Review Agenda Item
Meeting Date: 2/26/2025 - 5:30 PM
Category: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Type: Action
Subject: 11.2 Crown Castle District-wide Fiber Wide Area Network – Amendment
District Goals:
Enclosure
File Attachment:
YPS-2023-2025-WAN.pdf
Crown Castle BOCS.pdf
Rationale: Information Technology Department – GML104B Contractor – Crown Castle Fiber NYS Contract PS68694 Term – July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2025 Amount of 2024-2025 Subscription: Gross Charges $582,586.08 annually ($48,548.84 monthly) E-Rate Share (90%) $524,327.47 annually District’s Share (10%) $58,258.61 annually ($4,854.88 monthly) – Original Amount Amendment amount – $70,000.00 Total Amended Amount - $128,258.61 Account Number – 450-5303-100000-1620-B2319 (District-wide Telephone Account – Local Funds) Scope – In April 2023, the Board of Trustees approved Board Report 17.7 for the District’s Fiber WAN Service for July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2025. The service was approved in full by the E-Rate program with the District’s 10% share being $58,258.61. This amendment is to increase the District’s share by $70,000.00 to include the cost of four invoices for the 2023-2024 school year that were not paid against the previous purchase order as it was fully expended. In addition, the monthly cost of the wide area network circuits, not included in the original E-Rate application, for the Justice Sonia Sotomayor Community School, The Robert Halmi Sr. Academy of Film and Television as well as the District’s Warehouse need to be funded through the remainder of the 2024-2025 school year.
Funding: 450-5303-100000-1620-B2319 (District-wide Telephone Account – Local Funds)
Resolution: WHEREAS the District is seeking to amend Board Resolution 17.7 originally approved at the April 2023 Stated Meeting. This resolution was for the fiber service for the District’s Wide Area Network (WAN), and, WHEREAS this amendment is to increase the approved amount by $70,000.00 to allow for the payment of four outstanding invoices from the 2023-2024 school year which were not paid against the previous year’s purchase order as it was fully expended, as well as to fund the monthly cost of the wide area network circuits for the Justice Sonia Sotomayor Community School, The Robert Halmi Sr. Academy of Film and Television as well as the District’s Warehouse through the remainder of the 2024-2025 school year, and, NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the Yonkers Public Schools increase Purchase Order 2025-1190 by $70,000.00, for a revised total of $128,258.61, in order to fund the District’s Wide Area Network circuits throughout the remainder of the year.
Approvals:
Recommended By:
Signed By:
Christopher Carvalho - Director
Signed By:
Bob Cacace - Commissioner
Signed By:
Cheryl Green - Deputy Commissioner Dept. of Information Technology
Signed By:
Victor Martinez - Director of Purchasing
Signed By:
Finance Department - Finance Reviewer
Signed By:
Elizabeth Janocha - Deputy Commissioner
Signed By:
John Liszewski - Commissioner
Signed By:
Matthew Gallagher - Corporation Counsel
Signed By:
Anibal Soler, Jr. - Superintendent of Schools
Vote Results:

Original Motion
Member Lawrence Sykes Moved, Member Kevin Cacace seconded to approve the Original motion 'WHEREAS the District is seeking to amend Board Resolution 17.7 originally approved at the April 2023 Stated Meeting. This resolution was for the fiber service for the District’s Wide Area Network (WAN), and, WHEREAS this amendment is to increase the approved amount by $70,000.00 to allow for the payment of four outstanding invoices from the 2023-2024 school year which were not paid against the previous year’s purchase order as it was fully expended, as well as to fund the monthly cost of the wide area network circuits for the Justice Sonia Sotomayor Community School, The Robert Halmi Sr. Academy of Film and Television as well as the District’s Warehouse through the remainder of the 2024-2025 school year, and, NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the Yonkers Public Schools increase Purchase Order 2025-1190 by $70,000.00, for a revised total of $128,258.61, in order to fund the District’s Wide Area Network circuits throughout the remainder of the year.'. Upon a Roll-Call Vote being taken, the vote was: Aye: 7 Nay: 0.
The motion Carried 7 - 0
   
Kevin Cacace     Yes
Dr. Rosalba Corrado Del Vecchio     Yes
Gail Burns     Yes
Sheila Greenwald     Yes
Amjed Kuri     Yes
Rosemarie Linton     Yes
Lawrence Sykes     Yes