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Texas Rural Strategic Advisory Group (Rural SAG) Texas FirstNet State Consultation Cynthia Wenzel Cole, Presenter February 12, 2015 V22 APPROVED FINAL

Rural SAG Topics • Rural SAG Membership & Overview • Rural Coverage Challenges • Texas County Population Density – Rural Areas Definition Basis • Coverage Prioritization Tool – Introduction – Weighting Matrix – Assessing Counties by Attribute Examples • Rural SAG 2015 Roadmap • Next Steps v12 2

Palo Duro Canyon R URAL SAG O VERVIEW 3

Rural SAG Overview Other Rural SAG Members (state agencies) Texas Parks & Wildlife L OUISIANA COG Texas DPS • City, Tribal, County, State, Boundaries Emergency Management and O KLAHOMA Paris Council of Governments (COGs) members San Angelo • Initiated from SLIGP N EW M EXICO Governance – Via recruitment and a statewide solicitation for volunteers • Stood up in August 2014 • First deliverables NTIA RFC & FN RFI papers on “rural areas” Morgan’s Point Resort definitions, 4Q2014 G ULF OF M EXICO Robstown Ingleside M EXICO Campbell, 1/29 v6 4

Tx DPS Todd Early, SWIC Rural SAG Members Karla Jurrens, Asst SWIC Eddie Wilson Registered to Attend Mike Barney FN State Consultation Sheriff Chris Kirk Lt Tom Randall Josh Garcia Tommy Murillo Brazos County Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo Tribe South Plains Association of Govts Jimmy Wilson Ray Fletcher Gene Chapline City of Robstown Cooke County/Texoma COG Live Oak County Stephanie Heffner Tim Jeske Janna Owen East Texas COG Bosque County West Central Texas COG Casey Ritchie Asst. Chief Gary Teeler Willo Sylestine Permian Basin RPC Texas Parks & Wildlife Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas Reg 18 ESC Sheriff Joel Richardson Steve Esquivel Mike Simpson Greg Green Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas Palo Pinto County Potter - Randall County 911 Freddy Hernandez RJ Thomas John Kiehl Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas Coastal Bend COG/Ingleside Panhandle Regional Planning Volunteer Fire Commission Chief Bob Hundley City of Paris Clinton Thetford Steve Mild Lubbock County City of San Angelo, County Judge Santiago Flores Tom Green Co, Chief Fred Churchill Terrell County Concho Valley COG Morgan’s Point Resort PD, Rural SAG Coordinator: Cynthia Wenzel Cole Bell County v9 Assisted by Rita Mooney, Carol Sutherland 5

Mentone, Loving County Outline: Brewster County Red Area: Connecticut R URAL C OVERAGE C HALLENGES 7

Rural Coverage Challenges Vast Loving Territories, Lack of IT Infrastructure & Support Wide Diversity… • General lagging of rural areas in • Loving County, Texas • Population: 95 deployment of PS data applications • Lowest County Pop Density in US • Lack of IT expertise & personnel from nation’s least • Lack of backend infrastructure populated county… • Many lack government email • Brewster County covers 6,208 mi 2 addresses • 90 TIMES size of Washington DC • Lack of broadband backhaul • Population: 9,232 Brewster County D ALLAS to two of nation’s Rural PSAP Needs & Challenges H ARRIS MOST populated. • Dallas County • Harris County • Affordable wireline broadband “….I can see for miles and miles in Texas…” connectivity for PSAPs • Focus on needs of Rural PSAPs Lack of commercial • Need regional sponsors, leaders to help broadband across large guide, support and coordinate swaths of the state. v10 8

Texas County Population Density RURAL Texas covers more A Texas “Rural County” is defined as a county than 235,000 square miles, which is 7.6% of Continental in Texas with a population density of less US (CONUS). than 160 persons per square mile. • Texas County Population Density Factors defined across all categories – Data Source for Population by County: 2010 US Census Data – Data Source for Area by County: Texas Association of Counties Number of Area %Counties % Area Population %Pop Counties (Sq. Miles) v18.3 Urban >1000 pp/mi 2 5 2% 5,668 2% 11,008,671 44% Suburban >160 pp/mi 2 < 1000 25 10% 20,179 8% 8,277,349 33% Rural <160 pp/mi 2 224 88% 235,386 90% 5,859,541 23% 254 261,233 25,145,561 v14 100% 100% 100% 9

10-person fatality in Ector County Mass Casualty Incident, Jan 14, 2015. Crash involved prison transport bus and a train. C OVERAGE P RIORITIZATION 10

Coverage Prioritization Tool - Intro • Deciding Public Safety needs for geographical NPSBN/FirstNet Network Coverage in Texas • Purpose – Develop a fair and objective decision making tool for situations or aspects, such as “Public Safety Need” which requires analytics – Proven methodology, commonly used for complex decision making in complex environments – Delivers fair, durable decisions – Process creates detailed documentation, withstands detailed scrutiny • Methodology captures the decisions, priorities and directives from specifically appointed Public Safety decision makers, the Texas Rural SAG – Law requires Rural and Tribal involvement • Process requires many iterations and ongoing refinements • Tool has multiple process elements v7 11

Coverage Prioritization Tool 1 RANK candidates against precise, WEIGHTED Attributes, 2 objective County metrics decided by consensus W EIGHTING M ATRIX County County County County C OUNTY R ANKINGS A B C D Data Analytics % Impo % Importa tanc nce e by by Co County Ra ty Ranking ings s Critical Infrastructure Attribu Att ribute te by Attribu by Attribute te Consensus-Driven Population Density Decisions Data Metrics Driven Natural Risk D RIVEN BY PS Q UORUM P UBLIC , V ERIFIABLE S OURCES PS Risk • Each Attribute • Each County Scores by • Weighted by IMPORTANCE Attribute recorded • Represented by a % Borders & Ports • Using actual data • Represented by a % 696 595 512 213 v7 12

Coverage Prioritization Tool 1 RANK candidates against precise, WEIGHTED Attributes, 2 objective County metrics decided by consensus W EIGHTING M ATRIX County County County County C OUNTY R ANKINGS A B C D Data Analytics % Impo % Importa tanc nce e by by Combined with Co County Ra ty Ranking ings s Critical Infrastructure Att Attribu ribute te objective assessments Stakeholder by Attribu by Attribute te based upon metrics Consensus-Driven engagement in front- Population Density and calculated end decision making Decisions Data Metrics Driven rankings Natural Risk D RIVEN BY PS Q UORUM P UBLIC , V ERIFIABLE S OURCES Produces result with PS Risk • Each Attribute • Each County Scores by • Weighted by IMPORTANCE strong stakeholder buy-in Attribute recorded • Represented by a % Borders & Ports • Using actual data • Represented by a % 696 595 512 213 Methodology produces COUNTY SCORES representing precisely relative values and a highly defendable baseline. v6 13

“Front End” Weighting Matrix • Step 1 – Decide Weightings by Category change The group creates percentages by STEP 1 - CHOOSE WEIGHTINGS BY CATEGORY these Public Safety Needs by County high level category, as example WEIGHT County Population Density 10% shows here. 30% Borders & Ports 30% Critical Infrastructure Natural Risk Areas 10% Public Safety Risk Areas 20% 100% • Step 2 – Decide Weightings by Sub-category Next, the group examines a single Borders & Ports 30% “sub - category”, repeating the same Mexican border (all but Risk Area)l, - linear mi, add 20% International Border coastline process at step 1. 20% Ports of Entry (Land) Number of border crossing (count by county) 30% Ports of Entry (Sea Ports) Number of ports Border Risk Areas 30% High vol, LE add'l, high activity This process continues until all 100% relevant attributes are weighted. v5 14

Mana Managed Gr ged Group Consens oup Consensus us Act Activi ivity ty Who Wants to Help Solve a Billion Dollar Challenge? RULE ULES • PS Practitioners on the call who can pay full attention and not have to drop off, are assigned as CONTRIBUTORS – Date, Section/Topic and Names recorded • In round robin sequence, each Contributor provides a prompt input into the spreadsheet: • Edit Attribute, OR • Insert a first ranking % OR • Change a entered ranking% OR • Change all the rankings OR • ADD Metric info, how to measure • ACCEPT • The section of the category is complete when entire group “ACCEPTS” – reaching consensus – Minimum Quorum = 3 • Record Scores in Master, move on to next category v6 15