From: Dennis Kyle <
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2023 3: 16 PM
To: Diana Quintero < dquintero@chulavistaca. gov>; CityClerk < CityClerk@chulavistaca. gov>; Maria Kachadoorian < mkachadoorian@chulavistaca. gov>; Eric Crockett < ECrockett@chulavistaca. gov> Cc: John McCann < jmccann@chulavistaca. gov>
Subject: Traffic Control Ordinance; 2nd Reading
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All,
This is Dennis Kyle from Wyyerd Fiber.
Last Tuesday night I attended the Chula Vista City Council Meeting and the First Reading of adding Chapter 2.73 “ Traffic Control Worker Minimum Wage” to Title 2 of the Chula Vista Municipal Code.
I’m writing a quick note, in the sprit of our relationship, to indicate that Wyyerd Fiber has concerns with this particular addition to the Chula Vista Municipal Code. We had planned to draft a more formal notification to the city but my team reported to me that the Second Reading had been scheduled for this upcoming Tuesday. Given the short notice I wanted to lay out our position to the city.
Some ( not all) of the concerns we have are as follows; A primary goal of Wyyerd Fiber is to provide Internet Services to underinvested/ underserved communities.
o This ordinance significantly increases our cost and hinders the fulfillment of that primary goal.
o It interferes with our ability to negotiate internal and contracted labor rates in support of providing a cost effective and essential Internet Service to the community The accounting and book keeping complexity of tracking work entailing one hour or less per workday or one hour or less per shift is unduly burdensome. o Traffic Control work is often “ part” of a job and takes place in the midst of other activities ( e.g. initial placing of cones)
The reach of the ordinance seems arbitrary in that it’s regulating some entities and not others including the City)
o It isn’t clear to us as to why Gas and Electric are exempted ( Telecoms were exempted in a previous version but not this latest)
At this point, my request would be to remove the Second Reading from the October 3rd Agenda to allow more time for discussion and consideration. I’m happy to meet at your earliest convenience.
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