Fiscal Note
No fiscal or budgetary impact.
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Accepting a temporary limited easement from the County of Dane for construction access and staging purposes during the City’s Lakeview Water Tower demolition and reconstruction project.
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WHEREAS, the City of Madison and the County of Dane are parties to an easement agreement dated November 18, 1997 (the “Easement”) which provides the City with a perpetual, exclusive easement over a portion of the County-owned property located at 1202 Northport Drive (the “Tower Easement Area”) for the operation of the City-owned Lakeview Water Tower (the “Existing Water Tower”); and
WHEREAS, the Easement also provides the City with a perpetual non-exclusive easement over a portion of the County-owned property for purposes of pedestrian and vehicular ingress and egress to and from the Tower Easement Area (the “Ingress/Egress Easement”); and
WHEREAS, the Tower Easement Area and the Ingress/Egress Easement Area are depicted on attached Exhibit A; and
WHEREAS, as allowed under the terms of the Easement, the City has licensed space on the Existing Water Tower and within the Tower Easement Area to three (3) telecommunication companies for the installation and operation of telecommunications equipment and improvements; and
WHEREAS, during 2014 and 2015 the City will be engaged in a project involving the demolition of the Existing Water Tower and the construction of a new tower in its place (the “New Water Tower”); and
WHEREAS, during such Project, the City is requiring that all telecommunication and radio equipment be removed from the Existing Water Tower and relocated onto a temporary monopole to be erected by the telecommunication companies within the Tower Easement Area (the “Temporary Monopole”); and
WHEREAS, the City, its authorized agents, contractors and licensees, will require the temporary use of a portion of the County’s Property located adjacent to the Tower Easement Area throughout the period of the Project for c...
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