HomeMy Public PortalAboutRES-CC-1983-04RESOLUTION NO. b 3 C; y
WHEREAS, Radio telecommunication is the principal medium of command and control
communications for those agencies which are charged with the maintenance of the
public safety; and
WHEREAS, there are insufficient radio spectrum frequencies allocated to land
mobile in the public service area; and
WHEREAS, the Los Angeles County, California, Sheriff's Department has petitioned
the Federal Communications Commission in compliance with S.1.401 of the Commission's
rules, to provide in sufficient quantities, additional contiguous frequencies to
the Private Land Mobile Service for public safety agencies in the major metropol-
itan areas; and
WHEREAS, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, in the petition, further
requests that a block of contiguous frequencies proportionate to the local
population and needs also be allocated for those less populated urban and rural
areas, and
WHEREAS, the Moab City Council has resolved to support in principle the petition
submitted to the Federal Communications Commission by the Sheriff of Los Angeles
County, in the interest of all public safety organizations in the United States;
and
WHEREAS, the Moab City Council seeks the allocation of additional radio spectrum
frequencies as proposed in the petition; and
WHEREAS, the Federal Communication Commission has, through its actions in the
Low Power Television Docket 78-253 and in the Direct Broadcast Satellite
General Docket 80-603, created conditions which make it increasingly difficult
to provide a fair and impartial hearing to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Petition, RM 3975; now therefore, be it
RESOLVED by the Moab City Council that the City of Moab respectfully memorializes
the Federal Communications Commission to adopt the principles in the Petition sub-
mitted by the Sheriff of Los Angeles County; and be it further
RESOLVED that the Moab City Council urges Congress to call for and conduct
oversight hearings in FCC Broadcast Dockets 78-253, General Docket 80-603
and Rulemaking Petition RM 3975; and be it further
RESOLVED that the Moab City Council urges Congress to introduce and support
legislation to ammend the Communications Act of 1934 by setting the following
priorities for establishing the objective worth of public safety in the allocation
and licensing of spectrum:
First Those services which directly provide for the national defense (military
Priority: and support agencies, as provided for by IRAC).
Second Those services which directly provide for the protection of life and
Priority: property (police, fire, certain government and private agencies).
Third Those services which directly provide activities essential to the
Priority: continued well-being of the populace (utilities, public transpor-
tation, certain public agencies).
Fourth Those services which directly contribute to the effective continuance
Priority: of commerce and the economic well-being of the nation (business radio,
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PASSED this /5- day of feiraq, y , 1983.
Thomas A. Stocks, Mayor
ATTEST:
Mary Nollowaty, City Recor