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Regular Council Meeting 9-18-00 ' Page 13 form and that is what this is basically doing. It is putting into your Codified Ordinances certain language changes based on the change in technology over the past 15-20 yeazs, referencing the new cable acts that have been brought into play that we have to abide by as well as the cable companies, certain Federal regulations that have been adopted by the U.S. Code which we have to abide by as well as the franchisees, the franchise fee provisions, public and educational and governmental programming requirement that the grantee has to follow, how gross revenues aze determined and the franchise fees put on that, all aze put into the Codified Ordinances for enforcement purposes and giving more legal strength to all of the codes that impact cable television and the codes themselves. The Committee has gone over all of these and has found nothing objectionable in them and approved them including the various terms (which are no different than the contract itself.) Council President Marquardt asked if there were any questions or comments. There were none. Roll Call: AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried Ordinance Enacted First Reading of Ordinance No. 2000-39, "An emergency ordinance enacting new Chapter 946 to the Codified Ordinances of the Village of Mayfield relating to customer service standazds for cable television systems." Introduced by Mayor Rinker and Council as a Whole. Mr. Busa, seconded by Dr. Pazker, made a motion to suspend the rules of Council requiring an ordinance to be read on three separate occasions. Roll Call: AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried Rules Suspended Mr. Busa, seconded by Dr. Pazker, made a motion to enact Ordinance No. 2000-39. Mr. Diemert said this was a recommendation from the Cuyahoga County Mayors and City Managers. In their dealings with cable television in the past, when there have been interruptions in service and other non-responsive behavior by the cable companies, we didn't have much teeth other than the contract itself to go after the cable company. This is enacting privacy requirements, service requirements, hotlines, call.lines that have to be available 24 hours a day and establishing the Mayor or his designee to receive complaints from citizens and then follow up on enforcing these codes or any dissatisfaction we might have with the cable company, it gives us some teeth to go after them in our codes. Council President Marquardt asked if the cable company is aware of these. Mr. Diemert said yes; they have approved them as well in their procedures.