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