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t nib: <br />i.yt'�;�� I u�l ;!;, ;II1 AYNIIr vl FPRIOLEY <br />IIIbIEY. ?AINN150TA 554m2 <br />W <br />,f( •�If 11:PNONE ,1:,571•34�� <br />}r;r August 15, 1983 <br />Dear Mayor: <br />our City Council has just adopted the enclosed Resolution and we ask <br />for your support. It seeks to defend our city powers in CATV <br />franchising. <br />This spring the U.S. Senate passed Senate File 166, known as the <br />Goldwater CATV Deregulation Bill, and sent it to the House of <br />Representatives for their approval. <br />The Goldwater Bill takes from you and your city many of the franchising <br />powers the state has given you, and in most cases leaves your citizens <br />at the mercy of "benevolent" CATV operators to determine rates they <br />will charge for this monopoly service and the local services they will <br />provide as a condition of using city property and right-of-way. <br />And worse, you are effectively denied the right to seek better offers <br />from competing CATV companies at the end of your present franchise. <br />You never get another chance at getting a better deal for your people. <br />The Goldwater Bill (S.F. t66) is an almost total assault on our local <br />municipal authority regarding CATV. It's crippling. <br />The U.S. Conference of Mayors has come out strongly in opposition to <br />this legislation as being a totally unjustified taking of local powers <br />by the federals. <br />I ask that you and your Council join us in that opposition. We have to <br />inores5 ggr own Qngressmen this summer, right now, that we reject this <br />unwarrented assault by the federals. <br />Please adopt some version of this Resolution and get it to your <br />Congressman ... to all Minnesota Congressmen... and ask your legislators <br />for support because it is also preempts state powers. <br />Cinraraly <br />William J. VTee <br />Mayor <br />W Wla <br />Enclosure <br />0 <br />#0 <br />