(a) Adoption of Requirements. The Department of Technology, in consultation with the Department, shall by order develop and implement the Department of Technology Requirements. The Department of Technology shall use a process to adopt the Department of Technology Requirements that ensures that municipal excavators, utility excavators, and the general public have a meaningful opportunity to comment on the provisions to be contained therein before they are formally adopted by the Department of Technology.
(b) Purpose of Requirements. The Department of Technology Requirements shall specify the manner in which the Department of Technology will participate in excavation projects by installing City communications infrastructure that meets the City's needs at a reasonable cost.
(c) Minimum Requirements. At a minimum, the Department of Technology Requirements shall contain the following procedural and substantive requirements for the installation of City communications infrastructure in excavation projects:
(1) The process for the Department of Technology to review planned excavation projects in a timely manner to determine if City participation is feasible and to verify its participation by informing the applicant and the Department within 7 days of receiving notice;
(2) The criteria to be used by the Department of Technology to decide whether to decline to participate in excavation projects;
(3) The standard technical specifications for City communications infrastructure;
(4) The standard methodology for determining the incremental costs associated with installing City communications infrastructure in excavation projects;
(5) The requirements and process for excavators to seek exemptions from using the City's standard methodology for determining incremental costs when installing standard City communications infrastructure in excavation projects; and
(6) Alternative methodologies for determining the City's incremental costs when exemptions are granted.
Editor's Note:
This section's enacting ordinance provides that "The Department of Technology shall adopt the order required in Section 2.4.96 of the Public Works Code within 90 days of the effective date of this ordinance." See Section 7 of Ord. 220-14, Eff. 12/7/2014.
This section's enacting ordinance provides that "The Department of Technology shall adopt the order required in Section 2.4.96 of the Public Works Code within 90 days of the effective date of this ordinance." See Section 7 of Ord. 220-14, Eff. 12/7/2014.