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Item 16 - City Participation in Cox Cable Production of Poway Turns 15 M8 eMeR'If f.f86() Mft't~tf'l-'!f R.J A.....,. ell NOU (619) '1#-3968 To: Mayor and members of the Council From: Bob Emery ;# Re: City participation in Cox Cable production of .Poway Turns 15. Date: 28 November 1995 The City Manager has provided us with the script for a cable TV production of something called .Poway Turns 15. to be produced in conjunction with Poway High School and Pomerado Publishing. After reading the outline, I have serious concerns about the City putting its stamp of approval on such a venture by providing support and participation. From a City perspective, the celebration of our 15th anniversary should be a positive and retrospective process. The tone of the Cox production is extremely negative and in many cases quite derogatory towards the City of poway and its' many accomplishments, I am not opposing the production of the piece, merely our participation In It. Anybody can produce anything they want, it is a free country, However, some of the most glaring .misstatements. are as follows: .The .City in the Country. is far different todav that the vision lhat city hood's suooorters had for her." On the contrary, Poway is right on course with the original Poway Community Plan, the City's first general plan and the existing plan. The population is just where it has been planned for the past 20 years or so. ..........15 years have transformed the city and provided it with public facilities and imorovements beyond its residents wilclest dream and somelimes, unfortunately, the city's oocketbooks.. Our budgets, so far, have always been in the black. DEe 5 1995 ITEM 16+ .......~-'-- .Team Poway. Original Council.. The term "Team Poway. wasn't coined until 1986 and died an ignominious death immediately thereafter. There is also no mention of Poway's first mayor and a major architect of incorporation, Clyde Rexrode, "The Poway Road Soecific Plan. a r9~9si9n of the entire Powey Road business district is now in its final staoes.. It is unwise to speak of something that has yet to come up for adoption as if it is a fait accomplil With the heavy opposition to the plan by the business community, it is questionable of when, and even if, this plan will ever be adopted. It doesn't send a very good message to the business community to broadcast that it will be .imolemenled." Especially since public hearings have not been held yeti .In 1994, Poway took on SDG&E when the utility wanted to put through a maior natural oas pioeline and lost. SDG&E not onlv went throuoh with the proiect but. as a resutt of Poway's contentiousness withdrew thousands of dollars of donations promised to local oroiects. Not true. Through negotiations, the City retained all of the local improvemenls promised by SDG&E including all safety features they had asked for and natural gas service to Old PomeradO Road and Creek Road, The City did not just "take on. SDG&E, it followed the wishes of its citizens who were alarmed over the prospect of a 36. high pressure gas line outside their front doors and schoolsl .Perhaps one of the biooest ironies lies in lhe fact that the unscale nei9hborhoods in North Poway which have earned lhe city the ~~~~e of being the City with the highest per capila income in the county. a I aooroved before the city incoroorated, Develooment. the very thinQ ~~: ~~ founders incorporated to prevent has helped it become the iewel th ., attracting some of the areas top celebrities ...... First, those North Poway developments that were adopted prior to incorporation, to a major degree met the guidelines of the Poway Community Plan and had been worked out between the developers and PPDP. Second, .all. North Poway developments were not approved prior to incorporation, including; most of Lomas Verdes Estates, Old Winery Estates, Macmillan Homes, Bridelwood East, Highland Ranch, Green Valley Estates, etc, My point being, if POWBY Turns 15, is a news program, let the .news. be accurate, or else the City should not legitimize the program through its participation. If it is a program of editorial comment, then the City should not be a party to it. DEe 5 1995 ITEM 16,1- .