Okay, so we'll uh pick up where we left off.

We'll pick up with item number four and go to 4.1 discussion of option and lease agreement with new singular wireless.

And we have a representative from ATT, I believe, on the line if you have any questions.

But I brought this to work session just because this is the first time that this council have seen franchise agreements or sell um cell tower agreements and this agreement as I was talking with council member Freeman and then refreshing my recollections because it's been a while.

This isn't for a new poll.

So ATT will be putting some of their facilities on an existing poll, and so they need a little bit of property for like the power to s to serve that.

And so that explains the difference in the price.

So we'll we'll make sure that that's both the language and the table, the language or the They're consistent with each other.

But we don't have a lot of these yet in Lehigh City.

Um maybe five or six spread throughout the city.

But if you have any questions about any of the language, um I can try to answer those, or we have um somebody from ATT that could answer those as well.

And then I'll if you don't have any questions, then I'll explain 4.2, but they're very similar as far as the process.

Um I think I asked you my question, so I'm thank you for explaining that.

I yeah, I wasn't familiar with that before, so thank you.

Okay.

4.2, we we do have quite a few of these.

These are telecommunications franchises, so different than a cable franchise, which it's kind of you know 34 years ago, th 30 to 40 years ago, that's what we saw initially were cable franchises, 5% franchise fee.

These are basically for um internet service.

And so the the one for Century Link is um a renewal, it's a new one, but based on the old one expiring a few years ago, and they've been acquired um by a company called Lumen.

So we've been working through some cleanup issues and those have been resolved, so we're comfortable moving forward with the franchise agreement.

I don't think it will be too long until you'll also see a poll attachment agreement.

But one of our requirements in order to have a poll attachment agreement is that you first have a franchise agreement.

So we'll be working on that in the future.

So that's been they've been an existing provider in our city for quite a while.

Emery Telecom is a new one, and so they want to run fiber in in the through the city, and so that's just our standard telecommunications franchise agreement.

Um I can't think of anything that's unique or out of the ordinary from the others that we've done over the past you know, five years, ten years.

And so again, if uh we have representatives from both of these companies on the line if you have any questions that other than that, then we'll bring this back to you for a vote at the next council meeting.

This was just so you could ask questions.

I do.

This is just for right-of-way access, right?

Not okay.

I thought I heard somewhere that we can't tax internet providers or something, but this is something different, right?

No, that I mean we can't, so we can't charge a um a traditional cable franchise fee, which is five percent, but the state has a municipal telecommunications tax that's two and a half percent.

And so we use that um under federal law, we're allowed to charge reasonable compensation, and so that's what that's what most cities have gone with that they have in their franchise agreement, is that two and a half percent telecommunic telecommunications tax, and so that's the that's what's in this one.

So yeah.

That that we can get reasonable compensation, and both parties have agreed that that represents reasonable compensation.

I I asked you my questions earlier today.

I think I'm good.

Thank you.

Okay, with that we'll move to 4.3.

Okay, I'm actually gonna talk about this one.

Okay.

Um David, I've been working with David on this, and so um he probably knows more about it than I do, but I'll do my best.

Um so the reason that this came up is um after the election and kind of during the turnover changes between the council.

Uh internally, we had some like processing questions about what the compensation is.

And I don't know if you've looked at our code and compared it to the current salary, but it's very different.

Um and that was it was designed the code was designed that way on purpose, but um we kind of saw this that um it might it's not maybe the most transparent way to do it, um just because the salary that's listed in there is so off from what it is right now, um, even though there's an explanation for it.

Um so we just wanted to kind of bring this to you.

And we had like a couple of goals in mind when we were doing this.

Uh the first is that we we didn't really want to change very much of the code, so our intent wasn't to rewrite this whole this whole section.

So we're just taking very small portions and making little changes, and it's just for clarification.

So we're we're in um compliance still with what the state code requires.

This is just clarifying uh what we need to do.

And yeah, we really thought that uh having a public hearing and an ordinance and listing that specifically in our code would be more transparent.

That way it'd be easier for residents to find the salary, especially if it's done annually.

They'll be easily it'll be really easy to search minutes or agendas or ordinances and they'll be able to find the salaries that way.

Um it's also on the Transparency Utah website.

Um then this also just kind of simplifies the process um so that residents, yeah, just know where they can find it.

And then this uh if we do it this way, we don't need to make any code amendments moving forward.

So that kind of helps simplify everything as well.