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Home My WebLink About1980-09-09 Special Meeting CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS AGENDA SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 , 1980 AT 7 : 30 P.M. COUNCIL CHAMBERS - 413 MAIN STREET � �" I. CALL TO ORDER II. INVOCATION: Councilman Mullendore III . NEW BUSINESS: A. City Council to conduct a public hearing relative to award of a Cable Television Franchise. IV. ADJOURNMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE 6252-17 , V.A.T.C.S. , AS AMENDED BY CHAPTER 227, ACTS OF THE 61ST LEGISLATURE, REGULAR SESSION, THE SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA WAS PREPARED AND POSTED ON THIS THE 5th DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1980 AT 4 : 30 P.M. �.„, � ^ � City Sec tar� � �;�/��O ,w.., � STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF TARRANT CITY OF GRAPEVINE The City Council of the City of Grapevine, Texas met in Special Session on this the 9th day of September, 1980 with the following persons present to-wit: William D. Tate Mayor � Ted R. Ware Mayor Pro-Tem Charles Dunn Council Member C.L. "Larry" Oliver Council Member William Shafer Council Member `�" Aulton D. Mullendore Council Member Marion Brekken Council Member constituting a quorum with the following members of the City Staff: James L. Hancock City Manager Bill Eisen Assistant City Manager John F. Boyle, Jr. City Attorney with City Secretary, Shirley Armstrong absent. CALL TO ORDER Mayor Tate called the meeting to order. INVOCATION The Invocation was delivered by Councilman Aulton Mullendore. PUBLIC HEARING, CABLE TELEVISION ,� - ' The order of business before the Council was to conduct a public �� hearing, in accordance with the notice duly published, relative to a cable television franchise. Mayor Tate declared the public hearing open. Assistant City Manager, Bill Eisen gave a brief history commenting that two cable television companies , Tarrant Cable Communications, Inc. and Teleprompter Community Cablevision, had responded to the City' s bid notice. He added that two members of the Council, Mayor Pro-Tem Ted Ware, and Councilman Aulton Mullendore served as members of the Cable Television Committee, had met with each one to discuss there application, and had requested additional information from each applicant, which had been provided. Mr. Eisen further noted that the Committee would meet on one other occasion following the public hearing for the purpose of formulating a recommendation to the City Council. It was then noted that the procedure of the public hearing would be for each applicant to make a twenty minute presentation to be followed by questions and/or comments from the City Council and guests . Mr. Jimmy Payton, then addressed the Council on behalf of Tarrant Cable Communications, Inc. , and introduced other collegues in '"°""" attendance. Following a brief overview of Storer Cable Television, Beverly Land, Storer' s V-P for Corporate Development, outlined the services available to the City of Grapevine. In summary, Senator �,� Bill Meier presented Members of the Council with a report from E.F. Hutton relative to the investment potential of Storer Broad- casting. He then introduced members of the Storer Broadcasting Company administrative and technical staff. ', 09/09/80 Mr. C.C. Hall, representing Teleprompter of Grapevine, Inc. , I addressed the Council and introduced stockholders of the company ', who were in attendance. Mr. Charles Hamilton, executive of ' Teleprompter, Inc. , the general partner, then made several state- ' ments pertaining to the history and capabilities of Teleprompter. In summary, Mr. Hall further commented on the services available ' specifically for the City of Grapevine. Mayor Tate then advised that questions were in order from the Council. � ', A question was asked by Councilman Dunn relative to the rate ' structure, after which each applicant explained basic charges I for services offered. � �, Several other technical questions were asked by members of the '�i Council after which each applicant was given an opportunity to ' respond. II An unidentified guest then asked if each company would respond ', to the clarity of signal and their position on home video recorders. ' Both applicants were in agreement that the personal use of home video recorders could not be prohibited. It was also noted that ', clarity would not be a problem. ��i A second unidentified guest advised that he was an employee of '�I Cable News Network and asked what the basic service included and if either company planned to provide CNN, (Cable News Network) . Teleprompter advised that CNN was included in their basic service. 'I Tarrant Cable Communications noted that their original proposal ',, did not include CNN, but that Storer was monitoring that area and I if proven to be a valuable service, it would be offered. Mr. George Placher, then addressed the Council and asked how many companies expressed an interest in the franchise by picking up ,� bid specifications. Assistant City Manager, Bill Eisen responded that eight (8) companies had requested specifications. � Mr. Placher then asked numerous questions relative to public access programming, local origination, anticipated revenues pay- �,, able to the City of Grapevine, performance requirements, and a '� conflict of interest question concerning city auditors, to which members of the City Council, City Staff, and both applicants responded. A final question was asked by an unidentified guest pertaining to I the source of revenue to fund the vans, cameras, employees and ' facilities referred to during the course of the evening. The re- ', sponse was that the availability of those services through the bid , as filed, and through the franchise, was calculated into what the ', company anticipated would be a fair return on their investment in I order to operate the system during the fifteen year franchise. ��I It was then noted that consideration of the awarding of the fran- chise would probably be placed on the Council agenda for the first meeting in October. � Mayor Tate expressed appreciation to those in attendance. I, There being no further questions or comments, Councilman Dunn � , made a motion to close the public hearing. The motion was , seconded by Councilman Oliver and prevailed by the following ' vote: � ' Ayes : Tate, Ware, Oliver, Dunn, Shafer, Mullendore, & Brekken I Nays : None ' ADJOURNMENT Councilman Oliver then made a motion to adjourn. The motion was seconded by Councilman Shafer and prevailed by the following vote: 09/09/80 Ayes : Tate, Ware, Oliver, Dunn, Shafer, Mullendore, & Brekken Nays : None PASSED AND APPROVED on this the �day of �C��!�/� , 1980. APPROVED• e� �`` •�^�� Ma�or � ATTEST: City Secr ,� .r �� , �