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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: September 28, 2020 <br />Resolution - Council <br />Agenda Section:File Number:20-413 CONSENT CALENDAR <br />Agenda Number: <br />TO:City Council <br />FROM:Jeff Kay <br />City Manager <br />BY:Jeff Kay <br />City Manager <br />FINANCE REVIEW:Susan Hsieh <br />Finance Director <br />TITLE:RESOLUTION of the City of San Leandro City Council to Approve a Master <br />License Agreement with Verizon Wireless for Small Cell Pole Attachment <br />Installations and Approving and Authorizing the City Manager to Enter <br />Substantively Similar Agreements with Other Providers <br />WHEREAS, the City of San Leandro owns streetlight poles, traffic signal poles, safety <br />poles, and other poles (each, a “City Pole”) within the public right-of-way; and <br />WHEREAS, Verizon Wireless, a wireless service provider requested permission to <br />deploy new small-cell facilities on City Poles that will enhance private wireless service throughout <br />the community; and <br />WHEREAS, under existing federal and state law, the City is not precluded from <br />negotiating agreements to regulate private wireless telecommunications facilities in the public <br />right-of-way; and <br />WHEREAS, approving a Master License Agreement for Small Cell Pole Attachment <br />Installations (“MLA”) would allow the City to exert its authority over these facilities, including the <br />authority to regulate the aesthetic qualities of the facilities and the appropriateness of the <br />equipment within each neighborhood; and <br />WHEREAS, the proposed MLA with Verizon Wireless maintains uniform terms and <br />conditions applicable to wireless facilities installed on City-owned poles; and <br />WHEREAS, the proposed MLA would not directly grant any rights to use City Poles, but <br />rather establishes the procedures, terms and conditions under which licensee can obtain Pole <br />Licenses according to the City's Encroachment Permit process; and <br />WHEREAS, the City negotiated the terms of the proposed MLA with Verizon Wireless; <br />and <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 9/23/2020 <br />267