Re: Long Beach City Council Meeting
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
27.
09-0361 Recommendation to authorize City
Manager to allocate Public, Education and Government (PEG) fee revenue equally among
the three
categories of cable access providers, each receiving one-third of the total
available.
(Citywide)
Distributed at the meeting: Correspondence from F. King Alexander,
President,
CSULB; and Paula McColm.
Councilmember O’Donnell spoke and submitted comments regarding
Long
Beach Media and Arts Center.
Councilmember Reyes Uranga spoke.
Councilmember DeLong
spoke.
Councilwoman Gabelich spoke.
CITY
OF LONG BEACH
COUNCIL CHAMBER, 5:00 PM
TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2009
CITY
COUNCIL MINUTES
Vice Mayor Lerch spoke.
Councilmember
DeLong spoke.
Councilmember O’Donnell spoke.
Ray Sharp spoke.
Harvey
Cochran spoke.
Whimsical Wendy spoke and submitted written comments.
Francis Emily Dawson
Harris spoke.
Julianna Rodriguez spoke.
Rachel Garcia spoke.
Denise
Penn spoke.
Minister Reginald Jackson spoke and submitted written comments.
Steve Long
spoke and submitted written comments.
Judy Baker spoke and submitted written comments.
Antonio
Ruiz spoke.
Douglas Wood spoke.
Summer Hansen spoke.
Matt Kaplan
spoke.
Melanie Parhan spoke.
Jim Oberst spoke.
Unidentified woman
spoke.
Jack Smith spoke.
Diane McNinch spoke.
Thomas Marchese spoke.
Karen La Mantia spoke and submitted written comments.
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CITY OF LONG BEACH
COUNCIL CHAMBER, 5:00 PM
TUESDAY, APRIL
21, 2009
CITY COUNCIL MINUTES
Mo Power spoke.
Councilmember Reyes Uranga spoke.
Councilwoman Gabelich spoke.
Motion:
Substitute motion to add that public access receive 80% first
year and 10% to each of the others two groups.
Moved by Gabelich, seconded by S. Lowenthal.
Councilwoman Gabelich withdrew her substitute
motion.
Councilmember O'Donnell spoke.
A motion was made by Councilmember O'Donnell, seconded by
Councilmember Reyes Uranga, to approve
recommendation that
staff: 1) move ahead with the RFP process and set firm dates for its
release
and return to the City Council for final approval; 2) create
accountability standards for any entity receiving
any of the PEG
funds; 3) re-adjust the allocation to reflect 80% of funding to public
access
for the first year and the remaining 20% split evenly
between education and government, with following
year’s annual
allocation at 50% of funding to public access; and 4) allow for
further
Council and public input into the RFP process. The motion
carried by the following vote:
Yes:
7 - S. Lowenthal,
O'Donnell, Schipske, Andrews, Reyes Uranga, Gabelich and Lerch
No: 1 - DeLong
