County of Santa Barbara - File #: 01-01498

• File #: 01-01498
• Version: 3
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 12/11/2001
• In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
• On agenda: 12/11/2001
• Final action: 12/11/2001
• Title: HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding granting a cable franchise agreement to Cox Communications, Inc. for a thirteen-year period, with provision for an additional two-year extension (for a total of fifteen years) if all required construction for the County INET is completed within twenty months, commencing on the effective date of the ordinance, as follows: (EST. TIME: 15 MIN.) a) Consider the adoption (Second Hearing) of the ordinance; b) Approve a budget revision recognizing as revenue a Government Access capital grant in the amount of $1,150,000 to be provided by Cox within 60 days of the effective date of the franchise and appropriating as expenditure $250,000 to the City of Goleta for capital equipment needs and connection costs for government access programming, and expending the remaining $900,000 in subsequent fiscal years for County Government Access purposes; c) Approve the following actions pertaining to I-Net services: i) Approve b...
• Sponsors: COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICE

Date	Action By	Action	Result
7/1/2014	BOARD OF SUPERVISORS	Read by title; waived reading of the ordinance in its entirety. Introduction approved; adoption (second reading) set, as follows:	Pass
12/11/2001	BOARD OF SUPERVISORS	Acted on as follows:	Pass
11/20/2001	BOARD OF SUPERVISORS	Set for a hearing, as follows:	Pass

Title
HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding granting a cable franchise agreement to Cox Communications, Inc. for a thirteen-year period, with provision for an additional two-year extension (for a total of fifteen years) if all required construction for the County INET is completed within twenty months, commencing on the effective date of the ordinance, as follows: (EST. TIME: 15 MIN.)

a) Consider the adoption (Second Hearing) of the ordinance;

b) Approve a budget revision recognizing as revenue a Government Access capital grant in the amount of $1,150,000 to be provided by Cox within 60 days of the effective date of the franchise and appropriating as expenditure $250,000 to the City of Goleta for capital equipment needs and connection costs for government access programming, and expending the remaining $900,000 in subsequent fiscal years for County Government Access purposes;

c) Approve the following actions pertaining to I-Net services:

i) Approve budget revision recognizing as revenue a capital grant of $400,000 for initial construction of facilities and installation costs for an Institutional Network (I-Net) to be provided by Cox within 30 days of the effective date of the franchise, as provided in the ordinance, and appropriating an equal amount as expenditures for payment to Cox Com/ Cox Business Services for performing this work;

ii) Acknowledge and accept a commitment by Cox to provide a capital grant not to exceed $200,000 for future additional I-Net locations and service upgrades to be provided by Cox as needed;

iii) Acknowledge and accept a letter from Cox regarding "Discounted Commercial Services" (Attachment B);

d) Approve a budget revision recognizing as revenue a grant in the amount of $208,000 to assist the Goleta Union School District with an initial payment to match its Universal Service Fund (USF) application and appropriating an equal amount as expenditu...