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Minutes of a Meeting of The North Olmsted Parks and Recreation Commission April 4, 2005 REPORT OF THE SAFETY DIRECTOR Capital Paving of North Olmsted Park Mr. Jesse reported that the City made a proposal and a bid to the County for a block grant relating to the paving of the park area, including the Senior Center. That was rejected about six weeks ago. All of the information done to prepare that proposal is relevant and can still be utilized to go to the next level with a view for the City to do it. Mr. Jesse spoke with Mayor th O’Grady about the matter today, April 4. He is very interested, as well as Carrie Copfer, in putting together a proposal that would have the Service Department do the entire project as far as bond borrowing is concerned. As expressed to Ted (Disalvo) and the Mayor, Mr. Jesse thinks that it is important that the interest in allocating some of that cost to the Rec Department is understandable, but at the same time there should be some kind of remedy to cover that. There is nothing in the Rec capital budget nor is there anything in the operating budget to fund the paving of that area. There must be an income vehicle to support it. For safety purposes alone, the paving must be done this year. There are many pot holes outside the senior area alone, as well as in the access road areas. At a minimum, this project will be repaired; ideally, it will be totally redone. There is enough base material that will help for a finished product. Pending Cell Phone Tower Contracts The Safety Director moved on to the pending cell phone tower contracts. One of the agreements made in 1997 was to have wireless carriers in the City with towers. The City was given the privilege of towers with limited access on existing buildings; that was it. An extension of that was that a tower was put down on Clague and I-480 on the ODOT right of way. The Safety Director was given the responsibility of negotiating those contracts in that realm. Initially, the master lease that was done for the Clague Road Park Tower was with AT&T. They paid an initial $75,500 to the City for a ground lease for that tower in addition to building the tower, and then they started out at $500 a month in rent, which will come up to $700 a month at the five-year renewal. Subsequent to that, Sprint went on as a co-locator in 2002, and they came on at, the Safety Director believed, $600 a month. They have a three percent per year escalation in their lease agreement. That is the amount of money the City gets. The total lease that they pay is twice that, being $1,200 a month. Since then, a company called Fiber Tower contacted Mr. Jesse in regard to putting microwave dishes on that tower at a different elevation. There is a 90 foot platform and a 120 foot platform. Fiber Tower is an exclusive vendor to AT&T from San Francisco; normally, they just go in for free and come in as a side provider to AT&T. After discussion and research, Mr. Jesse told them that as far as he was concerned Fiber Tower was another locator. It may not be a full locator, but it is something else that is taking space on that tower that could potentially cause the City not to have a full locator on that pole. On that basis, there will be a presentation made to Council tomorrow night on first reading for $300 a month that would be part of their fee to come on (at Clague). Page 6