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Approve and authorize the Contracts Purchasing Officer or his designee to execute an Agreement with the Monterey County Office of Education to broadcast Monterey County Board of Supervisors' public meetings, for an amount not to exceed $15,200, for the period retroactive to January 1, 2019 through December 14, 2019.
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RECOMMENDATION:
Approve and authorize the Contracts Purchasing Officer or his designee to execute an Agreement with the Monterey County Office of Education to broadcast Monterey County Board of Supervisors' public meetings, for an amount not to exceed $15,200, for the period retroactive to January 1, 2019 through December 14, 2019.
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SUMMARY:
Under the terms of the recommended agreement, the Monterey County Office of Education (MCOE) will broadcast public meetings of the Monterey County Board of Supervisors on its public access channel on the Charter cable system during the period of January 1, 2019 through December 14, 2019. Approval of the agreement will assure that residents living north of Prunedale and south of Soledad have uninterrupted cable access to these meetings until the County can launch its own public access, government channel on the Charter system to serve them.
DISCUSSION:
The Monterey County Government Channel was launched in 2004 on the Comcast cable system. The County's government channel is presently only available on the Comcast cable system and on AT&T U-verse, neither of which reaches certain areas of the County.
From 2004 through 2007, MCOE provided government channel services to the County, which included airing Board of Supervisors' public meetings on its public access channel on the Charter cable system. This arrangement provided cable access to Board of Supervisors' meetings to residents living north of Prunedale and south of Soledad who are served by the Charter cable system.
In 2007, the County selected a different vendor to provide government channel broadcast services. Under a new agreement, ...
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