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MEMO To: FROM: Mayor and City Council � Clerk -Administrator i� DATE: November 1, 1983 SUBJECT: NORTH SUBURBAN CABLE COMMUNICATION COMMISSION BUDGET As you may recall, at the September 12th Agenda Session you received material from the North Suburban Cable Communication Commission regarding their 1984 Budget and a request for contribution for the fourth quarter of 1983. The Commission requested a contribution in the amount of $2,587.50 for the fourth quarter of 1983 and total 1984 contributions in the amount of $10,350.00 to be reimbursed by Group W as part of the franchise agreement. At that time it was requested that staff contact the attorney for the North Suburban Cable Communication Commission to determine what would occur should the City make these contributions and the franchise fees not be adequate to support the amount of our contribution. Attached please find correspondence received by Commission Attorney, Thomas Creighton, advising that should franchise fees not be suffi- cient to cover contributions by the member cities of the North Suburban Cable Communication Commission that the following year's franchise fee payments would be reduced to reflect any excess advances. In other words, the City would not be expected to refund any advance- ments in franchise fee payments made by Group W. RECOMMENDATION: Based on this information staff would again recommend that the Council authorize the submittal of payment in the amount of $2,587.50 to the North Suburban Cable Communication Commission for the fourth quarter of 1983 with monies coming out of the City's contingency account in the 1983 Budget, and payment of the 1984 contribution in the amount of $10,350.00 to be paid from the contingency account of the 1984 Budget with said payment not being made prior to January 1, 1984. DFP/pf Attachment