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• la <br />MEMO TO: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL <br />FROM: CLERK -ADMINISTRATOR �J <br />DATE: JULY 25, 1988 /\/�GJ7Q� <br />SUBJECT: VARIOUS CABLE TV ISSUES <br />The City has recently received a variety of documents <br />related to some ongoing cable TV issues. These issues, the <br />documents, and staff concerns on each are listed below: <br />1) Copies of the Cable Commission's and Access <br />Corporation's Annual Audits are attached. You <br />might wish to note that the Commission operated <br />in a deficit in 1987 of $3,468, thus reducing their <br />fund balance by that amount. AlFo, the Cable 4cr.ess <br />System has a fund balance of $366,346. <br />2) The Cable Commission during their May 5, 1988 <br />meeting undertook further discussion with respect to <br />the televising of adult-themed movies. At that time <br />the Commissicn had not received a response from the <br />cable company to the Commission's earlier request <br />that such movies be removed from the Cable System. <br />At this time the Staff is not aware that the <br />Commission has received a response to that earlier <br />communication, although the City of Mounds View has <br />received a response which you were recently <br />provided where the Cable Company has indicated that <br />they did not feel they are in violation of the <br />contract and that appropriate securities are <br />available to guarantee that such movies are not <br />accessed by minors. <br />3) The larger issue in the eyes of some individuals <br />currently before the Cable Commission is the future <br />of the Cable System's local accefi programming. <br />Cable TV North CeRi;ral in a .Letter dated May 4, <br />1988, copy attached, has proposed that the Cable <br />Commission and/or Access Corporation assume all <br />responsibility for local access programming with the <br />Commission receiving contributions in the form of <br />all equipment currently used by the Cable Company <br />for local access programming and $.45 per subscriber <br />per month equaling approximately $100,000. You <br />might find it interesting to note that in the same <br />letter, the author states that should the Cable <br />Commission or Access Corporation not assume <br />responsibility for local access programming, the <br />operator will need to increase subscriber fees by <br />$3.55 per month. Such information makes one wonder <br />how the Cable Company feels the Commission can <br />operate local access programming any cheaper. <br />