City of San Antonio - File #: 20-6422

• File #: 20-6422
• Type: Purchase of Equipment
• In control: City Council A Session
• On agenda: 12/3/2020
• Posting Language: Ordinance approving a contract with UNICOM Government, Inc., to provide audio video equipment installations to support boards and commissions meetings in the Cliff Morton Development and Business Services Center Board Room and broadcasting on the City’s Public, Education, and Government (PEG) access television channels, in the estimated amount of $99,975.82, funded by the FY 2021 PEG Fund Budget. [Ben Gorzell, Chief Financial Officer; Troy Elliott, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Finance]

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/3/2020	1	City Council A Session

DEPARTMENT: Finance


DEPARTMENT HEAD: Troy Elliott


COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide


SUBJECT:

Audio Video (AV) Installation in the Cliff Morton Development and Business Services Center ("One Stop") Board Room


SUMMARY:

An Ordinance authorizing a contract with Unicom Government, Inc. (UGI), in the estimated amount of $99,975.82, to provide audio video equipment installations to support boards and commissions meetings broadcast on the City's Public, Education, and Government (PEG) access television channels for the Development Services Department (DSD) and Department of Government and Public Affairs. Funding for this contract is available through the FY 2021 Public, Education and Government (PEG) Fund Budget.

UNICOM Government, Inc. will provide the installation of a new digital console, digital signal processor, and digital audio network with twenty-eight wireless conference style microphones configured into the existing audio system at the One Stop Board Room and adjacent Control Room. The following boards and commissions meet in the One Stop Board Room: Board of Adjustment (BOA), Building Standards Board (BSB), Building-Related and Fire Codes Appeals and Advisory Board (BRFCAAB), Historic and Design Review Commission (HDRC), Planning Commission & Technical Advisory Committee (PC and PC-TAC), and Zoning Commission (ZC). UGI staff will also configure the system and train City staff prior to roll-out. This purchase will support the City's effort to enhance live web-streaming of public meetings from the One Stop Board Room.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

The City continues to increase public participation and transparency by expanding operations to include live televised or web-streaming of important City-wide events such as proceedings by City Council-appointed boards and commissions meetings held at the One Stop Board Room. In August 2019, Development Services and Government and Public Affairs began live-streaming board and commission meetings and it ...