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by Florence Jones | August 22, 2008 at 04:17 pm | 330 views | 4 comments | 0 recommendations
St. Joseph,MI- City Hall still has not lifted the cable TV ban from the seniors and disabled at The Housing Commission. The city told the residents that live there that they could order cable TV as soon as the rewiring for the building was completed. The rewiring was completed last winter. Month after month the city gives some excuse to the residents in the St. Joseph Housing Commission newsletter about why they can't get cable TV.
The residents received a new memo and another survey. They are surveying the residents to find out if it's worth it for the city to pay someone to install satellite TV service in the building. City Hall is always very cheap with the Housing Commission. If the city does feel like spending money to have the satellite installed the city will decide what channel line up the tenants can order,30 channels. The residents will once again have their channels controlled by the government like they did when they used to have cable TV. If they order the service they can't call the satellite company directly,they are stuck with the contractor,the Housing Commission office and the city's pre chosen channels. No premium channels,no pay per view,no choices like the residents do that live outside of this 'Little Cuba'.
The memo also says that Direct TV wouldn't supply equitment for their services unless EVERY resident ordered service from them. That is another lie. The Whitcomb has Direct TV and they don't make EVERY resident order it.
This is probably the cheapest way for City manager Frank Walsh to get the tenants at the Housing Commission pay TV. City Hall is probably taking so long so the seniors and disabled tenants there become so bored that they will accept whatever the city feels like giving them. The City probably wants to use the hundreds of thousands of dollars they get each year from HUD to use for the Housing Commission on other projects in the city.
Call Frank Walsh at 269-983-5541 and tell him to lift the cable TV ban.
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August 22, 2008 at 04:17 pm by Florence Jones, 330 views, 4 comments
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Bullshit (not verified)at 04:30 on August 24th, 2008
What kind of survey is the city doing?
at 06:41 on August 24th, 2008
First it says the city has researched several options and they have "finally found an individual representing DISH TV showing interest in helping us". I find it very hard to believe that satellite company's are turning down a 15 story high rise apartment building especially with the slow economy. Actually I don't believe it at all because this is the Housing Commission giving the low income seniors more lies. The survey is 3 sheets of channel line ups with prices. The memo says option #1 is the most affordable with 31 pre chosen channels for $30 a month. Whatever option picked the most will be the option everyone is stuck with. They can't call DISH TV directly and order what they want like pay per view movies or movie channels. The channels will be controlled by the city since the city will sign the contract with only ONE option. There is no Freedom Of Choice. When new channels come out the seniors can't call and order them. The Housing Commission told the residents there that the building was rewired so each individual apartment can order what channels they want because when the building used to have cable TV before the city banned them from pay TV the building was wired like one big house and every apartment had the basic cable channels and could not order pay per view movies or movie channels. Government controlled TV is here in St. Joseph,MI in the 'Little Cuba' building.
at 06:53 on August 24th, 2008
There are also some disabled Veterans that live in the Housing Commission and earlier in the summer City Manager Frank Walsh sponsored the Veterans Parade. At the same time he has the disabled Veterans banned from ordering cable TV. It's clear to me now that he only sponsored the parade to get his name on the big sign at the front of the parade to boost his already huge ego. If they could get a big satellite dish and have it say "sponsored by Frank Walsh" on it it would probably be on top of the building tomorrow.
at 09:39 on September 23rd, 2008