The City of Bellflower currently has a "ground lease & easement agreement" with Air Touch Cellular. This allows for Air Touch to construct a communication facility, including required antennas, and any other uses which are incidental to their operation. Under this agreement, the section of "Assignment & Subletting" allows Air Touch or its general partners to sublease to any "affiliate". However, out side of that, the City has to be notified and give consent for other sublease considerations. The City has recently received a letter from Air Touch with the request to allow for the subletting to a "non-affiliate" company (SpectraSite) and also wants to give that company the rights to be able to further sublease to other entities in the communication industry. My questions are: 1) Has any city had a request that is similar to what we recently received and what was your city's decision on the request? 2) Did you request for additional rent due to the "additional subleasing" rights and possibly additional structures (i.e. - antennas) added to the existing property? 3) If the "additional subleasing" rights does not entail having a physical structure added and only requires, for example, a "reprogramming" to the existing equipment say for different frequencies or bandwidth, what were your measures in determining the additional rent? 4) If you have had this same experience and have a written agreement in place, could we have a copy of the language written in the agreement? 5) Any other comments on this experience is greatly appreciated. I will be happy to summarize the responses and forward the results to anyone interested in this questionnaire. Thank you for your time and assistance. Hue C. Quach Assistant Director of Finance City of Bellflower 16600 Civic Center Drive Bellflower, CA 90706 562/804-1424 ext. 2229 562/925-8660 FAX email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] visit us at www.bellflower.org
