed in the rural Foothills of Whatcom County, this proposed unified effort will capture the local needs of each community while allowing an economy of scale not available if broadband were installed through individual efforts.
Please accept this letter as confirmation of the NWEcon's enthusiastic support for and commitment to work cooperatively with the WA-RBC and expanding list of partners in the implementation of all phases of this proposal.
Nancy Jordan
Executive Director
NWEcon
The scope of this project will launch a far-reaching and broadly impacting investment into infrastructure that will leverage resources, expertise, and communities and will establish connectivity for current and further resilience and opportunity.
From the recent assessments completed in the rural Foothills of Whatcom County, this proposed unified effort will capture the local needs of each community while allowing an economy of scale not available if broadband were installed through individual efforts.
Please accept this letter as confirmation of the NWEcon's enthusiastic support for and commitment to work cooperatively with the WA-RBC and expanding list of partners in the implementation of all phases of this proposal.
Nancy Jordan
Executive Director
NWEcon
I write this letter in strong support of the WA-RBC project. Much of the area served by the Mount Baker School District is without broadband access.
The lack of broadband access creates significant challenges for our school district and for families of school age children. Research has shown the benefits of on-line learning opportunities to a school's comprehensive educational program.
Bellingham Technical College, Whatcom Community College and Western Washington University and many suburban school districts all have significant portions of their programs on-line. It is essential that Mount Baker School District families have access to the multi-media, on-line educational programs that are becoming a major part of our students' opportunities.
On behalf of the Mount Baker School District community, I want to thank you for developing the WA-RBC project and to express Mount Baker's strong support of the project's goals.
Richard Gantman, Ed.D.
Superintendent
Mt. Baker School District
The lack of broadband access creates significant challenges for our school district and for families of school age children. Research has shown the benefits of on-line learning opportunities to a school's comprehensive educational program.
Bellingham Technical College, Whatcom Community College and Western Washington University and many suburban school districts all have significant portions of their programs on-line. It is essential that Mount Baker School District families have access to the multi-media, on-line educational programs that are becoming a major part of our students' opportunities.
On behalf of the Mount Baker School District community, I want to thank you for developing the WA-RBC project and to express Mount Baker's strong support of the project's goals.
Richard Gantman, Ed.D.
Superintendent
Mt. Baker School District
