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March 13, 2015 to: Jim Ericson, City Administrator City of Mounds View from: Cor Wilson Executive Director subject: Revisions to Joint Powers Agreement We began revising the Joint Powers Agreement last summer, working with the city managers and administrators and the NSCC/NSAC Strategic Planning Committee. Since the Joint Powers Agreement had last been updated in 1990, most of the 2014/2015 revisions to the document reflected our current practice. In addition, the Strategic Planning Committee clarified some of the language and made sure it was consistent throughout. Finally, some of the changes reflected our experience with the withdrawal of the City of Shoreview from the NSCC. I. General Updates – These include the name change and combining the secretary and treasurer officers into one position. The purpose and duties of the NSCC were updated and clarified in Articles II and VIII. For example, the NSCC does not monitor the cable system so much as it administers the cable franchises of the member cities. The specific reference to rate regulation was changed to a broader concern with consumer protection. With the withdrawal of the City of Shoreview, references to the city were removed and the number of members updated. Article VII still reflected language from the original Joint Powers Agreement adopted in 1983, so that was removed. Article X, Section 4, reflects current practice. II. Language consistency and clarity – We changed all references to “Board” to “Commission” in order to be consistent. Article X, Section 3, clarified the current practice and eliminated excess verbiage. III. Change reflecting experience with Shoreview’s withdrawal Article VIII, Section 11, makes clear that a withdrawing city will assume all responsibility for its own Public, Education and Government access channels and removed a reference to the 1990 document which transferred responsibility for the PEG channels from the cable company to the NSCC. Because the current withdrawal schedule made budgeting difficult, Article X changes the notification date for withdrawal from October 15 to July 1 and changes the date by which a the withdrawing city may rescind its notice from December 31 to October 15. In addition to again clarifying that the withdrawing city is responsible for its own PEG channels, we also deleted language that required the NSCC to distribute a pro rata share of any PEG channel funding to the withdrawing city. Instead, the cable operator must pay its obligated PEG channel funding for the withdrawing city directly to that city. Feel free to contact me if you have any additional questions about the revisions. Arden Hills Falcon Heights Lauderdale Little Canada Mounds View New Brighton North Oaks Roseville St. AnthonyNorth Suburban Communications Commission North Suburban Access Corporation 2670 Arthur Street Roseville, MN 55113 Phone: (NSCC) 651-792-7500 (CTV) 651-792-7515 (Fax) 651-792-7501 www.ctvnorthsuburbs.org