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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSPEAKER FORMS 11-06-00 CITY' OF TUSTIN SPEAKER'S FORM CITY bOUNClL AND REDEVELOPMEN f AGENCY IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK TO THE CITY' COUNCIL OR REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY, PLEASE COMPI'ETE THiS FORM AND SUBMIT TO THE CITY CLERK PRIOR TO SPEAKING. COMPLETION OF THIS FORM IS NOT MANDATORY, BUT IS REQUESTED SO THAT SPEAKERS' NAMES CAN BE ACCURATELY SET FORTH IN THE MINUTES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. PEEASE PRINT: Name: Address: City: Telephone Number: ~'/ " Regard, ing Subject or Agenda item No. Are you speaking in favor oo~O~t 7u in opposition this man~r? Name of company or group you are repr~enting (if applicable): Date of City Council/Redevelopment Meeting: CITY OF TUSTIN SPEAKER'S FORM CITY COUNCIL AND REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK TO THE CITY COUNCIL OR REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY, PLEASE COMPLETE THIS FORM AND SUBMIT TO THE CITY CLERK PRIOR TO SPEAKING. COMPLETION OF THIS FORM IS NOT MANDATORY, BUT IS REQUESTED SO THAT SPEAKERS'. NAMES CAN BE ACCURATELY SET' FORTH IN THE MINUTES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. PLEASE PRINT: Address: ' ~?~-.~'~- City: ~'~S~'W/ Telephone Number': (~ -'- Regarding Subject or Agenda item Are you speaking in favor Or in opposition to this matter? Name of company or group you are representing (if applicable): Date of City Council/Redeveiopr~ent Meeting: CITY OF TUSTIN SPEAKER'S FORM CITY COUNCIL AND REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK TO THE CITY COUNCIL OR REDEVELOPMENT AGENCy, PLEASE COMPLETE THIS FORM AND SUBMIT TO THE CITY CLERK PRIOR TO SPEAKING. COMPLETION OF THIS FORM IS NOT MANDATORY, BUT IS REQUESTED SO THAT SPEAKERS'. NAMES CAN BE ACCURATELY SET FORTH IN THE MINUTES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. PLEASE PRINT: Telephone Number': .../,,vzz~.-//~. ,.~ Regarding Subject or Agenda Item No. /¢~ /~f_,~ ~ · Are you speaking in favor or in opposition Name of company Or gro.up you are representing (if applicable): Date of City Councii/Redevelopr~ent Meeting'. to this matter7 CITY OF TUSTIN SPEAKER'S FORM CITY COUNCIL AND REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK TO THE CITY COUNCIL OR REDEVELOPMENT AGENCy, PLEASE COMPLETE THIS FORM AND SUBMIT TO THE CITY CLERK PRIOR TO SPEAKING. COMPLETION OF THIS FORM IS NOT MANDATORY, BUT IS REQUESTED SO THAT SPEAKERS'. NAMES CAN BE ACCURATELY SET'FORTH IN THE MINUTES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. PLEASE PRINT: Address: ' ,.~~ ~ ~/~ Telephone Number': ~ [~ Regarding SubjeCt or Agenda Item No: Are you speaking in favor or in opposition Na,me of company or group you are representing (if applicable)' to this matter? Date of City Council/Redeveloprhent Meeting' CITY OF TUSTIN SPEAKER'S FORM CITY coUNCI'L AND REDEVELOPMENt AGENCY IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK TO THE CITY COUNCIL OR REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY, PLEASE COMPLETE THIS FORM AND SUBMIT TO THE CITY CLERK PRIOR TO SPEAKING. COMPLETION OF THIS FORM IS NOT MANDATORY, BUT 'IS REQUESTED SO THAT SPEAKERS'. NAMES CAN · BE ACCURATELY SET FORTH IN THE MINUTES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. PLEASE PRINT: Name: Address' ,~ ~ City: Telephone Number': Regarding Subject or Agenda Item No. /4 · Are you speaking in favor or ~n opposition Name of company or group you are representing (if applicable)' to this matter? Date of City Councii/Redevelopr~ent Meeting' .. CITY OF TUSTIN SPEAKER'S FORM CiTY COUNCIL AND REDEVELOPMENI' AGENCY IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK TO THE CITY COUNCIL OR REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY, PLEASE COMPLETE THIS FORM AND SUBMIT TO THE CITY CLERK PRIOR TO SPEAKING. COMPLETION OF THIS FORM IS NOT MANDATORY, BUT IS REQUESTED SO THAT SPEAKERS'. NAMES CAN BE ACCURATELY SET' FORTH IN THE MINUTES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. PLEASE PRINT: Telephone Number': ~ ~ Regarding Subject or Agenda item Are you speakin~ in favor ~~/~ Name~/of c~~__mpany or group you are representing (if applicable): to this matter? Date of City Council/RedevelopFnent Meeting: - CITY OF TUSTIN SPEAKER'S FORM CITY COUNCIL AND REDEVELOPMENI' AGENCY IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK TO THE CITY COUNCIL OR REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY, PLEASE COMPLETE THIS FORM AND SUBMIT TO THE CITY CLERK PRIOR TO SPEAKING. COMPLETION OF THIS FORM IS NOT MANDATORY, BUT IS REQUESTED SO THAT SPEAKERS'-NAMES CAN BE ACCURATELY SET FORTH IN THE MINUTES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. PLEASE PRINT: · Address' Regarding Subject or Agenda Item No. Are you speaking in favor or in opposition to this matter? Name of company ~ ~ ~ou are ~epresenting (if applicable): CITY OF TUSTIN SPEAKER'S FORM CITY COUNCIL AND REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK TO THE CITY COUNCIL OR REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY, PLEASE COMPLETE THIS FORM AND SUBMIT TO THE CITY CLERK PRIOR TO SPEAKING. COMPLETION OF THIS FORM IS NOT MANDATORY, BUT IS REQUESTED SO THAT SPEAKERS'. NAMES CAN BE ACCURATELY SET' FORTH IN THE MINUTES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. PLEASE PRINT: Telephone Number': { ~. ~,, Regarding Subject or Agenda item No. \ ~ ~Are you speaking in favor or in opposition ~0 Name of company or group you are representing (if applicable): ~7~¥ 4:¢0¢'¢,r.~ '~ -"'"~-' '-- to this matter? Date of City Council/Redeveloprhent Meeting: CITY OF TUSTIN SPEAKER'S FORM CITY COUNCIL AND REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK TO THE CITY COUNCIL OR REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY, PLEASE COMPEETE THIS FORM AND SUBMIT TO THE CITY CLERK PRIOR TO SPEAKING. COMPLETION OF THiS FORM IS NOT MANDATO.RY, BUT IS REQUESTED SO THAT SPEAKERS' NAMES CAN BE ACCURATELY SET FORTH IN THE MINUTES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. PI'EASE PRINT: Name: o. Telephone l~lumber: ' ~ Regard, lng Subject or Agenda Item No. Are you speaking in favor or in opposition Name of company or group you are representing (if applicable): A 'T ~, "~ to this matter? Date of City Council/Redevelopment Meeting: Ladies and Gentlemen of the Tustin City Council, My name is William Smith and currently I am employed as a financial criminal investigator for the U. $. Government. just recently purchased the ~esidence located at 13502 Epping Way, here in the quaint community of Tustin. This evening I am unable to attend this meeting because I am currently out of the coUntry on vacation, however I have prepared this brief statement regarding my personal disappointment, as a new resident of Tustin, with the currently contracted cable service in our community. Prior to moving to Tustin, a few months ago, i had lived in the North San Diego County area for 25 years. For the past 13 years I have been a subscriber to the Cox Communications cable system, for which I truly enjoyed. I paid $31.00 per month and received approximately 65 channels, everything that AT&T is currently offering, to include such channels as the Sci-Fi channel, Food TV Network, ~ome & Garden Network, to name a few. This however did not include HBO, Showtime, and other pay for views for which I did not want. I was not required to have any kind of ~tuning box" for this service, because my televisions were cable ready. In addition I had 4 televisions hooked into the system with no quality degradation. Upon moving to Tustin, with Media One, I was receiving less channels, however with HBO, Cinemax, and Showtime, with much poorer reception for $53.90 per month. Now that AT&T has taken over, without warning or options, I am now receiving their television line-up, similar to what I had in Oceanside, with HBO (which I don't really care about) and am required to 'lease" their box in order to enjoy what I use to be accustomed to, at a cost of about $74.54 per month. Now let me put this into perspective! To be fair, let's take HBO out of the picture and deduct the $11.95 from the monthly total. That still leaves a cost of $62.59 per month. Compared to what I paid to Cox, I have doubled my monthly cost just to enjoy the same service I had before! Knowing something about the cable industry, marketing, and money, all this is, is a ploy to entice the unsuspecting consumer into purchasing ~pay for view programming", which I for one do not care about to begin with, and making me pay for an option I don't want. They accomplish this ploy by forcing the customer to use a ~tuning box" on their ~cable ready television" at an additional cost of $4.09 per television and an installation fee of $41.95 per set! If this isn't highway robbery of the most sophisticated kind, I don't know what is. I personally feel as though I ~m being held hostage by a profit h~ngry demon. Wow let's talk for a moment regarding their friendly customer service representatives! This is an oxy-moron. AT&T needs to look up what customer service means in the dictionary. When I called to speak with them I was treated as though I was a lower class, uneducated child. Having worked for an electrical contractor doing ~cable" installations, for several years, I feel as though I have a little knowledge on the subject. And we won't even discuss their rudeness over the phone, especially when one of the their reps hung up on me, when I was trying to express my concern as to the in operation of my other televisions and how to solve the problem without my going into ~bankruptc~". After a third phone call, and being placed on hold for 47 minutes (and yes I timed it), I finally was able to speak to someone who at least explained what type of service I was receiving, and how much it was going to be extorted each month from me. To say that I a~ a little frustrated, is an understatement! We the citizens of Tustin need options versus a tyrannical monopoly in this arena. We look to you to change this for the good of the citizenry. And trust me, if you the council can not help remedy this dilemma, then i think our voices will be heard at the polls. Thank you for your time and attention to this matter! Have a nice day!