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MINUTIrS CITY COUNCIL JULY 13, 2005 stated that she did not know Holm's credentials, but thought that he was an attorney-at-law. The City Administrator indicated that it is the City's obligation to ensure that an additional cellular tower is needed before approving a request. The Administrator stated that he has not seen the data that would support Cingular's claim that the additional tower is needed and Chat a co-location is not possible. Weiss indicated that she could supply this information, but asked if the City was still going to tie the two issues together. The City Administrator noted that Cingular brought the water tower lease issue into the picture as a result of a call to City staff indicating the need to negotiate down the lease rate. The Administrator indicated that given Cingular's request to build an additional communications tower, and the call relative to the water tower lease, the connection between these two issues has come into question. The Administrator requested that Weiss provide Cingular's engineering data so that the City can have a third party review the data relative to the issues of co-location, relocation of the existing antenna on the Donovan Tower, and co-location height and engineering on the Donovan Tower versus a new tower. Keis stated that he would also like a map showing all the cell towers that are located in Little Canada. Allan asked about improvements in technology which would allow more capacity from the City's water tower. Weiss indicated that given the amount of traffic on 35E and customer demand, the water tower antennas cannot handle more capacity than they already do. Weiss presented to the Council language that could be added to the CUP permit which indicates that Cingular states that the 3250 Spruce Street tower will not replace the coverage objective of the water tower lease site. That language indicated that if the lease is terminated for Che sole purpose to transfer the coverage objective to the new site at 3250 Spruce Street, the CUP would be in violation of the Code and the tower would be removed within 120 days. The City Administrator questioned the language "sole purpose" as stated above. Blesener noted that Cingular has waived action on the CUP until the July 2Th City Council meeting; therefore, the Council can table the matter pending additional information.