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Show Interlocal Agreement Between American Fork and Pleasant Grove Brings City Offices New Dark Fiber Internet Services Pleasant Grove City Council Coun-cil approved a resolution last week authorizing the mayor to execute an interlocal agreement agree-ment with American Fork for a contract to lease dark fiber from American Fork for internet inter-net services to the city offices. This agreement allows Pleasant Grove City to lease the dark fiber which is owned, operated by and maintained by American Fork. Both cities felt that there communities would be bests served through this agreement. The purpose of this agreement agree-ment is for Pleasant Grove to interconnect with American Fork's facilities and to lease dark fiber from American Fork for compensation for the purposes pur-poses of using the dark fiber to transport bandwidth from American Fork's network operations op-erations center to Pleasant Grove's Police Department building from a Utah Internet Service Provider located in American Fork's Network Operations Op-erations Center. As compensation to American Amer-ican Fork, Pleasant Grove has agreed to pay American Fork the one-time interconnection charge and the monthly recurring recur-ring charge. Any changes in compen; ation will be mutually agreed upon by the two cities each year. The city council also approved ap-proved a resolution to autho rize the mayor to sign an agreement agree-ment with American Fiber for internet services, specifically bandwidth services, to provide internet technology to Pleasant Grove City property. Other action taken by the city council included a resolution adopting the 2010 Mountainland Association of Governments Pre-Disas-ter Hazard Mitigation Plan as required by the Federal Disaster Mitigation and cost reduction act of 2000. The plan requires alt jurisdictions to be covered cov-ered by Pre-Disaster Hazard Haz-ard Mitigation Plan to be eligible for Federal Emergency Emer-gency Management Agency pre-disaster funds. The city has expressed concern about mitigating potential losses from natural disasters before they occur, and feels that the plan would be in the best of the city to adopt this plan. Another resolution was passed by the city council coun-cil authorizing the mayor to sign an agreement with American Fiber for. internet services, specifically bandwidth band-width services to provide internet technology to Please ant Grove City properties. The agreement is for a perjod of 24 months and the provisions of this resolution reso-lution shall take effect immediately. |
