Resolution 12153CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 12153
SUPPORTING REGULATION AND COMPETITION IN CABLE TV
WHEREAS, the National League of Cities, United States
Conference of Mayors, the National Association of Counties and the
National Conference of Black Mayors are seeking federal legislation
that responds to local problems with cable television; and
WHEREAS, it is in the public interest to provide customer
service standards, a meaningful franchise renewal process,
additional competition provided by our local telephone companies
to cable, and local governments' ability to regulate subscriber
rates and service standards; and
WHEREAS, Congress is considering legislation to set a national
goal that by the year 2015 the United States establish an advanced
communications system available to all homes, businesses,
educational institutions, health care organizations, and other
users; and
WHEREAS, the economies of the United States and the City of
Alameda is becoming increasingly dependent on the provision of
services that require efficient distribution and dissemination of
information; and
WHEREAS, the rapid deployment of advanced communications
infrastructure to every business, educational and health care
institution, and home in America will fundamentally improve the
United States' international competitiveness in the Information
Age.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Congress of the United
States is urged to enact legislation to move America forward into
the Information Age of the 21st Century while protecting cable
consumers by municipal regulation of rates.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution
was duly and regularly adopted and passed by the Council of the
City of Alameda in regular meeting assembled on the seventeenth
of September, 1991, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Arnerich, Camicia, Lucas, Roth
and President Withrow - 5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
official seal of said City this eighteenth day of September,
1991.
Diane B. Felsch, City Clerk
City of Alameda