Recommendation to authorize City Manager to allocate Public, Education, and Government fee revenue equally among the three categories of cable access providers, each receiving one-third of the total available; and increase appropriations in the General Services Fund (IS 385) and the Technology and Innovation Department (TI) by $1,018,773.  (Citywide)
That's correct. Item 31 Report from Technology and Innovation Recommendation to authorize the City Manager to allocate public education and government fee revenue equally among the three categories of cable access providers citywide. So a staff report. Director of Technology Services Brian Stokes. Good evening, Vice Mayor and members of City Council. The item before you tonight seeks approval for an equal distribution of our city's pig public education and government fees across three access television categories. State legislation that was passed in 2006 significantly altered the cable television franchise environment in California. And as a result of this legislation, localities were able to implement a local peg fee to support access television facilities. In 2007, the City Council adopted the Pig Ordinance establishing our local pig fee. It's important to remember that the pig funds are restricted for capital use for access television providers, for example, production equipment and editing software cannot be used for the operational purchases or purposes such as staffing and reoccurring costs, such as rent. For the last several years, the City Council has authorized an equal split of the annual pig revenues across all three access categories to meet. Each program's capital needs to ensure compliance with the state and federal laws. The city has received and reviewed spending reports from the fund recipients that describe how the previous year's funds were utilized. In short, these funds were used for the audio and video equipment such as mikes, cameras, lenses, as well as for computer equipment and software for post-production, editing of work and video current storage. The city staff once again recommends distribution of the 2015 pig funds to be equally distributed across all three categories. That concludes my staff report and we are available for any questions. Thank you, Councilman Mongo. Excited to see this move forward. Thank you. Great. Councilmember Super or not? Okay. Is there any member of the public that wish to address the Council on this item? Hi. Really briefly, because I know. We've all been. Here for a long time. My name is Lisa Masaryk and I'm the director of at the. Public Access Digital Network. It is the public access part of the PAG, and I just want to. Really think the council again. Much like we did. We renewed our contract when you renewed our contract. For Long Beach Community Action Partnership to run the PE part of it because again, I just really appreciate that this council. Recognizes the importance of. These resources in a. Community and. Local content and producing, you know, hyperlocal content that we don't. Typically see anymore. So I really wanted to thank you for your support. And also Mr. Simpson. Mr. Derrick Simpson, our executive director, wanted me to apologize. He's away at a conference so he wasn't able to attend tonight. But again, thank you so much for your support. Thank you, Councilman Mongo. We appreciate that you came tonight and we through our long agenda and I hope that you got much more content for your upcoming episodes. Thank you. Members cast your vote. Is it working? Yes. Motion carries. Thank you. Item 32. Are we on ordinances?