Range franchise fee back on hold

A franchise fee agreement between Range Communications and the City of Sundance will be staying on hold until November to allow time for the council to consider the cooperative’s request for an exemption that would recognize its financial contribution to the city by only collecting the fee for half the time the agreement is active.

Chief Government Relations Officer Jason Hendricks attended the meeting to speak for a second time with council members prior to the third and final reading of the ordinance enacting a franchise fee with Range.

Franchise fees were officially instituted with the...