HomeMy WebLinkAbout2004-42 - Ad Hoc Telecommunications CommitteeRESOLUTION NO. 2004- 42
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
EXTENDING THE TERM OF THE
AD HOC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
WHEREAS, the City of Newport Beach holds two separate non - exclusive franchise
agreements with cable television providers, Adelphia and Cox Communications; and
WHEREAS, these Agreements both expire in July of 2004; and
WHEREAS, in anticipation of franchise renewals, the City formed an Ad Hoc
Telecommunications Committee in November 2000 that:
Worked with special counsel to develop a Cable Communications Franchises
Ordinance, a Public Right -of -Way Ordinance, a Wireless Telecommunications
Facility Ordinance, and a Council Policy regarding use of City property for
Wireless Telecommunications Facilities; and
Conducted a Community Needs Assessment that identified those aspects of
community cable television service that the community desires and led to the
adoption of a Statement of Minimum Criteria for the City to follow regarding its
Franchise renewals with Adelphia and Cox.
WHEREAS, the City is also home to residents and business owners who desire a
wide variety of telecommunications services, including high -speed data, voice, video,
and wireless Internet; and
WHEREAS, the final task assigned to the Telecom Committee in 2000 was to
negotiate new Franchise Agreements with cable providers and, while this task nears its
completion, it is not yet done; now, therefore be it
RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Newport Beach that it hereby
extends the term of the existing Ad Hoc Telecommunications Committee to June 30,
2005.
ADOPTED this 8`" day of June, 2004.
MAYOR
ATTEST:
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I, LaVonne M. Harkless, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing
resolution, being Resolution No. 2004 -42 was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by
the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 8th
day of June, 2004, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Heffernan, Rosansky, Adams, Bromberg, Webb, Nichols, Mayor Ridgeway
Noes: None
Absent: None
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
official seal of said City this 9th day of June, 2004.
(Seal)
City Clerk
Newport Beach, California