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I TO: Ramsey City Council i FROM: SUBJ: City 'Administrator Adoption of Cable TV Ordinance - Franchise between the City of Ramsey and Teleprompter of Quad Cities, Inc. (a) Analysis of Proposals Accomplished by MARC Professional Consulting Group (b) Cable TV Ordinance - Franchise between City of Ramsey and Teleprompter of Quad Cities, Inc. I 1) Background reference (a) contains MARC Consultants' report on the following bid proposals that the Quad Cities Cable TV Commission (Andover, Anoka, Champlin and Ramsey) received from bidders: aa) Heritage Communications, Inc. bb) Teleprompter of the Quad Cities, Inc. cc) Tribune Cable Company of Minnesota The reason the MARC Consulting Group reviewed these bid proposals was because the Quad Cities Cable TV Commission members decided that they definitely did not have the exper- I tise or the time to do so. Consequently, we then engaged a consulting firm that special- ized in that type of work. We reviewed several firms and decided on MARC. I myself checked on their qualifications and was very satisfied with their abilities in this field. ! I Accordingly, the MARC Consultants did an analysis of all bids received and then they sub- mitted a written report of their findings. The MARC people reviewed their findings at a public meeting at the Champlin City Hall. Then there was a public hearing held whereby each bidder was allowed to present his case. I2) General - I spent a lot of time reading on Cable TV and I learned quite a bit about it. They major concern I had and still have is that the City of Ramsey has access to Cable TV the same time the other Quad CitY members and at the same monthly rate. Next, I was concerned that the Quad Cities have a franchise with a firm that is capable of' I with State of the Art in this fast field. The financial staying up moving aspect was also a major concern in order to perform all the above. I I I I Consequently, after reading MARC's analysis on the bid proposal and then having them re- view them with us, I came to the conclusion that Telprompter really answers all my ques- tions and this was especially true after the public hearing at Anoka City Hall. I think members of the Ramsey City Council who were in attendance at this meeting will agree. 3) Conclusion - The Cable TV survey we did to see if the citizens of Ramsey were inter- ested in Cable TV convinced me they were very much interested in it. Also I have received a lot of calls as to when it would be available. The telephone calls made me acutely aware that our citizens in Ramsey had better have the same opportunities as the citizens in Anoka and Champlin in having Cable TV.