Title
An Ordinance approving the award of an agreement for the lease of city fiber optic strands between the City of Lee's Summit and the Lee's Summit R7 School District and authorizing the Mayor to execute an agreement for the same. (F&BC 2/3/25)
Body
Issue/Request:
An Ordinance approving the award of an Agreement for the Lease of City Fiber Optic Strands between the City of Lee's Summit and the Lee's Summit R7 School District and Authorizing the Mayor to execute an agreement for the same.
Key Issues:
A. The District owns, operates and maintains a fiber network in the District's service area to provide network communications between its buildings. The District desires to establish new network connections within the City. In order to accomplish this, the District wishes to lease unused fiber optic strands from the City.
B. The City owns certain underground fiber optic cable, along with necessary handholes and manholes for access, located within the boundaries of the city of Lee's Summit consisting of as few as one and as many as two unused strands of fiber optic ("City Fiber").
C. The City desires to lease two unused fiber optic strands that run from Douglas and Tudor to the Lee's Summit Airport Hangar 2 shown in Exhibit A, including access rights to the handholes and manholes at Douglas and Tudor to the District for the use of the District's network.
D. The City also desires to permit the District to connect its fiber network in the handholes and manholes at Douglas and Tudor for its network purposes.
E. Political Subdivisions may enter into contracts for mutual benefit under Missouri law as provided for in Section 70.220, RSMo, provided such agreement is approved by a majority of the governing board of each political subdivision as required by Section 70.300, RSMo.
Proposed City Council Motion:
FIRST MOTION: I move for second reading of An Ordinance approving the award of an agreement for the lease of city fiber optic strands between the City of Lee's S...
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