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<br />REQUEST FOR ACCESS CORPORATION ACTION (RACA) <br /> Meeting Date: - <br /> Agenda Item No.: - <br />Department Approval Executive Director Approval <br />- - <br />Item Description: JPA Resolution to Include Non-geographically Contiguous Cities <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />BACKGROUND 1 <br />On July 16, 2020, the North Suburban Communications Commission voted to update the Joint 2 <br />Powers Agreement to include the following: 3 <br />Under section II, General Purpose, “public, educational, and governmental” was spelled out to 4 <br />explain PEG. Also added in section II was “local community media, including cable television” 5 <br />programming. The purpose of this was to broaden the language to include beyond cable 6 <br />programming. 7 <br />Section V.1, “geographically contiguous to any of these named municipalizes and” was removed. 8 <br />Section V.4 “a majority of the members” was added, and “five” was removed. This makes the 9 <br />document more evergreen as membership changes. This change was also done in section 6 and 8. 10 <br />Section V.8 “Unless otherwise required herein, all official actions of the Commission must receive 11 <br />two-thirds (2/3) of all the authorized votes cast on that issue at a duly constituted meeting of the 12 <br />Commission and the affirmative vote of a majority of the appointed directors present and voting. 13 <br />Abstentions shall not be considered authorized votes cast. 14 <br /> 15 <br />POLICY OBJECTIVE 16 <br />To adopt the recently updated Joint Powers Agreement that will make it possible to include non-17 <br />geographically contiguous cities. 18 <br />BUDGET IMPLICATIONS 19 <br />NA 20 <br />STAFF RECOMMENDATION 21 <br />NA 22 <br />REQUESTED ACCESS CORPORATION ACTION 23 <br />To vote to bring the resolution as presented to each member city for approval on the consent agenda. 24 <br />Prepared by: Dana Healy, Executive Director <br />Attachments: A: 7c_Support_JPAResolution <br /> <br />33