Warsaw Board of Public Works and Safety Friday set a peddlers permit fee that will allow Comcast to solicit cable, Internet, phone and home security sales in Warsaw. Comcast representatives Daniel Clough, William Hurst and Ronald Bassier attended Friday’s meeting to request the $1,000 peddler’s permit fee be waived this month. Clough and Hurst live in Plymouth, and Bassier lives in Mishawaka. Comcast has a satellite office in Warsaw. Bassier said they felt the $1,000 fee was too high. Warsaw City Planner Jeremy Skinner suggested the peddlers permit for the Comcast representatives be based on the city’s peddler fee of $100 per person. So each would pay $100, resulting in $300 instead of $3,000 if the $1,000 fee was required as other outside city peddlers pay. “I think we are giving Comcast and them as individuals a pretty big break treating them as if they are in the city limits,” Skinner said. Board member Jeff Grose made the motion for Comcast to pay $100 each for the rest of the year for each month they solicit cable sales, seconded by Charlie Smith. Warsaw Mayor Joe Thallemer said he felt it is important to protect the integrity of the peddler’s ordinance. “I think it is fair to charge $100 per person. If we held them to the letter of the law as outside residents it would be $3,000 so $300 is a decrease and that seems fair to me,” Thallemer said.
