There is hereby established a Municipal Cable
TV Advisory Committee consisting of five members which shall be appointed
by the Township Committee and shall serve without compensation. The
Township Committee shall designate a member of the Township Committee
as the liaison to the Cable TV Advisory Committee. The five members
shall be residents of the Township and shall serve for a three-year
term; however, each member shall initially serve only until December
31 of the year of their initial appointment. Thereafter, the Township
Committee shall stagger the terms of the members. Therefore, two members
shall be appointed for one year, two members for two years and one
member for three years. Subsequently, each appointment of the five
general members shall be for a three-year term. In January of each
year, the members of the Committee shall select one of its members
to serve as Chairperson and presiding officer for one year.
Members of the Municipal Cable TV Advisory Committee shall comply with the Code of Ethics (§
47-22 of Chapter
47, Personnel).
A vacancy on the Municipal Cable TV Advisory
Committee occurring other than by expiration of a term shall be filled
for the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointment.
The Municipal Cable TV Advisory Committee shall
have the following powers and duties:
A. To conduct research, make studies, compile data, and
conduct and evaluate citizen surveys with the goal of improving cable
television and enrichment of the Township.
B. To recommend to the TV-71 management advisory council
plans and/or programs for inclusion for cable television generation
throughout the Township.
C. To keep apace with the developments in cable television
and to suggest guidelines which will make cable television provide
maximum advantages to the Township and its citizenry.
D. To monitor cable television programming offered to
the residents of the Township and, in conjunction therewith, to make
suggestions for revisions to that programming in order to benefit
such residents.
E. To assist the Township Committee in negotiations with
refranchising of the local cable company.
F. To keep abreast of state and federal cable legislation
and lobby the legislature for favorable cable legislation.