A Community Television Advisory Committee is hereby established in and for the City for the following purposes:
(a) To assist the station manager, Council and the City Manager in defining the goals and objectives of public, educational and governmental access to television in the City;
(b) To periodically review policies for community-wide public, educational and governmental access to television and to periodically review any public, educational and governmental access rules and regulations and suggest amendments as needed;
(c) To monitor and evaluate existing programs relating to governmental access to cable television and to recommend to Council changes for improvements to such access to cable television;
(d) To explore funding sources for programs relating to public, educational and governmental access to local community television and related services;
(e) To review and make recommendations regarding the community television station’s annual and five-year plan budgets;
(f) To review on a continuing basis with the station manager the goals and objectives for the City’s community’s television station, and to monitor the extent to which the Committee feels they are being implemented and achieved;
(g) To periodically meet with the City Manager or Assistant City Manager and the station manager on no less than an annual basis, to summarize the Committee’s assessment of how the goals and objectives for the City’s community television station have been met during the previous year, and to make recommendations for the future; and
(h) To adopt administrative rules under which the Committee will operate and to adopt rules and regulations governing public access programming.
(Ord. 97-113. Passed 9-3-97; Ord. 01-13. Passed 1-17-01; Ord. 09-63. Passed 6-17-09; Ord. 17-41. Passed 3-21-17; Ord. 18-55. Passed 5-1-18.)