HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 08/19/2008 - RESOLUTION 2008-076 REESTABLISHING A TELEPHONE EXC ITEM NUMBER: 30
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY DATE: August 19, 200a
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF: Mary Moore
SUBJECT
Resolution 2008-076 Reestablishing a Telephone Exchange Access Facility Charge and a Wireless
Communications Access Charge for the Latimer Emergency Telephone Authority Effective January
1, 2009.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Resolution.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This Resolution authorizes telephone and wireless telephone service providers to collect a telephone
exchange access facility charge and wireless communications access charge for Emergency 911
telephone services.
BACKGROUND
The Latimer 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 Latimer 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 ($.45) commencing on April 1, 1998.
The LETA Board has approved a telephone exchange access facility charge and a wireless
communications access charge effective January 1, 2009, each at the rate of forty-five cents ($.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 2009. 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 2008-076
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, 2009
WHEREAS, the Larimer Emergency Telephone Authority was created pursuant to §29-
11-101, et seq., C.R.S., by an Intergovernmental Agreement Concerning the Implementation of
an "E911" 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 establish 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. Commencing on January 1, 2009, the telephone exchange access facility
charge and the wireless communications access charge shall each be re-established at forty-five
cents ($.45)per month per exchange access facility or per wireless communications access.
Section 2. Telephone service suppliers providing telephone service in the City are
hereby authorized to collect the telephone exchange access facility charge in accordance with
§29-11-101, et seq., C.R.S.
Section 3. Wireless telephone service suppliers providing wireless telephone service
in the City are also hereby authorized to collect the wireless communications access charge in
accordance with §29-11-100.5, et seq., C.R.S.
Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Council of the City of Fort Collins this
19th day of August, A.D. 2008.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk