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SUMMARY OF UTILITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING - AUGUST 11, 1988
Meeting held in Council Caucus room at 4:30 PM. All members
present except 3im Hallett. Staff present: Dave Flodstrom, Craig
Knutson, Steve Hursh, Sheila Hardy, Richard French, and Gary
Leaf.
Issues:
1. Selection of Consultant for PCB Cleanup: Consensus to
continue to negotiate with Kennedy-3enks. Feeling that the
price, although it seems high, is acceptable if we can get them
to increase their liability. If liability issues cannot be
resolved to the satisfaction of City Attorney and Light Dept. we
will begin negotiating with the second choice firm, Brown and
Caldwell. City Attorney felt that we can go back to the original
consultant if the second also Droves too expensive.
The consensus was to drop NTI involvement in the first phase and
do the surveying in house.
Anticipate taking the consultant agreement to Council on
September 6.
2. Pole Rental Fees for Telecable: PA Telecable has been
purctlased by Northland Communications Inc. Pole rental agreement
should go to Council September 6 or at the latest September 20 in
order to be in place prior to completion of the sale on
October
Three methodologies for calculating pole rental fees were
discussed. Consensus was to use a formula based on that of the
FCC but with a 14% use ratio. This is based on an assumption of
14 useable feet per pole and telecable using 2/14 of that or
about !4% which comes out to a $6.60 per pole annual rental fee.
The committee favored negotiating a 3 to 5 year rental agreement.
3. Consultant for Monitoring Telecable Franchise: Committee
recommeuded hiring 38 Cable Communications Consultants after
obtaining more information to determine appropriate fee.
Meeting tape on file with City Clerk.