Lake County Illinois - File #: 11-0458

• File #: 11-0458
• Version: 1
• Name: Agreement Termination with American Telephone and Telegraph, AT&T
• Type: resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 4/28/2011
• In control: Public Works and Transportation Committee
• Final action: 5/10/2011
• Title: Joint resolution authorizing the termination of the 1962 Ordinance with Illinois Bell Telephone Company/AT&T which granted rights of fee-less permits for Illinois Bell’s construction in Lake County’s highway rights-of-way in exchange for a discount on telephone rates:

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/10/2011	1	Lake County Board	adopted	Pass
5/4/2011	1	Financial & Administrative Committee	recommended for adoption to the consent agenda	Pass
5/4/2011	1	Public Works and Transportation Committee	approved and referred on to the Financial and Administrative Committee	Pass

Title
Joint resolution authorizing the termination of the 1962 Ordinance with Illinois Bell Telephone Company/AT&T which granted rights of fee-less permits for Illinois Bell’s construction in Lake County’s highway rights-of-way in exchange for a discount on telephone rates:

Staff Summary
· Agreement Termination with American Telephone and Telegraph, AT&T.
· Approval of the Joint Resolution is requested authorizing the County Board Chair to send the 60 days written termination notification of the attached 1962 Ordinance to Illinois Bell Telephone Company/AT&T.
· In February 1962, the Lake County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution providing for the adoption of an ordinance granting Illinois Bell Telephone Company and its successors and assigns, certain rights to construct, maintain and operate equipment used in the general telephone business in public ways of Lake County in exchange for granting to Lake County a 25% discount from certain of its Illinois Bell Telephone service rates.
· As of February 2009, Lake County no longer has any contracts for telephone service with Illinois Bell/AT&T and, consequently, no longer has the benefit of receiving a discount for telephone services.
· Illinois Bell/AT&T continues to believe, however, that it is entitled to receive the benefit of fee-less permits for construction, maintenance and operation of equipment in Lake County rights-of-way as long as the 1962 Ordinance exists.
· Consequently, there is a need to terminate the 1962 Ordinance that allows AT&T the right to construct, maintain and operate equipment with no obligation to pay permit fees in exchange for the discount on telephone services so that the Lake County Division of Transportation is positioned to begin collecting usual and customary permit fees.

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R E S O L U T I O N

WHEREAS, in February 1962, the Lake County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution providing for the adoption of an ordinance granting Illinois Bell Telephone Company and its ...