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TO: The Honorable Board of DATE: July 9, 1982 FILE: <br />County Commissioners <br />THRU: Dr. C.B. Hardin, Jr., Ph.D. <br />Acting County Administrator <br />FROM: George Liner, <br />Utilities Manager <br />SUBJECT: Request for Rate Change from <br />Jones Intercable, Inc., <br />REFERENCES: <br />DESCRIPTION & CONDITIONS r <br />On December 3, 1981, Jones Intercable, Inc. submitted a request for <br />increase of monthly service rates and reconnect charges as follows: <br />Existing Proposed <br />Monthly Service Charge $7.25 $ 8.50 <br />Reconnect Charge .7.50 12.50 <br />Other rates shall remain unchanged: <br />New Installation 19.95 19.95 <br />Extra outlet installation 7.50 7.50 <br />Relocate outlet 7.50 7.50 <br />Monthly service charge for each 1.60 1.60 <br />additional outlet <br />Commercial services These rates are to be negotiated <br />on an individual basis. <br />The time since then had been spent in reviewing the proposal package, <br />an exchange of information and postponement while the county CATV Ordinance <br />was passed and made effective May 28, 1982. Since that time, the public <br />hearing was scheduled for July 14, 1982 at 7:30 P.M. at the Sebastian <br />Community Center. This meeting was properly advertised in the Vero Beach <br />Press Journal, June 25 through June 30, 1982. Proof of publication is <br />attached (attachment A). <br />As part of the CATV Ordinance 82-7 requirement, a license is to be <br />issued as shown on the attached proposed form. The ordinance calls for <br />the rates to be shown as part of the license so with approval of any <br />change of rates, the Board of County Commissioners should also include <br />approval of the license, (see attachment B). <br />The present rates have remained unchanged since December 1, 1979. <br />Since that time, inflation and maintenance work have resulted in financial <br />losses in consonance with the depreciation of the system. Earlier meetings <br />of public hearings to raise the rates occured on October 15, 1981 and <br />January 13, 1982. At each of those occasions, it was decided that customer <br />service complaints were justification to continue the meeting and defer <br />the decision to raise rates until better performance was demonstrated. <br />J U L 14 1982 <br />I� <br />3 <br />Boa 50 -Pas-512 <br />