Web facilitator's note: This is a letter to the Arcata Eye (which printed it as "Rome Burning" in the Letters to the Editor section) and the Times-Standard (which refused to print it) asking pertinent questions about the City's obfusacation of its responsibilities to fully account for funds collected on behalf of public access television.
Connie Stewart (voicemail: 269-0392 real number: ?) asked City Manager Hauser (voicemail: 825-2100 real number: ?) to quit spending pass-through fees for the U's Education. Hauser explained that there are Cox Cable into the General Fund, but that has nothing to do with APEG (we're to suppose?).
This is after I told them during "Oral Communications" that Stowell told me that $90,000 was being held by the City from Cox Cable subscribers (by Hauser?).
Though not exactly the versions I've been hearing, this is an interesting admission in regards law and ethics.
The people of Arcata do NOT have public access t.v., and there appear to be no funds going to the station. Someone said "take it up with the Ink People", etc. Pass the buck, but the City is responsible, and that means the Council, our representatives. As I told the Council, Stowell told me he would have to put me on at the end of the candidates intro because he didn't have editing equipment, and he delayed a week because of misunderstanding(?) of what Friday we were referring to in e-mail. I have my copies of that e-mail round, for what that record is worth in tampering capability.
Remember that we are asked for our student i.d.s to use these computer labs at HSU. We do not get free use of the State-tax U system. Yet Connie seemed to say that the U is getting their 12K figure for (more of the same doctrinal) University programming (protocols). We, the people, who are prohibited from using the State-funded computer labs, are not allowed to use APEG while we subsidize the U. to use it....nearly exclusively.
What else rots beneath the ruins of Rome?
Go back to Dex Anderson, INDEPENDENT candidate for Arcata City Council in 2002 main page.