GLOVERSVILLE — The Common Council delayed a vote Tuesday night on a 15-year contract extension with Time Warner Cable for television service to city residents because some council members wanted the contract to include guaranteed live public access television programming and an expanded reach for a local station.

Councilman John Castiglione, R-2nd Ward, asked that the council table the contract extension to allow for a mediator from the state Public Service Commission to work with the city and the company to possibly reach an agreement to include the two provisions.

Time Warner Cable currently provides a public access channel in Gloversville, but Castiglione said he is concerned that the contract does not include a requirement that the company guarantee live programming.

He said Gloversville area programs are aired live every Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

“I want them to guarantee that they’re going to be able to keep it on,” he said. “It provides the people in the Gloversville area [a way to] express their views.”

Castiglione also wants Time Warner to expand the coverage area of local television station WFNY to a larger part of the Capital Region. The station covers local businesses and a larger broadcast area would give those businesses more exposure, he said.

The Common Council has until the end of the year to sign the contract to continue cable service to Gloversville customers, and Castiglione said he will vote to sign it by the end of the year even if he doesn’t get the two provisions he seeks.

“It’s incumbent upon us to exhaust every avenue,” he said.

The board voted 5-2 to table the contract pending the mediations, with Councilman Matthew Myers, R-5th Ward, and Councilman James Robinson, R-3rd Ward, opposed delaying the vote.

“There are some things you can change and there are some things you can’t,” Myers said after the meeting. “I don’t think the negotiations are going to be very fruitful.”

“I’d like to see FNY expand, but that’s something I think they’d need to work out independently with Time Warner,” Myers added.

Time Warner Cable public affairs and government relations officials in Albany were out of the office late Tuesday and could not be reached for comment.

In other city business, the council voted unanimously to pay the Fulton County Economic Development Corp. $179,190. Gloversville officials believed the money was a grant when it was given to the city in 2004, but it was later determined that the money was a loan.

Finance Commissioner Bruce VanGenderen said it was clear from both the check and subsequent correspondences between the city and the EDC that the money was a loan.