A | Public Hearing, Consideration and Adoption of Resolution No. 2016-39: A resolution of the Flagstaff City Council authorizing an Interim Renewal of Cable License Agreement with NPG Cable, LLC, doing business as Suddenlink (license to use City rights-of-way for cable services/facilities) | ||||||
Mayor Evans opened the Public Hearing and Senior City Attorney Anja Wendel gave a brief background on the requested interim renewal for the license agreement with Suddenlink. Councilmember Putzova asked if the license fee could be tied to the level of service. She asked if it would be legal to create an agreement where they would incentivize faster internet. Ms. Wendel said that right now their license fee is 5% of gross revenues. She said that they could explore that with the final agreement. Councilmember Overton said that they rely on that revenue for the City's budget. He would be leery of reducing that fee because there is a cost to using the City's rights of way. He was comfortable with staying at the 5% and moving the agreement forward. Vice Mayor Whelan asked Ms. Wendel if there were any drawbacks in going with a four-month extension, or if a longer term was needed. Ms. Wendel said that staff sees this as a band-aid. Their intent is to come back in the next four months and propose a longer term renewal for the licnese. Councilmember Barotz said that she would request a CCR listing all of the franchise agreements. She said that sometimes there is competition and sometimes there is not. Ms. Wendel noted that they published a notice of the hearing and did receive one comment from Mike Gibson who asked why they only had Phoenix news channels. She said that they forwarded that request to Suddenlink to respond directly, but the answer is that Flagstaff is in the Phoenix-designated market area and they are not allowed to broadcast the Tucson channels. |
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Moved by Mayor Coral J. Evans, seconded by Councilmember Eva Putzova to read Resolution No. 2016-39 by title only. | |||||||
Vote: 7 - 0 - Unanimously | |||||||
A RESOLUTION OF THE FLAGSTAFF CITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZING AN INTERIM RENEWAL OF CABLE LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH NPG CABLE, LLC, DOING BUSINESS AS SUDDENLINK, AND ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE DATE |
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Moved by Councilmember Eva Putzova, seconded by Councilmember Charlie Odegaard to adopt Resolution No. 2016-39. | |||||||
Vote: 7 - 0 - Unanimously | |||||||