Title
Telecommunications Services and Interstate Telecommunications Services License with Crown Castle Fiber LLC (Ordinance S-48526)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to execute a nonexclusive, revocable license with Crown Castle Fiber LLC to construct, install, operate, maintain and use the public highways in the City of Phoenix in order to provide telecommunications services and interstate telecommunications services in, under, over, and across public rights-of-way in the City, subject to the terms and conditions contained in the license and Phoenix City Code. Further request the Licensee sign the license within 60 days of Council action, or this authorization will expire. There is no financial impact to the City for this license.
Report
Summary
Crown Castle NG West LLC has a Telecommunications Services and Interstate Telecommunications Services License with the City that expires on April 24, 2022. On June 27, 2019, a Certificate of Merger was filed with the state of Texas to merge Crown Castle NG West LLC into Crown Castle Fiber LLC, resulting in a name change. Crown Castle Fiber LLC is requesting to enter into a new license. The new license will be for a period of five years with an option for a one-time renewal, and will contain appropriate insurance and indemnification provisions, require a performance bond and a security fund, provide for terms of transfer and revocation, and provide for compensation for the commercial use of public rights-of-way while permitting the City to manage the rights-of-way.
Contract Term
The license is for a five-year Telecommunications Services and Interstate Telecommunications Services License with an option for a one-time renewal and will begin within 60 days of City Council approval.
Financial Impact
Licensee will pay an annual fee to the City based on a calculated formula using linear footage and the Consumer Price Index.
Concurrence/Previous Council Action
The City Council approved License 144890 on April 24, 2017 (Ordinance S-43002).
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Deputy City Manager Mario Paniagua and the Street Transportation Department.