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• Staff time – Minimal additional staff time will be required to oversee the terms of
this agreement.
• Other – A dding an additional radio facility broadens the ba se of radio
communications available to all emergenc y responders serving the city and its
surrounding public safety agencies in the event of an emergency. This option and
lease agreement greatly reduces the costs to the city in building a new radio
facility in the north Boulder area.
BACKGROUND
The city owns the fire station located at 4365 19 th Street (Boulder Fire Station Number
5).
The City has communications sites at Gunba rrel, Chautauqua, Betasso Reservoir, and
Golden West Manor. The police dep artment has been working diligen tly to address r isk
factors in the police communica tions systems that were identified in a 2009 report. This
work has included identifying a dditional sites to further enhance the city’s infrastructure
for providing public safety communications and services, replacing outdated equipm ent,
making improvements to protect the communica tions sites from tampering or acts of
terrorism, correcting frequency licensing i ssues between the city and the cou nty,
eliminating incompatible uses, identifying ownership of all equipm ent at the city radio
sites, and installing equipm ent to separ ate other users so that acc ess to the c ity’s
communications equipment is limited to city or emergency personnel. These efforts also
include entering into formal leases to clarif y the city’s priority in the use of frequencies
or equipment at the radio site.
New Cingular Wireless PCS has asked for an option and land use agreem ent to build an
addition to this property in exchange for a 20 -year lease to lo cate its equipment in a
portion of the addition. New Cingular Wireless PCS will pay the full cost of this addition
that will also include a radio facility for the city’s police and fire communications center
and two storage units for the fire departm ent. In addition, New Cingul ar Wireless PCS
has agreed to pay m onthly rent of $1,750 per month, escalating 3% (com pounded) each
year, to the city for the 20-year term of the lease. If this option and land lease agreement
is approved by council, staff anticipate s that New Cingular W ireless PCS will
immediately begin the planning and permitting process for the addition.
The proposed option and land lease agreem ent is Attachment A. In addition to norm al
lease terms, the proposed lease includes seve ral items related to the police and fire
department’s desire to protec t its priority use of the equipment and radio frequencies at
the site. These terms include:
• New Cingular W ireless PCS’s use is subordinate to the use by all other
emergency and public safety communications of the city.
• New Cingular Wireless PCS may not make any changes or m odifications to its
use of frequencies at the site without the approval of the city.
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