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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Report Summary Part of City's staff obligation is to create opportunities that will enhance services to the Community, protect the rights of citizens, and to search for ways in which to ease the tax burden. Staff has recently been researching and developing potential directions for the City in regard to these issues with respect to rapidly changing telecommunications. A number of events have occurred which have created these opportunities. Those events include: Telephone De-regulation Fiber Optic wires which provides for increased capacity, voice, data and video. Wireless technology e.g. cellular phones, Wide Area Networks, etc. New business relationships not only between private companies but also between cities and the private sector. . New special franchise auctions by the Federal Government which enables a large number of private phone and other telecommunications mediums, (narrow band). These business environment changes, provide a potential for the private sector to utilize the public right-of-way without properly paying the taxpayers for that right and to conduct specialized services within the community without a permit. Potential hazards of not permitting such activities could result in creating a public nuisance Le. interfering with the ordinary use of a citizens property by reception interference, adding to the right-of-way congestion etc. While we have barely scratched the surface of the many implications in regard to the City's involvement into the telecommunications area, it is strongly suggested in the literature, that Cities take steps immediately to put several ordinances in place. Such ordinances, while perhaps not perfect, will at least provide the City with some measure of protection for its citizens. Included in this report are 4 proposed ordinances, which staff is recommending be re- viewed by the legal counsel and then strongly considered by the Council at a very early date. Wireless System Enabling ordinance Wireless System Franchise or Wireless System Permit and Fee Ordnance Private Communications System Ordinance . Local Exchange Service Enabling Ordinance These ordinances are based on Model ordinances several which have been implemented in other Cities. Another option, which staff believes is worthy of considerable discussion, is the potential of joining with private enterprise to bundle phone services so that Roseville citizens could purchase reduced-cost telephone service. This report sets out in the various sections, more specific information regarding the ordi- nances and services bundling.