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CITY OF BOULDER
CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
MEETING DATE: December 6, 2011
AGENDA TITLE: Consideration of a Motion to Approve an Option and Land
Lease Agreement with New Cingular Wireless PCS to build an addition to and lease
a portion of the addition at City of Boulder Fire Station Number 5 for placement of
a telecommunications facility on the property.
PRESENTERS
Jane S. Brautigam, City Manager
Paul J. Fetherston, Deputy City Manager
Larry Donner, Fire Chief
Frank Young, Deputy Fire Chief
Dave Hayes, Deputy Police Chief
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The city owns several radio sites in the c ity and the county, which have structures to
house the communications equipm ent and to wers for antennas for public safety
communications. The city coordinates the use of the sites with other em ergency
responders, including the county, the state, the Forest Serv ice, and ham radio operators
that facilitate e mergency communications, such as during the m ost recent “Dome” and
“Four Mile Canyon” fires.
New Cingular Wireless PCS has requested to bu ild an addition to, an d lease a portion of
the new addition, Fire Station Num ber 5 for placem ent of a t elecommunications facility
on the property. New Cingular W ireless PCS has agreed that its use would be
subordinate to all public safety use of th e communications of the city. W hile New
Cingular Wireless PCS’s use of the property is not directly public safety related, New
Cingular Wireless PCS is willing to build and then donate to the city an additio n to
Station Number 5. This addition will include a radio facility for the city’s police and fire
communications center and two storage units for the fire department. The Boulder Police
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