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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />MARCH 17, 2020 <br />TITLE <br />APPROVE MUNICIPAL FACILITIES <br />LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH LOS <br />ANGELES SMSA LIMITED PARTNERSHIP <br />AND APPROVE AN APPROPRIATION <br />ADJUSTMENT <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 111 Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2ntl Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />/s/Kristine Ridge FILE NUMBER <br />CITY MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />1. Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with Los Angeles SMSA Limited <br />Partnership for the use of certain City facilities for a ten-year period beginning April 1, 2020, <br />and expiring March 31, 2030, with provisions for two automatic five-year extensions, subject <br />to non -substantive changes approved by the City Manager and City Attorney. <br />2. Approve an appropriation adjustment recognizing anticipated revenues from the application <br />fees received from the implementation of the Municipal Facilities License Agreement in the <br />amount of $50,000 into the Public Works Revenues, Small Cell Application Fee for City <br />Facilities revenue account (no. 01117002-53740) and appropriate the same amount to <br />Public Works City Facilities License Agreement, Contract Services — Professional <br />expenditure account (no. 01117605-62300). <br />DISCUSSION <br />In response to telecommunications advancements and increased consumer demand for network <br />data capacity, wireless providers have increasingly sought to place small cell antennas and <br />equipment on existing infrastructure located within the public right-of-way. Typically, a small cell <br />antenna is attached to a streetlight or utility pole, or placed mid -span on wires between utility poles. <br />Wireless providers place these small cells in locations that are densely populated in order to <br />provide additional network capacity, such as in downtown areas and around heavily used traffic <br />corridors. The small cell antennas are also deployed in areas that cannot be effectively served by <br />a traditional macro cell. <br />Los Angeles SMSA Limited Partnership seeks to enter into an agreement (Exhibit 1) with the City <br />for the installation of small cell antennas on City -owned street lights. This will increase network <br />and data capacity for their subscribers in the areas surrounding the antennas. <br />The agreement applies only to wireless telecommunications installations on City facilities in the <br />public right-of-way. Installations on City facilities not in the public right-of-way (such as cell <br />20B-1 <br />