DEPARTMENT: Finance
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Hugh Miller
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: City Wide
SUBJECT:
Lease Agreement with Graham Media Group, San Antonio, Inc. d/b/a KSAT-12 Television Station (KSAT-12)
SUMMARY:
An ordinance authorizing a Lease Agreement to allow the relocation of vital communications equipment that supports the City's Public Safety Radio System from its current location at 326 W. Jones Avenue. The proposed Lease Agreement is for 20 years at a cost of $180,000 in the first year of the 20 year term.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The City's current radio communications equipment environment provides public safety grade two-way radio communications for the City of San Antonio and surrounding Bexar County participating agencies. The radio system currently manages an average of 400,000 calls per day from approximately 7,100 radios, which includes thirty-five (35) external multijurisdictional agencies. The radio system is available in over 1,200 square miles of Bexar County and provides the single source of communications to dispatch all Police and Fire/EMS in the City and County in response to any emergency. This vital radio communications equipment, including radio antennas and radio ground shelter, is currently located on a tower and ground space owned by CPS Energy located at 326 West Jones Avenue.
CPS previously notified the City of its intent to de-commission the West Jones Avenue tower and related ground space and vacate the premises as part of the continuing development of areas along the San Antonio River Walk. In the interim, CPS has extended the City's use of the tower and ground shelter while a plan and budget were formulated for a move that would provide minimal disruption to the City's Public Safety Radio System.
The transmitting and receiving radio frequency antennas, microwave dishes, coaxial cables, and related antenna equipment will be moved to a nearby tower owned by KSAT-12 located at 1408 N. St. Mary's Street. Howeve...
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