HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS-1974-009-R-74Intro. & Adopted: 2/18/74
RESOLUTION
9-R-74
A Resolution Authorizing the City
Manager to Negotiate with Illinois
Bell Telephone Company for the
Underground Placement of Cable
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Evanston
adopted Ordinance 97-0-73 on February 4, 1974, which grants a
franchise to the Illinois Bell Telephone Company to operate in
the City of Evanston, and
WHEREAS, one of the objectives of the Comprehensive
• General Plan of the City of Evanston is to assure that the usual
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qualities, as well as the functional purposes, of major physical
elements of the City be considered when making decisions,
WHEREAS, the placement of telephone lines underground
is preferable to placing them above ground from an aesthetic point
of view,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council
of the City of Evanston, that the City Manager be instructed to
enter into negotiations with Illinois Bell Telephone Company in
accordance with their letter to the City ofJanuary 14, 1974 to
maximize the amount of telephone lines placed underground each year.
•9-R-74
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APPROVED by the City Council of the City of Evanston, this
day of February, 1974.
ATTEST:
/s/ Maurice F. Brown
Clerk
Approved as to Form /G/ .T;;ck M. i�PnPI
Corporation Counsel
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Ys/ Edgar Vanneman, J
Mayor