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Authorize a Pole Attachment Agreement with Verizon, Spectrum, Charter Communications, and Frontier Communications
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RESOLUTION INTRODUCED BY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TO AUTHORIZE A POLE ATTACHMENT AGREEMENT WITH VERIZON, SPECTRUM, CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS, AND FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS
WHEREAS, Sullivan County ("the County") has been recommended for an awarded nearly $30 million of Municipal Infrastructure Program (MIP) funding for deployment of broadband infrastructure throughout the County via the Catskill Open Access Network Project ("Project"), and
WHEREAS, while most of the fiberoptic infrastructure to support the Project will be run underground, there are some instances in which the infrastructure must be deployed above ground on existing utility poles; and
WHEREAS, Verizon and Charter may wholly or jointly own, with the Electric Utility Company, a number of poles on which telecommunications infrastructure will be mounted and the County may have to seek permits, to the extent it may lawfully do so, for the placement of cables, equipment, facilities and attachments on these poles; and
WHEREAS, a pole attachment agreement is required to be executed between the County and the pole owners.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Sullivan County Legislature authorizes the County Manager to execute a Pole Attachment Agreement with Verizon and Charter, in such form as the County Attorney shall approve, in order to further the Catskill Open Access Network Project; and
BE IT FURTHER ESOLVED, that should the MIP funding be terminated, the County shall not be...
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