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RESOLUTION ENDORSING EXTENDED AREA TELEPHONE <br />SERVICE CUSTOMER POLLING <br />WHEREAS, citizens of Orange County during the last twenty <br />years have repeatedly sought the right to be polled about <br />their preferences on the matter of flat -rate Extended Area <br />Telephone Service (EAS) in Orange County, and <br />WHEREAS, such efforts have repeatedly been turned down, most <br />recently in the September 27, 1991 order of the North <br />Carolina Utilities Commission denying Orange County EAS, and <br />WHEREAS, the Utilities Commission based its order largely on <br />objections to proposals for flat -rate EAS raised by Mebane <br />Home Telephone Company, and <br />WHEREAS, Mebane Home Telephone Company has since worked <br />diligently and in good faith with representatives of Orange <br />County government and citizen groups to overcome barriers to <br />polling customers about their EAS preferences, and has <br />submitted proposals to the Utilities Commission that, if <br />approved, would lead to such polling, <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD <br />OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ENDORSES the proposals set forth by Mebane Home Telephone <br />Company: namely, that a poll of all customers in the Mebane <br />Exchange be conducted with additional monthly charges for <br />flat -rate EAS to Centel's Hillsborough and Southern Bell's <br />Chapel Hill exchanges at $3.19 for residential customers and <br />$8.08 for each business access line; and should EAS not pass <br />in such a vote, that a second poll involving only Orange <br />County customers of Mebane Home Telephone be conducted at <br />$4.39 and $11.12 for residential and business access <br />customers respectively; <br />REQUESTS that the North Carolina Utilities Commission <br />reconsider its decision of September 27, 1991 and as soon as <br />possible order polling of telephone customers in accordance <br />with the Mebane Home Telephone proposal; further, that the <br />votes of the Mebane Home and Centel exchanges should be <br />combined in determining whether Orange County EAS passes or <br />fails; <br />DIRECTS the County Attorney to file with the North Carolina <br />Utilities Commission a response, to the Mebane Home Telephone <br />comments, that incorporates the points made in this <br />resolution. <br />This, the 21st day of January, 1992. <br />