11. Contractor shall maintain all records required under this Agreement for three years following
the termination of this Agreement, or until the conclusion of any audit or legal proceeding
regarding this Agreement, whichever is later.
12. Contractor shall design and implement internal controls to provide reasonable assurance of
compliance with contractual obligations, to safeguard assets of the Contractor and assets of the
City, and to ensure that processes and reports are in compliance with generally accepted
accounting principles. Such controls should be implemented in a cost effective manner.
C. Production Training and Programming
1. Contractor shall educate/train requesting individuals, institutions, non-profit and community
based organizations in the production of non-commercial television programs. To this end,
Contractor shall:
a.
b.
create and provide training curriculum for various levels of television production
proficiency;
make training available to financially and physically disadvantaged citizens, including the
use of fee discounts, if applicable;
enter industry and community awards competitions as appropriate and feasible.
further to the Contractor’s training activities, Contractor understands and agrees it is the
responsibility of the individual producers to use the training received to produce their own
programs, and although the Contractor provides training, the Contractor is not responsible
for providing technical assistance to individual third party producers in their actual
production of programming, as said producers will be responsible for generating their own
programming.
2. Curricula and other training programs and training activities mentioned above shall be
described in the annual Work Plan and identify measurable criteria that are agreed upon by the
parties and that insures the work in these areas meets or exceeds current standards and
practices generally accepted in the field of public access television.
3. Contractor Production of Programming
a.
In addition to training volunteer producers and members to produce their own public access
programming, the Contractor staff shall produce a reasonable amount of staff-produced
local programming about important Nashua events. The Contractor may exercise
reasonable judgement regarding the selection of material for Contractor coverage and/or
production, however, the Contractor shall develop criteria consistent with such
programming informing the Nashua community about matters relating to Nashua
community, historic and cultural events, Nashua organizations, businesses and individuals,
including but not limited to coverage of the following Nashua special events, subject to
availability of resources, such as:
Nashua Memorial Day Parade
Fourth of July
Summer Fun
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