AN INFORMAL RESOLUTION NO. 12

SUBMITTED BY: MAJORITY LEADER DON CASER AND
ASSISTANT MAJORITY LEADER JOE CARBENIA
ADOPTED FEB. 5, 2007
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WHEREAS, on Oct. 31, 2006 Copley Press, Inc., a San Diego company
announced its plans to sell eight of its newspapers, including our community paper
The Repository; and

WHEREAS, The Repository currently employs over three-hundred-sixty (360)
employees and has a long and important history in the City of Canton and Stark
County; and

WHEREAS, The Repository was founded in 1815 and has
become an integral part of our community; providing
quality journalism and community coverage; and

WHEREAS, it is imperative that The Repository retain its local news
coverage and its local commitment to its employees, advertisers
and the entire Canton community; and

WHEREAS, The Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers
of America (TNG-CWA) is pressing a community campaign
to ensure that the buyer of The Repository keeps its commitment to
the employees, advertisers and the community of quality journalism
and community coverage; and

WHEREAS, the buyer needs to be aware that they are
investing in not just a newspaper but in a community.

NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved by the Canton City
Council, State of Ohio;
The Canton City Council supports the efforts of the Newspaper
Guild-Communications Workers of America (TNG-CWA) and its community
allies to ensure that the purchaser of The Repository:

1. Honor its labor contracts with its employees, whose
combined efforts produce the newspaper each day;

2. 2. Maintain its standard of quality journalism;

3. Keep its commitment to local news coverage, thus
serving the people, governing bodies and business in
the community, as well as maintaining its value to advertisers;

4. Continue to play an active role in support of
community affairs and activities.