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I I I I Meeting Report Cable TV Meeting For North Suburban communities To: New Brighton Cable TV Committee Called By: Tom Curley, Chairman, Roseville citizens Advisory Commission & City Councilman Date: March 5, 1980 Present for New Brighton: John Risdall, Dennis Kelley Chairman Curley had invited representatives of Arden Hills, Shoreview, New Brighton, Little Canada, St. Anthony, Mounds View, Vadnais Heights, Falcon Heights, Lauderdale and North Oaks. Representatives from all the cities except Falcon Heights, Lauderdale and North Oaks were present. In addition Boo Zeller of the State Cable Board; Bob McDonald, past State Board Chairman; Mr. & Mrs. Bill Wier, former Roseville Committee members; Ralph Campbell, Assistant City Manager of Edina and representative of the Southwest Joint Powers Group, and Bill Craig of Canadien Cablesystems were present. After much discussion, it was moved by the Representative from Little Canada that Roseville propose to the State Cable Board a Cable Service Territory made up of Roseville, Little Canada, Arden Hills, Shoreview, St. Anthony, Falcon Heights, Lauderdale, New Brighton, Vadnais Heights, Mounds View and North Oaks. John Risdall seconded. A unanimous voice vote in favor followed. During discussion the representative from Little Canada said their City Coun~il had passed a statement of intent stating tha~ they were in favor of being in a Cable Service Territory with Roseville and other North Suburban communities. Bob Zeller said that in the past, only Joint Powers Groups had proposed and succeeded with multicommunity territories. But that he felt if each community had a statement of intent similiar to Little Canada's, that the State Bo~rd would pass on the North Suburban CST favorably. A step below the statement of intent, would be a resolution not objecting to the CST. CST. dOes 'nQt mean that we must form a joint powers group with all or any of the communities in the CST. It simply means that our community is one of those activated at the same time. Bob Zeller noted that Coon Rapids and Spring Lake Park were both recently designated a CST by the State Board and that Spring Lake Park is on the verge of selecting a vendor (Northern Cablesystems which services Fridley) independent of which decision Coon Rapids makes. Bob Zeller indicated that each City council has the final decision on which vendor it chooses to service the community. All of the representatives felt that the economies of all the communities going together should oe explored for many reasons--but that a Joint Powers Agreement is somewhere downstream, if there will ever be one.