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Rosewood Office Plaza <br /> iv�Mm 1711 West County Road B, Suite 30ON <br /> Roseville, MN 55 1 13-4036 <br /> MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF Telephone: 1651(635-0306 <br /> COMMUNITY TELECOMMUNICATIONS ADMINISTRATORS Fox: (65 1)635-0307 <br /> The Minnesota Chapter of NATOA/The National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors email: oei @mn.stote.net <br /> website: www.mtn.org/-macta <br /> to: Members <br /> from: Cor Wilson, Executive Director <br /> date: October 11 , 1999 <br /> Subject: Legislative Update <br /> The Legislative Committee and our lobbyists, Wy Spano and Sarah <br /> Janacek, have been busy the past three months with strategy and meetings. <br /> Sarah arranged a meeting on August 16 with Steve Minn, the newly named <br /> Commissioner of the Department of Commerce, and his deputy, Tony Mendoza. <br /> They are taking the lead role among several state agencies to develop an <br /> administration telecommunications restructuring bill for the next session. <br /> Although we have yet to see a draft, they indicated their support for regulatory <br /> restructuring that would move cable franchising away from local government to <br /> the state. <br /> We also met with John Stanoch, Chief Deputy to Attorney General <br /> Mike Hatch, and Steven Corneli, a policy analyst with the Attorney General's <br /> Office, on September 13. Although the Attorney General's Office had not <br /> developed an official position on the restructuring of Minnesota's cable and <br /> telephone regulations, they expressed strong reservations about the proposals <br /> that have surfaced so far. <br /> Then, on September 22, Robert Vose, an attorney with Kennedy & <br /> Graven; Jeff Weldon, the city administrator for Redwood Falls, and I made a <br /> presentation to a joint meeting of the Senate Telecommunications and <br /> Technology Sub-Committee, chaired by Senator Steve Kelley, and the House <br /> Regulated Industries Sub-Committee, chaired by Representative Ken Wolf: . _ <br /> Although the meeting was not well attended by committee members, it gave us <br /> another opportunity to make the point that municipal officials are in a better <br /> position to make decisions about the best ways to meet local <br /> telecommunications needs. <br /> i <br /> Printed on Recycled Paper <br />