AGENDA REPORT
REQUEST FOR CITY COUNCIL ACTION
DATE: 3/21/2018
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Information Technology Department
SUBJECT: City Council consideration to adopt Resolution 2018-012 APPROVING A ONE PERCENT (1%) FEE ON CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS' (SPECTRUM) GROSS REVENUES TO SUPPORT THE CITY'S PUBLIC, EDUCATION AND GOVERNMENT (PEG) CHANNEL
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Recommended action
That the City Council :
1. Adopt Resolution No. 2018-012 approving a one percent (1%) fee on Charter Communications (Spectrum) gross revenues to support the City's public, educational and government (PEG) channel.
2. Designate all revenue collected by the 1% public, educational and government (PEG) channel fee to Information Technology to use for capital improvements in support of PEG activities as defined within state and federal law accordingly.
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ANALYSIS:
In 2006, the State passed the Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act (DIVCA) which created state franchises for cable companies in place of the local franchise agreements each City had with a specific carrier. DIVCA opened up cable competing in communities across the State. DIVCA states that all vendors should be treated similarly. Currently there are two cable service providers in Corona, Spectrum (whose parent company is Charter Communications) and AT&T U-Verse.
The Corona Municipal Code (CMC) 5.14.140 allows the City Council, by resolution, to assess a 1% PEG Support fee to any State video franchise holder operating within the boundaries of the City of Corona. These fees, once collected, can only be used for public, educational, and government access purposes consistent with State and Federal law. It is intended that this finding will be used for capital improvement, replacement or maintenance of the City's production equipment, as well as, fund equipment related to emergency broadcasts and information dispersal from the Emergency Operations Center.
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