12/20/76 Board of Public Works Minutes

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�8 REGULAR MEETING DECEMBER 20, 1976 9) 16823 Edinburg Lane (Not,in City Franchise area) a. Valley Cablevision reported that their are still working to eliminate problems in this area. b. No reply from resident. 10) 754 32nd Street a. Halley Cablevision reported interference found and eliminated. bi No reply from resident In addition to the above complaints of signal interference identified by Mr. Tim Zeak, the Clerk of the. Board has received complaints directly from two residents on Catherwood Drive. By letter dated December 10, 1976, Valley Cablevision was notified of these complaints. To.date, no reply has been received. This summary is being furnished to assist you in your delib- erations regarding the problems of television signal interference. cc: Mr. Harry White, Valley Cablevision, Inc. " Upon motion made, seconded and carried, the letter was ordered filed. The following letter was received from Tim Zeak: "after confering late last week with Valley Cable's Chief of Engineer, I begun drafting a letter to the Board stating that because I had reason to believe an honest effort and change of attitude from Valley's reps has become visible, I felt that between them and me, we could probably be able to reach a satisfactory conclusion to this problem without the aid of third parties. Since then however, I have received new informat-ion which convinces me that we are actually no further along in solving this problem then we were when I first appeared before the Board of Public Works in early October. My customers on Rockne St., 26th St., and Edinburg, all have informed me that Valley Cable has been out to their homes between 6 and 7 times with no correction as of yet. One woman stated that they have sent 7 different men out to watch her set and although they admit their have radiation there, a problem continues to persist. This woman is so upset that she wants to forget the whole matter. The job on Sunnymeade, which Cable denied finding radiation to the Board 2 weeks ago and which was stated that their had a signed statement by the party there was extremely misleading. It turns out that Cable never even contacted them, but dug out a report 6 months old concerning a radiation leak that they found back in: July. It can be reported that although Cable denied to the Board that they could find no trace of radiation on the St. Louis site, that for some reason they revisited the site and have corrected a major leak. This leak was present for well over a year. Please note that for the exception of Green St. which still is being effected by a leak, that every single site which Valley Cable either denied a problem exists or refused to say what they have found, are sites that they either have never visited or else since admited problems do indeed exist. Of the original 9 addresses I submitted, 7 remain not corrected, although several of these have been somewhat improved. In that I still have a large number of leaks all over the City effecting other of my jobs, and with Cable's policy of harrassing my costomers with needless and numerous trips to their homes and where Cable's reps including their chief of engineers, Mr.