TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Talyn Mirzakhanian, City Manager
FROM:
Miguel Guardado, Information Technology Director
Tatyana Roujenova-Peltekova, Senior Management Analyst
SUBJECT:Title
Consideration of a Resolution Approving a Five-Year Agreement with Pegasus Studios for Broadcast Professional Services with a Not-to-Exceed Total Amount of $900,000 (Budgeted) (Information Technology Director Guardado).
ADOPT RESOLUTION NO. 25-0145
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RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt Resolution No. 25-0145, approving a five-year agreement with Pegasus Studios for broadcast professional services, with a not-to-exceed total amount of $900,000, or approximately $180,000 per year.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Sufficient funds are included in the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Information Technology budget for the first year of the contract. Future years will be budgeted accordingly.
BACKGROUND:
City Council and Planning Commission meetings are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Spectrum (formerly Time Warner) cable channel 8 and Frontier (formerly Verizon) cable channel 35. The meetings are also streamed live and on demand on the City's website www.manhattanbeach.gov via the Granicus webcast. In 2020, City Council meetings and Planning Commission meetings introduced a virtual component by utilizing the Zoom cloud-based video conferencing platform to comply with the public health order during the COVID-19 pandemic. The change allowed the City officials and the public to participate in the meeting remotely, using a computer or mobile device (phone, tablet). To enhance public access and participation, the City has continued to utilize the hybrid meeting setting, providing the public with the option to attend City meetings both onsite and virtually.
Starting this summer, the Parking and Public Improvements Commission meetings have been broadcast live and closed captioned, foll...
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