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-Res - C2000 - 0 ) 7 <br /> STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br /> IN THE MATTER OF: ORDER FINDING TWC's 2000 <br /> Review of FCC 1205, 1235 & 1240 CABLE SERVICE FCC1240/1235 <br /> Annual Rate Adjustment Requests filed by RATE METHODOLOGY AS <br /> Time Warner Cable for NC-0256 and REASONABLE AND ORDERING <br /> NC-0276 A RATE TRUE-UP FOR 2001. <br /> BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS: <br /> WHEREAS,Time Warner Cable submitted three FCC 1240 Updating Annual Maximum <br /> Permitted Rates filings for Regulated Cable Services with the County. Time Warner's filing covers <br /> external costs,inflation, and cable system upgrade costs for the true up period of October 1998 through <br /> September 1999 and the projected period of January through December 2000; <br /> WHEREAS, Time Warner Cable submitted an FCC 1235 Abbreviated cost of Service For <br /> Cable Network Upgrades with the County. Time Warners filing covers capital expenses directly <br /> related to system infrastructure improvements prior to January 1, 2000; <br /> WHEREAS, the County received a report stating that Time Warner's FCC 1205, 1235 and <br /> FCC 1240 rate calculations comply with Federal Communications Commission rate making rules and <br /> that the requested maximum permitted Basic Service Tier rate is reasonable; <br /> WHEREAS, the County received a report stating that Time Warner's FCC 1240 BST rate <br /> calculations comply with Federal Communications Commission rate making rules, and that the <br /> requested monthly maximum permitted Basic Service Tier rate is excessive by 15 cents for Carrboro <br /> System served customers,2 cents for Chapel Hill system served customers and 40 cents for <br /> Durham System served customers; <br /> WHEREAS,FCC rules grant local franchise authorities an initial ninety(90)day review <br /> period,measured from the date of receipt of said filing by the franchise authority,with which to review <br /> the cable operator's FCC 1240 rate filing. If said ninety(90)-day review period expires before the rates <br /> go into effect, the franchise authority retains review and refund authority past the initial ninety(90) day <br /> review period as long as all inquiries from the cable operator regarding said review are responded to in <br /> writing within fifteen(15) days of said inquiry; <br /> WHEREAS,Time Warner's rate filing includes cost estimates for the calendar year of 2000, <br /> and said estimates shall require adjustment(true up),due to changes in to the 2000 projected period's <br />