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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1971-03-23; Community Television Foundation; Resolution 0- f f f RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION REQUESTING CABLE TELEVISION CHANNEL RESERVATIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS WHEREAS all or part of the Palomar Community College School District lies within the jurisdiction of the City of Carlsbad. being the granting authority for cable television (CATV) franchises, and WHEREAS the Cable Television (CATV) industry is making an increased effort to install cable television systems in communities throughout San Diego County as well as the entire country, and WHEREAS the potential of expanded cable television systems will provide high quality multi-channel signals beyond the current broadcast spectrum and opens possibilities for the creation of an Educational Resources Access System in education and government, including facilities for instructional television, computer assisted instruction, computer services, and the transmission of instruction in verbal, written, or pictorial form, and WHEREAS large corporations are being attracted by the potential economic benefits and through merger, acquisition and/or establishment of new franchises, and WHEREAS local school systems recognize the urgency to share in the use of this public facility based upon proven successes of instructional television programming, and IB WHEREAS the National Cable Television Association (NCTA) in its position paper, dated April 19&9, endorsed the policy as follows: "To this end, NCTA and the cable television industry endorse a policy of supporting the efforts of the National Education Association, the Joint Council on Educational Telecommunications (JCET) and the California Public School Instructional Television Committee, and other organizations concerned with future planning for the nation's school systems," and WHEREAS in implementing the same position paper the NCTA stated: "Further, it is the intention of NCTA and the cable television industry to support a plan in principle whereby cable systems allot standard and non-standard channels of proposed and existing cable systems to school districts and other educational bodies to accomplish the goals of television instruction; and generally to provide whatever assistance necessary to help alleviate over-crowded classroom conditions, provide in-home instructional assistance, and to serve in other ways for the greater efficiency and effectiveness of public education," and WHEREAS in the same position paper the NCTA supports the organizations which have set a traditional 20 per cent channel system capacity for education, and WHEREAS the schools of San Diego County have cooperated for the past five years to provide an effective television service to the schools of our communities, _ T _ NOW, THEREFORE, HE IT RESOLVED that the San Diego County Board of Supervisors and the city councils of the thirteen (13) municipalities take steps to involve the San Diego County Board of Education in all negotiations for franchise requests by cable television organizations, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, upon notice of intent by a cable television company to seek a franchise, immediate notice be forwarded to the District Superintendent of the Palomar Community College School District and the County Superintendent of Schools to insure adequate representation during negotiations, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that each franchise considered shall provide that the grantee install into each elementary and secondary public school building and community college within the cable service area cable connections sufficient to enable each building to receive all programs transmitted over the system, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that each franchise considered shall incorporate a percentage of cable system channel capacity commensurate with educational needs and potential. The percentage specified in the franchise shall be based upon a traditionally established percentage of channels and/or facilities reserved especially for education. Since the inception of radio and television, this percentage has been not less than (20) per cent. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Palomar Community College School District hereby requests that any franchise for cable television granted by the Board of Supervisors, County of San Diego, and the Cities of Carlsbad, Escondido, Oceanside, San Diego, Vista, and San Marcos in which said school district lies all or in part designate in the franchise the San Diego County Board of Education and their representative, the County Superintendent of Schools, as the trustee of the cable television allocations for the purpose of assuring fair and equitable distribution of channel space resource among the various school districts involved. TrusteesPASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of EaaxadxSxaa of the Palomar Community College School District, County of San Diego, State of California, this 23rd day of March , 1971, by the following vote: AYES: Jaques, Loomis, Shadle, Olmstead, Kornhauser NOES: None ABSENT: None STATE OF CALIFORNIA) ss COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO) I, Frederick R. Huber , XStxx^/Secretary of the Governing Board of Palomar Community CollegejaekswcbcDistrict, County of San Diego, State of California, hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the resolution passed and adopted by said Board at a regular meeting thereof, at the time and by the vote therein stated, and direct that copies be sent to the Board of Supervisors, County of San Diego, the Cities of Carlsbad, Escondido, Oceanside, San Diego, Vista and San Marcos, and the San Diego County Board of Education. c. (Signed), (Title)_ Supt. of Schools, Dept. of Educ. San Diego County 2-71 UB