Item No: 4.C.4.

Meeting Date: July 9, 2012

From: Jim Lemberg – Manager, Communications Utility

Subject: Resolution authorizing execution of a Fiber Connection Schedule with Level 3 Communications, LLC.

Staff Recommendation:

Staff recommends approval of a resolution authorizing execution of a Fiber Connection Schedule with Level 3 Communications, LLC.

Analysis:

The City’s Communications Utility is establishing a redundant connection to the Internet at Level 3’s network Point-of-Presence in Tavares, Florida. Level 3’s internal business processes, driven in large part by Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements, require documentation specifying details and fees associated with such interconnection with other parties’ networks. As detailed in a separate agenda memo for this Commission meeting, the fees stated in this Schedule were effectively approved by Commission at its April 9, 2012 meeting when Commission approved a separate Customer Order with Level 3.

Options:

1. Approve the resolution, or

2. Such alternative action as the Commission may deem appropriate

Fiscal Impact:

The Schedule calls for monthly fees of six-hundred dollars. Those amounts are included in the Communications Utility’s current budget, and will be included in the Utility’s budgets for coming fiscal years. The Utility will cover those fees and associated operating costs through the revenues it earns from selling Internet bandwidth to its customers.

Submission Date and Time: 7/3/2012 6:48 PM____

Department: __IT/Communications___ Prepared by: __Jim Lemberg_______ Attachments: Yes_X_ No _____ Advertised: ____Not Required _X___ Dates: ____n/a__________________ Attorney Review : Yes_X_ No ___ _________________________________ Revised 6/10/04

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

Account No. 045-5026-539-3410 Project No. n/a WF No. n/a Budget 132,936 Available 54,094

RESOLUTION NO._______________

RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LEESBURG, FLORIDA AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE A FIBER CONNECTION SCHEDULE WITH LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC STATING DETAILS OF A NETWORK INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN CITY AND LEVEL 3; 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 a Fiber Connection Schedule with LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC, whose address is 1025 ELDORADO BLVD., BROOMFIELD, CO 80021, for a network interconnection via optical fibers; and

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 ninth day of July 2012.

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Mayor

ATTEST:

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City Clerk