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File #: 90165    Version: 1 Name: 4118 T-Mobile License Agreement
Type: Resolution Status: Council New Business
File created: 9/29/2025 In control: COMMON COUNCIL
On agenda: 10/7/2025 Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: Authorizing the execution of a License Agreement with T-Mobile Central LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, for premises at the water tower located at 910 S. High Point Road. (District 1)
Sponsors: John W. Duncan
Attachments: 1. 4118 Exhibit A.pdf, 2. 4118 Exhibit B.pdf, 3. 4118 Exhibit C.pdf
Related files: 81992

Fiscal Note

The proposed resolution authorizes a license agreement with T-Mobile Central LLC for placement of telecommunications equipment on the City-owned water tower located at 910 S. High Point Road. The licensee will pay $3,187.50 monthly with a 4% annual increase, detailed in Exhibit A. The net revenue from this license agreement will be recognized in the Water Utility's 2025 Adopted Operating Budget. Future revenue increases will be made in subsequent agency operating requests and subject to Common Council approval. No additional appropriation is required. 

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Authorizing the execution of a License Agreement with T-Mobile Central LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, for premises at the water tower located at 910 S. High Point Road. (District 1)

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WHEREAS, the City of Madison (“City”) is the owner of the water tower (“Tower”) located at 910 S. High Point Road, Madison, Wisconsin (“Property”), and depicted on attached Exhibit B; and 

 

WHEREAS, City entered into a license agreement with Sprint Spectrum L.P. (“Sprint”), predecessor-in-interest to T-Mobile Central LLC (“Licensee”), pursuant to that certain license dated March 19,1998 (“Prior License”) pertaining to the placement of antennas and ancillary telecommunications equipment on the Tower as well as the placement of communications equipment cabinets (“Cabinets”) on land near the base of the Tower.  The Prior License expired on February 28, 2018, and Sprint and Licensee continued to operate on a month-to-month basis at the Tower under the terms of the Prior License with City’s consent; and

 

WHEREAS, the terms of a new License Agreement have been negotiated between Licensee, the City’s Office of Real Estate Services staff, and the City’s consultant, Terabonne, Inc. (“Terabonne”) which allows Licensee to license a certain portion of the Property and a certain portion of the Tower (the “Premises”) as depicted on Exhibit B for the placement of a Communication Facility; and

 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City’s Common Council hereby authorizes the Mayor and Clerk to execute the Licensee Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit C, substantially on the terms, conditions and obligations contained therein, and take any further action required to accomplish the purpose of this resolution in a form approved by the City Attorney.

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the Mayor and Clerk are authorized to execute any other documents as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this resolution in a form approved by the City Attorney.

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Real Estate Services Manager of the Office of Real Estate Services is authorized to sign a Memorandum of License, in a form approved by the City Attorney, to be recorded at the office of the Register of Deeds.

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Real Estate Services Manager of the Office of Real Estate Services is authorized to sign a Memorandum of Agreement between the City and Terabonne, in a form approved by the City Attorney, to be recorded at the office of the Register of Deeds.