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then the only avenue available to the citizens would be an initiative petition which would seek to repeal an ordinance or propose an alter- nate franchise. Both of those would get into questions of impairment of the contractual right that would then have existed because the e Manager would have signed the contract with Teleprompter. Vote was taken on the amendment to the motion, which failed, with Williams, Obie, Hamel, and Smith voting no; Delay, Lieuallen, Haws, and Bradley voting aye; and Mayor Keller voting no to break the tie. Mayor Keller felt the majority of the citizens in the area would be happy with the franchise and, therefore, he voted against deleting the emergency clause. Mr. Delay said he would support the franchise even though some ques- tions have been raised previously about public access. He said Les Swanson had indicated the franchise is termed in broad enough language to include the question of production facilities and access. In addition, the franchise gives the Cable Commission the responsibility to look at reasonable charges, overview the rules governing the use of the studios and facilities, and gives the final right of appeal to the Commission regarding other issues having to do with public access. He believed the mechanisms were available to ensure public access programming would not be inhibited. However, he said he was going to vote against the council bill this evening in order to deny it the six votes it needs to get an emergency clause. Mr. Lieuallen agreed with Mr. Delay in that he felt the franchise e probably would work out but that the Cable Commission would have a fair amount of responsibility to respond to concerns of the citizens in regard to public access. Also, he wanted the emergency clause eliminated. Vote was taken on the motion which passed with Williams, Obie, Hamel, and Smith voting aye; Delay, Lieuallen, Haws, and Bradley voting no; and Mayor Keller voting aye to break the tie. The bill was declared passed a"~ Ilw"Jcr~ 18284. .-- - --<-- - Mayor Keller said he felt this was a good franchise and it will serve the interests of the community. He felt there was a burden on Teleprompter to perform at a significant level and he felt they would carry through. B. Levying Assessments The folowing council bills read the first time October 9, 1978, and referred to Hearings Panel for hearing October 16, 1978, were brought back for second and final reading, with Panel recommendation to levy assessments as proposed: e 10/23/78--11 toq3