City of Alexandria, Virginia
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: MARCH 11, 2019
TO: THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL
FROM: MARK B. JINKS, CITY MANAGER /s/
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Public Hearing and Consideration of a Renewed Five-Year License Agreement with Cox Virginia Telcom, LLC to Permit Cox Virginia Telcom's Existing Conduits and Fiber Optic Cables to Remain in the City of Alexandria's Public Rights-of-Ways.
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ISSUE: Consideration of the renewal of a five-year license agreement with Cox Virginia Telcom ("Cox"), to authorize its conduits and fiber optic cables to remain in the City of Alexandria's public rights-of-ways to allow Cox to provide telecommunications systems, not cable television services, in the City of Alexandria ("City").
RECOMMENDATION: That City Council hold a public hearing on Saturday, March 16, 2019, and after hearing public testimony approve the attached five-year license agreement with Cox, and authorize the City Manager to execute the license agreement and to take any other actions that are necessary to implement the agreement.
BACKGROUND: 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. In September 2013, City Council approved a five-year license agreement with Cox to install conduit and fiber optic cables in the City's public rights-of-ways to provide telecommunications services in the City (not cable television). This agreement was to expire in September 2018 but was extended pending City Council approval of the attached proposed renewed license agreement upon the same terms and conditions as the original agreement, as amended.
Under the original agreement, as amended, Cox constructed an approximately five (5) mile fiber op...
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