City of Alexandria, Virginia
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
TO: THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL
FROM: RASHAD M. YOUNG, CITY MANAGER /s/
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Consideration of a License Agreement with Coxcom LLC., to Install Conduit and Fiber Optic Cable in the Public Rights-Of-Way.
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ISSUE: Whether to approve a five-year license agreement with CoxCom, LLC., to authorize the installation of conduits and fiber optic cable in the City of Alexandria's ("City") public rights-of-way.
RECOMMENDATION: That City Council approve the attached five year license agreement with CoxCom, LLC., and authorize the City manager to execute the license agreement and to take any other actions that are necessary to implement the agreement.
DISCUSSION: CoxCom, LLC. ("Cox") is the second largest telecommunications provider in Virginia, and has provided a broad range of telecommunications services in the City's neighboring jurisdictions such as Fairfax County, the cities of Fairfax and Falls Church and the towns of Herndon and Vienna. Cox seeks this license to provide telecommunications services, not cable television services, to healthcare facilities located along the City's rights-of-way and to industrial medical business parks within the City. Due to the critical, secure, and confidential nature of healthcare telecommunications, Cox seeks to construct an approximately five (5) mile fiber optic ring that will utilize Cox conduits and fibers to deliver these services.
Cox's proposed route is underground and relies on a "stitch-bore" type construction, whereby small access holes (typically two feet square) are made in the public rights-of way and from these holes the conduit is driven underground to the next hole location (typically 1,000 to 1,500 feet away or at the next intersection, whichever is closer). This fiber optic ring generally w...
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