AUTHORIZING AMENDMENT TO EXTEND CURRENT TOWER SPACE LEASE AGREEMENT WITH BUG TUSSEL WIRELESS, LLC

AUTHORIZING AMENDMENT TO EXTEND CURRENT TOWER SPACE LEASE AGREEMENT WITH BUG TUSSEL WIRELESS, LLC

Fiscal Impact: [ ] None [X] Budgeted Expenditure [ ] Not Budgeted

Background: Sauk County owns and maintains a tower and fiber optic network throughout the county. The county leases tower space and dark fiber on the county-owned network to provide revenue to offset the original build and update to the network costs. Bug Tussel Wireless LLC is a lessee of Sauk County and is asking that the current lease originating June 18th, 2009 be extended as written through September 30th 2019. Sauk County notified Bug Tussel Wireless in December of 2018 that the contract as it is currently written would not be extended, and that if the parties wished to continue the public private partnership, that a new contract with different terms would need to be negotiated. A new contract is being drafted with input from Sauk County Corporation Counsel’s Office, the Buildings Services Facilities Director, Sauk County Communications Technician, and Bug Tussel Wireless staff. The new contract will be brought back for approval by both the Communications Infrastructure Committee and full county board when both parties agree to the new contract.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Sauk County Board of Supervisors, met in regular session, authorizes extension of the Tower Space Lease Agreement with Bug Tussel LLC dated June 18, 2009, to September 30, 2019; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Sauk County Board Chair is hereby authorized to sign the amendment extending the current Tower Space Lease agreement with Bug Tussel Wireless through September 30, 2019;

For consideration by the Sauk County Board of Supervisors on July 16, 2019.

Respectfully submitted,

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Scott Von Asten, chair                                     John dietrich

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shane gibson                                                         carl gruber

BRANDON LOHR

FISCAL NOTE: Money for this current agreement will continue to be deposited into the Building Services Tower Revenue account.

MIS NOTE:   No MIS impact.