The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, June 13, 1979-Page 7 City Council approves cable TV ordinance By JOHN GOYER system would be required to pay the council the franchise would only be apartments with offices built over a After a two-hour working session city, and cutting the number of public granted for a 15-year term, and carport with 300 parking spaces. Monday night, City Council gave access stations a buyer would have to therefore, the right to operate the cable Don Gallinger has proposed a $13 preliminary approval to revisions in the provide from four to two, television network would not be given INeADDITIOyatherrdinancerstatss asyiindefinitely.million project on E. Washington St., city's cable television ordinance, in- IN ADDITION, the ordinance states away indefinitely, immediately behind the Ann Arbor cluding one change which would allow a that cable television rates would not be COUNCILMAN James Cmejrek (R- Bank and Trust Company's Liberty St. potential buyer of the city's troubled regulate Fif th r ao said te citysill branch. The mixed-use project would cabl telvisin sytem o se itsown Also, the ordinance states the city reserves the right to regulate rates if it icue1 tre faatet ul cable television system to set its own wudntr lt al eeiin festecbecmayi bsn t include 10 stories of apartments built subscriber rates. would not regulate cable television feels the cable company is abusing its atop a five-story carport of 445 spaces. The revisions are aimed at securing a rates until more than 90 per cent of city ability to set rates. . Both developers said they were buyer for the system. The company residents are subscribers. At the same Earlier during the working session, having trouble in securing conventional currently running the operation is in time, the revisions drop a requirement council heard from two developers who financing for their projects. Mayor federal bankruptcy court, $4.5 million that the system's operator extend ser- want to construct mixed housing and Louis Belcher suggested that the two in debt. vice a certain amount each year. commercial buildings in the downtown investigate state funds for subsidized ONE PROSPECTIVE buyer, Daniels The system currently has about 9,100 area. housing and also city Economic and Associates of Denver, Coloradoi, subscribers Daniel Kaplan's $18 million project, to Development Corporation Bonds for the said one month ago it was no longer in- DEMOCRATIC Council members be built at the south end of the Main St. moneyi terested in buying the system after expressed concern that the city was business section, would include 120 council failed to approve a similar or- giving away its right to regulate a diac.monopoly._ dinance. npoyNw Showing, Campuw Area Butterfild Theatres Councilwoman Leslie Morris (D- But Ann Arbor attorney Peter Davis, Second Ward) said while the cable who spoke in support of the ordinance beo ounil said the Dn e television system was in trouble now, in MONDAY NIGHT IS ADULISFEI., SAT., SUN. before council, said the Denver firm WEDNESDAY IS "GUEST NIGHT" EVE.&II0tIDATS $3.50 "would be happy to hear from us (the the future it could become quie,'BARGAIN DAY" TWO ADULTS R.EVE. $3.00 city) if we got a proper Cable TV valuable. "It's the ideas of giving ADMITTEDFORTHEtEES.0 document passed." something away - something that we $1.50 UNTIL 5:30 PRICE OF ONE OHILDTO 14 $1.50 The revisions include reducing the don't even know the value of that I am monthly franchise fee a buyer of the opposed to,"she said. City Attorney Bruce Laidlaw told Three 'U' groups voice CAMPUS crn over retired s t ffMON, TUE, THUR, FR 7:30-9:40 MON, TUTHUR, FRI 7:30-9:30 c n efSAT, SUN, WED SAT, UWED By PATRICIA HAGEN Because of rising concern over inflation and the economy, three Univer- sity organizations have become in- creasingly concerned with improving retirement protection for active and retired University faculty andstaff. Representatives of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the Annuitants Association and the Annuitants Benefits Committee jointly will present to the faculty Senate Assembly a list of six proposals inten- ded to improve organization and make the Annuitants Association more visible. They will make the presen- tation at the Assembly's June 18 meeting. "IN THE PAST, it (the Annuitants Association) has been pretty much a social organization," said the organization's president, Prof. Emeritus of Electrical Engineering Raymond Mosher. During the past year, the association has become in- creasingly interested in medical benefits and other financial aspects of the retirement program, he said. The Annuitants Association will be asking the Assembly to consider faculty benefits "from the time they're hired until the time they die," Mosher ex- plained.. The presentation will include a request for the addition of one or more retired faculty members to the Senate Assembly-to be elected by the An- nuitants Association. THE PRESIDENT of the University chapter of the AAUP, Prof. Wilfred Kaplan, said annuitants also represent the concerns of active faculty who will eventually retire. "The problems of an- nuitants are becoming very severe because of inflation," he said. "The question is," Kaplan said, "are. they (active University staff members) preparing properly for it (retirement)." The establishment of a campus office for annuitants also will be discussed. Some action already has been taken with the aid of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA)-the executive board of the Senate Assembly-to establish office space in the Michigan Union. Kaplan explained the annuitants need a "headquarters ... a place to be reached by phone." PUBLICITY FOR the Annuitants Association will be discussed because, Kaplan said, it is important to "en- courage more to ...oin" in order to strengthen the association. He said the association currently "is not well enough organized." Mosher estimated there are now about 400 dues-paying members in the group. But, if a revised constitution is approved as expected at the association's meeting tomorrow, all retired faculty and administrators above a certain level will become members. This would increase the total number of members to 1100, according to Mosher. The Assembly also will be asked to invite comments from annuitants in discussing a study of the University retirement program currently being conducted. ACTIVE UNIVERSITY personnel and the University contribute to the Teachers' Insurance and Annuity Association (TIAA), and receive benefits from this association when they retire. TIAA is a national pension fund to which many colleges and preperatory schools belong. The University retirement program also gives faculty and certain ad- ministrators the option to contribute a percentage of their salary to a stock in- vestment pool, the College Retirement Equities Fund. Upon retirement, personnel receive Social Security payments, TIAA benefits and CREF dividends. The informal Annuitants Benefits Committee was formed two years ago by interested persons concerned with retirement benefits and medical coverage and the effect of an in- flationary economy on annuitants. Ac- cording to its efairman, English Prof. Ralph Loomis, the committee will recommend the major medical coverage for annuitants be increased to equal benefits received by active per- sonnel. The organization also will request the Assembly to look into present and proposed state programs for retirement protection, and the impact of inflation on these programs.