AGENDA MEMORANDUM

Meeting Date:           March 14, 2011

From:                          Jim Lemberg – Manager, Communications Utility

Subject:                      Resolution authorizing an agreement with The School Board of Lake County, Florida under which the City will collocate communications equipment at School sites

Staff Recommendation:

Staff recommends approval of an agreement under which the City will collocate communications equipment at School sites.

Analysis:

By locating equipment away from its physical core (at City Hall), the Communications Utility can more economically provide managed communications services to its customers having locations in outlying communities such as Clermont, Eustis, Mount Dora and The Villages.  By using an existing customer’s sites to collocate such equipment, the Utility saves itself the cost of extending its network to collocation sites to which its fiber does not yet extend.

Options:

1.  Approve the resolution, or

2.  Such alternative action as the Commission may deem appropriate

Fiscal Impact: 

These amounts are not in the current fiscal budget, but will be offset by increased revenues that the Utility will realize as a result of collocating equipment at the sites

Submission Date and Time:    3/9/2011 5:42 PM____

Department: _IT/Communications  _____ Prepared by:  _JIM LEMBERG________                      Attachments:         Yes__X__   No ______ Advertised:   ____Not Required ___X___ Dates:   __________________________                      Attorney Review :       Yes_X__  No ____ _________________________________            Revised 6/10/04

Reviewed by: Dept. Head ________ Finance  Dept. ________JB________                                    Deputy C.M. ___________________                                          Submitted by: City Manager ___________________

Account No. _________________ Project No. ___________________ WF No. ______________________ Budget  ______________________ Available _____________________

RESOLUTION NO._______________

RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LEESBURG, FLORIDA, AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD OF LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDA UNDER WHICH THE CITY WILL COLLOCATE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT AT SCHOOL SITES, AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LEESBURG, FLORIDA:

            THAT the Mayor and City Clerk are hereby authorized to execute an agreement  with THE SCHOOL BOARD OF LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDA, whose address is 201 W. Burleigh Blvd., Tavares, FL  32778, under which the City would collocate communications equipment at School sites.

 THAT this resolution shall become effective immediately.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Commission of the City of Leesburg, Florida, at a regular meeting held the fourteenth day of March 2011.

                                                                            __________________________

                                                                             Mayor

ATTEST:

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City Clerk