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<br /> <br /> STAFF REPORT <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />TO: Mayor Keis and Members of City Council <br /> <br />FROM: Chris Heineman, City Administrator <br />DATE: October 28, 2020 <br /> <br />RE: Approval of 2021 Service Agreement with NSAC (CTV) <br /> <br />ACTION TO BE CONSIDERED: <br />The City Council is asked to consider approval of a Motion to Approve the 2021 Service Agreement <br />with the North Suburban Access Corporation (NSAC). <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: <br />The 2021 Service Agreement for CTV is attached for your review and consideration. As we heard <br />from Executive Director Dana Healy at our last meeting, the production services portion of the contract <br />is changing from an hourly amount to a per meeting charge in 2021. CTV’s municipal production <br />services were previously offered at $33 per hour to the city. Little Canada utilizes an estimated 132 <br />hours of production services per year, which totaled $4,356 in the 2020 Service Agreement. <br /> <br />In Schedule A of the attached document, the charges for production services will be based on a cost <br />per meeting of $173. With a total of 48 meetings for 2021, including two City Council meetings, one <br />Planning Commission meeting, and one Parks and Recreation meeting per month, the proposed <br />production services cost will be $8,304 which will result in a 91% increase in production services for <br />2021. For each additional meeting that is scheduled besides the 48 meetings included in the contract, a <br />flat fee of $207 per meeting will be charged. <br /> <br />While the increase for production services is quite significant, all of the other line items have remained <br />the same and the overall increase is only 50%. The total expense for production services, cablecasting, <br />carousel management, and web streaming is still approximately 50-60% of the City of Little Canada’s <br />expenditure for in-house production services prior to 2019. <br /> <br />According to Finance Director Brenda Malinowski, we currently have enough in the 2021 budget if we <br />do not renew the contract for Site Aware in 2021. <br /> <br /> <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION: <br />Staff recommends approval of the 2021 Service Agreement with North Suburban Access Corporation <br />(NSAC) as presented. <br />