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memo�andum <br />TO: Mayor & Council <br />FROM: John Godwin, City Manager <br />SUBJECT: NEW PHONE COMPANY <br />DATE: June 4, 2013 <br />BACKGROLTND: Since 1999, in order to try to increase competition and thereby provide better <br />service and lower rates to end users of telecommunications services, the state established a <br />uniform method for certified telecommunications providers to compensate municipalities for the <br />use of their public rights-of-way. <br />STATUS OF ISSUE: On May 24, Peoples Telephone Cooperative, Inc., operating out of <br />Quitman, Texas, requested an opportunity to make a presentation regarding their request to <br />construct broadband facilities within Paris's ROW and to provide telecommunications services <br />within the city. <br />BUDGET: Should generate minimal new franchise fee revenue. <br />RECOMMENDATION: Authorize construction of appropriate facilities pending agreement by <br />city attorney and consistent with Chapter 283 of state statutes. <br />3'7 <br />