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County official: state law limits franchise fees to telecom (cable) services; county collects Comcast cable fee
Summary
Cowlitz County's building and public-works staff told commissioners that, under state law as they interpret it, only telecommunications/cable franchise fees may be collected regularly as franchise fees and that other franchise-like charges for use of rights-of-way are not currently captured as ongoing rent revenue.
Cowlitz County staff told the Board of Commissioners Monday that the county's recurring franchise-fee line of revenue consists primarily of Comcast cable franchise payments and that state law constrains which franchise fees counties may collect.
"Annual franchise fees, the only ones we can collect from is telecoms," County Engineer Susan Eugenus said in response to commissioner questions. She described limits on what the…
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