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Deputy City Clerk
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RESOLUTION NO. 2001
A RESOLUTION publicly objecting to the continuing rate increases for
cable services by United Artists Cable Corporation of Washington; and
further publicly stating the support of the Pasco City Council for
federal legislation allowing local jurisdictions to regulate the rates
of charges for cable services by cable television system franchisees.
WHEREAS, on February 7, 1983, the Pasco City Council approved Ordinance
No 2429 granting a non-exclusive renewal franchise to the then-existing Micro
Cable Commumcations Corporation for the installation, construction, operation
and regulation of a cable television system for Pasco, and
WHEREAS, franchise documents which were negotiated between the City and
the franchisee provided for a schedule of rates and charges, and that no change
in rate and charges could be made without the pnor approval of the City Council
expressed by resolution, and
WHEREAS, subsequent to the approval of the franchise, federal laws and
regulations have prohibited the City of Pasco from regulating the rates and
charges charged by the franchisee, and said rates and charges continue to
escalate with most recently a reduction in the number of channels included within
the basic cable service and an increased cost to cable subscnbers desinng to
receive the cable programming deleted from the basic cable service, and
WHEREAS, Pasco City Council desires to go on record objecting to the
continued escalation of charges by the present franchisee owner, United Artists
Cable Corporation of Washington, and further desires to publicly support
revisions in the federal law enabling the City to once again regulate the rates
and charges charged by its cable television franchisee as originally contemplated
and contracted for between the City and its franchisee, NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO, WASHINGTON, DOES
RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
§1. The Pasco City Council publicly expresses its dissatisfaction with
the continuing escalation of charges to the customers of United Artists Cable
Corporation of Washington, receiving television cable service in the City of
Pasco
§2. The Pasco City Council goes on record as publicly supporting
revisions to the federal law allowing local junsdictions to regulate the rates
and charges charged by cable television system franchisees to its customers
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Pasco, at a regular meeting this
day of Apnl, 1992
ATTEST APPROVED AS TO FORM