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Item No: 1 Meeting Date: Aug 3, 2009 Type of Business: Work Session Administrator Review: ____ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Desaree Crane Assistant City Clerk-Administrator Item Title/Subject: Cable Committee By-laws At the April and June Work Sessions, the City Council discussed the role/mission of the Cable Committee. Below are some of the questions discussed: 1. What is the role/mission of the Cable Committee? Are they an advisory committee to the City Council? 2. Who has the final authority on City cable programming? Does the City Council have the final authority or is it the Cable Committee? 3. Should the Cable Committee be appointed by the City Council? There are no City Code guidelines on appointments to committees. The Streets and Utilities Committee was appointed by the City Council. What excludes the City Council from appointing members to the Cable Committee? 4. If the City Council wishes to appoint members to the Cable Committee, then should there be term limits in place? Rough drafts of the Bylaws were presented to the City Council at the April and June Work Sessions for comment. Using the comments raised at both Work Sessions, Staff and the Cable Committee have been working together on drafting Cable Committee By- laws. Attached is a final draft of the by-laws, which was approved by the Cable Committee at their last meeting on July 20, 2009. At the last Cable Committee Meeting, the Cable Committee requested to have a City Council Liaison to be present at Cable Committee meetings. The role of this Liaison would be to serve as a conduit for sharing information between the City Council and the Cable Committee. This Liaison would not be considered a member of the Cable Committee. The Cable Committee currently has two Staff Liaisons, Assistant City Clerk-Administrator and the Cable TV Coordinator. These two Staff Liaisons currently serve as a conduit for sharing information with the City Council; however, the Cable Committee felt that having an additional City Council Liaison would better serve the Cable Committee in assisting on issues relating to cable access programming and the cable budget. Staff added additional language (Article V) to the by-laws, which allows the City Council to appoint a City Council Liaison to the Cable Committee, if necessary.