Award of Bid No. ITN-CA-23-141 – Wireless EDGE Towers II, LLC – Lease of Real Property for Cell Tower at Starkey Ranch District Park Site – No Funding Required
What the county recorded
Staff recommendation
Approve
DispositionApproved
Approved Staff’s recommendation with Commissioner Bradford absent from the vote.
The source document
The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Dec 5, 2023
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The county’s minutes for Board of County Commissioners, Dec 5, 2023
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This case, across meetings
FAC-24-0067 in full →Heard once. FAC-24-0067 appears on no other agenda in the archive.
- Dec 5, 2023BoardR66▶Approvedthis item
What was said
Machine transcription of 6m of recording, with speaker names inferred from voice matching. 96% of 46 lines carry a name. It shows what was said, not what was decided, and both the words and the names can be wrong.
We have the Starkey cell tower.
Yeah. I don't I don't
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understand that's that's how they get their concerns fixed for the residents.
Or sixty six.
That's
how the town is.
Why Jack is fighting? Well it
it fixes their
concerns.
Yeah.
I don't think they understand what they're reaching.
Let me look at my calendar. I don't know.
Maybe Terry's going up on me.
It's it's because of a legal advertising issue, as we just said here.
They never asked for ad.
Hopefully there's no one here button.
Go. I have to leave, so I'm gonna get a call here in a second.
So this is uh R sixty six. This is the least.
I've got to have three members sitting here who
do. Okay. He's coming back.
You've got to do it. Yeah. Okay. Want me to go, Chairman? Yes. Go ahead. Okay. Andrew Baxter, Facilities Management Department. This is the lease for the cell tower at Starkey Ranch.
And uh let me bring you up to speed on where we are. So this is related to the P4 agreement on uh that we brought earlier this year that the school district has already approved. Uh what was going to be a agreement With a different carrier or a different provider. We went through several steps to get to that. Everything that's highlighted in green were the steps that were completed previously. We are now at this yellow step for make a decision on
this new solicitation based on this alternative site to relocate it at the park.
Oh, this isn't the hearing?
The previous location would have uh allowed the the sighting to be at approximately six hundred and twenty-five feet um from the school.
And the previous lease would have been with Vertex.
With the 2% increase or $600 a month per sublease. by going out and relocating this. We are now two thousand three hundred and forty eight feet from the nearest school building. and one thousand and four hundred feet from the nearest housing location. So we're much further away from the school. We're 3.75 times further away than previous. Okay. Uh this is we will be locating it basically
in the maintenance yard of the uh of the uh Starkey um park there and uh and uh This is where it's gonna be located. We have uh just kind of it's basically a twenty-foot sliver that we're able to utilize within the maintenance yard there. And by going out this uh with wireless edge Uh they were able to provide uh better rates. Same term, twenty seven year lease for
additional five op five year options. Um but the rent now is uh $2,251 per month with a 2.5% annual increase and $1,000 per month for per sublease plus a bonus of $35,000 for each sublease after the first sublease. So is that to the county? That's two that that will be to the P4 shared use.
Yep. Okay. So with that, that's uh where we are with the new lease and we recommend approval.
Anybody sign up? There's no one signed up for this.
This
is not a public item, it's just regular. Oh yeah. Thank you. Oh
yeah, that's we went back to regular. Uh move approval. And uh
uh but which mon which design are we doing? We're doing a monopole.
Um which will be uh just it'll be it's a stealth pole is what we we've done. None of the antennas will be on the outside. It'll just be a singular.
We've approved some without and they said no, no, it has to be on the outside, it heats up. But I've been done some research and they see don't let okay, staff, we're not gonna do those other ones anymore where the arrays are on the outside. So good job.
Thank you. All right. Second discussion. Okay, we've got a motion and a second and discussion. Yeah, it's uh great to see that no one's here compared to what we had before And we had sixteen hundred signatures. So uh I give staff credit in the provide us credit for working with us. Uh to me was
But at least the lost the concept.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We did. We We got got a a better deal than the school district. We got a better
deal, by that provider for not listening earlier. But it's been better for him. But uh I th but uh it's all good. think is is is as one of the residents said, as good as we're gonna get. So they're at peace with it, or I'm at peace with it.
Okay. Yeah. I've got not one email of complaint or anything.
Good job, Commissioner Starkey. Yeah,
yeah. So I got a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed, like, sign? Motion passed four zero. Thank you. Appreciate all
the staff and the county