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RESOLUTION NO. 2000 -97
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
RELATING TO THE FORMATION OF AN
AD HOC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
WHEREAS, the City of Newport Beach holds two separate non - exclusive franchise
agreements with its community cable television providers, Comcast/ Adelphia and Cox
Communications; and
WHEREAS, these Agreements both expire in January 2002; and
WHEREAS, the City is obligated to prepare for the expiration of these Agreements
by conducting a Community Needs Assessment which identifies and articulates those
aspects of community cable television service that the community desires; and
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, telecommunications providers have sought permission from the City to
use City-owned facilities for telecommunications transmission (antenna) sites; now,
therefore be it
RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Newport Beach that it hereby forms
the Ad Hoc Telecommunications Committee to address the following issues and have
the following term and membership:
ISSUES TO ADDRESS:
• An Update of the City's Cable TV Ordinance and the possible development of a
separate Telecommunications Ordinance;
• The Development of a Community Needs Assessment;
• The dissemination of appropriate information about the City's regulatory role
regarding cable TV and telecommunications.
• The adoption of a City Council policy regarding the manner in which the City reviews
and approves requests for telecommunications infrastructure easements.
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TERM:
•The term of the Ad Hoc Telecommunications Committee shall be two years from
the date of this resolution's adoption OR the Committee shall terminate three months
after the City Council approves new cable television franchise agreements (anticipated
to be in January 2002);
MEMBERSHIP:
Membership of the Ad Hoc Telecommunications Corrunittee shall consist of two
(2) members of the City Council and up to three members of the Newport Beach
community, all appointed by the Mayor. City staff support shall come from the City
Manager's Office, the City Attorney's Office, and the Department of Public Works.
ADOPTED this 28th day of November, 2000.
• ATTEST:
LaVonne Harkless
CITY CLERK
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SCI
• STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE } ss.
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
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. 2000 -97 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 28th
day of November, 2000, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Thomson, Glover, Adams, Ridgeway, Debay, O'Neil, Mayor Noyes
Noes: None
Absent: None
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
• official seal of said City this 29th day of November, 2000.
(Seal)
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City Clerk
Newport Beach, California