HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 09/07/2004 - RESOLUTION 2004-103 REESTABLISHING A TELEPHONE EXC ITEM NUMBER: 18
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY DATE: September7, 2004
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF: Joanne Sizemore
SUBJECT
Resolution 2004-103 Reestablishing a Telephone Exchange Access Facility Charge and a
Wireless Communications Access Charge for the Latimer Emergency Telephone Authority
Effective January 1, 2005.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Resolution.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Larimer Emergency Telephone Authority (LETA) was created in 1990 pursuant to C.R.S.
Section 29-11-101, et. seq., by an intergovernmental agreement between the City of Fort Collins
and nineteen other governmental entities in Larimer County.
The telephone exchange access facility charge of fifty cents ($.50) per month became effective
January 1, 1991, by approval of the Fort Collins City Council. This fee remained the same each
year by annual approval of the LETA Board, until 1998 when the LETA Board decreased the fee
by 10% to the current forty-five cents ($.45). The wireless communications access charge was
first established at forty-five cents ($.45) commencing on April 1, 1998.
At the July 7, 2004 LETA Board meeting, the Board approved a telephone exchange access
facility charge and a wireless communications access charge effective January 1, 2005, each at
the rate of forty-five cents ($.45) per month.
These surcharges to telephone subscribers are necessary to continue to adequately fund the
Emergency 911 telephone service in the City of Fort Collins through 2005. By approving this
Resolution, the Council will be authorizing telephone and wireless telephone service providers to
collect the telephone exchange access facility charge and wireless communications access
charge.
RESOLUTION 2004-103
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
REESTABLISHING A TELEPHONE EXCHANGE ACCESS
FACILITY CHARGE AND A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
ACCESS CHARGE FOR THE LARIMER EMERGENCY
TELEPHONE AUTHORITY EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2005
WHEREAS,the Latimer Emergency Telephone Authority was created pursuant to §29-11-
101, et seq., C.R.S., by an Intergovernmental Agreement Concerning the Implementation of an
"B911"Emergency Telephone Service, dated November 14, 1990, between certain governmental
entities located in Larimer County, Colorado; and
WHEREAS,pursuant to the aforesaid statutory authority and Ordinance Nos. 164, 1989,and
200, 1997,adopted by the City Council on April 3, 1990,and January 6, 1998,respectively,the City
Council is authorized to raise,lower,or reestablish a telephone exchange access facility charge and
a wireless communications access charge to be assessed telephone (wireline and wireless) service
users in the City of Fort Collins; and
WHEREAS, the City Council believes that reestablishing the telephone exchange access
facility charge at the rate of forty-five cents ($.45) per month and the wireless communications
access charge at the rate of forty-five cents ($.45) per month is necessary and appropriate to
adequately fund emergency telephone services in the City of Fort Collins.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That commencing January 1, 2005, the telephone exchange access facility
charge and the wireless communications access charge shall each be reestablished at forty-five cents
($.45)per month per exchange access facility or per wireless communications access.
Section 2. That telephone service suppliers providing telephone service in the City of
Fort Collins are hereby authorized to collect the telephone exchange access facility charge in
accordance with § 29-11-102 and 103, C.R.S.
Section 3. That wireless telephone service suppliers providing wireless telephone service
in the City of Fort Collins are hereby authorized to collect the wireless communications access
charge in accordance with § 29-I1-102 and 103, C.R.S.
Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held this 7th day of September,
A.D. 2004.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk