City Council Meeting Date: July 23, 2019
To: Mayor and City Council
City Administrator
From: Kurt Wolf, IT Manager
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Consider resolution authorizing a $.25 increase to the PEG fee.
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Action Requested:
The Northfield City Council approves the attached Resolution authorizing a $ 0.25 increase to the PEG fees charged to subscribers of Charter Spectrum, which holds the current franchise contract with the City of Northfield.
Summary Report:
The City of Northfield proposes to increase the amount of PEG fees collected by Charter Spectrum and distributed quarterly to the City of Northfield in the amount of $.25 per subscriber per month. This is the maximum amount of increase in a one-year period.
Background Information
As a part of the existing contract with Charter Spectrum, we have the ability to increase the amount of fees collected by Charter Spectrum for the City of Northfield by a maximum of $.25 per year, to a maximum of $1.25, to be used to support public, educational and government access (PEG). PEG fees are collected from every cable subscriber in Northfield. That amount collected per subscriber is currently $1.00 per month. By increasing the PEG fees by $.25, the PEG fee will be at the maximum of $1.25 and the additional amount that will be raised will be approximately $10,000 per year. The PEG fee increase notification must be sent to Charter prior to September 30, 2019 for the increase to take effect on January 1, 2020.
Staff proposes to use the additional PEG fees to purchase up-to-date equipment for the broadcasting of NTV programming, with the intent of housing and maintaining this equipment in the audio-visual room in Council Chambers, City Hall.
Alternative Options:
Remove from consent and consider alternate action not to approve the fee increase.
Financial Impacts:
Each Charter Spectrum subscriber will pay an additional $.25 per month, for a total of $3.00 per year increase to their cable bill.
Staff is planning to spend ex...
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