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File #: 2006-0300    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 4/11/2006 In control: Committee on General Services, Technology & the Arts
On agenda: Final action: 5/2/2006
Enactment date: 5/2/2006 Enactment #: 275
Effective date: 5/11/2006    
Title: 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.
Indexes: AGREEMENTS
Attachments: 1. 2006-0300.doc, 2. 2006-0300 ATTACH 1; RFP.doc, 3. 2006-0300 ATTACH 2; Presentation.ppt, 4. 2006-0300 ATTACH 3; targeted email list.doc
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 mobil...

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