26-93 Agreement w/ Schools - Video Equip

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,~ PLACED ON FIRST READ:) & REFERRED TO Committee of the Whole on 4/l9/9~. ORDINANCE NO. 26-93 BY: Boscia, Gallagher, George, Gibbons, Roth, Seelie, Smith AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE authorizing and directing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with the LakewoodCity Schools to enable the City of Lakewood to fund purchases- by the Lakewood city Schools of video production and editing equipment and to partially fund the ongoing operation and maintenance of such equipment. WHEREAS, the city has granted to Cox Cable Cleveland Area, Inc. a non-exclusive franchise to provide cable television service to the residents of Lakewood, and has renewed said franchise for fifteen years commencing June 19, 1987, and WHEREAS, Cox Cable Company agreed to pay the City a franchise fee of five percent (5%) of the Company's gross monthly subscriber service revenues, less unpaid monthly subscriber service charges, but including any annual or periodic prepayment o£monthly service charges, for the Company's previqus fiscal year. WHEREAS, the City has deposited two percent (2%) of said five percent {5%) of the franchise feé in a Cable Franchise Trust Fund for the purpose of improving the programming opportunities for community groups and the LakewoodCity Schools, and WHEREAS, there are currently funds available in the Cable Franchise Trust Fund for said purposes, and WHEREAS, it is in the City's best interest to enter into an the agreement attached hereto as Exhibit "AU and made a part hereof, to fund specific purchases by the LakewQod city Schools totaling One Hundred Twenty Thousand {$12û,OnO} Dollars, and 'each year thereafter to fund the ongoing maintenance and operation of said equipment in the amount of Twenty Thousand {$20,DOO) Dollars Pßr year; now, therefore, WHEREAS, this ordinance constitutes an emergency measure providing for the immediate- pr~servation of the pUblic health, safety, and welfare, and for the usual daily operation of a municipal department and for thé reason that the Board _of Education is expected to approve the Agreement on April 19, 1993 and desires to begin purchasing equipment as soon as possible to facilitate public acceSS4 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That the Mayor on behalf of the city of Lakewood is hereby authorized and directed to enter into an agreement with the Lakewood City Schools, substantially in the form as :attached hereto as Exhibit "A" and incorporated by reference herein, with such additional provisions as are acceptable to the Director of Law to protect the pUblic interest. Section 2. That the Finance Director is- hereby author.~zed and directed to payout of -the Cable Franchise Trust Fund the amount of One Hundred Twenty Thousand Dollars ($120,000) to the LakewoOd City Schools fifteen (15) days ·after the effective date of thìsordìnance, and thereafter on January 15th of each year, the amount of Twenty Thousand ($20,000) Dollars to fund the ongoing maintenance and operation of said equipment pursuant to the terms in the Agreement. Section 3~ It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and reLating to the passage of this ordinance were adopted in ~n open- meeting of this Council, and that all such deliberations of this -Council and of Any of its committees that resulted ,in such formal action were in, meetings- open to the public in compliance with all legal requirements.