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<br /> <br />g~~g <br /> <br /> <br />Rosewood Office Plow <br />1711 West County Rood B, Suite 300N <br />Roseville, MN 551 1 3-4036 <br /> <br />MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF <br />COMMUNITY TELECOMMUNICATIONS ADMINISTRATORS <br />The Minnesota Chapter of NATOAIThe National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors <br /> <br />Telephone: <br />Fox: <br />emoil: <br />website: <br /> <br />16511 635-0306 <br />16511 635-0307 <br />oei@mn.stole.net <br />www.mtn.org/-mocto <br /> <br />to: <br /> <br />Members <br /> <br />from: <br /> <br />Cor Wilson, Executive Director <br /> <br />date: <br /> <br />October 11, 1 999 <br /> <br />Subject: <br /> <br />Legislative Update <br /> <br />-- <br /> <br />The Legislative Committee and our lobbyists, Wy Spano and Sarah <br />Janacek, have been busy the past three months with strategy and meetings. <br />Sarah arranged a meeting on August 16 with Steve Minn, the newly named <br />Commissioner of the Department of Commerce, and his deputy, Tony Mendoza. <br />They are taking the lead role among several state agencies to develop an <br />administration telecommunications restructuring bill for the next session. <br />Although we have yet to see a draft, they indicated their support for regulatory <br />restructuring that would move cable franchising away from local government to <br />the state. <br /> <br />We also met with John Stanoch, Chief Deputy to Attorney General <br />Mike Hatch, and Steven Corneli, a policy analyst with the Attorney General's <br />Office, on September 13. Although the Attorney General's Office had not <br />developed an official position on the restructuring of Minnesota's cable and <br />telephone regulations, they expressed strong reservations about the proposals <br />that have surfaced so far. <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />Then, on September 22, Robert Vose, an attorney with Kennedy & <br />Graven; Jeff Weldon, the city administrator for Redwood Falls, and I made a <br />presentation to a joint meeting of the Senate Telecomrnunications and <br />Technology Sub-Committee, chaired by Senator Steve Kelley, and the House <br />Regulated Industries Sub-Committee, chaired by Representative Ken Wolf. <br />Although the meeting was not well attended by committee members, it gave us <br />another opportunity to make the point that municipal officials are in a better <br />position to make decisions about the best ways to meet local <br />. telecomrnunications needs. <br /> <br />@ Printed on Recycled Paper <br />