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Resolution to Approve License Agreement with New Par, d/b/a Verizon Wireless, to Erect and Use Telecommunications Equipment on the Manchester Water Tower Site
Memorandum
New Par, a Delaware partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless By: Verizon Wireless (VAW) LLC, its general partner (“Verizon”), has asked to install antennae and related facilities on the Manchester Water Tower site and has agreed to the terms of a license agreement that would require an annual fee starting at $23,289.69 for the remainder of the first year, beginning upon execution of the agreement and running through June 30, 2008, increasing to $32,288.10 on July 1, 2008, then escalating at the rate of 4% per year starting July 1, 2009, and every July 1 thereafter. The initial term of the license agreement is for approximately five years, ending June 30, 2012, with options to renew for four additional five-year terms.
Verizon is the fifth provider to locate equipment on the Manchester Water Tower site. Its antennae and related facilities will be located on the water tower, with an equipment shelter at the base of the water tower. Because the existing antenna cables already were crowding the tubes inside the tower, the City needed new tubes to be installed inside the tower. Verizon has agreed to install two new tubes inside the tower, and also has agreed to paint the inside of the water tank. Verizon is reserving one third of the capacity of the tubes for its cables. One fourth of the tube capacity is reserved for the City to use. Although the City has agreed not to use its reserved capacity for a competing provider that wishes to locate on the tower for the first time, Verizon has agreed that the City may use the capacity to relocate the cables of a provider for equipment that is already located on the tower, and may use the capacity for the wires or cables of 20/20 or its successor or assign for the purpose of implementing the Wireless Washtenaw Initiative. If another provider wishes...
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