HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 07/05/2005 - RESOLUTION 2005-073 REESTABLISHING A TELEPHONE EXC ITEM NUMBER: 24
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY DATE: Ju1Y5, 2005
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF: Joanne Sizemore
SUBJECT
Resolution 2005-073 Reestablishing a Telephone Exchange Access Facility Charge and a
Wireless Communications Access Charge for the Larimer Emergency Telephone Authority
Effective January 1, 2006.
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 ($.45) commencing on April 1, 1998.
The LETA Board has approved a telephone exchange access facility charge and a wireless
communications access charge effective January 1, 2006, each at the rate of forty-five cents
($.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 2006. 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 2005-073
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
ESTABLISHING A TELEPHONE EXCHANGE ACCESS FACILITY CHARGE
AND A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS ACCESS CHARGE FOR THE
LARIMER EMERGENCY TELEPHONE AUTHORITY
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2006
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 "E911" Emergency Telephone Service, dated November 14, 1990,
between certain governmental entities located in Latimer County, Colorado; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the aforesaid statutory authority and City of Fort Collins
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, 2006, 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. Telephone service suppliers providing telephone service in the
City of Fort Collins are 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 of Fort Collins are 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
held this 5th day of July, 2005.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk