Subject: 20103/PhoneLatta/Bridgeport-Stevenson
Date: Thu, 4 May 1989 09:49:48 -0500


                  
                               RESOLUTION NO. 20103
                  
                  
                   A RESOLUTION URGING THE HONORABLE HAROLD
                   GREEN, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE, TO LIFT
                   THE LONG DISTANCE RESTRICTIONS ON THE
                   REGIONAL BELL COMPANIES, AND PERMIT THEM TO
                   OFFER LOCAL CALLING FROM THE BRIDGEPORT
                   STEVENSON, ALABAMA AREA INTO THE CHATTANOOGA
                   CALLING AREA.
                  
                  
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       	    	 WHEREAS, Bridgeport and Stevenson are located in Jackson
       County, Alabama, and are not part of the telephone latta, which
       includes the remaining portion of north Alabama; and
       	    	 WHEREAS, Bridgeport and Stevenson are included in the
       same telephone latta as Marion, Hamilton, and Bradley Counties in 

       Tennessee, and Walker County, Georgia; and
       	    	 WHEREAS, the people of Bridgeport and Stevenson conduct
       a majority of their business and trading in the Chattanooga area
       as opposed to the Huntsville area; and
       	    	 WHEREAS, Bridgeport is located only two miles from the
       Tennessee state line, and Stevenson is in the local calling area
       to Bridgeport;
       	    	 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
       CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, That we hereby urge the Honorable Harold
       Green, United States District Judge, of the United States 
District
       Court, to lift the long distance restrictions on the regional 
Bell
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       Companies, and permit them to offer local calling from the
       Bridgeport-Stevenson, Alabama area into the Chattanooga calling
       area, which all are a part of the same latta band.
      
       ADOPTED:	 January 25, 1994
      
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