Title:
Title
Reimbursement from Sprint for Radio Re-Banding Project
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FileID
File ID: 2019-00305
Location
Location: Citywide
Recommendation:
Recommendation
Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager or the City Manager's designee to: 1) accept reimbursement payments from Nextel West Corp. ("Sprint") in an additional amount of $291,569 for the City's Radio Re-Banding Project (A07000100); and 2) increase revenue and expenditure budgets in the Radio Re-Banding Project (A07000100) by $291,569 (Fund 3702).
Contact: Darin Arcolino, IT Operations Manager, (916) 808-0403; Ignacio Estevez, IT Manager, (916) 808-7349; Maria MacGunigal, Chief Information Officer, (916) 808-7998, Information Technology Department
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Presenter: None
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Resolution
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: As part of a nationwide federal initiative to reduce radio interference to public safety communications, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") has ordered the 800MHz radio frequency be re-band/reprogrammed to protect public safety communications.
The FCC adopted stringent new rules that required those causing interference in the 800 MHz radio frequency to correct such interference. On February 7, 2005, Nextel West Corp. ("Sprint") announced their acceptance of the FCC's 800 MHz reconfiguration order and agreed to fund $2.8 billion dollars to reconfigure the 800 MHz spectrum throughout the country, including funding the City's efforts to reconfigure the spectrum.
On May 15, 2007, the City adopted Resolution 2007-270 to establish the Radio Re-Banding Project AB96 (later renamed A07000100) and authorize the City to accept from Sprint external project funding reimbursement in the amount of $667,331 for the estimated costs to the City to re-band/reprogram and reduce radio interference to the City's public safety communications. Resolution 2007-270 also authorized the City Manager or designee to execute an Inter-Gover...
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