About Us

ECFiber is a joint venture of 23 Vermont Towns, building and operating a municipally-owned universal, open-access, fiber-optic telecommunications network.

Office Location:

415 Waterman Road
Royalton, VT 05068
802-763-2262
info@ecfiber.net

ECFiber is committed to openness, transparency, and assuring that our project is managed in a business-like manner but with community-based values.

How we are governed:

ECFiber is an interlocal contract amongst those towns who voted at Town Meeting in 2008, to join. The Selectboard of every member town and the City Council of Montpelier, name a delegate and alternate to the EC Fiber Governing Board. The Governing Board adopts by-laws and operating policies and procedures, and elects an Executive Committee to handle matters that may arise between monthly meetings of the full Governing Board. Monthly Governing Board meetings are generally held at Vermont Law School, Oakes Hall, starting at 7 pm on the second Tuesday of every month. Those meetings are open to the public.

The Executive Committee

Vice Chair: Irv Thomae, Norwich
Voting Member: Stephen Willbanks, Strafford
Voting Member: Janet Zug, Tunbridge
Voting Member: Jim Masland, Thetford
Secretary (non-voting): Dan Leavitt, Barnard
Treasurer (non-voting): John Roy, Vershire

ECF Holding LLC

ECFiber has also created a wholly-owned subsidiary, ECF Holding LLC, in order to be eligible for loan financing under the federal government’s various broadband programs. ECF Holding LLC is a manager-managed, limited-liability company whose managers are members of ECFiber’s Executive Committee, ex officio (new Executive Committee members automatically become LLC managers).

Technical Planning and Operations

ECFiber has entered a Design-Build-Operate-Transfer agreement with ValleyNet, Inc., a non-profit 501c3 operating company. ValleyNet hires the staff and enters contracts with outside vendors as needed to implement the ECFiber project. Under the DBOT, large contracts are subject to review by the ECFiber Executive Committee.

ValleyNet principals

Stan Williams, ValleyNet Chair
Tim Nulty, Project Chief Executive Officer
Leslie Nulty - Project Coordinator