Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a License Agreement with Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless ("Verizon"), a Delaware General Partnership, that will Allow Verizon to Place Certain Specified Antenna Facilities and Equipment on the City's Elevated Water Storage Tank Located at 1800 W. University Drive, McKinney, Texas 75069, (the "EST") and within the EST Compound in Accordance with the License Agreement
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Operational Excellence
MEETING DATE: January 3, 2023
DEPARTMENT: Public Works Department
CONTACT: Ryan Gillingham, P.E., Public Works Director
Alan Lathrom, Assistant City Attorney
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
* Authorization of City Manager to execute a License Agreement between Verizon and the City of McKinney
ITEM SUMMARY:
* The proposed License Agreement between Verizon and the City of McKinney provides Verizon a license to install certain specified antenna facilities and equipment on the City's elevated water storage tank located at 1800 W. University Drive, McKinney, Texas 75069. The proposed License Agreement also licenses Verizon to place an equipment facility within the EST compound together with such other equipment as is necessary to the proper use of the antenna facilities. Verizon's installation and replacement of and access to the antenna facilities and equipment on the EST and the equipment facility and equipment within the compound around the base of the EST is controlled by and through the License Agreement.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
* The City of McKinney entered an automatically renewing lease agreement with Verizon that permitted Verizon to install equipment on the City's EST and a supporting equipment facility inside the fenced-in EST compound to support Verizon's provision of cellular communications to Verizon's customers some twenty or twenty-five years ago.
* Different lease agreements were entered into by the City with Verizon and other cellular companies o...
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