Number
000491
Reference
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Substitute resolution amending Access Management
Contract between the City of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee
Access Telecommunication Authority, Inc.
Sections
Analysis
This resolution amends the April 20, 2000 Access Management Contract between the City of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Access Telecommunication Authority, Inc. ("MATA"). The contract amendment extends the time within which MATA must submit its initial operating and capital plan to the City Clerk for approval. The time extension is necessary in order to provide MATA with the additional necessary time to finalize its long term facilities plans.
Body
Whereas, The City, acting pursuant to Common Council Resolution File No. 991747, and the Milwaukee Access Telecommunication Authority, Inc. ("MATA") entered into an April 20, 2000 Access Management Contract (the "Agreement"); and
Whereas, Under the terms of the Agreement, MATA is to provide specified community and educational access services for the 17 year term of the Agreement; and
Whereas, Prior to the City's disbursement of the PE capital grant in the amount of at least $850,000, the City Clerk was to have approved MATA's initial capital and operating plan objectives by September 30, 2000; and
Whereas, MATA is in the process of finalizing the long term facilities aspects of its initial capital plan, but will not be able to complete that process in time for the City Clerk to review the plan prior to the current September 30, 2000 deadline established in the Agreement; and
Whereas, Time Warner Cable of Southeastern Wisconsin ("Time Warner") has indicated its willingness to allow MATA to remain at MATA's current facility until Time Warner vacates that facility and moves into its new facility which Time Warner anticipates to be between May 15 and June 1, 2001; and
Whereas, In order to give MATA adequate time to complete the long term facilities aspect of its initial capital plan, the City Clerk recommends and MATA agrees that the Agreement should be amended to extend the time for MATA's submission of its initial operating and long term capital plan until December 31, 2000 and that the City Clerk's time to review and approve those plans should be extended until January 31, 2001; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee that the proper City officers are hereby authorized and directed to execute the amendment to the Access Management Contract between the City of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Access Telecommunication Authority, Inc. attached to this file.
Drafter
City Attorney's Office
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