{"id":94205,"date":"2025-10-23T22:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/94205\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T22:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:37:07","slug":"kirtland-city-council-approves-fiber-internet-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/94205\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirtland City Council approves fiber internet contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kirtland City Council has approved a contract for Chagrin Valley Gig<\/a> to install a new fiber internet service in the city.<\/p>\n

Council approved the agreement 5-0 at its Oct. 20 meeting, with council members Sue Grazia and Eric Ziegler absent.<\/p>\n

The 25-year agreement is mostly the same as the version originally presented to council in September<\/a>. Amendments included new language about CVG\u2019s responsibilities when moving conduits or notifying property owners about upcoming work.<\/p>\n

Under the agreement, CVG will install a fiber-optic internet service in Kirtland, providing minimum upload and download speeds of 1 gigabit per second on standard service plans.<\/p>\n

After the first resident is connected, CVG will offer discounted pricing and no installation costs for at least two years. Its GigaStream plan will cost $132.50 per month, while the company will also offer a more expensive plan as well as cheaper plans at lower speeds.<\/p>\n

The company will cover the expenses of designing, engineering and operating an underground-first network for city residents and businesses. The agreement says CVG will make reasonable efforts to provide substantial completion on the network four-and-a-half years after the company starts groundwork or a year passes from the agreement going into effect, whichever happens first.<\/p>\n

The contract includes internet service at Kirtland City Hall, the Kirtland Community Center and both city fire stations. CVG will also provide a connection for intersection monitoring purposes at the intersections of Route 6 with Route 306 (Euclid-Chardon and Chillicothe roads), Route 615 with Route 306 and Joseph Street with Chillicothe Road.<\/p>\n

CVG will also have a 25-year lease to use property at 8480 Euclid-Chardon Road.<\/p>\n

Council requested proposals<\/a> for a new fiber internet service in 2023. The recent city legislation described high-speed broadband internet as a \u201ccritical need\u201d for Kirtland\u2019s quality of life.<\/p>\n

CVG is operated by Ohio Gig<\/a>. The parent company operates community internet services throughout the state, and a news release said it serves more than 5,800 subscribers with more than 700 miles of internet lines in Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirtland City Council has approved a contract for Chagrin Valley Gig to install a new fiber internet service…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[63070,63071,63073,85,123,46,63069,63072,63074,125],"class_list":["post-94205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-approves-fiber-internet-contract","tag-chagrin-valley-gig","tag-gigastream-plan","tag-il","tag-internet","tag-israel","tag-kirtland-city-council","tag-minimum-upload-and-download-speeds-of-1-gigabit-per-second-on-standard-service-plans","tag-ohio-gig","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}