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RECOMMENDATION: <br />Staff recommends that the Board of County Commissioners: <br />(1) Review the draft scope of services, and direct staff to make any needed changes <br />(2) Direct staff to include a non -affiliation with the telecommunications or <br />tower industries qualification requirement in the RFP, and <br />(3) Authorize staff to initiate the RFP process to engage consulting services for preparing a <br />wireless master plan and a telecommunications regulations re -write. <br />ATTACHMENTS: <br />1. Moratorium Ordinance <br />2 Excerpts from Lakeland Wireless Master Plan <br />3. Excerpts from Alachua County Wireless Master Plan <br />4. Draft RFP Scope of Services <br />Note: The following are available at the Board Office: a complete copy of Alachua County's wireless <br />master plan. ordinance and consultant planning services contract. Lakeland's ordinance and wireless <br />master plan, and information from the Krienes and Krienes and City Scape websites. <br />Director Boling asked if the Board wanted to have a non -affiliation qualification <br />requirement and assumed that they did. <br />Commissioner Macht thought the most important thing would be that the consultant <br />be or have access to an RF (radio frequency) engineer. He believed it to be the crux of every <br />argument the Board has gotten into and they have been defenseless in being able to advocate <br />a different siting criteria than the telecommunication company says. <br />Chairman Ginn was very pleased with what Lakeland had done and thought it would <br />be wise for the consultant to have a legal consultant with specific training in <br />telecommunications, and Director Boling agreed and that was why the Scope of Services <br />specifically says that there are planning, engineering, and legal services required. <br />Chairman Ginn especially liked a sentence from the Lakeland plan found on page 203 <br />of the back up and read from it: " ... 150 -foot or 200 -foot mount may have a significant <br />visual impact on a residential neighborhood a block or two away, even though the facility <br />February 13, 2001 <br />BK1i- PG0914 <br />82 <br />