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RESOLUTION NO. 35 -92
A RESOLUTION URGING CONGRESSMAN GERRY SIKORSKI
TO CO-SPONSOR AND SUPPORT H.R. 3560,
THE "CABLE CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT OF 1991"
WHEREAS, Congress must enact cable legislation that protects
cable subscribers from unfair cable rates and inadequate cable
service; and
WHEREAS, H.R. 3560 is the only cable television bill pending
before Congress that provides cable subscribers the protection they
need from dramatic rate increases, inadequate customer service, and
other abuses by the cable operator; and
WHEREAS, H.R. 3560 grants franchising authorities the right to
entertain competitive bids for a franchise subject to renewal, and
gives them the authority to deny a franchise to an inadequate cable
operator; and
WHEREAS, H.R. 3560 provides local regulatory cable commissions
and local governments the protection they need in any claim
challenging local regulation contemplated by applicable federal,
state or local law or franchise; and
WHEREAS, H.R. 3560 would require the FCC to establish minimum
national customer service standards, but would allow the local
regulatory cable commission and local governments to continue to
tailor standards that may better serve local needs, even if such
standards are more stringent than the FCC's standards.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City of Shorewood, that
Congressman Gerry Sikorski is hereby requested to co-sign and vote
favorably for passage of H.R. 3560 in the Committee on Energy and
Commerce and in a full session of the united states Congress.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by. the City
Shorewood this 13th day of April, 1992.
ATTEST:
J, mes C. Hurm
ity Administrator