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CABLE COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
DATE: March 31, 2010
PLACE: Town Meeting Hall
TIME: 5:30p.m.
CALL TO ORDER: 5:45p.m.
ROLL CALL: Diane Morin, Chair; Mary Winglass, Public
Relations/Programmer; Sally Woodman,
Secretary
Prospective Cable Committee Members in Attendance:
Susan Godin, Mary Marshall, and George Marshall
SECRETARY’S REPORT: Accepted as written.
COMMUNICATIONS and CORRESPONDANCE:
- The following is a list of requests for publication on Channel 20: 1.Earth Day, 2. Paper Drive, 3. Fee Free Weekend, and 4. Selling recycling bins.
- A request to change a misspelled name has come in. The name is correctly spelled, Jolicoeur.
- Mary W will speak with Emergency Management to create an announcement to the residents asking them to email any damages they have incurred from flooding to the Emergency Management.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS:
- Diane will meet with Sylvania on Tuesday evening, April 6th to facilitate the remote access issue.
- Sally showed a rough draft of a possible equipment sign out sheet. Mary Marshall suggested adding print your name along with the signature. Sally will create the sign out sheet and it will be displayed on a clip board in the Cable room.
- Diane made a motion to purchase one Dedicated Hard Aluminum Camera Case for the Cannon GL-1 GL-2 #TL003 for $179.95 to be paid from the Expendable General Trust Fund – Cable account. Sally seconded the motion and it was unanimously passed.
- Mary Marshall has been working with Window’s Movie Maker software. Diane suggested she continue her project and then the committee can assess whether or not to purchase the Cyberlink Power Director software.
- Mary W. accompanied Ron LeMere, the Chief Building Official, to the cable room to determine the status of surge protection. He stated that there is ample protection for all the equipment.
- Mary W has placed the requests from, Sue Godin and Mary Marshall, to become a Cable Committee on the next Selectmen’s meeting agenda.
- The committee briefly reviewed the Comcast Franchise Contract looking for their commitment for a live drop in the secondary school. We were unable to locate the information we need. Mary W. will make a copy of the contract to give to Mary Marshall who will then carefully review the contract in more depth.
- The committee then discussed which fund the Franchise Fee monies go to. It was determined that it went to the town’s General Fund. A warrant article would be needed in order to have part of the fee transferred to the Cable Trust Fund. This will be researched in detail before the next town deliberative session.
NEW BUSINESS:
- The committee was able to acquire the information needed for communication between committee members and operators except for Tavish Forsyth’s. Since he was not in attendance the committee asked Sue to get the needed information. Sue was asked to take over the scheduling of operators. Diane will contact Tavish and let him know that Sue will be in charge of scheduling.
- The committee set up rebroadcast time for the Board of Selectmen and the Planning board. The schedule is as follows: BOS Mon. & Wed. 6:00pm, Tues. & Thurs. 12:00a.m., Sun. 2:00pm PB Tues. & Thurs. 7:00pm Wed. & Fri. 12:00am Sat. 2:00pm.
- Sally suggested nameplates be made for the members of the BOS and the Planning Board. Sally said she would try to pursue this.
- The board members discussed the possibility of adding title to the program being broadcast. This issue was tabled because there were higher priorities needing attention.
Next meeting: April 14, 2010
ADJOURNMENT: 7:35p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Sally Woodman, Secretary
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