Speaker 0: Motion carries.
Speaker 4: Item 18.
Speaker 0: Report from Public Works recommendations through finalize and execute a master license agreement with Verizon Communications for the nonexclusive use of city owned properties for wireless telecommunications facilities citywide.
Speaker 4: Any public comments on this item?
Speaker 6: Good evening. My name is Susan Roman. I'm vice president of government affairs for Verizon. Thank you very much for the opportunity to support this item. Mr. Vice Mayor and Council Members, we've been working with Mr. Craig Beck and city officials for over a year on coming up with a term sheet that will allow us Verizon to partner with the city. We're very excited about partnering with the city to invest tens of millions of dollars in infrastructure improvement, to improve our wireless service to the community and to provide the foundation for the next iteration of wireless services, which is called 5G. I'm here to answer any questions that you may have, but I want to support this item and again say that we're very excited to partner with the city in improving the infrastructure for all of the residents.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much. No. Similar question is behind the diocese. Would you please take a vote by square?
Speaker 8: Just a point of information. I appreciate the city staff for meeting with me and going over the variance for those who called our office with questions. There was a change at the national level regarding how some of these small cells are instituted. And so I really want to thank and appreciate Verizon for stepping up and providing the conduit and infrastructure as a a trade in terms of the ability to move forward with this project in a meaningful way. I know that there's still a lot going on at the national level, and for you to move forward for the residents of Long Beach in this agreement is very helpful to us. And we really appreciate your generosity. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Let me first get a motion in a second again. Okay. Perfect. Okay. I went away and I'm just. It's back. Okay. Did you have anything to add, Councilman Gonzales?
Speaker 2: Thank you. Everything that my colleague had mentioned. But on the digital inclusion aspect, I really appreciate that component being included in here. So thank you Craig and to by Verizon as well.
Speaker 1: And in some of you already had your comments. I just want to add before that I really appreciate Verizon's partnership. I think obviously Verizon, you know, leads the state when it comes to this type of work. And certainly we always want to grow our partnership with Verizon and there's a huge presence that we have already in Long Beach. And so I'm just really grateful to the entire the entire Verizon team and also to our staffer for working on this agreement as well. So we're very excited about where we go from here and and the rollout and all the next steps. So just thank you very, very much. Thank you. And there is a motion any second on the floor, so please go ahead and cast your vote.
Speaker 0: Motion carries.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. And we'll be hearing the next item, which is a 1919.
Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to finalize and execute a Master License Agreement, and any necessary amendments, with Verizon Communications, Inc., for the non-exclusive use of City-owned properties, including street lights citywide, for wireless telecommunications facilities, for a 20-year term.  (Citywide)