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CITY OF FRIDLEY Dear Mayor: ~431 UNIVERSITY AVENUE N.E., August 15, 198~ FRIDLEY, MINNESOTA 56432 TELEPHONE ($12)57'1-3450 I I I I I I I I Our City Council has just adopted the enclosed Resolution and we ask for your support. It seeks to defend our city powers in CATV franchising. This spring the U.S. Senate passed Senate File t66, known as the Goldwater CATV Deregulation Bill, and sent it to the House of Representatives for their approval. ~he Goldwater Bill ~akes from you and your city many of the franchising powers the state has given you, and in most cases leaves your citizens at the mercy of "benevolent" CATV operators to determine rates they will charge for this monopoly service and the local services they will provide as a condition of using city property and right-of-way. And worse, you are effectively denied the right to seek better offers from competing CATV companies at the end of your present-franchise. You never get another chance at getting abetter deal for your people. ~heGoldwater Bill (S.F. 166) is an almost total assault on our local municipal authority regard/rig CATV. It's crippling. ~e U.S. Conference of Mayors has come out strongly in opposition to this legislation as being a totally unjustified taking of local powers by the federals. I ask that you and your Oouncil join us in that opposition. We have to ~_ress our own Congressmen this sun~r, right now, that we reject this unwarrented assault by the federals. I Please adopt some version of this Resolution and get it to your Congressman...toall Minnesota congressmen...and ask your legislators for support because it is also pre~s state powers. I Sincerely, I Enclosure I William J. 9~ee Mayor