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Dear Customer: <br />The Indian River County Board of Commissioners has required <br />Indian River Cablevision, Inc. to provide you with the following inform- <br />ation regarding notice of public hearing: <br />NOTICE OF PUBLIC NEARING <br />All interested parties are hereby notified that the Board of County <br />Commissioners of Indian River County will hold a public hearing on Oct. <br />20, 1976 at 3:00 p.m. to consider the request of LuNan River Cablerision. <br />Inc. for approval of a rate increase as follows: <br />1. Residential/Commercial single outlet monthly service charge from <br />$6.06 per month to $6.50 per month. <br />2. Residential each additional outlet frau $1.35 per month to $1.45 <br />per month <br />3. Commercial each additional outlet from $2.20 per month to $2.30 <br />per month <br />4. Connection charges will remain unchanged: Residential connections <br />at $19.95 per month and commercial connections at $25.00. <br />Dated this 30th day of September 1976. Board of County Commissioners, <br />Indian River County, Florida. <br />By: Willard W. Siebert, Chairman October 3, 1976. <br />COMMISSIONER WODTKE ASKED IF THEY PRESENTLY SERVE AREAS OUTSIDE <br />THE COUNTY. <br />MR. HAIMOWITZ STATED THAT THEY SERVE MICCO AND HAVE RECEIVED <br />APPROVAL OF THEIR RATE INCREASE FROM BREVARD COUNTY AND ALSO FROM THE <br />CITY OF SEBASTIAN. <br />CHAIRMAN SIEBERT NOTED THAT HE HAD RECEIVED A COMPLAINT THAT <br />INDIAN RIVER CABLEVISION COULD ONLY BE REACHED BY PHONING LONG DISTANCE. <br />MR. HAIMOWITZ REPLIED THAT THE COMPANY AND THEIR TECHNICIAN <br />HAVE A 589 NUMBER WHICH IS NOT LONG DISTANCE. <br />COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER-NOTED THAT THEY ARE PROPOSING TO EXPAND <br />AND STATED IT WOULD SEEM THE MORE PEOPLE YOU ADD, THE CHEAPER SERVICE <br />YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO GIVE. <br />MR. HAIMOWITZ ANSWERED THAT THE AREAS THEY PLAN TO EXPAND TO <br />HAVE A VERY LOW DENSITY - THE NATIONAL AVERAGE`IS 40 RESIDENCES PER MILE <br />AND THEY WOULD HAVE THAT IN JUST A FEW PLACES. HE NOTED THEY ONLY ASKED <br />FOR A 7% INCREASE BECAUSE OF THEIR GROWTH POTENTIAL AND FURTHER NOTED <br />THAT THE PROPOSED INCREASE WILL STILL NOT BRING THEM UP TO THE CHARGES <br />MADE BY THE TWO CABLEVISION SYSTEMS LOCATED ON EITHER SIDE OF THEM, WHICH <br />HAVE A TREMENDOUSLY GREATER VOLUME. <br />CHAIRMAN SIEBERT INQUIRED ABOUT THE MODEST INCREASE IN COMMERCIAL <br />RATES AS OPPOSED TO RESIDENTIAL. <br />MR. HAIMOWITZ STATED THAT THEY HAVE ONLY 23 COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS <br />:AND THEIR BASE PRICE IS SUBSTANTIALLY MORE. <br />COMMISSIONER WODTKE INQUIRED ABOUT THEIR PLANS FOR 1977 IN <br />REGARD TO IMPROVING THE SYSTEM AND UPDATING PRESENT EQUIPMENT. <br />45 <br />OCT 2®1976 <br />125 <br />BQOr - � 1 A; : e <br />