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Home My Public Portal About07-14-2003LII_sp• ~ This Agenda contains a brief general description of each item to be considered. Copies of the Staff reports or other written documentation relating to each item of business referred to on the Agenda are on file in fhe Office of the City Clerk. and are available for public inspection. A person who has a question concerning any of the agenda items may call the City Manager at (310) 603-0220, ext. 200: . Procedures for Addressing the Council IN ORDER TO EXPEDITE CITY COUNCIL BUSINESS, WE ASK THAT ALL PERSONS WISHING TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL FILL OUT A FORM PROVIDED AT THE DOOR, AND TO TURN. IT IN TO THE CITY CLERK PRIOR TO THE START OF THE MEETING. .FAILURE TO FILL OUT SUCH A FORM WILL PROHIBIT YOU FROM ADDRESSING THE COUNCIL IN THE ABSENCE OF THE UNANIMOUS CONSENT OF THE COUNCIL. AGENDA ITEMS ON FILE FOR CONSIDERATION AT THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE LYNWOOD INFORMATION INC. TO BE HELD ON JULY 14, 2003 10:00 A. M COUNCIL CHAMBERS 11330 BULLIS ROAD, LYNWOOD, CA 90262 FERNANDO PEDROZA CHAIRMAN RAMON RODRIGUEZ VICE-CHAIRMAN ~ARTURO REYES DIRECTOR CITY MANAGER LORRY HEMPE CITY CLERK ANDREA L. HOOPER ~~ ~~~~ ~~ I~~C~I~f~~ (; t:.. ... . ~t~5 IPA ~€ ~a~gt€Is~.~;~a~,2g3t~ ~ ~l~ ~ ~i ~' LOUIS BYRD ~~ DIRECTOR PAUL H. RICHARDS, II DIRECTOR CITY ATTORNEY JAMES CASSO CITY TREASURER IRIS PYGATT OPENING CEREMONIES 1. CALL TO ORDER 2. ROLL CALL OF DIRECTORS Louis Byrd Fernando Pedroza Arturo Reyes Paul H. Richards, II Ramon Rodriguez 3. CERTIFICATION OF AGENDA POSTING BY SECRETARY • • . PUBLIC ORAL COMMUNLCATIONS (.Regarding Agenda Items Only) PUBLIC ORAL CO~VIMUNICATIONS IF AN ITEM IS NOT ON THE AGENDA, THERE SHOULD BE NO SUBSTANTIAL DISCUSSION OF THE ISSUE BY THE COUNCIL, BUT IT IS ALL RIGHT FOR COUNCIL TO REFER THE MATTER TO THE STAFF OR SCHEDULE SUBSTANTIVE DISCUSSION FOR A FUTURE MEETING. (The Ralph M. Brown Act, Government Code Section 54950-54962, Part III, Paragraph 5.) 4. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL "DO NOT CALL" REGISTRY Comments: To update the Board of Directors of Lynwood Information Incorporated concerning the National "Do Not Call" Registry implemented by the Federal Trade Commission in cooperation with the Federal Communications Commission to block telemarketing calls. Recommendation: Staff recommends that the Board of Directors of Lynwood Information Incorporated receive and file this item. ADJOURNMENT THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING WILL BE HELD ON JULY 15, 2003 AT 6:00 P.M. IN COUNCIL CHAMBER ROOM, CITY HALL, CITY OF LYNWOOD, CALIFORNIA. 2 MEMORANDUM DATE: July 14, 2003 TO: HONORABLE CHAIRMAN AND DIRECTORS OF LYNWOOD INFORMATION INCORPORATED FROM: Lorry Hempe, City Manager BY: Johonna Howard,~Public Relations Officer SUBJECT: Implementation of the National "Do Not Call" Registry PURPOSE: To have the Board of Directors of the Lynwood Information Incorporated receive and file this item. BACKGROUND: The Federal Trade Commission, in cooperation with the Federal Communications Commission, on June 27, 2003 implemented the National Do Not Call Registry to help U.S. consumers minimize unwanted and annoying telephone solicitations. ANALYSIS: 1. The implementation of the National Do Not Call Registry is a direct response to a national citizenry that is frustration with telemarketers. It ..creates an easier and simplified way for U.S. consumers to remove their names from telemarketing call lists. 2. Online .registration is available at fhe Federal Trade Commission's Do Not Call Registry website and can be accessed at www.donotcall.gov . Registration is also available via telephone, by calling (888) 382-1222. 3. Registration is effective for five years after which U.S. consumers would be required to renew their registration to remain on the Registry. 4. Congress authorized the funding of $16 million in the 2003 appropriations bill to fund the first year of operation of the National Do Not Call Registry. The Federal Trade Commission will manage the Registry and collect fees from telemarketers for continued funding. r AGENDA ITEM • 5. Telemarketers will be required to pay $7,250 for access to the complete national list; however, they may obtain up to five area codes at no cost. Additionally, the law requires telemarketers to maintain current data; therefore, every three months, they must. bring their database in line with the Federal Trade Commission. 6. U.S. consumers listed on the National Do Not Call Registry who receive solicitation calls can report those to the Federal Trade Commission at a toll-free number. Telemarketers. investigated by the Federal Trade Commission could receive a fine of $11,000 for each prohibited telemarketing call. 7. Exemptions to the new telemarketing regulations include political solicitations, marketing research, charitable organizations and in some states, insurance companies. 8. The Federal Trade Commission has initiated the following schedule in which the National Do Not Call Registry will become effective: U.S. Consumers Most telemarketers must stop that register based on the following: calling and ou ma file a com taint: June 27 - Au ust 31, 2003 After October 1, 2003 Se tember 1, 2003 or after Three months after re isterin RECOMMENDATION: Staff respectfully requests that the Board of Directors of Lynwood Information Incorporated receive and file this item. / ., • ~ ~ ` - ~ • ~;. '° "Michael J. Friedman" To: "SCAN'Listserve" <scannatoa@listserve.com> • ' .~ <friedman@telecom- cc: - mgmt.com> Subject: [SCAN NATOA] National Registry for Blocking Telemarketer Calls Sent by: Begins scannatoa-bounces@li stserve.com 06/27/2003 12:40 PM • ~ Please respond to - SCAN NATOA I know that this is not exactly a "typical" posting for this Listserve (although telemarketing is part of telecommunications), but I also thought this might be of general interest . The registration website (www.donotcall.gov) is being swamped with requests. New York Times .. June 27, 2003 httn://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/27/technoloQV/27CALL html National Registry for Blocking Telemarketer Calls Begins By JENNIFER 8. LEE WASHINGTON, June 26 - A national do-not-call registry.will open Friday for anyone who -wants to block sales calls. • `Officials at~the registry also announced a number of new regulations today, including a , requirement that telemarketers transmit their telephone numbers to caller-ID devices and that they have alive-operator on the line within two seconds of the consumer's picking up the .phone. The telemarketing, regulations a coordinated effort of the Federal Trade Commission and the • ~ Federal Communications Commission -are a~response to consumer frustration over telemarketing calls. Consumers receive five times the telemarketing calls today they did a decade ago, the communications commission said. , We saw the technology had changed, the volurrie of calls to consumers had increased," said K. ;Dane~Snowden, head of the F.C.C.'s consumer and governmental affairs bureau. " We have given consumers the tools to manage the calls to their homes." The communications commission met today and voted on the added regulations. The trade • • commission has been planning for weeks to establish the national do-not-call registry. -And a .White House ceremony has been planned for Friday morning to announce the start of the registry. Online registration will be available at www.donotcall.gov, officials said. The trade commission has staggered phone registration to handle the large volume of calls expected. Residents of states west of the Mississippi,. including Minnesota and Louisiana, may register by phone starting Friday at.12:01 a.ni.. The entire country will be able.to register by phone as of July 7. The phone " ~ number is (888) 382-1222. The registry will go into effect Oct. 1. Calls from politicians and religious and charitable organizations are exempt from the registry. . • .Because federal oversight of the insurance industry is curtailed, some companies will also be able " to make calls; depending on the state. A-phone number will stay iri the registry for fi~~e years, until it has been disconnected or until a consumer willingly deletes it from the registry. In addition, the regulations have set new limits .for how long. a company can call acustomer'- 18 months after the last business transaction or 3 .months after an inquiry. . Marketers will be charged $7,250 for access to the complete national list, though they can get numbers for five area codes free. The law requires telemarketers, who face a maximum penalty of $11;000 for each call violation, to synchronize their database with the F.T.C. every three months: The commission estimates 60 million phone numbers will be registered in the first year, with 14 million coming from do-not-call lists of the states: There are approximately 160 million residential phone numbers in the United States,- according to the trade commission. Of the 27 states with do-not-call lists, only 13 -Alabama, Axkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Dakota and Oklahoma -.will pass on their lists to the national registry; encompassing more than eight million numbers. Three additional states =New York, Oregon and Pennsylvania, with a total of 5.5 million numbers -.are considering legislation to share their lists with the federal ,government. The 'American Teleservices Association has objected to the restrictions, saying that 2 million of the country's 6.4 million call-center jobs will be lost. The organization has sued the trade commission, contending that the national registry. violates the right. to commercial free speech. "This law has been the clear example of violating the First Amendment," said Tim Searcy, head of the telemarketing association. "They are picking by speaker and by content what they consider to be legitimate speech. They exempt a whole bunch of existing speech: insurance; politicians, . marketing research and charities. A ringing phone is a ringing phone." The F.T.C. disagrees. "When the commission was promulgating Phis rule; it paid very careful attention to the statutory and constitutional limitations of jurisdiction and authority,'.' said Eileen Harrington, director for. marketing practices at the agency. "We are confident that these-rules as issued by the F.T.C.. will be upheld because they fall squarely within well-settled legal principles." , While the telemarketing industry .and states'have organized scattered do-not-call lists for a number of years,. this is the first comprehensive registry for the entire nation. - Robert Wientzen, the president of the. Direct Marketing Association, applauded the simplicity of maintaining a single list; but:objected to government regulation. "We are not happy that the government feels this is a government role,"-fie said. 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