Pai Names New Vice Chair, State Government Member of BDAC
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai added another state government official to the Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee and named a new vice chair, a city official. BDAC has been criticized for having too little local and state representation (see 1801230043). David Young…
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now is vice chairman of the full BDAC. Young, right-of-way manager for Lincoln, Nebraska, was already on BDAC and replaces in that position Kelleigh Cole, who left as the director of the Utah Broadband Outreach Center and resigned from the BDAC last week, the FCC said. Young represents the National League of Cities on BDAC. With one state official gone, another is coming on. Pai appointed Danna MacKenzie, a member of the BDAC’s Removing State and Local Regulatory Barriers working group, to be on the BDAC as a representative of the Minnesota Office of Broadband Development, the FCC said. MacKenzie is “taking on this important responsibility at a critical time for the BDAC as the Harmonization working group resolves differences between the State Model Code and Municipal Model Code to ensure that the model codes are harmonized with each other and with the BDAC’s prior recommendations,” Pai said. In April, Young replaced Sam Liccardo, mayor of San Jose, California, on BDAC. Liccardo resigned, saying the committee had too little local representation (see 1801250049).