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Home My WebLink About1989-04-18 Support Documentation Town Council Regular SessionVAIL TOWN COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1989 7:30 p.m. AGENDA 1. Ten Year Anniversary Award to Joanne Mattio 2. Joint Discussion with Avon Town Council regarding the Television Translator Issue 3. Fritzlen and Pierce appeal of the Planning and Environmental Commission decision to deny a side setback variance request CITIZEN PARTICIPATION 4. Adjournment VAIL TOWN COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1989 7:30 p.m. EXPANDED AGENDA 7:30 1. Ten Year Anniversary Award to Joanne Mattio 7:35 2. Joint Discussion with Avon Town Council regarding the Television Translator Issue 9:00 3. Fritzlen and Pierce appeal of the Planning and Environmental Mike Mollica Commission decision to deny a side setback variance request Action Requested of Council: Approve/deny the applicants' request. Applicants: William Pierce/Lynn Fritzlen Background Rationale: The variance request was for a 4 foot encroachment into the required 15 foot side yard setback. This variance, if approved, would have allowed for the construction of stair tower on the east side of the existing structure. The purpose of the stair was to provide access to a secondary, rental unit which has been proposed over the garage area. The PEC, at their March 27, 1989 public hearing, unanimously denied the applicants' request. The vote was 7-0. Staff recommendation was also for denial. Staff Recommendation: Uphold the PEC decision for denial of the request. 9:25 CITIZEN PARTICIPATION 9:40 4. Adjournment •A ~p . TO: 'Planning and Environmental Commission FROMe Community Development Department DATE: March 27, 1989 SUBJECT: A request for a side setback variance to the Primary/ Secondary Residential zone district in order to construct an addition to a residence on Lot 2, Block 5, Intermountain Subdivision. • Applicants: William Pierce and Lynn Fritzlen I. DESCRIPTION OF VARIANCE REQUESTED The applicants are owners of Lot 2, Block 5 of the Vail Intermountain Subdivision, which is situated immediately east of the Flussheim Townhouses and west of the Interlochen Condominiums. A single family dwelling of 2,534 square feet is located on the lot. The applicants are requesting a variance from the side setback requirement to allow for the construction of a stair tower on the east side of the existing structure. The purpose of the stair is to provide access to a secondary, rental unit which is proposed over the garage area. The variance request is for a 4 foot encroachment into the required 15 foot side yard setback. II. CHRONOLOGY A. A variance request was approved by the PEC on January 23, 1989, to allow this property to be considered for rezoning by the Town Council. The approved variance was for a 6,620 square foot shortage in the minimum lot size of the Primary/Secondary Residential zone district. B. The Town Council approved a rezoning request, from RC to P/S on March 7, 1989. This rezoning has allowed for the addition of a secondary, rental unit on the lot. III. CRITERIA AND FINDINGS Upon review of Criteria and Findings, Section 18.62.060 of the municipal code, the Department of Community Development recommends denial of the requested variance based upon the following factorse A. exist vicin other +.,, „ Consideration of Factorse The addition of a stair tower in the proposed location should not create any problems to existing or potential uses or structures in the vicinity. The property most likely to be affected would be the Interlochen Condominiums to the east, on which a parking lot and a distance of 100 feet exists between the applicants' structure and the nearest Interlochen residential building. B. The degree to which relief from the interpretation and enforcement of a is necessary to achieve compatibilit treatment among objectives of th privilege. sites in the vicinit is title without qra strict and literal specified regulation and uniformity of y or to attain the nt of special Staff has been unable to determine a physical hardship regarding this variance request and feels that approval of the request would constitute a grant of special privilege. We also feel that the applicant has not given full consideration to other design solutions for access into the secondary unit which would not require a variance. C. The effect of the distribution of po facilities, public safety. equested variance on light and air, ulation trans ortation and traffic facilities and utilities, and public Staff finds that the requested variance will have no significant effect upon any of the above considerations. Such other factors and criteria as the commission deems applicable to the roposed variance. IV. FINDINGS The Planning and Environmental Commission shall make the following findings before granting a variance: That the granting of the variance will not constitute a grant of special privilege, inconsistent with the limitations on other properties classified in the same district. That the granting of the variance will not be detrimental to the public health, safety or welfare, or materially injurious to properties or improvements in the vicinity. ~~ That the variance is warranted for one or more of the following reasons: s i The strict or literal interpretation or enforcement of the specified regulation would result in practical difficulty or unnecessary physical hardship inconsistent with the objectives of this title. There are exceptions or extraordinary circumstances or conditions applicable to the same site of the variance that do not apply generally to other properties in the same zone. The strict interpretation or enforcement of the specified regulation would deprive the applicant of privileges enjoyed by the owners of other properties in the same district. V. STAFF RECOPiP2ENDATION Staff recommendation is for denial of the requested 4 foot encroachment into the side setback. Without being able to identify a physical hardship, staff cannot support the applicants' request. ~~ ~EC'C APR 1 1 1989 FREDERICK S. OTTO JAY K. PETERSON WILLIAM J. POST W ENDELL B. PO RTER FIELD,JR. April 10, 1989 Larry Eskwith Town Attorney Town of Vail 75 S. Frontage Vail, CO 81657 OTTO, PETERSON ~c POST ATTOAIVEYS AT LAW POST OFFICE BOX 3149 VAIL, COLOEADO 81688-319 VAIL NATIONAL BANK BUILDING (303) 476-0092 FAX LINE (303) 479-Oa67 Road West RE: Ron Byrne/Garage Encroachment Dear Larry: Pursuant to discussions with my client I am writing this letter to request that the Town Council, if they so desire, take the time to make a site visit regarding the above entitled matter. I would hope after reviewing the site that it would be easier for them to make a reasonable decision in solving this problem. I would offer one of three possible solutions in our order of preference. 1. The payment to the Town of Vail in the amount of $20,000.00 for approximately 48 square feet of encroachment. This would certainly amount to a severe penalty to my client and would certainly send a message to the community that these encroachments would not be looked upon favorably. 2. The second alternative is to exchange on a square foot by square foot basis by moving the southern wall of the garage to the north by approximately 3 feet parallel to the existing wall. We will then swap land with the Town from the south westerly portion of the garage which would be under our ownership for the south easterly portion of the garage which is owned by the Town of Vail. This would allow us to keep the basic form and size of the garage and would not entail the Town selling property to a private individual. 3. The third alternative would be for us to remove our encroachment from the Town property which would leave a garage of minimal size with a difficult access problem. This last alternative is certainly not the best solution for the Town being that the architectural design is not as good as what is there today, nor is the garage as usable as under either alternative 1 or 2 above. Larry Eskwith Town Attorney Town of Vail April 10, 1989 Page 2 I would hope that the Town Council take a realistic attitude toward this problem given the fact that a mistake was made by my client, however, at no time did he realize the encroachment until after the garage was substantially constructed. The survey which he relied upon was in the Town of Vail files and did show that the future garage would be on his property. It is unfortunate when these problems occur, however, the Town in the past has seen fit to work with various individuals to solve these encroachments. I would hope that we will be granted the same consideration in resolving our problem to everyone's benefit. May I please hear from you at your convenience. Sincerely, Ja,' Peterson ~C : n AGE2~DA REG~LAIt ~IEETYAIG ~1s~Y3L 1~IETROPOLITAId RECREATYOI~ ®YS~'RYCT° BOARD OF' DIRECTORS 6~EDMESDA~Co APRIL, 12 0 1989 0 3 m 00 PM °° V~YI, TOWld COIINCYl, to Call to order ° 3000 PM 1 min 20 Approval of Minutese March 22, 1989' 1 min (see attached) 3o Financial Report ° Thompson ~ 7 min : ~a Ford Park Tennis ° Bill Pierce & Frank Payne 15 min 5o Sc~imming Pool Task Force Report ° Prit~ ~ Morten 20 min 6o Summer Golf Video Package ° Mike Fox 5 min 7o Symphony of Sports Report - Folz 5 min 8o TOV Employee. recreation passes - Barwick 10 min Golfo Tennis and ice skating 9o Dodson Report 15 min A) Eagle Vail cooperation agreement (see Lacroix letter) B) Vail Recreation Plan - Winston Proposal C) Pre Season and VGA Golf Fees ° approval D) VMRD employee recreation passes (golf, tennis, ice) l0a Dobson Sub Committee Report - Tom Salasky 10 min llo Approval of PO°s 5 min 12o Adjournments Attachmentso Minutes 3/22/89 Lacroix letter Jim Collins letter - TV District - FYI Ve~~ &k~UI~ 'IGd~T DI~~Q° PARCH 22, 1989 o ~ Wilson, Per Lapin, George Itamot, Tim Gdrt'An o l~at DOdS011, Kattly Payne, ~ Salasky 2~~ ~O o ~ m~ti~ was called to order at 3 0 08 ~a OF o Lapin made a motion to approve the Pgarda 8® 1989 minutes, secor~ by Wilson, passed unaniu~slyo o Streve Zhcatq~san joins the meeting (see hand out) o Inc joins the m~tir~ o VIA D%~~2YC~o Qad~i~ Tonal item) Roger LacxoiX arm Lauren ~eren join the meetir~ o fihey were asked to join our meeting ~r Merv Lapin who had previous met with the Eagle Vail Board arm cliscv~~~ed the possibilities of joining the two recreation districtso fiche two entities discusses funding a study by Winston ar~d associates which would cost $3,0000 fihe study would research coanbinir~ the districts o fihey also dis~assed the possibilities of cxanuininq golf operation for 1989 summer oration e Lapin stated he wants one district (one political entity) fron- Vail to Edwardso Feels the Vail residents consist only of retirees aril millionaires and would get }matter representation on local issues if the dawn valley residents oaald votes He feels it does not make sense to have several districts run duplicate programse There is an economic savings to ~ realizede Garton stated if passes are good at courses it may create too much local play at Vailo Eagle Vail District arm V1~2D agreed to meet ar'd discuss various ways they can work together for the bettervent of their respective constituentso Lapin made a motion to approve $1,500 for the Winst-.on & Associates study to research the advantages and disadvantages of consolidation of VN~2D and Eagle Vail District -total fee not to e~oeed $3,000, secor~ by P9olloy, passed unanimaaslyo Roger Iacroix and Molloy, meet frc¢n 8 to 9 AM at the on Mardi 30, 1989. Roger Iacroix asked ~D what they feel will be gained from the ~--lady fra~n Winston. .lapin said th'e study will outline the'. advantages and disadvantages of: each district if a coa~alidation occurs -fees, tax base, etc. Gartoai stated ea~nanies o~- borth sides could be realized from a Lacroix is concerned if they offer items to people this year and then find it necessary to removed these offers next year it could be very difficult for the people. He is cortcexxaed about implementing any progratYtis prior to the shady being oc~leted. F~ PARK ~S: Bill Pierre, Architect, joins the meeting 3:50 PM. Dodson stated the building has been thirough the prel iminaxy 1~2B process a~ revisions -have been made to the building per that meeting...Zl~ey then met with xi~ and Wilson wY~ had further comments and suggested revisions to the building. Zllose revisions are being presented to the full board to see if they share Wilsoal's and Knox's c3~anges. 'Ihe building is apptely $350,000. Lg2B suggestions were-sink the east ccxart to existing court level -this will inflate the cost by $20, 000; mwe the bike path -more rocen arrnuxi the building; increase the size of the entrance and signage at the parking lot; terrace east side and eliminate the berm - econcenic move.... - _ Wilson arxi Molloy want to seriously research keeping the west berm. Bill Pierce reviewed the layout of the building, parking, bike path and new cxurt locatioai with the board,. Dodson reviewed the ideas of Knxix and Wilson -rotate the building (windows to exhibition courts), place offices oar gro~u~d le~~e~ and eliminate dormer. lapin does not like the building anxi wants to use all the space on the seootxi floor. Dodson asked how much does the board want to spenxi on the project? Z~ae original budget was $200,000 and the atn'~nt e~-timates are up to $350,000. Wilson is opposed to building office space - he feels Bill Wright and Kathy Payne do not need separate office spaces. Kathy Payne stated she definitely need office space to ootuzt the moaiey, pr~~are the arxi ~ schedules -all this requires a QtJZET space. . - Pierce will peat the offices oaa: ground flooro Petex Patten asked the boa~i to thinDc long terra range, 15 to 20 years, on this buildia~o wink about possible additioa~ o Stated it is best tc maximize the ~atdoor space< Tennis .players ocene to be outdoars ®do Wort aig+e slot of ir~3oor space, Dodsoa~" sun~narized what he heard the boar saying to Piexne v keep chest 'berm, add height if a~eoessarir to block the wind; east beau stiauld be terraced, the exhibit courts should be 'capable of vie~red fmn inside the house, remove dormers, rotate the building 90 degrees (sun will beocatae problem) , place the two offices aaz the lower level aaxi oo~abine them into 1 offioeo Dalson said the oonstxuctiorr bgxiget will make a lot of the decisions for the ado I~pin wants the building to be a first class facility arm suitable for long term tennis puaposes e 'Iizinks a deck and caru~py should be addeda It w+~ald be foolish financially to let a $350,000 budget dictate the boat~3s decisioa~so Pierce will redesign the building in 1 week ar~i run it bar the board o Any board ~ iauterested in this meetia~ should ocme to a 7 AM meeti~ next Friday, March 31, 1989 to reviews Bill°s plansa PaDIb Dodson stag they interviewed the rea~irxier of the applicants arm nave -now.. short -1ist~ecl - tl~eaa to two0 P7orter/Breivier and Barl~,er, Rink~°, Seacate Pritz will speak to the two finalists arm the swia~nirig pool task force will select the winner, OF SP(~o Ceil Folz joins the ritieetir~ 5<00 ~o She has arrarx~ed to have all the lunches ar~1 dinners donated, Vehicles for transportation to and from Denver will be rented for $20 eaChe The budget 1's estimated to be between $29,000 to $30, 000 which is $5, 000 belo~t original estimateso 'IY~e ticket sales are slowo ZYie Y~edia push will begin next weeke She reviewed the clinicians to date aril noted they have changed as warioias people arse added and drq~i fr~n the listo T~pin asked how mur~a revenue will be made if all tickets are soldo $13,750 if all tickets are sold said the TOV donate $16, 500 o Oeil is working to get ~Ii)t~e Shannonof Vail Associates to purchase all the retnainig~g unsold tickets for full ticket price and give them tQ his en~loyees, Y-ie has given verbal oommitmerrt, but she is waitir~ for this in writitago ~Pu- asks when the press talk on this event they stress ABC will ~ filmir~ this everrto Iapin wants to kr~a if -the Town Council can get any of their moray back? Ceil said yes if the costs aa~e kept dawn, all the ticxets sell arxi there is i.noome aver exper,dit~,~s RCN PfIILT~S : JOINT TCfV / VMRD MEETIl~GS. Phillips stated that last week at cau~cil meeting they were discx~ssir~g the arexaa expansiari plan. A oau~cil/district ~aittee should be foamed and work tcxaards nutual cooperation. Steinberg = and Eric Affeldt would like to continue being the r~present,atives from the Town Qot~cil for the quarterly . meetings.. Garton and Nbllay .will be the VM12D rePresetrtatives. ICS ARE3~1 Phillips stated the best way to look at the arena issues i . e o ooaYVention center and new ice surfare is to ocene up with a broadly represented task force to ooaxhx.-t studies on these mayor issues. Lapin stated it is his goal to get the arena operating in a business like manner and if there is still no profit they will need to look furt~ier into more non ice events. Phillips stated the process to look at ice arena issues should be similar to the prowess used on the S~ pool task force. Khooc agreed this process is necessary. Phillips wants VMRD to establish this process and run the task force. REAL F~~TE ~2ANSFER TAX: Garton wants Dod~soa't to develop a list of all the items suitable for the real estate transfer tax use and present it to VMRD. 'II~e list should be divided into required, essential, desirable or any other suitable heading. MEN & W~1~3d' S t~LF ASSOC FEE SCI~JIE: Deferred to golf sub cce~unittee. DOD6Cfl~I (OaNT' D) : Dodson introduced Tcan Salasky, Dobson Arena Manager. He stated ID~ian Jones has been offered and has aooept-.ed the position of Business Manager for the District. VNIIZD MEEI~dG ~Il~+g'.S: Lapin made a moti~ to hold two meetings per month throughait the busy season; second Wednesday of every month at the Vail lbwn Council Q~ambers and fourth Monday of every month at the Vail Golf Club. Zlzis sd~edule will be effective April 1 thatx~ October 31, 1989, seooixi by Molloy, passed unanimaasly. Molloy leaves the meeting 5x45 PNg APPRQVAL OF PO'S: Knox questioned the trash bill at Ben's shop arxi why VMRD is paying for the USGA for Satterstrc¢n. Dodson will ~ these. Lapin made a motion to approve the PC1, secarxi by Knoac, passed ursanimously. ~ ®1~gC'%° ° l It~~ o %apin asked Docls~ to call Jim Cbllires aced ask if cart stop the formation of the ~ Districto 6~e area . A~etrogolitan District m does V~2D have the riot ~ pra~ride this sexvioeo Dodson stated ~+e are not a Nlet~ Districto Dodson sherd also call Jergy Davis and Bill James for their irip~at ~ on tni.s subject, Dodson handed out the Winston Associates (see attached) , his iteza should ~ put on the next ageaeda for disc~assiono Action to adjourn 6e10 ~ Gail Alloy, Secretary town of ~aill% 292 west meadow drive vall, Colorado 81657 (3®3)476-2440 April 6, 1989 Roger Lacroix Eagle Vail Metro Rec Dist Box 662 Vail, CO 81658 Dear Roger: VMRD VAIL METROPOLITAN RECREATION ®ISTRICT (303)479-2279 - recreetlon` department Just some brief notes on what was discusses on March 30, 19.89 concerning cooperation between our respective districts. The preliminary thoughts were as follows: GOLF A pass holder refers to a person who has purchased a pass at either of our golf courses. PUNCH CARD: -Pass holder privilege: Would be eligible to purchase one punch pass, good for six 18 hole rounds of golf. -restricted on weekends and holidays from June 1 through September 20, 1989 . -1 punch pass per pass holder (subject to change after review). -Cost - $75 per card. -non transferable, non refundable, good for pass holders only. -A pass holder would be eligible to pay the green fee rate of the resident, established by each course. Vail - $40 for 18 holes. Eagle-Vail- $32 for 18 holesa Good 7 clays per weeks beginning of season to the end of the seasono IDENTIFICATION CARD -Non pass holders Each golf course would extend the privilege of their resident ID golf card to t~}e other districts -Cost of the card $l0o ID cards must be purchased at the respective golf course< Proof of eligibility (residency) reclta i red o -Cost $~0 for 18 holes at Vail, $32 for 18 holes at Eagle Vailo That would be good 7 days per week beginning of season to end of seasono -No restrictions -No replacement if the card is losto Must purchase a new cards -No exchange of card - Card must be shown with picture drivers license at time of payments TENNIS Resident tennis passes of VMRD and Eagle Vail will be honored at all facilities in both districtse Residents of each district will need to purchase a tennis pass in their districtse SbdIMMING POOL Eagle Vail - no decisions at this times Interested in exchanging pool usage for ice arena usages IcE ARENA a VMRD No decisions at this timed Interested in exchanging ice arena privileges for pool privilegeso MISCELLANEOUS Decisions were based on the followings All financial transaction/remuneration for services stay with the facility giving the services All responsibility for proof of residency stay with the respective districts and applicants Discounted green fee rates are not given away at the heavily used timesa restricted to times least usedo There is a true benefit for the residents of these two districts without impacting the other district's facilities. A review process period is scheduled so the boards have the opportunity to rectify any undesirable situation. Roger, I hope this accurately states the summation of our meeting. Please let me know ASAP if you agree. Sincerely, Patrick .'Dodson Recreation Director PJD/la c.c ~. V m RD boa rah /~t e r16 e ~~5 Ste J e S«-{~e~s'{roM `~_,.~. ~ Cie G~r~ ~A ~ b ~es:de~t d b.. an ~olc 1~ss ~,o~dec, ~ 5 ,~~° ssb1~5P~5 ~~9 aot be repiacecl, One G 4 r~ P°f s~sor~P° ~~ ms's r~4$s IS r e 1 u n ~ I TU C 7 C//~ W @ E i~ Q ~ ~ e4 ~p~ 1C~Q F ~ ~5 ~fOrh ° ~RiC~ 1 l ~b ~'4ct5 re g ~G~tS ` ~~y. ~u',rer-~ Sato- 5~~ oP'~'n~r~c~ ~ I'.3p ~~ -P~" r O IC ~ I ANr _ - - - - . P<1RCHA57NQf p ~ tel. ~~E1T~ ON INFORMATIQOy IAl S PASS {yfiHOUT qEq~ . ~ O ~< -1 Toro earA Y ^a*dnrtif Gk- ~ va1~ ~~ ~D4 a^e.o~,.,u,w.we enE ~Ot e, pum~,~y reeenniorq oroy ~oeeyeer~a~~~awaufM~ f~ ~Ir1pr ~~ m ate ~ oro rr. artace m an reaem;~ ~WA~1 PrpDer ~o ~~ J a ~ ~ ~~" °° e0 ~~ora0k to lee oM 13 ~ wa °p xnea J "' 1 ~ ~ - ~ or goo. ilea les trop. ~ q,;a {n,,,re p ' DESIGN REVIEW BOARD APRIL 5, 1989 3>00 P.M. SITE VISITS 1:00 P.M. 6 1. Litchfield Residence (Final) Lot 8, Block 2, Vail Village 1st Filing TABLED until next meeting, April 19th at the request of applicant. 7 2. Jacobson Residence, Deck Enclosure (Final) Lot 8, Block 2, Vail Village 6th Motion-Herrington Second-Osterfoss Consent, VOTE 4-0 1 3. Roost Lodge, Color Change (Final) Lots 10,11 & 12, Buffehr Creek Motion-Herrington Second-McCluskie VOTE 4-0 Approve as submited, sandstone color on adequatly color. Windows and doors to be green. 3 4. Vail Gateway Temporary Development Sign (Final) 12 Vail Road Consent 4 5. Ski Museum Entry (Final} Vail Village Inn 5 6. 2 7. 8 8. Motion-McCluskie Second-Osterfoss VOTE 4-0 Approve as discussed with landscaping, steps, railing color, gravel and plants in window well. Bossow Residence (Final) Lot 20, Block 7, Vail Village 1st Motion-Herrington Second-McCluskie VOTE 4-0 To approve as submitted with condition to work with staff on landscaping. Atwell Residence Lot 4, Block 1, Lionsridge #4 (Final) Motion-Osterfoss Second-Herrington VOTE 4-0 To approve as submitted, provision applicant work with staff on landscaping. Vigor 2 Duplex Lot 13, Block 5, Bighorn 5th (Final) Motion-C-sterfoss Second-Herrington VOTE 4-0 Approve as presented and discussed above. MEMBERS PRESENT: Peggy Osterfoss Jamie McCluskie Ned Gwathmey Pat Herrington STAFF APPROVALS: MEMBERS ABSENT' Roy Sante NONE 18 City & State, Aprif I0, 19N1 thics® ~I®vv cl® ®u measure u ? 1. Are the ethical standards o[ public officials today higher than, lower than or about the same as they were 10 years ago? ^ Higher ^ Lower ^ About the same 2. Do you believe the public generally perceives state and local officials as being honest? ^ Yes ^ No 3. Are we experiencing an ero- sion of ethical standards among public officials? ^ Yes ^ No 4. Does publicity about ethical controversies at the federal level (for example, the John Tower nomination) color the public's perception of state and local of- ficials' ethical standards? ^ Yes ^ No 5. Do you believe that most o[ your peers in government are ethical? ^ Yes ^ No 6. How do your ethics compare with your peers'? ^ Much higher ^ Higher ^ About the same ^ Lower 7. Should state and local gov- ernments implement ethics leg- islation? ^ Yes ^ No 8. Should such legislation apply to appointed as well as to elected officials? ^ Yes ^ No 9. Does your government unit operate under an ethics law? ^ Yes ^ No 10. If you answered "no," has an ethics law been proposed? ^ Yes ^ No 11. If you answered "yes," what general areas does the law cover? (Check all those that aPP1YJ ® re government officials 6 aexperiencing an ethical crisis? Are the media creat- ing an unfair perception that public officials are dis- honest? What do you think is "right" and "wrong" be- havior for public officials? City & State needs your help in assessing the ethi- cal standards prevailing in state and local government. Share your views by fill- ing out this questionnaire, and please feel free to pass photocopies along to col- leagues; also, any addi- tional comments would be welcome. Later this spring, City & State will publish a major report on ethics in govern- ment that will include the results of this survey. Please fill out the ques- tionnaire, tear it out and mail it to: -- -_ . _ w City & State ,.l ~, ._ n ~' . ~• Ethics In Government -- I i~ ~ : ~ ,,'1 ,! i , ~: ', ~ i~ F 'f ~~°"'' ; ~~ I Survey 740 N. 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Do you think your govern- ment's ethics law is being en- forced? ^ Yes ^ No 14. Have you ever violated the ethics law? ^ Yes ^ No 15. Do you believe public offi- cials should have to disclose all their income and assets, includ- ing details about sources? groups or to other private groups? ^ Yes ^ No 17. Do you think such honorari- ums should be banned? ^ Yes ^ No, 18. Should full-time, paid public officials be barsed from accept- ing income from any outside source? ^ Yes ^ No 19. Should a public official allow a businessperson to pick up the tab for an expensive meal? ^ Yes ^ No 20. In your role as a public of- ficial, have you ever accepted: _ A gift of significant value ^ Yes ^ No _ A trip ^ Yes ^ Na 21. A developer seeking rezon- ing of a piece o[ land invites the planning commissioners and their spouses for a free weekend al a luxury resort he owns. He wants to make a presentation to the commissioners, in a relaxed setting, about the project he plans and its advantages to their community. Is it ethical [or the commissioners to accept the in- vitation? ^ Yes ^ No 22. Please briefly explain your answer. 23. Should public officials be expected to adhere to a higher ethical standard than are lead- ers in the private sector? ^ Yes ^ No 24. Why? Explain briefly. 25. Are public officials being held to an unrealistic ethical standard? ^ Yes ^ No :~ * ~ * * :~ ^ Yes ^ No 16. Do you accept money for de- livering speeches to business To help us tabulate the re- sults of this survey, please answer the following: Arc you a: _ Government olTiclal _ State government Nme uue pwlrnmenUCOmpanynome aolress 6ry/sut4:ip 1 ) pnone Payment en[IOSlO ^ Bill m! ^ CNrpe ~ Visa ~ MutcrCar! Account rq. siVnature NNAIL T0: ~1~ ~ ~ Circulation Department 965 E. Jefferson Avenue Detroit, MI 48207 ~moor~-t ~ ~ a o Q Attach Q 8 label here for 8 addresschanges 0 and Inquiries. 8 D 9 D a a B ®mo~ 'SJO for non~governmenl subscribers. 71 to Vail T1-aQ - APn1 7, ] 989 ° ~l~ese~ ® ~~ i~®ny a1~~e ° People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an or- ganization based in Washing- ton D.C., have called a meeting for 10 a.m. on Monday, April 10, in the Vail town hall. The group is protesting any plans for animal research in Vail that might accompany a move by Dr. Richard Stead- man, the famed orthopedic surgeon who now operates out of Lake Tahoe. Although officials with Vail Valley Medical Center have acknowledged they are trying to get Dr. Steadman to move his practice to the hospital, they have not announced any agreement. Also, while it has been widely rumored that Steadman would establish an animal-research lab somewhere in the region if he moved here, nothing defi- nite has been announced. Steadman has not returned several phone calls made by. The Vail Trail. `"'"'"":. ` - , .::Don Welch, a member of the ~ _ board of directors for the°:hos- ptal, said he believes-no board members would condone a "torture chamber" for animals as part of Steadman's work. Welch went on to say that he supports a committee to review research techniques, to ensure that no animals are caused to suffer unnecessarily. ~~ -The Washington-based group is seeking assurances from Vail. Town Council mem- bers that they will not allow any animal experimentation as .part of Steadman s.pVractsce , ~4~ ~ .- Tire VaQ ?}ai! - AAriI ~. 1989 ~"~ the ~®u ~ ` t~ ~et® ~e ~i ®arz To the editor, People for the E t h i c a l Treatment of animals has learned of a possible situation in Vail that demands your im- mediate.attention. We have received informa- tion that Dr. J. Richard Stead- man, of South Lake Tahoe, is relocating to Vail, and may be accompanied by Dr. W.G. Rodkey, of Letterman Army Institute of Research. Dr. Rod- key has conducted extensive animal experimentation, sev- ering the nerves and ligaments of dogs, monkeys and rabbits, in studies he himself concedes "are not comparable to clinical ir{juries" (although they ,pur- port to study ski and orthope- dic ir;juries). The town manager has de- nied that there are present plans to allow doctors Stead- man. and Rodkey to experi- ment on animals in Vail. How- ever, the possibility of this issue coming before the council has not been ruled out, and no assurance has been given that . such a request will be denied. We believe the Vail Town Council needs to know that the caring and compassionate citi- zens of Vail do not, -under any circumstances, at any time, want animal experimentation to occur in Vail! _ _ -" Please call the Vail Town Council today at 479-2100 and voice your concern. Tell the council members and town manager that, while you realize there are no definite plans at present, if and when this i s brought before the .Town Council, animal suffering and misery will be rejected. A press conference will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, April 10, in the Vail town hall. Opponents and proponents of the research facility are invited. Patrice Green Researcher People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Washington D.C. Servang Eagie County ~ _ ~ April 8,y989 Tuesday through Sunday `"° ~ „~, Volume IX, Number 83 .- ~~ _ ~ _ A~t~~~~~~ ~lle~~ animal ~°~search headed fog V~~1 By John Calhoun Daily Staff Writer A Washington, D.C.-based animal rights group has alleged that a medical researcher, who has reportedly used live animals for cx- pcrimcnts, might be coming to Vail to scl up shop. Rcprescnt<~livcs from the group, Pcoplc For the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), arc scheduled to hold a press con-. fcrcncc at ]0 a.m. Monday at the Town of Vail Municipal Building to officially an- nounce their opposition to the "proposed animal research facility" at the Vail Valley Medical Center. Hospital Administrator Ray McMahan refused to confirm or deny the allegation of a proposed animal research facility, saying the physicians in the hospital do studies which he, as the administrator, is not aware of. "I'm not in a position to speak for any of our physicians," McMahan said. However, Town of Vail officials said that they have not received a proposal for an animal research ccntcr in Vail, which would be required. And even if they did, they would likely oppose it. "I think the town's position is pretty clear," said Town Manager Ron Phillips. "The Town of Vail dots not have any plans to allow experiments to be conducted on live animals in Vail." The allegations by the animal rights group stemmed from the announcement Friday shat ~aanaa a-e.~~a~°~ a From Q~~ge ll animal expcrimcnt~uion," said Thomas, one of several activists who will be speaking in Vail nn Monday. "Our 250,000 members arc outraged by plans to harm healthy animals for human sports medicine, and we will urge them to find other places to ski if this facility is built. Dogs don't ski and don't deserve to have their limbs broken and be killed to study in- juries arising from exclusively voluntary human amusement." Blondic Vucich, president of the Eagle Valley Humane Society, ap- plauded the effort of the Washington, D.C., group. Shc said, "The Town Council needs to know that the caring and compassionate citizens of Vail do not, under any circumstances, want animal ex- periments to occur here." Dr. Richard Steadman, a noted orthopedic surgeon who attends to members of the U.S. Ski Team and other world class athletes, has signed a contract to join the VVIVIC staff on Aug. 1, .1990. According to McMahan, Steadman signed the contract "within the last seven days." Steadman will occupy a section of the hospital's proposed $8.3 million expansion, and wilt reportedly bring a staff of physicians wish him to Vail. According to Gary Feucht, assistant Vail Valley Medical Ccntcr administrator, one of those that Steadman is negotiating with is Dr. W. G. Rodkey, a researcher and physician at Let- terman Army Institute of Research in Sar. Francisco. When the Council approved the V V MC's request for the 3 I ,209 syuarc. foot expansion last month, it made it clear that if an animal research ccntcr was proposed in Vail that it would have to get ap- proval from the Council. And al- though the Council did not vote on the research ccntcr issue spccift- cally, most members indicated that they would oppose such a facility. The hospital's proposed expan- sion still ncctis the approval of the Colorado Highway Department for their proposed South . Fronwgc Road access into the hospiul, and the required frontage road im- provcmcnt plan. From there, the proposed building design would be reviewed by the. Vail Design Review Board, and then finally go back to the town for the ncc;essary building pcrrnits. Although Rodkey was not available for comment on Friday, a Research Institute spokesperson said that "animals are used in some of the Institute's research." She refused to elaborate or say that Rodkey is specifically involved in the animal research. Victoria Thomas, of the animal rights group in Washington D.C., said she has in- formation that ties Rodkey to animal ex- perimentation such as "severing [he nerves of dogs, cats, mpnkeys and rabbits." She said further that her organization contacted Rodkcy's wife in California and Rodkey's wife indicated that the couple was planning to come to Vail to live. "Dr. Rodkey has a very long history of Please see Anima! research page 10 Saying that additional patient care rooms arc needed as well as additional parking, VVMC officials arc seeking to complete the second floor on the north side oC the building and construct a full third Door on top of the existing west wing. The proposal also in- cludes a 185-space, two and one half Icvel parking structure on the northeast side of the hospital and an access road from the parking struc- ture to the South Frontage Road. Further, the Colorado Highway Department and hospital are rcpor- tedly close to an agreement on the necessary modifications 10 the ' South Frontage Road. "1'1-il/ 1~ENVER YOISI' Sunday, April 9, 1989 G~~u~aa0~i~egh$s r®t~s~ ~cB~ec~aa9 era Va~~ VAIL - A belief that a Vail hospital may use animals in ski injury research will bring animal rights activists out in force on Monday. Supporters of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which claims 250,000 national members, will announce Monday it opposes a planned expansion of the Vail Valley Medical Center because they believe an animal research facility is planned, said Blondie Vucich, president of the Eagle Valley Humane Society. "There is not going to be any live animal research clinic -period," said the hospital's chief operating officer, Doris Allen, said Satur- day. .Officials also denied that plans for the $8.3 million, 33,000 square- foot addition to the hospital in- clude an animal research center. ~~ ~ ® ® ~ ® Saturday, April 8, 9989 : °rl der : ~ ~ ' s a l labs s By Knight-Ridder News Servi ' .WASHINGTON - In a violent, ;Mambo-style remake of the story of Noah's Ark, animal-rights guer- rillas heavily damaged two Arizo- na labs this week, left scrawled threats to the researchers and saw ed 1,200 mice, 42 rats, 12 rabbits and two guinea pigs. ~: While the growing American ani- mal-rights movement hailed the at- tack earlier this week at the Uni- •versity of Arizona in Tucson as the 70th direct "action" since 1977, at least one member of the U.S. Sen- ate has had enough. "I contend that it is the animal terrorists that dust be stopped be- fore they cause anymore harm to the public and the animals they purport to protect," said Sen. Ho• well Ileflm, .ll-Ala.; who introduced a bill Friday to strengthen federal laws to protect labs. Heflin wants to make it a federal crime to attack federally funded laboratories, to illegally or falsely obtain or use research data from them or to "release, steal orother- wise intentionally cause the loss of any animal." The proposal; sets up .ways for e :labs tb gain restitution and sue vio;; lators. , ~: ~ ~ ; People for the Ethical Treat• ment of Animals, or PETA, a„ Washington-based group that dis- seminates information from under- ground animal•rlghts groups, but that disavows any illegal action it- self, immediately condemned He- fun's :bill as a duplication of state ' `SHE DEIVVEIt ~OST /G~Q~fO®i~~l~ .laws and beside the point. "(Animal researchers) are a segment outside society and this further insulates them,' said.,~In- grid Newkirk, the national direct6r of PETA. The public would be "most gro-: tesquely appalled" if they knew what goes on in animal labs, New- kirk said. A more serious problem is the research community's refus- al toadopt new,.humaneguidelines, approved by Congress in 1985; she said. • "They've blocked them at every touch and turn," Newkirk said, ad- dingthat average citizens would be jailed for doing~the same things to animals that researchers do in ex- periments. The Arizona arson, which caused an estimated $150,000 in damage, was the 70th attack by, animal- . rights groups, according to infor• mation provided by Newkirk. The underground Animal Liberation Front claimed credit for the,arson earlier this week and most of the other incidents, The "actions" ranged from rela• tively minor spray-paintings of signs at labs and releases of small numbers of mice, to the destruc~ tion ot• a $3.5 million animal diag nostic lab at the University of Cali! forma-Davis in April 1987 and death threats against researchers. "Many death tiu'eats and other harassment of researchers are no4 reported by the press in order ~o protect scientists and their fami- , lies ... "Heflin said. ~iAf ~ r Conmcloum of coetm mod ecology, Coloredena elected to mend the Wlnter Getnem out Into the cold by JERRY q/WSPoEW®4Upp ®A/hen Coloradans cast their fudlui. nn Election Day to cut o1T stair spending (or the 1976 Winter Olympicv, (ew restdcnts were affected more am- spicuously than a '_9-year-old G.cek im- migrant named Fva gelus lsiaekmtns. The vme mcatn that the Ciamcs would now be held elsewhere-dat all-a torn of events that Tsiagkouns faded to an_ tiapate last March. That was when he bough) an old rnlfee shop nn Ihnvcr's shabby East Colfax Avenue, grandly re- namedthe place the Olympic Restaurant and made ready for what he assumed would be "a lot of free publicny be- tween now and 1976." Tsiagkouns accepted the election re- sults bravely enough. Standing outside his restauram he declared, "I feel bad that there will be no Olympics here, but what can I do?" He glanced at a splen- did new sign over the door, one bearing both the restauram's name and a pic- ture of a lighted torch. Then he smiled ~6 -- ®~~~~` m¢IOOa TN¢ VOT¢, rctlaU tllCUr Tsi]g~(IUns had just ih< right name for his new place. 0 Np~'. ~C~ l~>7.~ oirmvres ....,,,..,, If you'tl like to keep the leehng of the great outdoors when you're stuck indoors. reach for Tlm benlne after soave or cologru Timberline's ruggetl. exndarahng scent is Ilke a Dreelh Of Iresh, outdoor an. Timberline after shave, cologne. soap, tleotlorants antl gift sets trom 52.50. Also in plastic for travel. P,oEuQt of MEM cOTDr~y tnc,.NOnnrela.'IOrarwr a (~amnuncc opened w hen n :ants hnnhcd id(am unpu rtes shout the xnnce ul pn,- Uh mryc ra mp:ugn hinds. "'1 rc;dly Judl fcC wha'IC II 111:11ICr~~~ lital~il'd I)()()( ( h.urman \4, H. (iondwn, who ale, i. presidcm of Dcnvcr-h:ucd John.-M:m- sillc Corp II pri,hahh JNlnl m. ncr: h. a resounahng $17,J411 ^, i5g 906.:m clcrlora tr wurru•J above ry,lcnn:d c ,.I. and envronntcnlnl impart of the (lances wppruvcJ :m amcndmcm lu the Coloruh, am.unnum harnng Ihc use of (usher .Lne fund.. In Ucnvcr valet. sl.o a•n- aclcd a comp;uunn mc:uurc pwlutg a vnul:u Gccrc un cur funds. The Jcfcal of Ihc Olympics was man- egcd by an army of Juorbell ringers call- ing nsclf ('itiecns for Colorado s Fu- l ore, w hrchspan 523,600 m i t s l l mom hs of cvlstcncc-most of it collcctcd in rnn- tnhuuons ul 55 or b10. The CCF had a total media budget of 82.100, which it used fur radio spots in rural C'oloradp; its one big fund-raking project, a con- cert by (olk singer Judy Collins, Lnr 51.000. The C(.F's honks, slashed in a crate m the old house n used (or head- quarters, wefe open to the public. Simply put, the only thing directly af- fected by the vote was a proposed 54.2 million m state funds 15800,000 had al- ready been appropnated 1, since the rest o(the 135 million of Olympic costs was supposed to come from the Federal Gov- ernment, Denver's treasury, TV revenues and ticket sales. Still, bout sides had de- fined the stakes as nothing less than the fate of the Olympics, an interpretation reinforced by the (act that the U.S. Sen- ate, in passing a 515.5 million appro- priation for the Games last September, had made the measure contingent nn Colorado's coming up with its share. "The voters made their position clear," Goodwin said the morning after the elec- tion in the DOOC offices, which com- manded a view, smocking one now, of the Rockies in the distance. "They don't want the Olympics." And now, seeking a new site for the '76 Winter Games, the International Olympic Committee could have more trouble than Meyer Lansky. The San Franrr:rrn C/rronir/r editorialized weeks ago against California geeing any bright ideas about proposing ahernative sites in that state, and the French government is not pushing Grenoble, the'68 site. An- other former host, Innsbruck, did ex- press imeresl, as did Vancouver, but the IOC- indicated that it might be four 4fi nwmin Ixtwc .I au' n rhu.cn. Willi Ihc Wlillt'r UI)mpus already under lire fie amtmcirla hvn, n Is nut utconccn~. ^blc Ihw Ihc IO( would sclrc this dcutac In cinrcl Iha• G.uncs :dloccthcr. Vur arc the IB7h Summer 1)1}mpics unnuutc Innn wndar In,uhlcs. A ga,w- mg am rOlvntplc nu,vcntcnt m hluntrc- :d one Ih:u wnu1J lather sce Ihc env'. u caxuc .pent un .urwl nettls la now luukmp w Dcnvcr for ideas on how to prucccJ. l'hc (olor:ulo cunp:ugn may n(N exactly lit ihclr needs, lur m Dcn- verthe opposauon centered on ecununtlc plus cnvlronntcnial issues. l he rnult hraugM u,gcdtcr under the :mn-Ulvnt- plc banner young aclrvats, conscrv:u unt- Isw, bloc-collar wprkcrs anJ liscal con- <crvauves. I( the CCF prpvtJcd the lo- mmotinn, the man at the comrols waz Dick 1-umm, a lawyer who, at 37, last week also won hu (ounh term as a stale rcprescma t ivc Lamm, an ,ntcnsc, intcllcculally resl- Icss man, was tilting wnh the states big money iniereus. "The people behind Ihc Olympics arc the some ones who a;md to profit-the airlines, hotels, hanks and ski resorts.'' he said. Warning that Utym- pics have always Deen seeded with "eco- nomicland mines," he qucsuoned wheth- er the DOOC could tea listically hope to keep costs from soaring far higher. The Olympic foes further argued that the Games, al whatever cost, wore an unwelcome extension of the "sell-C'ol- oradu" campaign that Governor Love has used to attract tourism and indus- try during his three terms in olTice. In &tct, this may hnvc been the strongest slat in the bed on which the Denver Olympics were laid to rest. Many Co- loradans believe that Love's efforts hnvc been, if anything, ton wccessful. Fvi- dence thst the state may have been over- sold is there in the Los Angeles-style sprawl that now stretches from Dcnvcr westward into Ihc foothills of the Rock- ies. With problems of smog and water shortages worsening, posters have gone up urging outslJers m "Ski Kassa:' and bumper stickers have Floweret read- Ing IN)N~r ('AI.IfIIR NII'A If: f'(tl ltR SIN t. "We're stanmg a+ re:dirc Ihal growth isn't necessarily gout," said i-mom. "We've got to stop this knee-jerk hoosa erism and mindless promohunahsm." All this was m stark mmrasl w Ihc goodwill that prevailed back in May 1970 when a band of Denver boosters remrneJ triumphantly from Amsterdam, having r~,.n,.„ter or_rmvres ... t'in.nr.nded lh~ ~I.(~,nni~ha lha'l ll .ergieen..ul.i1lLiem+unwhm the haa- liill+ r l'+I nl Irrw 11 1l till .I i~r ~irnl.Iln ~n ~~~Ila .lighlla Ic.. ru n'ticd than Ihc'~Nin. 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In addition m cx pence. there was the prospect of three Ulymptc Villages, plus :ur and awn lifts (or competitors to opening and dos- ing recs. In (heir clTons w undo the damage caused by past sms, Ulympic supponers seemed clearly desperate: McNichols was accused of election code violations when Ineruture calling the Olympics "a force for peam, hmtherhond and intcr- national goodwill'- was distributed wnh the pay envelopes of the city's H,O(IO em- ployees, and d the mayor could have had his way, he dearly would have sub- mined the emire maser to Emily Post for arbitration. "It's like inviting somebody to din- ncr,•' McNichols said. "You just cant Icar up the invitation." Another ilbadvised campaign move was the DOOC's eBon to discredit n. foes by circulating a Drm•rr Peer stixv that darkly deuribed CCF's orgamtcrs as "a smell bw anful band of tcnacuna young political activists who have lihere~ into Colorado over the past two years." The story omiued the fact that nnc of the key CC'F leaders mentioned, 24-yrtr- nld Meg Lundstrom, was horn ul (lllu- rado. "And our people didn't litter here," she addeJ. "They rmnr here. "'Elie DOOC leaflet also did nm mention the fact that, nn the other vde, C hairman Goodwin himself became a Coloradan only when Johns-Manville moved ns 50 think area r a hanf~ t ~~ ~ Clro~. c mlo.ro61. and m ~ r '' ,hen .00 at.ong from rood ro <oe.c Cal: ih. n . Ramada Inn /o. free ~ .. enr Remedo Inn. Remede Inn e...„r.. olgc.r ~r "~ PO. Bo. 390,~Vhorn:., •nrene BS001 ~IIELC®IME ~®IIAE ocrpsvres ,.,,,,..,,,.,r hr;ulgnancly Ir,nn Nc\, YrnA la.l vcv In II\ Imal clfurl to wlvc the 1 )I. nqucv, iilr I)U1)(" vluhhurnl\ vnlaA to n. ctt n,dlum cuvl eV imale. :urJ areucd I hal the (,a nuv, I:u lium hcum cm rtunmcnl:Jla h:omlid. \unJJ pn nlucc \:du:rhlc I:uul- u+c Phumur4 lin (ldrnaJu Ihly \v:rv a Innm Ihal 0111 )< blca-I'reuJcnl Inc ~1ucr. a S+usv-h,nn cncinccl. w.v vnll m:rkmc av I;uc :n I Iccoan I . when he and Lamm nlcl lul a dchalc I ~ ~ I hr 1 rl\ nr- picv. Hnun ur 1{t ronducElc'.'~~ I m n chan- ivlrv clavvn+um ;u Ik•nvcr (nnunumw l nllcec. \ucr, an cmhaulcd 6enrc ^nud the Hunvcn hurncrv ;md clcmcm chain. +.av rluqucm m hchall' of boon. "~1 he 1)Irm- I+ICV wdl hone Urecl her vla lc :mJ Icdcral fnvlnnuncntal plannmc m ("ulnradn lur Ihr lire Ilmc." he prunuvcJ. "'~fhcv~ll hr: the c:ualvsl lur IanJ uvc." I{ul nett dav, when the vino wcrc arunleJ, n wav all hnunJog~lc. The ann- Ulymplc :uncnJmcm vwcpl vlrlually every pan of ('nlnradu evicepl the +kr enunlry annurJ Vad and Sleamh, ral tinnnee - and n love m each of Ihuve cum- numnlcs by only a handful of voles. In- \ufar a+ the nnrcv were munev and envl- rnnmcnl, the rrnlCnnlc w:l\ rcmlm\cCnl trf puhbc rclcctnm nl snot her hlc pngcti~l, the SSI~. Hw the eumpelenee ul the I)OOC Icadcrshlp alvu wav m yucslum. and the messy tle for n cnvs-nJJen Ulvm- plc mavemenl seemed elect r. the esccl- Icnce and fair play nnnincly c. peeled m Olympic cnmpcuuun arc nu Icvv nccn- sary mthe hack nwmv where the Games arc actually or~amceJ. Thu wav the firs) umc Ihal an al- ready annruveJ vanuc had ever nnneJ Juwn an (Avmpicv. Ycl n wav nol a vote agannl the Olymplcv pr:r vc, nor a vu1C agamM upon. Hul II w;la e vole agalnvl <pnrunH faaliucv Thal scut la rpaycn nnlhum of Julian and work :ILJ mrl l'r\CIIIIaI lllnac r\allnll aiIIInJ{:1 in the area concerned. A+ fur ulhcr Icssunv. L:unm wggolcJ a couple w'hde cclchr;Umg :u dIC (~(~I '~ I-.Icclion NiFhl panv, '-N'c have shown Thal we Junl need cucuvo m (ulurldu, we nttd suluuom lu prnhlcmv." AI Ihclr wake clvcwhcrc m Ucn\'cr, pm-Olympic troops were lindme cuminn dl a wcll- utwkcJ bar. ~hhc (Yl made du wnh m- cxpensrve Caldnrma wine and areal quanuucs of Ulymnra. a F+ccr popular m the Wcsl. Lamm. m hIV vv lvJum. mar have found Ihal bran) urlnprupn:uc. Ile was Jnnkinc HuJwcl+rr. owo 5 ~ ~~ Jam'- B+ g~ ~®~ "'kph . ,`~ °" v®,~ ®e~tr°a ~MIf P-~~~~°~®~~~ made t ~Y~~;®~d16Y~~ta~FM~P ~waes~NKP°We , see s L s ~ d le ea °~ ~~®~9~~~~`~ ee se~ec~(onlcso he ous?e~eoOP~~e\s~ h ~®~s the R`mo P ad~e~saun9 sFM m ptn9iaM s1a~tO t~~;n91n bO atloudn~ muhtp serfs t~a yt,he ~11un'dand ~p 19x 9` es Y°u n'°le 11 veMandhha~9'vssma~WhodemMa9na~° ~g~~y07i on1Y qua PM. F°( th ~ FM a% "Gat ~ -gyp caeerera~ said I~: Moog ~a~reiIl. ..Ynll'rf vl.,r\." I v.u,l "I r,~ l I. n,l Idr vunlr 4un1 ,.1 phmncr., rln nm• h+L,„I wnh Ju,va• I,n a.,lwra . hf v nd I +. i,l. 'tio I\Ihl. canon rarn•vlin,lfl -. ..~' he a+rla~nr,l II'. arn,mrrBIIC :end it L~Av+ rr„I, r tic, Ilp, .,. .,4f n,.,, . Ir. ~Idf h\ rof r.'„plc ,. L.. ~~~ it \ Iha rLun,nn p1n., n,l., c~n...nr\ Frown ur .,. Ihr\., r rrnl\ w I l h v, "In.I ., .n,l .I,.., .I' "I ,h,n'I An„w he v.u,l "I In. ?I n.m.l., ..u •.,': h.I. ,, t \ .~~ gn.n.uurr I, ,. ... Irvv lh.ur Cllr Kilh rli,I:,•n~• Ilavh I nu k,. Ih.,n j l •n `fm .,,hl It cfi 16..c I'..., r~l v.ui U„ 1 Ieer,n4ppu~ Itl1~fV'11~LJ-Yr ~~~ ~'. Thr smell camera for prown~upf •'~ - ~- ~~ h.tt All(: ntt•:uts.' It ntr:uu you _ut to h.n'c rltildren in the house. Ancl you clan t h.n'r children in the house :my nun'r." lie >i~h.. h:ur_in~ up. "\tat'be tct,•rr duin~ ,unu•thiu~ lur her kids. tukin!~ llicm out of Iltat rnt'irunnTCnt. but tch;tt c,m 1 tlo hn' her' Tun c:ut see bury nmcli time I have. Her house h:is rats. ru:u•he,.:nxl peelin~~ point. The rclut•a- tion people have been canting ;wound for sewn-and-u-half uumihs ht talk .shunt getting her a new platy. but thec ucycr (inci her a home." Cur:ut looks nutntent;u'ih' depressed. .:\ number of ns t;et together and h;n'e :~ beer utter work :uul talk about thim~s I like Ihi.," ht• tells me. "The t'oun~ ones get impatient because they tc;mt to save jhc tcorhi toduri. I ask them tt'hat they iutrnd ht tlo hnuurrntt'. They don't un- drrstantl that. ~f the purpose of tt•el(art• is to help people !het but•k into sorieh•. nbt'iousk tyr•re f;tiliug. \\'elfure is • a self-petprtuatiug bastard. \\•e make su- ci:d ye~rtubles of unr t•lieuts. I har't' I~ +een fifth-gencr;ttiun welfare f:unities ~ tchere it was asocial status thing to have your otyn case number and to ~~ct yutL;tternth!F1Flr` rl'ecklowntown C;hi- ~ t;tgu, I visit Dayitl L. Daniel, Cook ~ Cnunh`s public aid director, a soft- spoken blut•k man tyho has tyorked in tcelf;u'e siure 1938. llauiel seems ~ stunned by the sh:unbles around him. Couditiouz there never hooky-don', hr ~I explains: yet at Ieast the ratio of t•asr- tyurkers ;uxl clerks to welfare ret•ipieuts permitted some sort of service. But in tht• past two ur there vc:us, tyith the lti~h..rgtc of nuernploxmttmt-tfte~itu=' scion suddeuh• tvorseuttl. Each of those yew's saty a all to 33 per cent int•rcasc in the number of rases. But the state :utd federal ~uycruutents, tahith pay cascu'urkt•ts• sal:u'ies, lied uu iutcrt•st iu increasiu~~ manpower. Then tcert• uwre iuterestt•d in economy. ..It's very discoura~iug." sacs ll:uticl. ..For uearh' four years tce't•e tcritten utrwos. held t•unfcrcnccs. and cuuunun- icated yin "1'\' :uxl the press. untl tt•e still t:ut't t•uuciutc ;utybudt' tt'c aced more help. \1'r just cau•t do our jab. If it weren't so terrible, it tyuuld bt• funny. \\'e t•;ut't It:uttlle et•it•tions, deaths, and fires-;aid the people tyho nerd solar- thing lodaq. whrit•e run out of fuutl. \1'c look Iikc,Fnuls to our clicuts and to tht• business people tye• cleat tyith." Sileutk. he slides across the table a list of {ate u:uncs of dc:id persons typo are still gettiu!~ relief c'hec'ks. "Bv the sheerest ac•citlcut.° he says. "tt•c uncot•- ered these cases this tyce•k because of .a new reuuimment that our c•licnts get D. cards so .their stolen c'hec'ks can't cashed by thieves. Somebody was ~uilh' of plain fraud. :utd rye tveren t able to discover it before now.•• Back at the En;letytxtd office the next day 1 w;tit for )nnmv Jefferson. the young t»:m tyho needed the 514.GO entergenrt' chet•k for bus f:u•e so he cuuhl get to his uew jab. \\%hen he m'- riccs. Corm greets him in the tyaiting room :uul presses a sealed envelope in his hand. "1'm afraid it's doing to take a week for Springfield to issue you the chick. \Ieantt•hile this will help." After Jefferson leat'es. f ask Cor:ut what was in the envelope. "All I could get for him tt;ts hyo bus tokens, so I trot iu hyo dollars of my own moues. It teas c•ilher that or let him tcalk to u'ork.'• Bumpy Course for the Denver OIyI11pICS lil• \IIL1'ON \'IOHST \CASHINCTO\. D.C.-As ;utt doo•u- hill racer knotys. it's not the fit:at hard bump un the t•uurse that thrusts you. Its tchen they t•ume two, three, ur four in a ruts. bur Denver. Colorado, a t•ih• tn'iug kt remain cret•t through the plau- ning~t;rl,+c:c n€-Eler-1S)r(i \1'intr.r Olyrnpu . C;mx•s that it is st•hcdulctl to bust. the humps are tomiuK h;u'd un cac•h other. And the trickiest strett•hes lie ahead: o -Phis sunnner :ut ;utti-Establish- nteut tayta~cr-ec•olugist group called Citireus lur Coloratlo•s FuUtrr cullct•t- cd. tt'ith remarkable rase', ~ i,(100 sig- uatures-half again :u nutt•h :u the minimum needed to put on the ballot in Not•embcr a rcquircnx•ut that the state gocernmt•nt prucitle nu outer' sub' sitlirs fur the Den 'er tyinter Oh'mpit•s. o Ilacing suc•t•c•cdetl ou this front. (:itizens for Colorado's Future began cirt•ulatiug petitions to ~~iye the voters u chant•e to pass a simil:u' restrit•tiun un speudiug by the llt•nyrr cite' gut•crn- uu•nt. "1•huu~~h only S,:il)(1 signatures a•erc needed. aLnost lll,ll(Nl w'rrc t•ol- Ict•tctl, :uul that questiuu. tau. is uu the b:dlot. o Hcrc in \\'asbington'both the Scn• ate and the house tyerr remarkably .l/iltun 1'iursl i.e rr .tr/ndic•ufrd t•olumni.d lur flu' \\'axhim~ton Star-Nctcs unit rtn rtcirl.rkirr. • slow in respondinG to Culortdu's cull for federal subsidvt despite the tradition of federal help for this kind of under- taking. lunalh•, under pressure from Colorado Sen. Cordon Allott, the Sen- ate approved a 515-million subsidy. The 1[ouse btterior Committee, hutyeycr, bottled up the legislation, :utd the com- mittee is unlikely to tike at•tion before the November referendum. a The llepattmcut of Iluusinti; ;u~cl Urban llet•elopmeut bus pledged only a fraction of the 531.3 million Colorado has requested for housing. The state t•uutends that the fat•ilities it trill huihl to utcommodate the games ;md its lt,u'- tit•ipauts t•;ut later be tr;utsfurmccl int~~ luny- sort rnedinnrincome housing. o -[hr Enyirunnu•ntul 1'rotrctiuu Ageuct', tyhit•h is requirrtl by late to assess the ent'irunmental impart of Ird- cralh' finautcd pruGratns. has ju+t ;ui- uuunt•ed that the Olympics shunltl hr ret•vt•1ed to such previous sites as Srpcttc \-alley, California, ur Lake Plac•itl, \ctc Tnrk, and asked Congress (u cunsiclrr these sites ht•kn'r upprot•inf; ul frclrr.tl funding fur the ]97(i winter ~~ames. o Finalh', the people of Dcnyrr- like others around the wurtd-tcrrr di+• t•etniblt• affected he the events :d the summer Oh'mpit•s in \fuuit•h. \ul uuly did the tnw'dcr of clct'cu lsraclis qua a pall Dyer the Olt'mpit• spirit, but the const:urt quarrels user judging ;uul sc~r- ing rtised serious questions about Oh m• pit' spurtsm:utship. Citirens fur Culunt• do's Future has said that it does nut tt•;urt ht n'in its referendum h;tttlcs nn the issue of \hutit•h, but its campaign t•learly acquired acct' muutenUtm front the tragedy there. The llenyer Oh•mpic Committer (DOC) sees the bumps down the nwwthtin. ahead-:utd insists it tt ill master them. Butte iu \\'ashin!~ttm and in llenyrr. hutcet'rr, must objrt•ticr oh- scn•ers remain skeptit:d about the cunt- mittee•s abilih' ht t•omplete the cwu'+c. aud with rca.+uu. Thr tyhule uotinu uF the Culrn'.uln winter Olympics ryas ske•tchilt t•uu- ceit•ed :acct, to this day' i. ht•ing rtr• t•uted more he impntyisatiun th:ut ht muter plan. Thr booklet of rctuuchrd color pit•tures that :u•cump:utictl the original hid fur the !~atnes suitl that lhr alpine cccuts would be ht•hl un \luuut Suikhw, :u: undcyclupcd slope ^hunt .u. hour ur su fronr• the city, tyltilr the \urdic contpetiton tyuuld r:u•r sent++ the couutn'sidr iu the llt•nycr +uhurh+, tlcspite the l per rent pruhahilih• of natural wary-a critical f•tc•tur not nx•n- tinned in the prnpotal. Siucr thin, hoty- cyt•r, ~luunt Sniktaa has hct•n scrapped in favor of Vail-Bcaeer Gci•k, a hcn- hour trip by car, while the Xurdie events have brrn transferred ht Ste.un- SR/0CT0"DER ^t ~ _ ,,,u ~lu'u,~., lean' hours ;nc,,y un the rthcr f.,re of the Rockies. \lean+chile. n„ suitable pl:u+ h;u ever been devised _~ f,,r a bobsled run, :uul, after serious - '\\- .\ ~ ~r thou~_ht +v,,s ~ivcn ro placinG the cum- f~etition-hrlievc it ur not-at 'Lake I'L+ricl, the event a as scrapped. [_+enthin; about Dcnyers pitch, in O ® c !.ict. >mackeci of cxagGeration and liyeh j3FyG~~P ~,m.t~inatiun-and the bid surely would Q ~,r not have been accepted had not the Intrrn.ctiun:,l Olympics Committee de- . i+lcd that the l'nited States should Get 1,rcference in its ' bicentennial year. Then. too. Denver +cas the onh• Amer- - ir,u+ site that seriously solicited the honor. The Denser Ob mpic Committee h.,d _ood reason to +eant the games. Its \ i membership is composed of re~resenta- tires of the industries that stand to gain most b+ the extriyag;mza-the airlines, the hotels and restnurm+ts, the telephone company. the real-estate dealers, the Rocky \tonntain ski resorts. l'nofficialh~, the llOC~s closest ties are with the ~j Colorado Associ;,tion of Commerce and Y indush~y. +yhich represents :m amalgam ' uF the state's ++~ealthiest business inter- meeting it. And, if Coloradans wind up c.ts. paying off the debts, it should be re- Roth Coy. folm Loye and Mayor \~'il- membered that their state's population liam \tc\ichok of Denser, +vhere more is only about one-tenth that of Califor- than half the state's hyo million people nia. Sen. Fred Hams, the chief con- . lice. had for some years been caught up gressional foe of the Olympics subsidy, in the momentum of their myn "Sell raised two very relevant questions at Colrn-ado" program, a kind of modern the legislative hearings: "\Vho pays? !ihoosterism that attempts to attract pop- \t'ho profits?" The answers seem to be already is dangeroush• out of control. ulation and investment, whether the that the profits will go to a h:urdful of While the legislature spends money to re,ion needs them or not. Rv the time businessmen, while the mnents +yi11 ''Sell Colorado," popuLction so;,rs •uul `the t+co men c:une to recognize the dis- be made 1>y the bulk of C:olorado's cit_ hrnd continues to be eaten up. fn c•un- aciyantages and the unpopularity of the izens. - trast to the French Alps, where steep Ohmpics. they +yere overcommitted. As liut even more fuss these days is be- slopes and the danger of acalanc•hes a result, they went right on truing to per- ing raised by the issue of the damage limit construction and require that build- ar,cde eyen•day Coloradans that the the games are likely to do to the yate'+ ings be carefully grouped into prepl:ur Olympics +vere good for them. environment. Denver, despite the vision ned communities, the Colorado liockies Rut :u-e they? The precedents are of clean air and unspoiled greenen• that are a land speculator's paradise. The hardly promising. Fr;mce spent 5240 its name seems to evoke, has in fact high tree line protects the mouutuin- million fur the winter Olympics at Gre- been in environmental trouble for some sides. The gentle slopes make wide val- noble in 1968. Japan ran up an inered- time. A city that once beckoned east- legs. A builder can construct a house or ihle bill of 51.3-billion for_the_winter ward for new inhabitants, Denver now :u+ inn almost anywhere, without paying names of Sapporo last January. A4uch suffers tFie ;monies oFodercrowding com= attention to such trivia as slides or sew- nf this outlay, of course, was repaid in mon to older American urban areas. en. The only disadvantage is that thr recenuc, bul no Olympic games in his- \toreoyer, because Dem•er has both a land, because it is so' accessible, is ex- tm~+• ever came close to prying their unique topography (located at the foot pensive-but that's a handicap onh• to o++~n ++ay. \\'hile no final loss was ac- of the Rockies, the city experiences fre- the poor. The rich, for their part, c;li, cnrateh ~ established for Americ'a's last quent thermal inversions) and the high- ignore the price onh• at ecen•one else's cxt~ericnce ++•ith the +vintcr games-in est per-capita auto registration in the expense. For if the DUC and the Ohm- 19B(I at Sgna+y Valley-('aliforniu tax- nation, it ranks first among Americ;ur pies "sell" Colorado to more outsiders, p;ners ++rre shu•k +vith a fi13-million cities in the carbon-monoxide content the ecological chaos will be compuund- defic•it. And. althonGh skiers continue to of its atmosphere. The problem is ag- ed and solutions to the state's problems day S9 a clay for the use of the lifts there, Gravatcd by Denver's altitude and i. +vill be even more elusive than they arc C;diforni:u+s still pay an annual subsidy ertic•ularh~ acute for athletes. Normal- ~ro~~' to kce Sc now Valley from bankne tcv. P' P 1 P Iv the air i at its worst during the Rich:vd Lamm, assistant minoritc At the moment the projected expense winter +vcather-and it would surely leader of the Colorado 1 fuuse of Rcprc- of the Colorado Games, which the become worse yet with thousands of scntatiyes ;uul a legislator who h:cs DOC first estimated at S14 million, cars and buses zooming from one ath- grown increasinGly critical of the has rc•nc•hed almost S 100 million, and Ietic• event to another. DOC, said: "[ joi~+ed a unanimous even if the figure were to go no hiGher,~ 1'et the real problem, Dyer the long Colorado legislature in 1967 in yotinG ++•hic•h seems unlikely, the income from urn, could be the devastation the games to invite the Olympic Gam's to be held al sources would not come near to would brine to a state whose growth in Colorado. But the Colorado public r U~ ~IIYI~ and le~l,l;ltlll'l' IGl\'t' Illil l'I llllldl'lll'C In \\'hell It \\';l1 ,U111 111 ;( Ill,ln Irl lln » Ii~l•. j the Deu\'Pr Ohn)1)ic (:unnnittt•c. l~cor\ The IlrscPndants \rc Ilnrcha,Ill it lulu \1 '.u, ' titnc I ,uk n Iluc,tinu nLnut ocolnq\- a~u. 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Lc,.c ;y1t•~ ul unr social calccr. \4't'r(• up is Incoly, thc\' slid. e minutes to t»n \chcn I n fl It partial uhscr\'Pn I(•fi \citL the inlpres- tlu•rc \cith Marv f.askcr:ulll peopk• like s e \r siun That the IOC \cus in f;u•t rather that \c Lu (lu ihinls lur Ph:u'ih•, sec, tlis(•uvcrc(I that I »'as stu cin ~. I Loa l•1 . , roscr\t•(1 ^buul \chat it h:ul hr:u•d. limn- Loup upon ns as tlio poor man's~CartPr 1;It Ihcn ur »:lit Ilnlil sis, \chen the tour dut~c sai(I, us he bud un a prcvium ant( .~tnuuul;l-•• onded. It \conl(1 ho impossible to (lu ut•t•asiun, th;ll he »;IS disUu'hcd b\ iu- ,."I'hcv broke np," nn \vifP said. Iin1 :o tllninl the tunr.:IS uuP ul tLP \lill- ' rrcasinl in<licutiuns ul lultrrinl cum- u;lturull\' she \cas plcasetl, e` 11;1,1 brook people hall foml(I out. \\ nuulilc support fur thc~auncs. \\'hat he •\ couple ul' da\s later, the Flu»•cr seen him \ceacin!); thrumlh the tonrisls. sct•uu•(I to ho saving »•;IS that from here ('luh la(lics :uricPil lu look our house a liccr»•Inst in one h:uul, a slice Id I un the IU(:'s endurscnunll-like the over. !?:u•h look resl>unsibilih' fur the hroa(I ;u111 a Leer in the other, hope- j k•deral !{uvcrunu•nt's-prubuhly tlr- arran~~cuu•ul of a particul:u• room. -fhc lc.csl\ seokint; ;ul Plnpt\' corner. I \\:IS ponds upon hu\c tht• pcuplr ul' (:uluradu I listorical Sucicty Ia(Iv stopped hc, too. not I;oinf; to be trappe(1 IikP that su ~ cute in lhP \uvemher rek•rendum, to discuss a brochure that \could hr I thrc\c lulether a salad an(l. st:uulinl ; The Dorrt•rv Yu\I's must rec•cnt Dull h:ultlctl u(d in the tour homes. ConL•I III)-for \ce h:ul glut our kitchen table ! indicates that uppusitiuu lu the public »'t• tell Lcr about our Lunlrs past? This (Irn\•n ill the t•cllur to often nil the I fondiug of the 1:uuc•s coos about (\cu »':u our stronlr point. I~)r our c•olouial i; nx/nl-1 spooned on some ma\onnaisl. ' So one. State uffit•ials, lhP I)t•II\'PI' Ohnr kuu»'n to 6:1\'r hrcn stuntlinl; in tSJI, here \cus my j anll starte(1 eatink. \1 It Committee, and other likr-mindrd ' ----- _.- -- \cife' t'pstuirs, cumbiu~ her hair ur I '" ps inxist that then »'ill echu•ate a Ucnc SuliUl. Nlc uulJulr u/ \1'hen the sonu•thin~. ' sih• of Culuruduus dl the virtues of Cheeriu~ Stopped, lur.c jest cnrnplrto(1 oiC•es in the hull. The hurt- H:uk! \ es l>v elec•tiun clay. Flit nu» nn ur(•uunt ul .\'ulrulr(ur Ill's ill-fnh•(1 c.cscs I;rceted the voices. [ \volled du\cn j ' s unlikely. C \ .\!r•.rican rl•ntnrl., my salad and yanked upt•n tht• last ul • L; }972 1- JANUARY 29,1972 sniffing Worcester as alien territory, they stayed away, too. Only McCarthy came, and only McCarthy agreed to abide by the decision of the caucus. The balloting showed that an early announcement and a year's or- ganizing paid off for George McGovern. On the first ballot he received 51 percent; McCarthy, in second place, and Chisholm split the rest. By the third ballot, McGovern had surpassed the ti0 percent needed for endorsement, and McCarthy and Chisholm had swapped places. But the caucus gave a clue to how the ex-senator will answer the query, "'Where have you been since 19ot3?" McCarthy ran through the litany: "When three of the other candidates stood on the platform in 1968 after the speech about the politics of joy, with their arms raised to the convention, 1 was in Grant Park. When an amendment was offered to require presiden- tial approval before National Guardsmen could use live ammunition against American citizens, it got only two votes in the Senate. Mine and one other. When a black peace candidate challenged Henry Jackson in the Democratic primary in 1970, I was the only senator who campaigned in Washington against Jackson. And when Frank Rizzo -who now favors a municipal elec- tric chair for Philadelphia -was running for mayor, I campaigned .. ,fur his Republican opponent. You a,k where I was; 1 ask you, where were the others?" The McCarthy campaign headquarters will close in Massachusetts, though his name may stay on the bal-~ by ~~>l~n ICI, ~rr~~o ~>zo In Mav of IQ70 three members of the Denver Organiz- ing Cummit„~eee 1DOC) along with Colorado Governor )uhn Luve, Denver Mayor Bill McNichols and Walter M. Schirra, )r. traveled to Amsterdam with 14 others to make a presentation to the International Olympic Committee IIOC- advoi sting Denver as the site fur the t97o Winter Olympics. Up to that time, the orRanizinK effort was financed by $500.000 in state and city funds, $200,000 in pri- SAM W'. BRIT\cV. jR., u~a5 an organizer of the Vietnam ~19bvptorium Committee. ~~ ~ ~,~ 15 lot for the April 25 presidential primary. McCarthy left other doors ajar, however. "Having finally rejected the premise, 'my country right or wrong,' " he said of the other hopefuls, "They cling to the less tenable notion, 'my party right or wrong.' "Thereby making it clear that McCarthy does not. Fourth Warty A favorite piece of literature in the McCarthy head- quarters is a Field poll taken in California last fall pair- ing McCarthy and Lindsay as fourth-party candidates against Nixon, three different Democrats (Muskie, Kennedy, Humphrey) and Wallace in four-way races. It showed Kennedy winning in arty combination but McCarthy polling between 18 and 23 percent, depend- ing on the Democratic nominee, and spoiling the chances of both Muskie and Humphrey. For instance, one pairing showed Nixon with 38, Humphrey with 25, McCarthy with 23 and Wallace with 7. Without McCarthy, Muskie trailed Nixon 40 to 42; however, with McCarthy in it was Nixon 37, Muskie 30, Mc- Carthy 20 and Wallace 7. Lindsay, as a fourth-party candidate, ran a few points behind McCarthy but with the same effect. The poll reminds one of the sin- gle promise McCarthy is making on the campuses this year, namely: young people will have a choice in 1972. The Field poll gives his threat to run as a fourth- arty candidate a sense of reality. ~'he '76 VVinte>l• ®lympics Snow Joy In Colorado - er representatives had made trips at public expense ro Mexico Cin•. Spain, Yugpslavia and Swi-zerland, among other places, IonR before the Amsterdam IOC vale donations, and $300,000 in donated kuuds and services. The money was spent fur promotional activ- ities determined by the 12 appointed members of the DOC, which includ~ an airlines executive, two bank- ers, a telephone Eompanv executive. a maKazine pub- lisher, a former under secretary of the Navv, a univ- ersity administrator, two attorneys and other busi- ness executives. Tu promote Denver these men and other Denv a lb THE NEW REPUBLIC meetin.;. The committee had been able to prepare an impressive report fur the IOC. Richard O Reilly, reporter for the Rocku Mountain \.~u~-, ti.rute in a siv-part series on the Olympics pub- lished A[•ril -i-a. 1x71: 6v C\1av 170 (the DOC) had compressed its bid into a fancy two-volume color picture book edi- tion complete with slipcase and a half-hour color movie for presentation to the IOC at Am- sterdam. The bid book was and is a magnificent piece of salesmanship. From the heavy coat of snow airbrushed by an artist onto a photo of Mt. Sniktau. to cover potentially embarrassing bare spots, to the statement that construction of an Olympic speed skating rink "will begin in 1U70. the books contain a series of misrepre- sentations. Denver promised 100,000 beds for tourists x~hen only about 35,000 will be available, Norman C. Brown, DOC public affairs manager, admitted. .-1nd it promised a 45-minute drive from the Olympic village to Mt. Sniktau, but didn't men- tion that was possible by shutting off all traf- fic on [-70 and running six lanes of buses up the mountains, Brown acknowledged ... . Denver promised to stage Nordic ski events requiring snow-covered countryside in a rapidly growing mountain residential area with a 4 per cent chance of having enough natural snow. And Denver promised to hold Alpine ski races on a mouniaia-_tivhicl~probahly ~o.u_Idn't be developed except for the Olympics. By this impressive if dishonest salesmanship, Den- ver beat Sion, Switzerland, by a 39-30 vote of the IOC as the chosen location for the 1976 Winter Olympics. Major Denver newspapers were elated and congratu- latory. For the first time site locations were published in full. Small stories, however, usually buried in the back pages, and some letters to the editor began to re- veal that not everyone considered it Colorado"s finest day. The Metro Denver Fair Housing Association charged that when low-cost housing for Denver residents was badly needed, money was instead being allocated for housing press people during the Olympics. They vowed to mount an anti-Olympics campaign unless immediate steps ,were taken toward more low-cost housing. [n November 1970 the Ad Hoc Committee of Citi- zens Interested in an Equitable Olympics (CIEO), a group of Denverites concerned about minority repre- sentation in Denver Olympic Committee planning, filed a protest a petitions with the city council. Six nority represe~tives were thereupon appointed to the 25-member DOC board of directors, none of whom were acceptable to CIEO. No minority members were appointed to the nine-man executive council. A letter to the editor of the Denver Post was the only printed notice that the Colorado State Grange, with 8000 members, voted in September 1969 against hold- ing the games anywhere on the front range. Residents of Evergreen, the proposed site for the Nordic events, responded angrily to DOC plans. Ever- green is an unincorporated community of about 12,000 residents with Denver Mountain Parks in its midst. Seven hundred Evergreen residents attended a meet- ing with DOC officials at which they voiced their con- cern about the ability of Evergreen to handle Olympic- sized crowds and to emerge from the events without permanent environmental damage. Two Evergreen at- torneys discovered, among other things, that the bi- athlon trail proposed to the IOC went through Ever- gteen's high school and an elementary school: that one hill would be leveled and another hill"s top cut off for lifts and stands, and that proposed sanitary facili- ties would infect local wells. The prospect of a 7000- car parking lot in Evergreen did not thrill residents. A poll of 26b people showed 71 percent against hold- ing the games there, 27 percent in favor. Besides, the residents pointed out, Evergreen is in an area of the mountains known locally as the "banana belt," and its ~~nces of having natural snow in late February, the date~f the games, were less than one in 25. Artificial snow machines, which might be unac- ceptable to the IOC, could cost as much as ~~ 5 mil- lion. The res dents formed an organization. Protect our Muuntai Environment (POME1, to fight the .Olympics. O January 1, 1971, its board of directors voted unanim usly to ask the state legislature to re- fuse funding to the DOC until another site was found. DOC officials said in January 1971 that they would try to find another site. Three mentioned were Buffalo Creek in Jefferson County, Indian Creek in Douglas County, and Steamboat Springs. Residents in all three locations began organizing against the Olympics, and tjJhe DOC has said no more on the subject. 1l n the months following the Olympic bid, the slip- s~od methods of DOC planning and management be- came evident, and the secrecy of their closed meetings rebounded on them, as shown by the following examples: oThe principal owner of Loveland Ski Corporation, Bob Murri, first heard on his car radio that Loveland Basin was the site for some of the Alpine events. When the DOC announced that Alpine events would be held on Forest Service land, the Forest Service peo- ple there had never been approached on the matter. Furthermore, a study released by the University of Colorado revealed that the Sniktau site 'will generate the least amount of income and revenue of all sites studied, both during and after the Olympic attendance period. They said it was wholly unsuitable for after- JANUARY 29,1972 use because of the space limitations in the base area and the absence of beginner and low intermediate slopes. The DOC eventually started looking for an- other Alpine site. The DOC announced the Denver Coliseum would be used for top figure-skating and hockey events. As of April 5, 1971, almost a year after the Olympic bid had been Riven to Denver, no one from the DOC had talked to Bob Faes, the Coliseum manager, about it. The DOC went to Maurice Mitchell, chancellor of the University of Denver, in 1969 and asked him, "Do you mind if we say that the Olympic Village could be at the University of Denver%'" He agreed, but was not contacted again until ten months after the bid had been received. Students at the university have, of course, never been consulted about their coming evic- tion, which occurs in the middle of a quarter. ~In an international bulletin published in 1969, the DOC promised an international arts festival, claiming "The Denver-centered Festival figures to be one of the most historic tributes ever made to the many cultures of the world." A year-long festival in 1976 had been proposed by the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities (CCAH) in 1967, but the plans depended on adequate state funding, which has not materialized. (CCAH was given $27,157 of a requested $150,000 from the legislature in 1970.) The DOC never dis- cussed with CCAH what could take place in actuality, and never offered them Funding. At this point, the DOC has decided to bypass CCAH completely and run its own festival. The DOC has produced no firm figures on costs; specifically, what percentage Colorado and Denver taxpayers will have to foot. They did tell the International Olympic Committee that the games could be produced in Denver for $14 million because "we already have 80 percent of the facilities.'" Lt. Gov. John Vanderhoof later admitted, "They (DOC) were pressed for time so they lied a bit." On February 4, 1971, nine months after they had re- ceived the Olympic bid, the DOC told the Joint Budget Committee of the state legislature that the Olympics would cost $25 million -almost doubling the estimate in a nine-month period. Of this amount, they said, state and city taxpayers might have to provide $10- 15 million -unless the federal government provides funding (which spreads the number of taxpayers help- ing to sell Colorado). This is the revised estimate after less than a year's time, and if other Olympics are any indication, a strong possibility exists that the estimates will be revised up- ward again and again. [n spite of the fact that Colorado taxpayers may be footing up to three-fifths of the bill, they will not even be allowed to watch the events on their television sets at home, as the rest of the US will and as Grenoble citi- zens did during the 1968 Olympics. The DOC plans to ban live broadcasts in the state, except by closed cir- 17 cult piped into theaters where viewers will have to pay. Willy Schaeffler, member of the DOC board of di- rectors, says, "[ feel personally if Denver and Colorado spend $50 million on the Olympics even without a re- turn, it's the best advertising for Denver and Colorado t~h{a't's ever been done." llhe only return the state will get is increased tax revenues, which is not expected to cover the costs. In fact, no government has ever made money on the Olympics, and even the DOC admits it is unlikely Colorado and Denver will. The Squaw Valley Winter Olympics in 1960 has, to date. cost the taxpav~s more than 13 times the original estimate, a total bf $13.5 million. The area has never become self-supporting, and when recently put up for sale by the state, only one bid was received - $25,000. H. D. Thoreau, chief organizer of the Olympics there, has said that if the California legislature had known the full cost from the beginning, "the games would not have been held in California.'" The Grenoble Winter Olympics in 1968 cost $250 million, of which $50 million was paid by taxpayers. The city is still heavily in debt for it, and local prop- erty taxes have risen by an incredible 125 percent. These figures, of course, do not reflect such hidden costs such as highways and streets, policing, water and sewage extensions, solid waste disposal, military equip- ment and personnel on loan, use of public lands, gov- ~cernmental agencies and services, uncontrolled growth costs to communities, and, of course, such items as loan of Public Service Company helicopters for visit- ing dignitaries. (This latter cost is presumably ade- quately covered by a recently granted rate increase.) Concerned over these financial facts and possible environmental effects of the Olympics, two legislators, Bob Jackson (D, Pueblo} ana Richard Lamm (D. Den- ver), introduced a bill in the Colorado House in Feb- ruary 1971 to prohibit any more state money from being spent on the games. The bill never made it out of committee. On February 2, 1971, 11 Democratic legislators. eight of them from Denver, released a statement de- manding that promoters of the Olympics furnish de- tailed inft~ilrtation on the costs and environmental ef- fects of they' games. A resolution was passed unani- mously in both houses calling for a legislative study of the state's role in the Olympics. On March 2a, 1971, the committee recommended that (1_) future state spending be limited to $600.000 to make the total state appropria~tions. $1.1 million; and (2) the state should review ~1v` spending and site selection. On May 27,1971, the legislature gave final approval to'a bill creating the Colorado Olympics Commission which would approve all DOC contracts funded by the state sand coordinate Olympic events with other state centgnnial celebrations. The important watchdog functions of this ~commit• 18 tee. however, were negated by Governor Love's 11 ap- pointees, five of whom are men who have been heavily involved in either the effort to gain the Olympics or the planning effort since that time. What the DOC wants, the DOC will get. While the money amounts sound relatively small in the context of billions FoT weapons systems, they are critical to a small state such as Colorado. For instance, the cost of the bobsled and IuKe course is Four times the annual state budgets for air and water pollution control; the cost of the speed skating facilities is seven times the budget for handi- capped children: and the ski jump will cost 75 times the amount spent on the control of venereal disease last year. ° Several of the Olympics events will leave permanent .cars. The bobsled run, for instance, is a mile-long, refrigerated concrete snake which, as there are only 100 competitors in the world, has very limited after- use. More important, however, environmentalists are strongly concerned that the ""Sell Colorado" concept will attract people and industry to a part of the state, the front range, that is already facing serious environ- mental problems from overcrowding, such as smog and traffic congestion. Denver now has the sixth worst smog in the nation, because of a high percentage of automobile ownership and atmospheric conditions. The Denver Sierra CI_ub on March 31, 1971 offi- cially voted to oppose, for ecological reasons; Den= ver s hosting of the Olympics. The Colorado Open Space Council, a coordinating council of 36 environ- mental groups with a total membership of 100,000, has said that no more state money should be spent for the games ""until more pressing statewide environmen- tal needs have been funded."' It urged that the plan- ning commission appointed to review DOC decisions "should be structured and have sufficient authority so as to assure that environmental protection will be of first importance'" and recommended that all commit- tees, commissions and boards involved in planning and staging the games open their meetings and their records to the public. Faith in the Denver Olympic Committee has not been bolstered by its record. Its members have talked up the long-term benefits of the Olympics to Denver citizens, yet the facts of the case show that their prom- ises are often unrealistic and sometimes simply un- founded: Press housing for 3500 people will be needed during the Olympics, which the DOC talks of turnint; into low-income housing afterwards. Howev_r, the land under consideration is thought by city planners to be too isolated for low=income housing, although suit- able.foi hotel development. [n addition, successful de- velopment depends on cleaning out the railroad tracks ,, which is highly unlikely before the Olympics -~f lack of time and money. ~" ansit system has been said to be possible THE NEW REPUBLIC because of the Olympics, and sketches have been drawn in city planning offices for a system using buses, monorails, mini-trains, magna-buses and cars. Yet the Olympics have very specialized transportation needs, basically moving large groups of people to cer- tain places at certain times. These needs are obviously not those of a metropolitan population, and therefore any system designed for the Olympics will have very limited use for Denver citizens afterwards. The only exception is buses, which Denver already has. It would have been more difficult for such a poten- tial disaster to develop had it not been For three factors. First, the planning has been done secretly. The press and public are barred from all meetings of the DOC; official publications generally consist of one office copy, not to be removed or duplicated; contradictory figures and opinions are issued, leading to misrepre- sentations. Second, Colorado's most prominent citizens are al- most all on one side of the issue. Both US senators, all Colorado congressmen, the governor and his 1970 opponent, the mayor of Denver and his 1971 oppo- nent, the state's leading businessmen (particularly those with real estate interests), the two large news- papers in the state and a majority of both houses of the legislature favor the Olympics. On the other side have been blacks, Chicanos, environmentalists, many students, a growing number of low-income taxpayers, a small number of state legislators and residents of the areas near the proposed sites. That the Winter Olympics is a sport for the rich paid for by the poor in order to promote real estate and tourism is not an easy truth to conveyc~Fiowever, a citizen's group has recently been trying Citizens meetings through the spring and summer of 1971 led to the publication of a third-page ad in the Denver Post environmental section on January 2, 1972. Choosing the name "Citizens for Colorado"s Future," the citizens then mailed 7000 people in the state a petition addressed to the [OC which stated sim- ply, "We, the undersigned, respectfully request that the 1976 Winter Olympics not be held in Colorado. We will oppose any attempt to spend taxpayers' mon- ey in support of the Games."' The cover letter with the petition was signed by John Zapien, head of the Legal Aid Society in a predominantly Chicano neigh- borhood; Representative Paul Hamil~on, a black state representative; and Ruth Weiner, a leading environ- mentalist. State Representatives Lamm and Jackson joined in announcing the petition drive. The citizens' committee also plans to send a delegation to Sapporo, Japan to present their petitions to the Iriternational Olympics Committee. A large number of people were simply waiting for an opportunity to express themselves. Volunteers, calls, letters and requests For speakers poured into the office. The issue is rare in that its environmental and eco- JANUARY 29, 1972 nomic aspects complement each other, and environ- mentalists have joined, and are in fact being educated by, working people. The committee's greatest failure has been in its efforts to establish ties with organized labor leadership, which has been inclined to share the "growth is good"" philosophy of DOC organizers. Meanwhile, two important events have occured. First, Avery Brundage, president of the IOC, has ad- vocated elimination of the Nordic and Alpine events due to "professionalism,'" a cut which would leave the major expenses of the Olympics intact (bobsled runs, housing speed skating facilities, etc.) while eliminating the major source of television revenue and 19 spectator interest. Brundage has also stated strong opposition to dispersal of site events from the central city. Since the nearest of the five Alpine sites the DOC is presently considering is 75 miles away (lt~i hours driv- ing time), this could spell real trouble for the DOC when it meets the IOC in Sapporo. Second, the Revolutionary Bicentennial Commission announced on December 10 that the 1976 Winter Olympics are to be an official part of the nationwide bicentennial celebration, thus establishing th at least in Colorado, taxpayers will celebrate the evo- lution by sponsoring promotions for the business community. 1 e~~C ~ by ~>l.>~~~>r~~ ~e ~U~d~~ly Last week Alexander M. Biikel discussed the need to limit the President s ability to make war, and he re- market that the Senate is very likely to pass a War- Puwers hill designed to do that. The bill, which re- :rntly was approved 13-U by the Foreign Relations Committee. n•:ugnizes a presidential right h, repel attack. end to h,restall the imminent threat of attack, but it rcyuires that the President obtain permission from Congress in order to iontinue hostilities longer than JO Javs. The pnni ipal author of the War-Powers bill, ticnatur Ja;ah K. Javrts, says that legislation of this kind might have prevented the incremental in- volvement that led to full-.isle war in Indoxhina. The Nixon administrahun opposes the bill and, apparently. any attempt to limit its ability to make war. Its repre- ~entativcs complain that the proposed restriitiuns would narr.iw the ~x,wer given the President by the C „nstttuhun ;\ bash question, therefore, is whether the President due. have a constitutional right to make• war and? if •u. under what rircumstan;es. Uuring 10 of the last 2 z years. Amencan Presidents have been x+'aKing undeclared wars. In the case of the Kucean ~Var President Harry } Truman s decision appeared to he the product of emergency -the quick (%. ~~ tsrx n,, author u/ Tonkin Gulf. iontnbuted sis of the Pentaevn Papers to The New Republic 2 8s 1,1. response to aggresswn. As we shall see later. it ,cas more than that. In the iase of the Indochina ~\'ar a gradual es; alahun was uh<;ured by of f ii ial se: rc•.'y. , and then facilitated >uddenly by the Tonkin Gulf resolution. That resolution has'hcen repealed fur more than a year, but the game war :untinues, hanging legally in mid-air. supported by an extrapulatiun of the Cunstitutiun known as the President . u,herent power to commit armed forre~ to ;unfhrt. But even hefore the Tonkin resolution came under heavy fire. the State Department was busy refurbishing the execu- tive branch s claim to en independent. iunstitutiunal right to make wrr. Ina memorandum of P1ar:h• S 1900, that claim w•as :fated tun;iseh• by Leonard C Meeker. legal adviser to the State Dr•partmcnt "Under the Cunstituhun. the President. in addih.m to beinK Chief Exe;utive, is Commander in Chief of the Armv and Nav~•. He holds the pnme respun>ibility fat the rundu;t of United States foreign relations. These duties :arrv •erv hn,ad lq,wers 'tniludtnK the power w deploy A rnian for: e+ ahruad and curi,mit them to mditan• operations when the President deems .uch action necessary to maintain' the secunty and defense of the United Stea•s Tu prove ht. point, the Ie~;al adviser appealed to precedents bark h, the eanc~st dws of the Repubhr: 'Since the Constitution was adopted there have been at least 1:5 instances m which the President has or- - .: Richard Lamm, one of the 1 - ""the fight against the Colors ,', - pits, argues his case at a Den :: Club luncheon. Behind him, w '. - ~ ~ a chance to rebut, is Henry Ki :; _ a;:~.s.. . - of. the Denver Olympic Co .:: ~:.7t~:. . :~'. ~- - . ,, the Olympic movement; buffeted mlready theg.year ® by murder and discontent at Munich,'fatxs yet en- -, other blow to its spirit nextweek when Colorado Voters . :. ~3?~- ~~= go. to the polls. At stake will be the future.of the 1976 _ . ~ Winter Games, awarded to Deaver over two years_ago. ~~1~~:. _ ~ If a public referendum.passes--and its chances are rat. ® ~ ~-50=-it will cut off all future state funds for the . -- :;.; ..Olympics and automatically sever federal financing. _ ~ - -^ _ ' Denver officials admit they would then have no choice `' c ' `w but to return their Games to the International Ol ympic • ; _ , : '. '; Committee £or reassignment to some other country. . 1i1~ "It would be.the worst international disgrace in American history," claims Don Magarxcll, a former member of the Denver Olympic Organizing Committee. Mayor William McNichols argues that "the people of Colorado would have to live with this shame the rest __ _ of their lives." But the year-long debate has forced Co- loradans to think hard about the future of their state's environment. The Winter Olympics were lured by what is good in Colorado: some of the world's best skim g, ®~ magnificent scenery, abundant elbow room. But many I~ peo le now h p see t em as a symbolic villain bringing more of what they think is bad: more people, more cars, more' growth. As the bumper stickers say, "Don't Califor- nicate Colorado." TTSe International Olympic Committee awarded the Games to Denver is May 1970, after a slick, smooth ®.. selling job that was fouled with misrepresentations. . ? Denver officials claimed they could stage the Games _ - for only $14 million, since "80oJo' of the facilities were. ^; ~ ' already built.. The estimate now stands at $35 million ' ;. -="_~t.~,{ and holding-until after the election.Anexpensivetwo- • - - volume "Bid Book" vowed that all sites would fulfill Olympic requirements by being within a hour's drive of Denver. A submitted picture of the proposed down- ; hill ski course at Mt. Sniktau had snow airbrushed over - the bald spots: Returning home with the prize, Colorado officials were given a hero's welcome. Denver's Chamber of Commerce president purred, "We're recognized as a major city." But statewide euphoria soon began crum- blinginto anger, mistrust and embarrassment. ' Residents of Evergreen, a suburb in the Denver foot- . hills, learned that the Nordic events (jumping, cross- = country skiing and biathlon) were scheduled for their area. They also learned that eight-foot-wide ski tours- ;. es were mapped through their schools and backyards, t Angrily, citizens pointed out that their town lay on the 1 enders of eastern slope of the Rockies where snow seldom falls o Olym-. in February. Chastened Olympic offici l fi l a s na ly locat- erLions ed the: Nordic events in Steamboat Springs-a tough aitingfor 156-mile drive from Denver. mbrough . Meanwhile, Alpine skiing had to be moved from Mt. mmittee. e Sniktau when studies revealed that the mountain's low- e er terrain was so treacherous it would be worthless as ' • . apost-Olympic ski resort. Private interests are now de- t '.:;•. _~ veloping all the Alpine courses at Avon, near Vail 1 _ , j which is a hundred miles from Denver. h The anti-Olympic forces, calling themselves Citizens ". for Colorado's Future (CCF), opened up headquarters L in an old wooden house in Denver in March and easily a _ gathered 77,392 signatures to force the fate ofthe Olym- e pits onto the ballot. They claim that the Olympic costs have been greatly understated and the benefits over- i stated. The only ones to profit, says State Represen- s e tative Dick Lamm, a founder of CCF, will be "airline r th executives, hotel executives and land promoters." in ci - - ~, fact, ofthe 140-odd people involved in the various Den- d v th ...:; :..i'..: - x .. ~ :.: "~-Cis='~ "~ -'s~{`'~t~e° ^,-~ z, ytnp,c cotnmrttass b9 ara-Pa'a~e~Oe€`b~rd'e%1 ' .CltalrmCll Of corporations, 8nd~.aY~'ldtae4Qsiett~ `~' sires. "Just about everybody wlio profile fi~e~ ~, ~ - is on there; ' said one Bouldecpo(jr,;~~, ~.~,~~~, Even though the oppoeition~re top-1l~Yy'y~-~;~ business and financial Elite of Co1otadovnd~F--': staffed, uaderfinanced CCF cottld: knoel<.::ffieaa:o~;_'; • `People are tired of having the Chamber of Cotiomerce.,":'?". run this state," Lamm contends,. "'Ibey itre fed up ~iieh;:~ `".: the 'Sell Colorado' campaign: People are' starting to': -.:'.~ realize that `big' and `good' are. not neces.9art7y the : ~~' same thing." _ .. ...: .: .:~c,"`.:':;::-.. Olympic officials argue that costs forithe~~Denver Games will Gave a ceiling of $35 million-with only $5 . million to come out of state funds, approximately $16 million from the federal government, and the remain- der from television and admission revenues, plus the ... sale of commemorative coins and souvenirs..::'Amer:: icans are the biggest junk-buyers in the world," says •- Henry Kimbrough, one of the chief Olympic spokes- ' _ men. If, for unforeseen reasons, more money is need- _ ed, Kimbrough maintains that "it won't come from . Colorado taxpayers.. We'll cut -corners sad make do ' " with what we have-or go to private business," He adds, "Killing the Olympics is not going to eliminate ` ' the problem of growth. We must use the Olympics as a ' .tool to focus is on,these problems." - Even if the Olympics survive next week's vote, the ~ _! CCF has saved the Denver Olympic Committee from a good deal of future embarrassment and mt7lions of dot-. _ tars in needless facilities. Denver's price tag may, in fact, _ ' come in below $50 million, in part because of the deci- _' Sion not to build a $I.5 million four-man bobsled run, "The Olympics are obviously a growth promoter," . says Lamm. "Who ever heard of Sapporo before this year's Olympics in Japan?" His group believes that the last thing Colorado needs is more promotion and more growth. "Why spend millions to sell a state which has already been thoughtlessly oversold?" asks Lamm. "I don't think the Olympics will generate the kind . of growth problem Lamm fears," argues Kimbrough. Colorado already has 7.5 million tourists a year, and only 600,000 to 900,000 total attendance is projected . . for the Olympics. The Olympic committee expects to sell ?5°Jo of its tickets to Colorado citizens. As for the eventual costs, the fact that Denver has only to build a speed-skating arena (budgeted at $6.8 million), a lugs course in the Denver foothills ($3 million estimate) and he Nordic sites ($2.2 million) should prevent any gal- oping overruns. - - - - . ,, ~ ®ut the most de resin as ~ ® p g pest of the Denver Olym- j pits may not be money at all. They have become ' he spread-eagled games. Alpine skiing, the glamour vent, will be two hours by car from Denver. All Nordic vents, including the popular and exciting ski jumping, will be four and one half driving hours and two moue- ainpasses away in Steamboat Springs. Even ifbuses are aid on, Denver residents, to say nothing of tourists, can ardly be cheered by that sort of midwmferlogistics: '.":`''"~ Meanwhile, the rhetoric runs strong. Governor John j ove talks about "the power of the Olympic ideal as . vehicle of world peace" and how "Colorado can ben- fit mightily as she helps advance the brotherhood of man." But no[ all the phrases are hollow. There really a question of "pride and honor" out here where west- npride and the honor ofa handshake still mean some- ing. Never in all the history of tl'~e Olympics has a i. ty bid and won the right to stage the Games-and ` en chanorrl ~r~ ~,~~„t r. € MINUTES SPECIAL MEETING EAGLE VALLEY 7V TRANSLATOR COMMITTEE APRIL 10, 1989 12:30 P.M. REUBEN"S RESTAURANT - EAGLE PRESENT: Mike Metcalf Mike Robinson Mike Caccioppo Jeff Heermans Norm Wood Lynn Weas Bill James John Dunn - Attorney Mike Cheroutes - Special Attorney Stan Bernstein - Finance Larry Brooks - Town of Avon The meeting was called to order by Mike Metcalf, Vice Chariman. The Committee reviewed the language amending the Service Plan as adopted at the previous meeting. The implications of the amendment were discussed by legal council and it was decided to proceed with the amendment as adopted. A motion was made by Mike Caccioppo to "Amend the Service Plan to include the provision that the Board of Directors will solicit bids from private contractors for the operation and maintenance of the television translator system. The motion was seconded by Jeff Heermans. Following discussion the motion was approved. Mike Robinson moved to adjourn. Mike Cacioppo seconded and the meeting was adjourned at 1:45 PM EAGLE VALLEY TV TRANSLATOR COMMITTEE MEETING APRIL 6, 1989 MINUTES PRESENT: arm Wood Bill James ike Metcalf Mike Robinson ike Cacioppo Jeff Heerman evin Whelan The meeting was called to order by Mike Metcalf9 Vice Chairman. The Committee discussed various options for proceeding with the formation of the District. Michael Cacioppo made a motion to amend the Service Plan as follows: If no adequate signal is received by any taxpayer in the district during the first three years of the districts existence, then such taxpayer may apply for and receive a full refund of any taxes paid and for exclusion from the district. The determination of adequacy of the signal shall be exclusively made by the district's engineer. Any application for refund and exclusion must be submitted during a six month period beginning three years and one day after the formation of the district. Failure to apply during that period of time shall forever prohibit an automatic granting of a tax refund and exclusion from the district. Payment of any refund shall be made by the district within ninety days of determination by the district board that the signal is inadequate. The board shall be obligated to provide public notice within the district of the six month refund and exclusion application period. Failure of the board to provide timely notice shall cause the six month application period to be extended to a time six months after the last publication notice. Public notice shall consist of three publications in a legal newspaper of general circulation within the district. Kevin Whelan seconded. Following discussion the amendment was approved. The meeting was then adjourned. ®e~~ MwuDRy /lo•:l [}x(9'69 - - ® ~~ .. ~ Illlrt ht s~ .~ ~~ F~ ~ ~ .~~ g action Cable choice grand' or atraaeous' ~IJCtI IJ tv The USA is gble~savvy and become a subscnbers want changes and want them now! major player'; ers ~~ USA~ODArs ca- CnIBC debuts b1e Tv hot line over the week- today, 3 ~ end to spout off, o9er opinions and even ladle some praise. "Cable in this city is outra- - genus;' says Donna S!Iverth- orn of Baltimore. "They charge $20 a month and out of 30 channels we only have four or five.ot good quality." On the flip side is Joyce McDaniel of Magnolia, Ark.: "Ca- ble TV is by tar the grandest invention of modem civili7a- don. It has brought more entertainment, it has brought more selective choices for intelligent viewers." One of those choices, CNBC, begins operation today. Thir- teen million subscribers on 90 systems will receive NBC's news and information service -just one more outlet for cable TV's growing original programming. At the same time, however, cable discontent seems to be on the rise. This week, Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-0hio, continues hearings begun last week on monopolies and the gble industry. Many hot line callers directed comments at just that topic, expressing fntstration about cable services beine limited to a sinpJe provider in each community. Thou -tn o ne nvites more grousing than praise, the intensity of responses clearly demonstrates ca- ble's unique place in the nation's living rooms. Passionate Please see COVER STORY next page House Speaker Jim Wright's hold on [he Democratic Party's top job will be tested today when the House ethics commit- tee releases its initial report on his financial dealings. Details of the 10-month probe -and the fine print of outside counsel Richard Phe- lan's 458-page report -may prove more damaging than the actual charges against Wright But the 8fryearold Texan al- ready has begun his effort to turn the indictment-like report into anacquittal - a process -that could take several weeps. Wright wrote leaders of the ethics committee Sanday re- questing anopportunity to ap• pear as early as this afternoon. I am most anxious to have the matter resolved without further delay; he wrote. It !s "in the best interest of the House, as well as the nation." Key to Wright's hopes: The panel must find "clear and con- vincing' evidence of violations in the next phase of its inquiry. Today's IIndings -backed by a majority of panel Democrats. The New York Tunes reports - indicate oNy "t~eason to be- lieve" there was misconduct „The committee is very con- scious of the distinction be- tween the two standards," says Rep. Alan Mollohan, D-WVa., a panel member. Phelan's t'e- port, he says, is "onesided." Once Wright makes his case. the panel decides whether the charges stand and what penal- ty - tram a critical letter to expulsion - to recommend. Floor action follows. The main charges against Wright' He and wife Betty ac- cepted guts from a Fort Worth developer with an interest in legislation; Wright sold a book. Resections of a Public Man. in bulk to sidestep outside income limits. Weekend reactions: p "We have to be terribly careful that we don't let accu- sation bring about its own taint of gullt," says House Majority Leader Thomas Foley, who would likely succeed Wright ® "I think he will survive as spealter into the foreseeable future:' says Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell Housing and Urban Devel- opment Secretary Jack Kemp said Sunday he'll give public housing directors new tools to speed evictions of tenants con- victed of dais-related CTlIrle3. Kemp said he would notiry directors this week of their new authority to kick out ten- ants who sell or use drugs. He also wants to speed evic- tion hearings and court appear- ances, cutting the usual 10- month processing time by half. But Norman Siegel. New York director of the American Civil Liberties Union, warned govetrunent officials "cannot and should not shortcut the Constitution" to fight drugs. He said existing nu~sattce laws are suffident to evict dealers and attacked Kemp for wanting "to look good on the 6 o'clock news." HUD also may nearly dou- ble the 350 million available for antidrug security in the na- tion'shousing projects. home to 1.3. million families. -" " In February, Kemp queried the nation's 3,200 public hour ins authorities about their methods for battling drugs. Efforts to fight back: ®Chicago's Operation Clean Sweep has cut project crime by 32 percent Tenant IDs, resi- dentpatrols and treatment pro- grams have helped. ®New York housing police have made 30 sweeps of public projects since 1988, resulting in 3,536 drug arrests. ~ Lakeland, Fla., officials use cameras to tape drug sales. ® New Haven, Conn., build- ings Gave new vandal-proof lighting, intercoms and alarm fns. ® Many projects have start- ed "Just Say No" clubs. Among them: Danville, Ill.; Salem, Ore.; and Scotts Bluff, Neb. ~~. ~~~ ., ~~ ing between the two nations. y As a lieutenant colonel, Ei- senhower worked in the White House under his father, he went into the reserves, retiring as a brigadier general, served as ambassador to Belgium, then struck out on his own. 'The hell with it I'm going to do something my old man couldn't get into."' One major review of his lat• est work doesn't even mention his father. "God, it feels great!" Eisenhower says. - PaW Clancy buy the deicing theory are involved. She's been in touch with Theresa Griffin, widow of pilot Capt. John Griffin, who has worked separately since the crash to clear his name. "For someone to have as their 5- nal epitaph negligence, when they were never a negligent person, is un- Griffin says her husband used to discuss news of accidents with their two children, now in college. "He al- wayssaid if they can't find the cause, they'll blame the pilot because a dead pilot can't talk" - Lorl Sharn COVER STORY Top-a~ated on calble: `3 Stooges' Continued from lA and vehement. the calls also reveal a surprisingly high level of under- standingconcerning the pay TV busi- ness and its future. Key areas of caller comments: - Cost Basic cable rates have zoomed 31 percent since 1986. - Customer service. Installation and servicing was second to costs on the complaint Ilst "We lose channels now for one or two days a week and they don't rep- resent that in the rates," says Gerald Schmaltz of Bluffton. Ind. I'm very dissatisfied with the ser- vice," says Judy David Kochenauer of Alexandria, Va. "The technicians oNy come out between 8 am and 5 p.m., and you can't get a set time which means you have to take a day ot[ from work Sometimes you have to take oII two or three days before you get the problem fixed." - Progamming. Cable now has more channels and more original programming than ever. But quit tiles about the quality of that pro- gemming was frequent, especially regarding repeating of programs. Says M.J. Fitzgibbon of Youngs- town Ohio: "I've had it a month and I've seen programs so many times it's sickening I bought it for the Dis- covery Channel" -primarily life science documentaries - "but I've seen the same buffaloes and birds so many times I'm sick of them" Few would argue that cable is sup- plying more original and better pro- gramming. Yet cable's highest-rated non-movie programming as of Octo- tier 1988 was The Three Stooges, The Andy Griffith Show and The Brady Bunch. All are reruns airing on su- perstation TBS. As for movies -whether basic or = -viewers have a severe case of yew. :ink they repeat the movies too .;n;' says Tony Tober of North ::~dgeville, Ohio. "Every time you want to setlle down to see a movie, it's the same one they've played over and over again." Callers frequently linked their an- happiness to the deregulation of the cable industry in 1984. - In 1980, when cable was still reg- ulated, basic rates were $7.85. - In 1987, as 98 percent of the USA's TV households subscribed, ba- sic cable bills averaged $13.27. - In 1989, able moved into 55 percent of TV homes, and the month- ly basic bill will rise to $16.52. Cable defenders say deregulation has actually led to cable improve meats. Decker Sandstrom of the Na- tional Cable Television Association says since deregulation, '"fhe num- ber of cable networks has increased by 40 percent, spending on new pro- grammitrg by cable systems has jumped from $300 billion to $800 ail- lion ayear." Across the board, major cable net- work executives are spending more than ever on their programs, - USA Network spent $62 million in 1987, $86 million in 1988 and plans to spend $113 million this year. - Ted Turner's six-monthold ba- sic Able channel TNT estimates it will quintuple it's programrrling bud- get to $50 million this year. TNT president Gerald Hogan says he doesn't want to see repeats dominat- ing TNT as they do now. "Our goal is to become a major player, a [oe-io- tce competitor with the networks," says Hogan Improving service is also an issue cable leaders are addressing. "What you are seeing is renewed attention by the operators to custom- er service;' says Sandstrom. "It's been a problem created largely in part by rapid growth since the early 1980s. Customer demand simply out- stripped our systems." Among improvements: New leis phone systems, extended hours, opening "cable" stores in shopping malls and customer service training programs. "The service is still a little behind the progamrrling," admits Bob Clas- sen, president of Comcast Cable Communiptions, the nation's sev- enth-largest Able operator. "The product is getting better and the cus- tomer has to be assured if we sched- ule aninstallation we get there, if they call the office they can get ~~ .. Giessen says for the last three years the percentage of his cable subscribers ordering disconnects has continued to decrease. "The cable industry must be regu- lated:' says Joyce MacDonald of Westbury, N.Y., where her Cablevi- sion system has been in the midst of controversy over not airing some New York sports progiammitrg. ' I'm paying $50 a month to watch TV and I don't have half the chan- neLsthat other people have for $20 or $25. It's a monopoly. If you are not going to have competition then you have to have regulatidn." Telephone companies have been hoping to increase competition by entering the.txble marketplace, but so far haven't been allowed. Some callers think they should be. "The cable industry has tended t0 take advantage of their monopolistic position and I would certainly hope the telephone company is allowed to provide some much-needed comps tition." says Jce Laposa, who works for the City of St Louis (Mo.) Cable Division. "It will certainly give Ute cable operators an incentive to im- prove customer service, operations and keep the rates more reason- able." Still, the cable industry says restor• ing regulation would be a mistake. And few believe it will happen. "I don't see any widespread inter- est to re-regulation; ' says the NCTA's Sandstrom. "Deregulation has only i been in effect for two years and 'I while there are some problems there are some great advantages. There's more channel capacity, there's dou- ble the investrnent in new programs and that's clearly benefited the con- sumer." , Tom Malloy of Arlington, Va, agrees. "Put it this way, I like to eat a lot, and I like to watch sports a lot But I would rather give up my refrtg- erator than my able TV." Nutri/Systems Sulpports Nati®nal Weight Loss Month. THE PROBLEM: 68 million adult Americans are overweight; 34 million of those are obese." THE SOLUTION: According to the Council on Scientific Affairs of the American Medical Associa- tion, the solution has three simple elements: 1. A nutndonallv-balanced diet; 2. Behavior modification; 3. Exercise. Nuttri/Systetri: ComprehP ive Weight lLoossss tt+ogrztm One program that features all the elements recommended by the AMA isthe Nutri/System' Weight Loss Program. It includes: • Nutrition and Behavior Counseling to provide support, and to help understand weight control problems. • Delicious, low-calorie meals that are nutritionally balanced, low in fat, and portion-controlled. - -~•~ N•A•T•I.O•N•A•L WEIG~T~O-- SS - V • Light Exercise for people not used to exercising regularly. • Weight Maintenance to keep pounds off and begin a healthy new life confident of pemranent weight control. "War on Obesity" Nutri/System supports the designation of April as National Weight Loss Month, to raise pub- licawareness and concern about the Number One National Health Threat-Obesity. Here's what you can do: 1. See your family physician to make sure you are not one of •d„.u.n.aw,,u,.,,a... nn.. d.,,. aa,rr rv...,d~,. ~ N~ e. ,wa ~. w,.n.. ~.~..~. ~,.,d min, Sao •'Nw.W LuaNm d IbIA ue,ua.ivi~r n LJ..,~ nvrt m...,n vW.+iu.l'• Sv..El..e,yi~. the 68 million overweight Americans. 2. If you are overweight, seek help through a comprehensive program for weight loss and weight control. 3. Enlist others in the "War on Obeaity:' Join the thou- sands of Americans who will observe Natonal Weight Loss Month during April. 4. Call for a national health policy on obesity. Write or call your Congressman today to join the "War on Obesity." Let's lick this National Health Threat. A message in the public interest from the 1,100 Nutri/System' Weight Loss Centers throughout North America. We Succeed Where Diets Fail You.= T'6e continuing "oisl eariv - findings :!lists cussed move to abolish than "Aviation: Safety F replace itwith•a bore gate all translwrtation The legislstion is pe ECONO LARGi 1~~~~ ~^~1•(• ^^~~^ ^=: ^^ r:` E >! k ]! f E Econor been s. Especia that to exquisi Rent th Chrysle just $3~ with a advent or $36.' 24hou ticipati~ Or, rern of its tit Plymot with a at part restrict New Y 25¢ a i These taX, Or FORYOURI charges apF and Newari ~~~~^ ^~^ ^~^ ^ ^ ~~wmake~rs clairrt By the 6-ssocia4ed Press WASHINGTON -Cable television executives faced a buzz saw Wednesday from congressional, broadcast and con- sumer critics who said cable companies are reaping billions of dollars in profits at public expense. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, led the attack at a congressional hearing, sa in cable rates have risen an avers e 0 2 ercen nation since Con ess ifte vi ua y a regu ations on ca e operators in 1984. _ "The government reports that the price consumers pay for cable service in- creased at a greater rate than any other commodity or service in the entire United States," said Metzenbaum, chair- man of the Senate Judiciary subcom- mittee on antitrust, monopolies and business rights. Metzenbaum said what little authority the Federal Communications Commis- sion has to regulate cable is a joke, and h ant duced two bills that would allow cif P*n*n° *~to regulate P rates, rewire that cable programmers make their rograms avaTbT to com- peting technologies suc as satellites and wire ess ca e, an pro i it a ca a com- pan~om controlling more than 25 per- cent of the cable. subscribers in the country. Edward Fritts, president of the Na- tional Association of Broadcasters, said the cable companies now dominate the local TV marketplace. "In 1984 when Congress passed the Cable Act, cable characterized itself as a struggling, infant industry," Fritts said. "That act, which in essence removed all regulatory oversight, has become the communications equivalent of anabolic steroids. To~v. cable television o__ppe~~ra- tors en'oy an•unre ulated monoo oIy. mazm~y, 032 of more than 8 000 cable systems ave any rec c~_pe S®® C~1~~E, netts pag® Viable Frmrn.®-~ tion," Fritts said. . Fritts. said cable TV now is a $14 .billion industry that is avail- able to: nearly 80 ::milIion U:S. homes: He ~ said 'the five largest cable companies account for more than 40.percent, o~"subscrib-, ers. Gene Kimmelman,: executive dii~ector:~of the Consumer Feder- ation of America;' testified, that competition' iri "the .cable market- place could -drive dowri prices by~ ~ as-much as 50. percent, with a savings.to consumers' of $6 bil- lion. ~ . , ,:. Cable executives.ilenied the monopoly-allegations .and said. the .American public has bene- fited.tremendously from the ,in-. troduction .of cable TV since' the early 1970s. _ - - Gerald Levin, vice chairman of Time Inc., which .owns Home Box Office and Cinemax, denied the monopoly label and said cable is providing more. and better pro- gramming_ by owning both the program suppliers and.-cable sys- terns. - • . I;evin also said cities.~reap biI- lions of dollars in franchise fees from cable operators, and munic- ipalities are free to give those franrhises to other companies if f they don't like their cable service. . REC°~ APR `1 8 X89 DOUBLETREE at Vail 250 S. Frontage Road West P.O. Box 1928 Vail, Colorado 81657 (303) 476-7810 April 14, 1989 Vail Town Council 75 South Frontage Road Vail, CO 81657 Dear Council Members: I wish to express my strong support for the proposed television translator system for Eagle County. As the manager of a business entity in Vail that requires television service, I would prefer to have an alternative to the cable service monopoly that currently exists. Additionally, I represent many employees who would benefit from a choice that could positively impact their cost of living in our community. I urge you to support the television translator system and ask for your favorable consideration. Since y yours, J' Thalman - General Manager JT/ml 551 Broadway Eagle,Colorado 81631 (303) 328-7311 OFFICE OF THE COUNTY NlP,YdAGER Fcr Immediate Release By: James R. Fritze April 14, 1989 AP The Board of County Commissioners has scheduled a public hearing on May 8, 1989, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m, to allow interested persons to discuss the removal of the County Seat from Eagle. The meeting will take place in the Commissioners' Meeting Room in the Courthouse Building, 551 Broadway, in Eagle. The hearing has been requested by interested citizens from the eastern part of the County. Board of County Commissioners Assessor Clerk and Recorder P.O. Box 850 P.O. Box 449 P.O. Box 537 Eagle, Colorado 81631 Eagle, Colorado 81631 Eagle, Colorado 81631 Sheriff P.O. Box 359 Eagle, Coloeado 81631 Treasurer P.O. Box 479 Eagle, Colorado S1b31 551 Broadway Eagle,Colorado 81631 (303) 328-7311 Office of the County Manager For Immediate Release Ey: James R. Fritze Q~ April 12, 1989 Glenn Ehlert has been appointed as the acting Director of Information Services for Eagle County. Mr. Ehlert has been with Eagle County since November 1984, when he was hired as an Appraiser by the County Assessor. In January of 1987, Mr. Ehlert was promoted to a Programmer/Analyst with the Data Processing Department. A search for a permanent Director has begun. He will replace Sara Fitzgerald who recently resigned. Sidney N. "Sid" Fox has been appointed as the acting Director of Community Development for Eagle County. Mr. Fox has been with Eagle County since January of 1981, when he was hired as an Environmental Health Officer. He has served in that capacity since that time. A search for a permanent Director has begun. He will replace Susan Vaughn who recently resigned. Board of County Commissioners Assessor Clerk and Recorder P.O. Box 850 P.O. Box 449 P.O. Box 537 Eagle, Colorado 81631 Eagle, Colorado 81631 Eagle, Colorado 81631 Sheriff P.O. Box 359 Eagle, Colorado 81631 Treasurer P.O. Box 479 Eagle, Colorado 81631 f~EC~ APR .14 X89. ~y ®~~®RA~fI ~~ lE~ Rocky AAountain Pdews Staff Writer The town of Vail is fighting the Lodge at Vail's proposal to buy 385 acres of private land within the Eagles Nest Wilderness Area and trade the parcel for 2.1 acres of U.S. Forest Service land next to the Vista Bahn ski lift. The small parcel also is adjacent to The. Lodge at Vail, which originally made the . proposal in 1983 to build a 100-room addi- tion, said Jim Bailey, the attorney represent- ing the lodge. The town's opposition to the proposal is based on the undervaluation of the land adja- cent to the resort, the precedent the land swap would set for more development and substantial citizen pressuee, said town attor- ney Larey Fskwith. "The greater issue here is, do we let them start here and where does it end," said Frsk- with. About 2,000 of Vail's 4,800 year-round eesidetits have signed petitions against the swap, he said. Vail -the shops, restaurants, homes and condominiums -was built on privately owned land. The Forest Service owns all the surrounding land, including the mountain ski VAIL ~ s t'mey llake, at 1377o,uoo, said n;leanoe 5. , .~ 2.1- acre tract put the value at close to $4 Gran y idatio 2 'Towns, director of lands for the regional' .million. last year, a 3,400-square=feat con-~ LAND ~~ i ''' rings ®envBt' '`, office. ~ ~ dominium near the Vista Bahn lift sold for The Forest Service approved ,the . es $2.6 million,.he said. SWAP ~ `change at thestate and aegional levels, both ~_ -' "This is the best parcel of land left in Vail rN1'1 ~ appealed by the town. for development. Xou walk out the door and ~~illdl Roc~cr MouNrAtea Ntswa slopes. The Forest Service appraised the 2.1 acres at $980,000, and the 385 acres, located near "Our No. 1 acquisition priority is wilder- ~ Proac a ores rvtce a u a t to Hess in-holdings," Towns said. "The 2 acres al land for an expansion, the agency identi- of land has no Forest Sea~vice character. We ' fied the 385-acre private parcel in ,the ., wilderness area. '~ If the exchange is approved after Vail's ; • you're at the Vista Bahn," he said: third appeal, scheduled for April 25 in the ,~ -~ Bob Lawton, Hands forester in the ~Ihite Washington, ®.C., office, the Lodge at Vail liiver National Forest, 'said other. land _ex-, would buy the 385 acres from.the owner and changes have occurred involving tracts adja-. give it to the Forest Service for inclusion in ,cent to a ski area. the wilderness area. ~ ~' He said when the Lodge at Vail first ap- hed t6 F t Se bo t dd't' n- do wilderness, we don t do urban land man- agement." The Lodge at Vail would receive the 2.1- acre tract and pay the LT.S. • Treasury $145,000 to cover part of the difference in . the land values. "The appraisal was completed following Justice ®epartment stapdaeds. We were not part of that process;' Bailey said. "What attracted us to this is using the land ex- change process to do some wilderness es- pansion.» Faskwit6 said a private appraisal of the "We know there are some folks that are opposed because they fear development of~ .. that 2 acres," Towns said. "On behalf of the public, we fear development of the 385 acres of land surrounded by wilderness." ' Bailey said the town's planning and zoning process should determine whether The Lodge at Vail develops the parcel, not ap- peals to the exchange. "Anything that is done on that land will have to be done with the town's blessing," Bailey said. ~.c~~~ ~~/~ /'~~~./, Jam, ,.'u ~l'1(e~~)~a,~~~.~cc ~ + YVW'W 1 lY Y'tVW~/YYI, 9 ~'Y'~"~WVJ ~l• ~~•~9 ~~ Discussion Points - Heritage Franchise Agreement 1. The Town may be entitled to regulate cable TV rates because of the absence of effective competition to cable services. - compelling a determination that no effective competition exists may be time-consuming and expensive if Heritage contests this point 2. Consider whether Heritage should be allowed to directly or indirectly assign the franchise without the prior consent of the Town. 3. A ten-year franchise may give the Town a better opportunity to ensure that the system is state-of-the-art. 4. Consider whether it would be appropriate to compel an upgrade of the system to a 450 MHZ system with the capacity of 69 channels by some mutually agreed upon future date; as an incentive, perhaps the term of the franchise could be extended from ten to fifteen years upon completion of the upgrade. 5. Consider whether customers should be entitled to a refund or abatement of cable service fees in the event of significant signal outage. 6. Should Heritage pay interest on converter deposits? 7. Should Heritage refund to a subscriber the costs incurred by the subscriber in contributing toward the cost of a line extension to the subscriber's residence at such time as the minimum density requirements of the franchise have been met? a~, ~~~ d 8. Even though technical standards are preempted by the FCC, consider the possibility of negotiating a provision requiring compliance with stricter standards now or, at a minimum, at such time as such standards are no longer preempted by the FCC. -2- :~ ,:. lawmakers claim ~y the Associa4ed Grass WASHINGTON -Cable television executives faced a buzz saw Wednesday from congressional, broadcast and con- sumer critics who said cable companies are reaping billions of dollars in profits at public expense. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, led the attack at a congressional hearing, satin cable rates have risen an average ~r~2 ercen~ nation since Con ess fte vi u y a regu ations on .ca e operators in 1984., _ , : - ' . "The government reports that the price consumers pay for cable service in- creased at a. greater rate than any other commodity or service in the entire United States," said Metzenbaum, chair- man of the Senate Judiciary subcom- mittee on antitrust, monopolies and business rights. Metzenbaum said what little authority the Federal Communications Commis- sion has to regulate cable is a joke, and h int duced two bills that would allow city gOvP*^^~^* ;moo regulate P rates, require that cable proggrammers ma a t~ir rograma avai a6Te to com- pe ing technologies suc as satellites and wire ess ca e, an pro i it a ca a com- pany~'rom controlling more than 25 per- cent of the cable subscribers in the country. Edward Fritts, president of the Na- tional Association of Broadcasters, said the cable companies now dominate the local TV marketplace. "In 1984 when Congress passed the Cable Act, cable characterized itself as a struggling, infant industry," Fritts said. "That act, which in essence removed all'~iegulatory oversight, has become the communications equivalent of anabolic steroids. TgS~v. cable television oppe___r___a- tors en'oy an ~unre fated mono oTy. `mazmg y, on y 3 of more than 8,000 cable systems eve any rec c_ o~ ne` . S®® CA~~E, nattg pa~® abbe tion," Fritts said. Fritts said cable TV now is a $14'Fiillion induatry.that is avail- able~to,'nearly 80;;million iJ:S. homes: He• said: the five largest cable' companies account for more than-40,percent, o~ subscrib-. ers:.Gene Kimmelman,: executive director; of the Consumer Feder-~ ation of :America;' testified. that competition:. iri,~the. cable market- place could ~ drive down prices by as=much as 50_ percent, with a savings.to consumers` of $6 bil- lion. ~ , . ,a. Cable executives denied' the monopoly allegations and said.. thg'.American .public has bene- fited:tremendously from tfie _in-_ troduction :of cable TV`since the early, 1970x. :~~.' Gerald. Levin; vice:~chairman of Tune Inc., which .owns Home Box Office 'and Cinemax, denied the monopoly label and said cable is providing more. and-better pro- gramming. by owning both the program suppliers.and.~cable sys- tems. .. - Levin also said~~cities reap biI- lions of dollars in franchise fees from cable operators, and munic- ipalities are free to give those franchises to other companies if they don't like their cable service. MwuDA1 no.:l t~,ryK9 .... ® Wrt i~t k seo ~ ac#ion Cable choices ~outrageous9 ~VC1I i~ tv The USA is cablesavvy and beCOme a subscnbers want changes and want them now! major player" , e~ ~~ USA TODAY's ca- CNBC debuts ble TV hot line over the week- end to spout oH, offer opinions today, 3~ and even ladle some praise. "Cable in this city is outs- - - genus," says Donna Silverth- orn of Baltimore. "They charge $20 a month and out of 30 channels we only have four or 5ve.of good quality." On the flip side is Joyce McDaniel of Magnolia, Ark: "Ca- ble TV is by far the grandest invention of modern civiliza- tion It has brought more entertainment, it has brought more selective choices for intelligent viewers." One of those choices, CNBC, begins operation today. Thir- teen million subscribers on 40 systems will receive NBC's news and information service -just one more outlet for cable TV's growing original programming At the same time, however, cable discontent seems to be on the rise. This week. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-0hio, continues hearings begun last week on monopolies and the cable industry. Many hot line callers directed comments at just that topic, expressing frustration about cable services haino limited to a sinele provider in each community. Thou -in o Sne tnvites more gro,ising th.ut praise, the intensity of responses clearly demonstrates ca- ble's unique place in the nation's living rooms. Passionate Please see COVER STORY next page D House Speaker Jim Wright's hold on the Democratic Patty's top job will be tested today when the House ethics commit- tee releases its initial report on his financial dealings. Details of the 10-month probe -and the fine print of outside counsel Richard Phe- lan's 456-page report -may prove more damaging than the actual charges against Wright But the 66•yearold Texan al- ready has begun his effort to turn the lndictmeRL-like report into anacquittal - a process that could take several weeks. Wright wrote leaders of the ethics committee Sunday re- questing anopportunity to ap- pear as early as this afternoon I am most anxious to have the matter resolved without further delay," he wrote. It is "in the best interest of the House, as weu as the nation" Key to Wright's hopes: The panel must find "clear and con- vincing" evidence of violations in the next phase of its inquiry. Today's findings -backed by a majority of panel Democrats. The New York Times reports - indicate oNy "reason to be- lieve" there was misconduct "The committee is very con- scious of the distlnctlon be- tween the two standards," says Rep. Alan Mollohan. D-W.Va, a panel member. Phelan's re- port, he says, is "onesided." Once Wright makes his case. the panel decides whether the charges stand and what penal- ty - from a critical letter to expulsion - to rernmmend. Floor action follows. The main charges a~inst Wright: He and wife Betty ac- cepted gifts from a Fort Worth developer with an interest in legislation; Wright sold a book. Reflections of a Public Man. in bulk to sidestep outside income limits. Weekend reactions: p "We have to be terribly careful that we don't let accu- sation bring about its own taint of guilt.' says House Majority Leader Thomas Foley, who would likely succeed Wright p' I think he will survive as speaker into the foreseeable tutors." says Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell Housing and Urban Devel- opment Secretary Jack Kemp said Sunday he'll give Public housing directors new tools to speed evictions of tenants con- victed of dnig-related crimes. Kemp said he would notify directors this week of their new authority to kick out ten- ants who sell or use dtvgs. He also wants to speed evic- tionhearings and court appear- ances, cutting the usual 10- month processing time by halt. But Norman Siegel, New York director of the American Civil Liberties Union warned government officials "cannot and should not shortcut the Constitution" to fight drugs. He said existing nuisance laws are sufficient to evict dealers and attadted Kemp for wanting "to look good on the 6 o'clock news." HUD also may nearly dou- ble the S50 million available for antidrug security in the na- tion'shousing projects, home to 1.3.ttrillion families. "" In February, Kemp queried the nation's 3,200 public hous- ing authorities about their methods for battling dnigs. Efforts to fight back: ®Chicago's Operation Clean Sweep has cut project crime by 32 percent Tenant IDs, resi- dent patrols and treatment pro- grams have helped. ®New York housing police have made 30 sweeps of public projects since 1986, resulting in 3,536 drug arrests. ® Lakeland, Fla., officials use cameras to tape drug sales. ® New Haven, Conn., build- irigs have new vandal-proof lighting, intercoms and alarm ms. ® Many projects have start- ed "Just Say No" dubs. Among them: Danville, Ill.; Salem, Ore.; and Scotts Bluff, Neb. ~~ (~~ ~/ ~ /~~: -- ~ r ,e .r T p.E'f, TED ?N l~G~ i/ i' frig between the two nations. As a lieutenant colonel, Ei- The hell with it I'm going to do something my old man buy the de-rcing theory are involved. She's been m touch with There Griffin says her husband used to di The contlntring •<.ors) senhower worked in the White House under his father, he couldn't get into."' One major review of his lot- sa Griffin, widow of pilot Capt. John Grf1Bn who has worked se aratel scuss news of accidents witlr their two children, now in college. "He al- id if th ' 5 early .findings auejs << cussed move to abolish th A went into the reserves, retiring est work doesn't even mention , p y since the crash to Geaz his name. ways sa ey can t nd the cause, they'll blame the pilot because a an viation::Safery F •replace it with a boars as a brigadier general, served as ambassador to Belgium, his father. "God, it feels great!" Eisenhower says. "For someone to have as their fi- nal epitaph negligence when they dead pilot can't talk" gate all transportation Th l l i then struck out on his own. - i?aW Clancy , were never a negligent person, is un- - Lorl Shorn egis e pt on is pe COVER STORV Top-rated o~ cable: `3 ~tooge~' Continued from IA and vehement, the calls also reveal a surprisingly high level of under- standingconcerning the pay TV busi- ness and its future. Key areas of caller comments: - Cost Basic cable rates have zoomed 31 percent since 1986. - Customer service. Installation and servicing was second to casts on the complaint list "We lase channels now for one or two days a week and they don't rep- resent that in the rates," says Gerald Schmaltz of Bluffton. Ind. 'I'm very dissatisfied with the ser- vice," says Judy David KoChenauer of Alexandria, Va. "The technicians only come out between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., and you can't get a set time which means you have to take a day oft from work Sometimes you have to take off two or three days before you get the problem fixed." - Pro®amming. Cable now has more channels and more original proganuning than ever. But quib- bles about the quality of that pro- gramming was frequent, especially regarding repeating of programs. Says MJ. Fil7gibbon of Youngs- town Ohio: "I've had it a month and I've seen programs so many times it's sickening. I bought it for the Dis- covery Channel" -primarily life- science documentaries - "but I've seen the same buffaloes and birds so many times I'm sick of them." Few woWd argue that Able is sup- plying more original and better pro- gramming. Yet cable's highest-rated non-movie programming as of Octo- bar 1988 was The Three Stooges, The Andy Griffith Show and The Brady Bunch. All are reruns airing on su- perstatlon TBS. AS for movies -whether basic or ~= -viewers have a severe case of :ew. :ink they repeat the movies too .;n," says Tony Tober of North ::rdgeville, Ohio. "Every time you want to settle down to see a movie, it's the same one they've played over and over again." Callers frequently linked their un- happiness to the deregulatlon of the cable industry in 1984. - In 1980, when cable was still rel; Wated, basic rates were $7.85. - In 1987, as 98 peroent of the USA's TV households subscribed, ba- sic able bills averaged $13.27. - In 1989, cable moved into 55 percent o1 TV homes, and the month- ly basic bill will tine to $16.52. Cable defenders say deregulation has actually led to cable improve- ments. Decker Sandstrom of the Na- tional Cable Television Assotdation says since deregulation, "The num- ber of cable networks has increased by 90 percent, spending on new pro- gramming by cable systems has jumped from $300 billion to $800 tril- lion a yeaz." Across the board, major cable net- work executives are spending more than ever on their programs. - USA Network spent $62 mlllion in 1987, $86 million in 1988 and plans to spend $113 million this year. - Ted Turner's six-month-0Id ba- sic cable channel TNT estimates it will quintuple it's programming bud- get to $50 million this yeaz. TNT president Gerald Hogan says he doesn't want to see repeats dominat- ing TNT as they do now. "Our goal is to become a major player, a toe-to- tce competitor with the networks" says Hogan. Improving service is also an issue able leaders are addressing. "What you are seeing is renewed attentlon by the operators to custom- er service;' says Sandstrom. "It's been a problem created largely in part by rapid growth since the early 19805. Customer demand simply out- stripped our systems." Among improvements: New tele- phone systems, extended hours, opening "able" stores in shopping malls and customer service training Prol;~• The service is still a tittle behind the programming," admits Bob Chts- sen, president of Comcast Cable Communicatloas, the nation's sev- entlr-largest Able operator. "The product is getting better and the cus- tomer has to be esstired if we sched- ule an installation we get there, tl they call the office they can get ~~„ Clasen says }or the last three years the percentage of his cable subscribers ordering disconnects has continued to decrease. "The cable industry must be regu- lated; ' says Joyce MacDonald of Westbury, N.Y., where her Cablevl- sion system has been in the midst of controversy over not airing some New York sports programmlrrg I'm paying $50 a month to watch TV and I don't have half the chan- nels chat other people have for $20 or $25. It's a monopoly. If you are not going to have competitlon.tlren you have to have regWatlcfn." Telephone companies have been hoping to increase competitlon by entering the cable mazketplace, but so taz haven't been allowed. Some callers think they should be. "The cable industry has tended t0 take advantage of their monopolistic position and I would certainly hope the telephone company is allowed to provide some much-needed compe- tition," says Jce Laposa, who works for the City of SL Louis (Mo.) Cable Division. "It will certainly give the cable operators an incentive to im- prove customer service, operations and keep the rates more reason- able." Still, the able industry says restor- ing regulation would be a mistake. And few believe it will happen. "I don't see any widespread inter- est in re-regulatlon; 'says the NCTA's Sandstrom "Deregulation has only been in etteCt for two years and while there aze some problems there are some great advantages There's more channel capacity, there's dou- ble the investrnent in new programs and that's cleazly benefited the con- sumer." , Tom Malloy of Arlington, Va., agrees. "Put It this way, I like to eat a lot, and I like to watch sports a lot But I would rather give up my refrig- erator than my cable TV." ~~~~~ ^~^^^ ^~~~^ ^: ^^ f . ", `` =_,~;: Y d F Econor been st Especi~ that to exquisi Rentth Chrysle just $3~ with a advanc or $36.' 24hou ticipatii Or, rent of its tit Plymot with a at part restrict New Y 25¢ a 1 These tdX, Of l~iitri/~ysten~a Supports Nati®nal t7Veight Loss Moth. THE PROBLEM: 68 million adult Americans are overweight'"; 34 million of those are obese.** THE SOLUTION: According to the Council on Scienrific Affairs of the American Medical Associa- tion, the solution has three simple elements: 1. A nutritionally-balanced diet; 2. Behavior modification; 3. Exercise. Nutri/Systetri: Comprehensive Weight Loss ttagtam One program that features all the elements recommended by the AMA is the Nutri/System' Weight Loss Program. It includes: • Nutrition and Behavior Counseling to provide support, and to help understand weight control problems. • Delicious, low-calorie meals that are nutritionally balanced, low in fat, and pomon-controL'ed. N•A•T•I.O•N•A•L WEIGHIT~LOSS ~~ the 66 million overweight Americans. 2. If you are overweight, seek help through a comprehensive program for weight loss and weight control. 3. Enlist others in the "Waz on Obesity:' Join the thou- sands of Americans who will observe National Weight Loss Month during April. 4. Call for a national health policy on obesity. Write or call your Congressman today to join the "War on Obesity." Let's lick this National Health Threat. A message in the public intereBt from the 1,100 Nutri/System' Weight Loss Centers throughout North America. We Succeed Where Diets Fail You.- • Light Exercise for people not used to exercising regularly. • Weight Maintenance to keep pounds off and begin a healthy new life confident of permanent weight control. "Waz on Obesity" Nutri/System supports the designation of April as National Weight Loss Month, to raise pub- licawareness and concern about the Number One National Health Threat-Obesity. Here's what you can do: 1. See your family physirian to make sure you are not one of •M oW6n duM n....s. m Y..K d.v aeu.tit, boa, .adx. triwd N d. 1959 ALaa,fLy~ ~. bunai.e i..vv~. ++.dn.~e W,r„ l,,:o "NannJ Lumm a I,nld ~k+..e Marv a 1J~.,. mor. xwe n +dwW 1 "' .,,tn. FORYOURI charges apF and Newarl EDONO LARGI ^~~~~^ ^^^ ^~^ ^ ^