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November 23 , 1987 C sI
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SUBJECT: Cable TV Ordinance
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1 . Endorse the efforts of the Cable TV Administrator to revise
and update the County' s existing Cable TV Ordinance with
particular emphasis on the need to write into the Ordinance
appropriate standards of customer service and requirements
for community access.
2 . Authorize the Chair to sign a letter which indicates the
support of the Board for the Cable TV Administrator' s
efforts in this regard and which calls on the, Cable TV
industry in the County to reach speedy agreement on the V
language for a revised ordinance which emphasizes customer
service standards and the availability of table TV for
community access.
3 . Refer this issue to the 1988 Internal Operations. Committee
for continuing oversight.
BACKGROUND:
The Cable TV Administrator, Sara Hoffman, is currently
undertaking a series of meetings with the Cable TV industry to
rewrite and agree on language for an updated County ordinance
regulating the Cable TV industry in the County. She has been
providing our Committee periodic status reports on her efforts to
update the ordinance in response to new federal law and in an
effort to forestall future problems with issues which wehave
faced in the past, such as the level of customer services and the
availability and uniformity of community access channels.
The first in a series of meetings designed to address specific
issues in the Cable TV ordinance is scheduled for December 10 ,
1987. We believe strongly in the direction being taken by Ms.
Hoffman and feel that the Board should emphasize this support by
providing her a letter of support which can be shared, as
necessary, with the Cable TV industry in the County.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF. COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
XAPPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE s "anc C. p Tom Torlakson
ACTION OF BOARD ON December 1 , 1987 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
e. HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT AND CORRECT COPY OFANACTION TAIkEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: County Administrator ATTESTED
Cable TV Administrator
PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
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