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2 be volunteers and have an interest in and willingness to assist in the production of cable programming. Section 2. APPOINTMENT PROCESS. The Mounds View’s City Council (hereinafter referred to as “City”) in conjunction with the MVCC Cable Committee shall advertise through its usual and customary channels for interested parties to serve on the MVCC Cable Committee. Each MVCC Cable Committee member shall be appointed by the City Council, based on the recommendations of the Cable Committee MVCC, from the applications submitted. Section 3. TERMS OF OFFICE: Appointments shall be made for three-year staggered terms in office. Terms in office begin in January of the year they he/she are appointed. If there are five Cable Committee MVCC members, two shall be appointed for three-year terms; two more the next year for three-year terms and in the third year, one is appointed for a three-year term. If there are six Cable Committee MVCC members, two shall be appointed for three-year terms; two more the next year for three- year terms and in the third year, the last three are appointed for three-year terms. If there are seven MVCC Cable Committee members, the distribution is two, three and two. Section 4. VACANCIES: Any committee Cable Committee member who is unable to fulfill their three-year term of office on the MVCC Cable Committee shall notify the chair of the MVCC Cable Committee who will go through the appointment process established by the City to ask for applicants to fill the remaining term of office of the retiring member. A new appointee will be made as soon as possible to complete the departing committee member’s term in office. Section 5. SUBMISSION OF MEMBERS’ EXPENSES: Any expense that may be incurred by any member of the MVCC Cable Committee shall be required to have pre- approval by a majority the MVCC Cable Committee. in conjunction with approval from the Mounds View Cable Television Coordinator. Claim forms shall be filled out by the Cable Committee member and submitted to the Cable Television Coordinator approved in the same manner as other claims. Section 8. DUTIES OF THE MVCCCABLE COMMITTEE. The MVCC Cable Committee duties are as follows: with advice/input from the Mounds View Cable Television Coordinator are outlined below which may be expanded/contracted depending on the needs of the City: a) To advise the City Council regarding issues relating to the the programming of the government access cable channel. b) To provide an informational and public relations outlet for the city government through the use of government access cable channel c) To develop and work toward an understanding of the benefits of the government access cable channel community television as a communications medium. d) To provide Mounds View residents the opportunity to understand their community more fully and to participate more successfully in community life.