TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary for three new Communications Site Leases with New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company that is a wholly-owned, indirect subsidiary of AT&T, Inc., as successor by assignment by the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System (LA-RICS), for the continued operation and maintenance of wireless telecommunication antennas and accessory equipment located on City of Long Beach (City)-owned Property located at Fire Station 5, Fire Station 12, and Long Beach Police Department Headquarters as replacement agreements for Site Access Agreement Nos. 33910 and 33911 with LA-RICS supporting the Public Safety Broadband Network. (Districts 1,4,9)
DISCUSSION
On March 17, 2015, the City Council authorized Site Access Agreement Nos. 33910 and 33911 (Site Access Agreements) with the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System (LA-RICS) to install network antennas on existing City-owned communication infrastructure to support the Public Safety Broadband Network. The Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Communications Department coordinated and facilitated the Site Access Agreements with LA-RICS, which is an integrated system serving the Los Angeles County region through voice and data radio communications systems. LA-RICS is made up of two independent systems: the Public Safety Broadband Network Long-Term Evolution (LTE- data) and the Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems. The City currently has LA-RICS LTE-data systems atop three (3) City-owned public safety facilities at Fire Station 5, Fire Station 12, and the Long Beach Police Department Headquarters (collectively “Communications Sites”) (Attachments).
In 2021, the LTE-data system was assigned from LA-RICS to a third-party cellular operator, New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC, a wholly-owned, indirect subsidiary of AT&T, Inc. (AT&T), which then assumed contractual responsibility for the maint...
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