HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council - 2019-47 RESOLUTION NO. 2019-47
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH APPROVING THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE CITY
FROM THE PUBLIC CABLE TELEVISION AUTHORITY
WHEREAS, prior to May 1979, the Cities of Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley,
Stanton and Westminster entered into a Joint Powers Agreement (the "JPA") creating the Public
Cable Television Authority ("PCTA"), pursuant to Government Code Section 6250 et seq.; and
WHEREAS, in 1979, the PCTA granted a cable television franchise to Dickinson Pacific
Cablesystems to operate within the four Cities. In 1989, both the PCTA and Huntington Beach
approved the transfer of the Franchise to KBL Cable, Inc. In 2000, the PCTA approved the
transfer of the Franchise to AOL Time Warner, Inc. ("Time Warner"); and
WHEREAS, in 1990, the four Cities entered into a new JPA. On March 14, 2004, the
Cities approved the most recent JPA, entitled"Restated and Amended Joint Powers Agreement
for the Public Cable Television Authority,"dated April 20, 2004; and
WHEREAS, in 2006, the State Legislature adopted the Digital Infrastructure and Video
Competition Act("DIVCA") permitting telecommunications companies to obtain video
franchises from the California Public Utilities Commission ("CPUC"). Subsequently, Time
Warner accepted a CPUC franchise. Pursuant to DIVCA at Public Utilities Code Section
5840(o)(3), the PCTA's franchise to Time Warner terminated when Time Warner accepted its
State franchise; and
WHEREAS,JPA Section 4 provides that"subject to the provisions of Section I I,"the
PCTA"agreement . . . shall continue in full force . . . until the expiration or termination of any
franchise or extension thereof." JPA Section 11 provides that upon expiration of the term of the
JPA under Section 4,the Board of Directors "shall liquidate the business and assets and property
of PCTA;" and,
WHEREAS,the franchise the PCTA issued Time Warner terminated in 2006 when
Time-Warner accepted a Statewide video service franchise; and
By way of a pending legal action entitled, City of Huntington Beach v. City of Fountain
Valley, et al., Orange County Case No. 30-2019-01071652 (the "Action"), the City seeks to
enforce the provision of JPA Section 4 requiring the expiration of the PCTA upon the
termination of the Time Warner franchise. Further, because the term of the JPA expired upon
the termination of the Time Warner franchise, pursuant to JPA Section 11 and the Action, the
City seeks to compel the liquidation of the "business and assets and property of PCTA" and the
distribution of the net proceeds to the members pro rata according to their contributions; and
WHEREAS, regardless of the result of the Action, the City seeks to exit the PCTA; and
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WHEREAS, JPA Sections 4 and 13 provide alternative means for a member city to leave
the PCTA; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to JPA Section 4, the City may terminate its membership in the
PCTA upon six (6) months written notice to the PCTA and its Members; and
WHEREAS, at its January 22, 2019 Council Meeting, the Huntington Beach City
Council directed the City Manager to give a six month written Notice of Intent to Terminate
Membership in the PCTA. On January 23, 2019, the City Manager notified the PCTA and the
other three Cities that the City was withdrawing from the PCTA, effective July 22, 2019.
WHEREAS, pursuant to JPA Section 13.1, the City may withdraw from the PCTA upon
filing a certified copy of a City Council Resolution expressing its desire to so withdraw, and
making arrangements to pay its pro rata obligations of the PCTA payable from contributions
from the City that mature after the date of such filing; and
WHEREAS, the Huntington Beach City Council is willing to pay its pro rata share of
PCTA obligations maturing after date of this Resolution, upon receipt of appropriate proof of
such obligation; and
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does hereby
resolve as follows:
Section 1. The City Council hereby resolves that the City withdraw from the JPA
effective July 22, 2019.
Section 2. The City Council directs the City Clerk to deliver immediately a certified
copy of this Resolution to the PCTA Board of Directors, by serving it upon the Secretary of the
PCTA.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach at a
regular meeting thereof held on the 15th day of July ' 2019
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss:
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH )
I, ROBIN ESTANISLAU, the duly elected, qualified City Clerk of the
City of Huntington Beach, and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of said City, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach is seven; that the foregoing resolution was passed and adopted
by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of all the members of said City Council
at a Regular meeting thereof held on July 15, 2019 by the following vote:
AYES: Brenden, Carr, Semeta, Peterson, Posey, Delgleize, Hardy
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
RECUSE: None
City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the
City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach, California