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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL <br />MEETING DATE April 1, 1996 <br />TITLE SUBLEASE AGREEMENT WITH PACIFIC <br />C.S. 383 <br />9 <br />-17 <br />$aucauon gsr <br />BELL MOBILE SERVICES - FRENCH STREET <br />WATER TOWER <br />CLERK OF THE COUNCIL USE ONLY <br />Approved <br />E] As Recommended <br />L:7] As Amended (see Minutes) <br />E7] Ordinance on 1st Reading <br />Ell Ordinance on 2nd Reading <br />Implementing Resolution <br />0 Set Public Hearing For <br />Continued to: <br />FILE NUMBER(S): <br />Adopt a resolution approving a communications site sublease agreement with <br />Pacific Bell Mobile Services. <br />DISCUSSION <br />Since 1917, the City has held a lease from the Santa Ana Unified School District <br />for a triangular portion of the district's property at 1405 French Street, where <br />the City's water tower is located (Exhibit 1). Pacific Bell Mobile Services <br />(PBMC), a new telecommunications company, has approached the City in an effort <br />to identify transmission facility sites for its personal communication <br />technology. The water tower has been selected as a preferred site. <br />Considered to be the next wave beyond cellular phone technology, the system uses <br />antennas configured as rectangular boxes, approximately four and one -half feet <br />tall by one -half foot wide, which will be painted to match the tower and fit <br />within its vertical girder structure. They will therefore be less visible than <br />traditional dishes on poles or roof tops. Six of these ten -pound antennas will <br />be mounted on the tower. Additional facilities will be maintained within an <br />eighteen by twenty foot area at ground level under the tower. The proposed use <br />has been approved by the Public Works Agency. <br />The term of the sublease is five years with three five -year option periods if <br />elected by PBMC. Rent shall be $1,000 per month, with annual increases tied to <br />the change in the Consumer Price Index, not to exceed five percent annually. <br />This sublease is conditioned upon approval by the Santa Ana Unified School <br />District. <br />PBMC has agreed to advance rental payments equivalent to the cost of installing <br />the City's arts logo on the water tower, which will allow installation of the <br />1 <br />a <br />