MINUTES 
          
             Legislative Committee on Municipal Franchise Agreements 
                        for Telecommunications Utilities 
                             Wednesday, May 27, 1998 
                                     9:00 am 
                          Lubbock City Council Chambers 
          
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.11, a public hearing of the Interim Committee on Municipal  
         Franchise Agreements for Telecommunications Utilities was held  
         on Wednesday, May 27, 1998 at Lubbock City Council Chambers,  
         in Lubbock, Texas.   
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr.                Senator Florence  
                                                 Shapiro 
         Senator David Sibley                    Representative Steven  
                                                 Wolens 
         Representative Bill Carter 
         Representative Fred Hill 
          
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         Chairman Lucio called the meeting to order at 9:05 am. 
          
         The following members arrived after the roll was called:   
         none. 
          
         Other members of the legislature who attended the hearing  
         were: 
         Speaker Pete Laney, Senator Robert Duncan, and Representative  
         Delwin Jones. 
          
         The following business was transacted.  
          
         Chairman Lucio and Chairman Carter gave opening remarks.  
          
         Chairman Lucio recognized the following witnesses: 
         Sitton, Windy, representing the City of Lubbock, gave opening  
         remarks and testified on the interim charge. 
         Fields, Jack, representing Twenty First Century Group,  
         testified on the interim charge. 
         At 9:40 am Chairman Carter assumed the chair. 
         Wood, Patrick H., representing Public Utility Commission,  
         testified on the interim charge. 
         Burgess, Anita, representing the City of Lubbock, testified on  
         the interim charge. 
         Burdine, Richard, representing the City of Lubbock, testified  
         on the interim charge. 
  
         Jeffers, James, representing the City of Plainview, testified  
         on the interim charge. 
         At 10:40 am Chairman Lucio resumed the chair. 
         Strom, Richard, representing MCI, testified on the interim  
         charge. 
         Land, Charles, representing Texas Association of Long Distance  
         Telephone, testified on the interim charge. 
         At 11:10 am Carter assumed the chair.  
         Mundy, William, representing AT&T, testified on the interim  
         charge. 
         Morgan, Russell, representing AT&T, testified on the interim  
         charge. 
         Hunt, Barbara R., representing Southwestern Bell Telephone  
         Company, testified on the interim charge. 
         Dukes, Jackie, representing La WArd Cellular, testified on the  
         interim charge. 
         Tomsu, Mike, representing 360 Communications/GTE Wireless,  
         testified on the interim charge. 
         At 12:00 pm Chairman Lucio resumed the chair. 
         A brief discussion followed. 
          
         Chairman Lucio closed public testimony. 
          
         Chairman Lucio recognized the following witnesses who  
         registered but did not testify: 
         Brown, Gary, representing the City of Floydada. 
          
         Chairman Lucio announced that this would be our last out of  
         town hearing and that our next hearing  
         or workshop would be in Austin but the date is not yet known. 
          
         There being no further business, at 12:00 pm Representative  
         Hill moved that the Committee stand recessed subject to the  
         call of the Chair.  Without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
         ______________________ 
         Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr., Co-Chair 
          
         ______________________ 
         Representative Bill Carter, Co-Chair 
          
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         Amy B. Kelley, Clerk