Village Trustees have voted at a special meeting this morning (Tuesday) to allow Wireless Woodstock to return an access point “box” back to a Village Green lamp-post for the duration of the coming weekend.
Wireless Woodstock had affixed the “repeater” box to the lamp-post a week or so ago in an attempt to pick up the signal from a wireless “send” box located above the door of the Norman Williams Public Library. However, Trustees voted at a recent regular meeting that the box is in violation of rules regarding what can and cannot be attached to lamp-posts. The box was then taken down from the post.
This morning, Trustees were given an email letter sent by Norman Williams Library principals and “T” Belisle of Wireless Woodstock asking for permission to mount the CISCO box (featured in the photo above) so that it could provide wi-fi to visitors attending the upcoming Woodstock Digital Media Festival.
Trustee Bob Pear made a motion to put up a new pole on the Green to attach the box but due to the weight of the device and mounting points and the need for a very deep hole to be dug to carry the weight, other Trustees said “no” to that motion. Trish Compton said it was “ridiculous” to go through so much trouble “for a temporary thing.”
While Norman William’s Head Librarian Jennifer Belton was in attendance at the special meeting, there was no one there from Wireless Woodstock or Summit Technologies to address the specific technical needs for the repeater’s placement. The Village Trustees said they will take up the topic of where such a device might go permanently after receipt of a proposal from Wireless Woodstock.
Julia Carlisle
Woodstock Early Bird 