HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 5907-1972RESOLUTION NO. 5907
CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
A RESOLUTION APPROVING CATV
SUBSCRIBER RATE INCREASES
AS OF SEPTEMBER 1, 1972.
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of South
San Francisco that the Council, in a public hearing on the
7th day of August, 1972, due notice of which was given by
publication on the 21st day of July, 1972, in the "Enterprise-
Journal, a newspaper published and circulated in the City of
South San Francisco (copy of which notice is attached hereto
as Exhibit "A"), having considered the Western TV Cable's
subscriber rate increase request dated June 30, 1972, with
attached documents, copy of which is on file in the office
of the City Clerk, and the report and recommendations of the
staff, particularly the financial analysis by Ledwith,
Chagaris g Co., Certified Public Accountants, for the City of
South San Francisco, and the written and oral statements made
at said hearing, finds and determines as follows:
1. The increase is cost justified and does not reflect
future inflationary expectations.
2. The increase is the minimum required to assure con-
tinued adequate and safe service or to provide the necessary
expansion to meet future requirements.
3. The increase will achieve the minimum rate of return
needed to attract capital at reasonable cost and not to impair
the credit of the applicant.
4. The increase does not reflect labor costs in excess
of those allowed bY the Price Commission policies.
5. The increase takes into account expected and obtain-
able productivity gains as determined under the Price Commission
policies.
6. The subscriber rates as set forth in Section 6 of
Ordinance No. 563, passed June 19, 1967, should be reasonably
increase d.
5
i ' ~ I "'T'IiT i~'1111 T
NOW, THEREFORE, THE COUNCIL ORDERS THE FOLLOWING:
1. Subscriber rates now set forth in Section 6 of
Ordinance 568 passed June 19, 1967, shall be increased as of
SePtember 1 , 19 72, as follows:
a. SinRle-use premises--individual subscriber
(residential and commercial)
The monthly service charge shall not exceed
Four Dollars and Ninety-five Cents ($4.95) for the first
single receiving set or apparatus and for each receiving
set or apparatus in excess of one at the location of
any such subscriber, a sum not to exceed One Dollar and
Twenty-five Cents ($1.25) per month.
b. Municipal and South San Francisco
Unified School District
There shall be no monthly service charge for
service to the occupied municipal properties of the
City of South San Francisco or the South San Francisco
Unified School District within the corporate limits of
the City.
c. Hotels, motels, multiple dwellings,
and other buildings
The monthly service charge for hotels, motels,
multiple dwellings, and other buildings as more par-
ticularly described in Sectian 5C of Ordinance 563,
shall not exceed Four Dollars and Ninety-five Cents
($4.95) for service to the antennaplex or other distribu-
tion system and One Dollar and Twenty-five Cents ($1.25)
monthly for each outlet from said antennaplex or other
distribution system within the premises.
d. FM monthly service charKe
The monthly service charge for FM service to sub-
scribers who have an FM terminal block installed as set
forth in Section SE of Ordinance 563 shall not exceed
One Dollar ($1.00) per month.
·
2. The Council, being aware that additional requirements
proposed by the Federal Communications Commission may establish
a basis for further subscriber rate increases, declares its
intention to review subscriber rates prior to September 1,
1973, for the purpose of determining whether such increases are
warranted. The Council will consider all the factors related
to subscriber rates including but not limited to cost of opera-
tions, gross revenues, projected increase in number of sub-
scribers, and the Federal Communications additional require-
ments.
If the Council determines that rate increases are war-
ranted, said increases shall be limited to (1) a sum not to
exceed Five Dollars and Twenty-five Cents ($5.25) for single-
use premises as described in 1-a above, (2) a sum not to exceed
Five Dollars and Twenty-five Cents ($5.25) for service to the
antennaplex for subscribers described in 1-c above, and (3) a
sum not to exceed One Dollar and Twenty-five Cents per month
($1.25) for FM service, as described in 1-d above.
If the Council determines that a rate increase is not
warranted, then the rates shall remain for 1973 as set forth
in l-a, b, c and d above.
If the Council determines that a rate reduction is war-
ranted~ then the Council will establish a rate which assures
fair compensation to the franchise grantees without excessive
subscriber rates to subscribers.
3. The Council declares its intention to make a
biennial review of subscriber rates commencing in the year
1974.
I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was
regularly introduced and adopted by the City Council of
the City of South San Francisco at a regular
meeting held on' the 7th day of Au.qust ,
19 72 , by the following vote:
AYES, COUNCILMEN Patrick E. Ahern, Gordon T. Boblitt, William A.
Borba, F. Frank Mammini and Warren Steinkamp
--
N OE S, " None
ABSENT, " None
ATTEST
I
EXHIBIT "A"
RESOLUTION 5907
NOTICE OF HEARING
PROPOSED CATV RATE INCREASE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the
City of South San Francisco will hold a public hearing on August 7,
1972, at 8:00 P.M. in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 400 Grand
AVenue, South San Francisco, California, for the purpose of con-
sidering the CATV rate increases proposed by Western TV Cable,
at which time and place any and all persons interested may be
heard thereon.
REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE to the proposed rate increases
and documents related thereto contained in the application dated
June 30, 1972, copy of which is on file in the office of the City
Clerk.and available for public inspection between the hours of
8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. daily except Saturday and Sunday.
Dated:
\
July 19, 1972
City Clerk