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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2007-185ORDINANCE NO. APO'-ISb AN ORDINANCE APPROVING THE EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR THE PURCHASE OF EDUCATIONAL COMMERCIAL AIRTIME FOR DENTON MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC, AVAILABLE FROM ONLY ONE SOURCE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATE LAW EXEMPTING SUCH PURCHASES FROM REQUIREMENTS OF COMPETITIVE BIDS; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE (FILE 3849-PURCHASE OF EDUCATIONAL COMMERCIAL AIRTIME FOR DENTON MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC AWARDED TO TIME WARNER CABLE MEDIA SALES IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $33,488). WHEREAS, Section 252.022 of the Local Government Code provides that procurement of items that are only available from one source, including; items that are only available from one source because of patents, copyrights, secret processes or natural monopolies; films, manuscripts or books; electricity, gas, water and other utility purchases; captive replacement parts or components for equipment; and library materials for a public library that are available only from the persons holding exclusive distribution rights to the materials; need not be submitted to competitive bids; and WHEREAS, the City Council wishes to procure one or more of the items mentioned in the above paragraph; NOW, THEREFORE, THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON HEREBY ORDAINS: SECTION 1. The following purchase of materials, equipment or supplies, as described in the "File" listed hereon, and on file in the office of the Purchasing Agent, as well as the license terns attached, are hereby approved: FILE , NUMBER VENDOR AMOUNT 3849 Time Warner Cable Media Sales $33,488 SECTION 2. The acceptance and approval of the above items shall not constitute a contract between the City and the person submitting the quotation for such items until such person shall comply with all requirements specified by the Purchasing Department. SECTION 3. The City Manager is hereby authorized to execute any contracts relating to the items specified in Section I; and the expenditure of funds pursuant to said contracts is hereby authorized. SECTION 4. This ordinance shall become effective immediately upon its passage and approval. PASSED AND APPROVED this the day of �, 2007. PE R. McNEILL, MAYOR ATTEST: JENNIFER WALTERS, CITY SECRETARY C /ill 111 / 1 //1, 10// / APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM: EDWIN M. SNYDER, CITY ATTORNEY BY: / 4-OI2U- e 3859 I ne icily or uenton, taxes, a I exas Municipal corporation comracting lot the cablecast or commercial announcements covered by Ints contract ("Announcements"/VVork Order') (subject to Section 8 below, "ADVERTISER") and the cable system(s) referred to on the face of this contract (°SYSTEM") 1. BILLING AND PAYMENTS (a) SYSTEM will bin ADVERTISER on a monthly basis, unless otherwise provided on the face of this Work Order. (b) ADVERTISER shag pay each invoice in fun within twenty days after receipt. (c) Upon request of ADVERTISER, affidavits of performance will be furnished by SYSTEM, but the furnishing of such affidavits shall not serve as a condition precedent to Advertisers obligation to timely pay any Invoice rendered by SYSTEM hereunder. (d) Other remedies for non-payment notwithstanding, 3 any amounts payable to SYSTEM hereunder are not received on or before the tenth day after such amount was due, then a late payment charge equal to 12% per month of such past due amount (or if such amount exceeds the maximum permitted under applicable lax, then such maximum amount) shall become due and payable by ADVERTISER to SYSTEM in addition to such amounts owed hereunder, until all amounts am paid in fun. 2. CANCELLATIONS Without limitation of any of the parties' other this hereunder. (a) All cancellations must be in writing. (b) Announcements of sixty seconds or less in duration may be canceled by SYSTEM or ADVERTISER upon fourteen days prior notice, but no such cancellation shan be effective until fourteen days after initial start date hereunder unless otherwise sated on face of Work Order. (c) Announcements more than s dy seconds In duration may be canceled by SYSTEM or ADVERTISER upon twenty-eight days prior notice but no such cancellations shall be effective until twentyeght days after initial start date hereunder unless otherwise stated on face of Work Order. (d) If ADVERTISER canals all or any portion of this Work Order, all discounts as void and earned rates on the rate card then m effect shall apply. If SYSTEM cancels the Work Order and ADVERTISER is not then in breach hereunder, then ADVERTISER shall have the benefit of the same discounts, which it would have eamed, had t been allowed to complete the Work Order. 3. EFFECT OF BREACH (a) If ADVERTISER materially breaches this Work Order, including without limitation a failure to pay any sum when due, then SYSTEM may terminate this Work Order and any and all dghs of ADVERTISER hereunder upon notice to ADVERTISER, but such termination shag not in any way release any party from its obligation to pay In full all amounts due hereunder. Upon any such cancellation, ad amounts due to SYSTEM hereunder and not pail shall become Immediately due and payable. (b) If SYSTEM materally breaches this Work Order, then ADVERTISER may ancel this Work Order upon written notice to SYSTEM, unless SYSTEM has cured or is diligently proceeding to cure such breach. 4. FAILURE TO CABLECAST; SUBSTITUTIONS; DELAYS (a) If for any reason, SYSTEM fails to cablecast all or any potion of any Announcement at any stipulated time, SYSTEM may make the cablecast at a subsequent time in the same or comparable class of airtime or, alternatively, may provide a corresponding credit forsubsequent advertising time. (b) SYSTEM shall have the right to substitute for any Announcement to be cablecast hereunder, any matter which in SYSTEM'S sole discretion is deemed to be of greater local or national interest or importance, including without limitation sporting events. In any case. SYSTEM wit notify ADVERTISED in advance or within a reasonable lime after the substitution, and the provisions of Paregmph 4(a) shag apply. (c) Announcements scheduled in programs following other orcorams that run bevond their nomnalN scheduled time. such as feature films, sports or special programming of any kind, or Announcements scheduled in programs which am intenupted for any reason, will be automatically scheduled within the delayed or interrupted program without prior notice to ADVERTISER and win be billed at the rate as lf the other program had concluded at its normal time or there was no interruption. (it) The remedies set fold in this Section 4 shall be the sole antl exclusive remedies of ADVERTISER for any faium by SYSTEM to perform any obligation hereunder to abeast any Announcement on behalf of ADVERTISER. 5. RATES AND CHARGES (a) SYSTEM reserves the right to increase rates at any time without prior notice, but no such increases shall be applied to ablecests under this Work Order until sixty, days after notification to ADVERTISER. .. (b) ADVERTISER nay contract for ablecasts of Announcements of various lengths subject to System's published rate card and only with prior SYSTEM approval. (c) AN expense connected with the delivery of Announcements to SYSTEM, and with realm there from, if return s directed on the face of this Work Order, shell be paid by ADVERTISER. 6. PROVISION OF MATERIAL (a) ADVERTISER shall furnish or cause to be furnished all Announcement material. (b) SYSTEM will use commercially reasonable efforts to advise ADVERTISER R ADVERTISER-fumshed Announcements and scheduling insbuctions do not arrive 48 hours In advance of the scheduled abtecast date. N such Announcements and instructions do not arrive at the SYSTEM within 24 hours before the cablecast date, SYSTEM may bill ADVERTISER for the time reserved. SYSTEM will use commercially reasonable efforts to cablecast Announcements despite late receipt thereof. (c) This Work Order does not obligate SYSTEM to cablecam any Announcements in any manner not consistent with the policies and practices of SYSTEM and is affiliates. All Announcements are subject to the prior approval of SYSTEM, and SYSTEM in its able discretion may, without restriction or lab ity, refuse to ablecast any Announcement for any reason. If SYSTEM should so refuse to aDlecast any Announcement, SYSTEM will use commercially reasonable efforts to so notify ADVERTISER and unless ADVERTISER fumishes or causes to be furnished satisfactory material by 24 hours In advance of abreast, SYSTEM may bill ADVERTISER for the time reserved. (it) SYSTEM shall not be liable for any loss or damage to any Announcement materm or other property furnished to 8 hereunder. 7. INDEMNIFICATION (a) ADVERTISER shall indemnhfy and hold SYSTEM and its employees, agents and affiliates harmless from and against any and all lability (including without limitation ass and reasonable attorneys fees) resulting from the cablecast of any Announcement or other material provided by or on behalf of ADVERTISER. (b) The provisions of Paragraph 7(a) above shall survive any cancellation or termination of this contract and shag be governed by the laws of the Sate of Texas. 8. ADVERTISERIAGENCYISERVICE (a) If ADVERTISER Is an agency acting on behalf of an advertiser for which advertising is paced pursuant to this Work Order, then such agency hereby represents and warrants that it has the authority from such advertiser to enter into this Work Order and to otherwise act as such advertisers agent for all purposes hereof. If ADVERTISER is a time -buying service acting on behalf of an agency and an advertiser for which advertising Is placed pursuant to this Work Order, then such time -buying service likewise represents and warrants that it has tree authority from such agency and such advertiser to enter into this Work Order and to otherwise ad as agent for such agency and advertiser for an purposes hereof. (b) Notwithstanding anything in this Work Order to the contrary (or the party to which any invoice may be rendered hereunder): i. if ADVERTISER is an agency acting on behalf of an advertiser for which advertising is placed pursuant to this Work Order, then all obligations of ADVERTISER under this Work Order, IndudI g without Imitation the obligations of ADVERTISER pursuant to Sections 1, 5 and 7 above, shag be the joint and several obligations of such agency and such advertiser, and ii, lf ADVERTISER is a tine -buying service acting on behalf of an agency and an adverfserfor which advertising Is placed pursuant to this Work Order, then all obligations of ADVERTISER under this Work Order, including without limitation the obligations of ADVERTISER pursuant to Sections 1, 5 and 7 above, shag be the joint and several obligations of such erne• buying service, agency and advertiser. (c) Payment by an advertiser to is agency or time -- buying service, as the case may be. or payment by an agency to a time -buying service, shall not constitute payment to SYSTEM. 9. GENERAL (a) This Agreement Is subject to the terms and conditions of licenses held by SYSTEM, and to all federal, sale and municipal laws and regulations now, in force or hereafter enacted, Including without litigation the des, regulations, orders, decisions and policies of the Federal Comm rnlalfons Commission. (b) Delivery to SYSTEM by or on behalf of ADVERTISER of any Announcement to be cablecast by System shall constitute acceptance by ADVERTISER of these Terms and Conditions. (c) SYSTEM shall not be obligated to make any cablecast regarding any product or service other than those specified on the ace hereof. (d) This Work Order is not exclusive and SYSTEM remains tree to solicit and to cablecast during any program or advne materials of other advertisers whether or not such advedlses as in competition with the business, products or services of ADVERTISER. (a) Nether this Work Order norany Nine under It may be assigned or transferred without the priorwriften consent of SYSTEM; nor may SYSTEM be required to cablecast hereunder for the benefit of any ADVERTISER other than the one named on the face of this Work Order (or, where ADVERTISER is an agency or time -buying service, the advertiser listed on the lace hereof). Failure of SYSTEM or ADVERTISER to enforce any of the r provisions herein shall not be construed as a general relinquishment or waiver as to that starry other provision. (g This contract contains the entire agreement between the parties mini to the subject meter hereof. and no change or modification of any of its tams and provisions shag be effective unless made In writing and *tied by „ both parties. These Terns and Conditions shall be : g deemed Incorporated into and made a pad of each Work Orderfor the cablemat of Arvrouncerrens by SYSTEM. Any tens appearing in any order for the cablecast of Annoucemens, or in any acknowledgment or acceptance of this contract, which differ from or are in addition to the arms of this contract, Shan be void. (g) This contract shall begovemed and construed in ,. accordance with the laws of the Sate of Texas; venue:, shad lie exclusively In Denton County, Texas. SIGNATUAC WNEWOFFICER TITLE AND COMPANY DATE S G are'�� Cable M d $ TITLE ft,F�/1 'tt �ilAi1 P X DATE