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•' <br />I I0111 •I �� •=A0 <br />To: James Ericson, City Administrator <br />From: Vanessa Van Alstine, Cable Television Coordinator <br />Item Title/Subject: Consequences of Withdrawing from NSCC JPC <br />Date of Report: September 22, 2010 <br />Background Information <br />Overview <br />Mounds View has been a member since 1981 of the North Suburban Cable <br />Commission (NSCC), a ten -city joint powers commission formed to manage the cable <br />franchise. The current franchise agreement, dating from 1998, has a 15 -year term and <br />will expire in October 2013. Staff has been asked to investigate the costs, advantages <br />and disadvantages involved with the City Mounds View withdrawing from the joint <br />powers commission and dealing directly with the cable company. <br />North Suburban Cable Commission <br />As stated on the CTV North Suburbs web site, "The North Suburban Cable Commission <br />(NSCC) is a joint powers venture by the cities of Arden Hills, Falcon Heights, <br />Lauderdale, Little Canada, Mounds View, New Brighton, North Oaks, Roseville, St. <br />Anthony and Shoreview. The NSCC is made up of representatives of each of the ten <br />member cities. The NSCC administers and enforces the franchise agreement with the <br />cable company and its successors; stewards resources, including franchise fees from <br />member cities, scholarship funds from the cable company and other income and assets <br />acquired by contract with the cable company or others; provides a means of public <br />access to cable television through its establishment and oversight of the NSAC (North <br />Suburban Access Corporation); and informs member cities and the public of developing <br />technology and issues related to cable communications." <br />Each member city has a representative on the Board of Directors of NSCC. Currently, <br />Barbara Haake serves as the representative for Mounds View. Voting weight and fiscal <br />responsibility for NSCC are proportional to the number of cable subscribers in each <br />member city. This percentage varies over time with the increase and decrease of <br />subscribers. It has been approximately 8% for Mounds View. <br />Each member city receives franchise fee revenues from the cable company. This fee <br />represents nearly all revenues for the Mounds View Cable TV (Fund 210) and supports <br />all City cable television activity, including personnel, materials and supplies, contractual <br />services, capital equipment, and support for NSCC. In 2009, Mounds View received <br />