Metro - File #: 2025-0326

• File #: 2025-0326
• Type: Agreement
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 4/17/2025
• In control: Finance, Budget and Audit Committee
• On agenda: 6/18/2025
• Title: AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), or their designee, to execute three 5-year license agreements commencing August 1, 2025, with American Tower Corporation dba SpectraSite Communications, LLC; with up to three additional five-year options for each site for microwave radio stations located at the following sites: * 5 Mt. Lukens Road, Tujunga - at an initial rate of approximately $7,617.47 per month with 3.5% annual escalations, plus utilities, for a total estimated amount of $2,678,592.90 over the full 20-year term (including options). * Oat Mountain Orcutt Ranch, Chatsworth - at an initial rate of approximately $5,274.26 per month with 3.5% annual escalations, plus utilities, for a total estimated amount of $1,837,556.05 over the full 20-year term (including options). * 1 Hauser Mountain, Acton - at an initial rate of approximately $4,274.97 per month with 3.5% annual escalations, plus utilities, for a total estimated amount of $1,495,434.10 over the full 20-year term (in...
• Sponsors: Program Management (Department), Maria Luk
• Indexes: Acton, Agreements, Alignment, Budgeting, Chatsworth, Las Virgenes/Malibu subregion, Radio stations, San Fernando Valley Service Sector, San Fernando Valley subregion, Strategic planning, Systemwide Bus Ops Mgmt & Admin (Project), Tujunga

Meeting_Body
FINANCE, BUDGET & AUDIT COMMITTEE
JUNE 18, 2025

Subject
SUBJECT: LICENSE AGREEMENTS FOR THREE MICROWAVE RADIO STATION LOCATIONS

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), or their designee, to execute three 5-year license agreements commencing August 1, 2025, with American Tower Corporation dba SpectraSite Communications, LLC; with up to three additional five-year options for each site for microwave radio stations located at the following sites:

* 5 Mt. Lukens Road, Tujunga - at an initial rate of approximately $7,617.47 per month with 3.5% annual escalations, plus utilities, for a total estimated amount of $2,678,592.90 over the full 20-year term (including options).

* Oat Mountain Orcutt Ranch, Chatsworth - at an initial rate of approximately $5,274.26 per month with 3.5% annual escalations, plus utilities, for a total estimated amount of $1,837,556.05 over the full 20-year term (including options).

* 1 Hauser Mountain, Acton - at an initial rate of approximately $4,274.97 per month with 3.5% annual escalations, plus utilities, for a total estimated amount of $1,495,434.10 over the full 20-year term (including options).

Issue
ISSUE

Metro currently licenses microwave radio station facilities at three locations: Mt. Lukens Road in Tujunga, Oat Mountain Orcutt Ranch in Chatsworth, and Hauser Mountain in Acton (collectively, the "Towers") to support continuous communication and security across the agency's bus and rail network. The current license agreement for these sites expires on July 31, 2025. Given the critical operational role these towers play in maintaining Metro's communications infrastructure, continued access is essential. Board approval is required to authorize the execution of new agreements

Background
BACKGROUND

Metro has operated the three towers since 1995 under a single license agreement with SpectraSite Communications, originally execute...