Presenter
Presented by Mr. Peduto
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Resolution providing for an Agreement or Agreements by and between the City of Pittsburgh ("City") and the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, a not-for-profit corporation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ("Partnership"), for the purpose of supporting the Partnership's effort to construct and operate a wireless communications network in the City's central business district.
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WHEREAS, the City, in its central core ("Central Business District" or "CBD") owns, operates, and maintains street lights, street light poles, arms, and other related equipment and land rights beneath the City's street light poles or arms ("Street Lights");
WHEREAS, the City has the ability to control the conditions under which third parties are permitted to contact its Street Lights and street lights attached to street light arms attached to utility poles;
WHEREAS, the Partnership desires to construct and operate a wireless telecommunications network (the "System") in the CBD for the purpose of increasing the attractiveness of the CBD for economic development, tourism, and other purposes;
WHEREAS, the Partnership has selected a vendor to construct, manage and maintain its System, and the Partnership's selected vendor may desire to attach the Partnership's radios, amplifiers, and transmission components of the System (the "Communications Equipment") to the City's Street Lights, in order to facilitate the Partnership's objectives;
WHEREAS, the Partnership has also included as part of the System certain equipment and broadband internet access for other non-profits as part of an effort to increased broadband internet access to lower income individuals, small non-profit organizations and community development groups;
WHEREAS, the Partnership has also included as part of the System certain mobile equipment and broadband internet access for the City to permit the City to conduct some projects associated with the use of mobile wireless internet access;
WHEREAS, the City desires to support the Partnership in its efforts to make the City's central business district more attractive to businesses, residents, and visitors;
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1:
The Mayor and the Director and Chief Information Officer of City Information Systems, are hereby authorized to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, approved in form and substance by the Mayor, Director and Chief Information Officer of City Information Systems, and the City Solicitor, for the purpose of supporting the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership's wireless communications network in the City's central business district for a period of five (5) years.