Decisions › County Commission meeting of Sep 22, 2026
Approved ending the antenna site lease with SBA Properties, Inc. for the tower at 19430 East 3rd Street in Umatilla and authorized the County Manager to negotiate an early termination.
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In plain words
A request to end the County's antenna site lease with SBA Properties, Inc. for a tower at 19430 East 3rd Street in Umatilla, and to let the County Manager negotiate an early exit.
What changes The County will send a termination notice and may negotiate an early end to the lease; the lease would stop instead of running through December 1, 2028.
Who and the money Applies to the Umatilla tower site; the County currently pays $5,730.04 per month with a five percent (5%) annual increase, and the fiscal impact will not exceed the current lease terms but cannot be fully determined at this time.
Stated reason (staff, quoted): "The County is constructing a new public safety tower at Fire Station 14 in Altoona which will eliminate the need for the SBA site."
Where Umatilla
Why (staff, quoted) "The County is constructing a new public safety tower at Fire Station 14 in Altoona which will eliminate the need for the SBA site."
Backup in the packet: Letter re Termination of Lease_09-22-26 (p. 236), Antenna Site Agreement - SBA (p. 236), Amendment SBA Tower lease - Umatilla 7-2013 (p. 236)
Written from the Board Action and the staff cover sheet, checked by script: every number appears in the record. Staff memo
From the record
Request from Public Safety Support to recommend approval: 1. To terminate an Antenna Site Agreement with SBA Properties, Inc., for the tower site located at 19430 East 3rd Street, in Umatilla, and for the County Manager to send the termination letter; and 2. To authorize the County Manager to negotiate an early termination of the Antenna Site Agreement. The fiscal impact will not exceed the current lease terms but cannot be fully determined at this time. Commission District 4.Clerk of Court, Board Action, Sep 22, 2026, page 6. Open the official document
The rest of this meeting
- Previous item: Approved a change to the contract with Motorola Solutions, Inc. for six years of support and maintenance for the Countywide 800MHz Public Safety Radio System for $16,780,000.
- Next item: Approved terminating the license agreement with American Towers, L.P. for the tower at 8325 North Bradshaw Road in Clermont and authorizing the County Manager to negotiate an early termination.
- All 23 items from Sep 22, 2026
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