Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a License Agreement with Crown Castle NG West, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, for the non-exclusive use of City-owned properties for wireless telecommunications facilities for a ten-year term.  (Districts 1,2)
Thank you. I think we're just going to keep going. Is there only public comment on this item saying no members, please cast your vote. Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Romo. Number 24, please report. From Public Works recommendation to execute a license agreement with Crown Castle and G. West for the nonexclusive use of city owned properties, for wireless telecommunications facilities for a ten year term District one and two. Thank you. There is a brief staff report on this. Craig Beck. Good evening, Vice Member, Members of the City Council. Just real quickly. We're excited to bring this item before you this evening. The city staff has been working diligently with the telecommunications industry to bring forward small cell. And as you know, many people are using smartphones these days, mobile web browsing, video streaming, and that has led to the need for more data. The telecommunication companies are trying to address this by filling gaps in their cell sites with micro cell. And what that really means is they're they're asking the city to use our assets, primarily our street light poles, to place antennas and equipment that will allow them to have these facilities in place. We have worked we have a number of applications pending. The first application is before you this evening with a license agreement with Crown Castle. Crown Castle will install the equipment and essentially lease it to an operator like an AT&T or Verizon. One thing we would like to do to clarify the recommended action before you this evening is that this particular item is for 21 city owned sites. I want to make sure that we have that clarification in place, because it is likely that will we will we will be bringing additional Crown Castle applications to you in the future . And so this particular license agreement is for those 21 sites. The sites are primarily located. If you look at Exhibit A, they are down in our city's waterfront. So Shoreline, seaside, etc., primarily, they're down in the waterfront. I would add that your staff is working closely, both planning and building and public works, to bring forward a master license agreement that would help streamline the entire licensing process for the telecommunications company companies plural. We do have multiple companies that have filed applications that staff is working with. We anticipate that that master license agreement will come before council, hopefully before the end of this calendar year. That concludes the staff report. Thank you, Mr. Beck. If there's no objection, we'll just go to public comment. Any public comment on this item saying no members, please cast your vote. Councilwoman Price. Motion carries.