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Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract, and any necessary documents and subsequent amendments, with Citizens Telecommunications Company of California, Inc., dba Frontier Communications (Frontier), to occupy, place, and maintain attachments on Frontier poles and use conduits for the purpose of extending telecommunication services to the Santa Fe Avenue Synchronization Enhancement Project, in an annual amount not to exceed $20,000, for a period of ten years. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to enter into a contract with Citizens Telecommunications Company of California, Inc. dba Frontier Communications (Frontier), for pole attachments and conduit occupancy. This agreement will allow the City to leverage Frontier’s conduits, ducts, innerducts, manholes/handholes, and poles west of Atlantic Avenue in the City’s limits to extend fiber network infrastructure to the Santa Fe Avenue corridor to support the Santa Fe Avenue Synchronization Enhancement Project (Project), a project under the City’s Traffic Signal Synchronization Program. This Project aligns with the City’s fiber network and digital inclusion initiatives.
The Public Works (PW) Department has received funding from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to perform capital improvements and traffic signal synchronization along the Santa Fe Avenue corridor. The Project is due for completion in December 2021 and completion is dependent on installing fiber across Anaheim Street and across Wardlow Road to the City’s fiber infrastructure. Frontier already has conduits crossing the Los Angeles River and Interstate 710, which have previously been used by the City, that provide the most direct access to the Project location. This agreement will enable the City to use the conduits to extend the City’s fiber network to the Project site to ensure timely completion.
On March 4, 2021, the PW, Technology an...
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