Title
Agenda Item:
Ordinance Granting a Telecommunications Master Permit to Electric Lightwave LLC (Integra Holdings)
Body
Issue:
Should the City grant a Telecommunications Master Permit to Integra Holdings for the provision of telecommunications services to persons or areas within the City of Olympia?
Staff Contact:
Tom Hill, Building Official, Department of Community Planning and Development, 360.753.8486.
Presenter(s):
Tom Hill, Building Official, Permit and Inspection Services Manager
City Manager's Recommendation:
Move to approve the Ordinance on first reading and forward to second reading.
Background and Analysis:
The City Council held a public hearing on the recommended ordinance, Tuesday, September 18, 2012. No one testified.
The following background and analysis was provided for the September 18 Public Hearing -
OMC 11.06.010 states that a Telecommunications Master Permit shall be required of any service provider or other person who seeks to provide telecommunications service to any person or area in the City and who desires to construct, install, operate, maintain, or otherwise locate Facilities in, upon, under, over, or across any right-of-way of the City.
OMC 11.02.020 defines a Master Permit as "the agreement in whatever form whereby a city or town may grant to give general permission to a service provider to enter, use, and occupy the right-of-way for the purpose of locating telecommunication facilities." Telecommunications service is defined as "the transmission of information by wire, radio, optical cable, electromagnetic, or other similar means for hire, sale, or resale to the general public." Information is defined as knowledge or intelligence represented by any form of writing, signs, signals, pictures, sounds, or any other symbols.
Intergra Holding applied for a Telecommunications Master Permit on January 27, 2011 on behalf of Electric Lightwave, LLC (ELI), who had a Master Permit with the City which expired May 20, 1997.
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