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CABLE COMMITTEE MEETING MIN UTES
DATE: June 29, 2011
PLACE: Town Meeting Hall
TIME: 5:30p.m.
CALL TO ORDER:
Roll Call: Diane Morin, Chairman; Mary Winglass, Public Relations/Programmer, Sally Woodman, Secretary;
Sue Godin, operator/cable member
Minutes from Previous Meeting of June 22nd accepted as amended. Motioned by Diane and seconded by Sue. Motion passed unanimously.
Budget: Reviewed budget. No discrepancies found.
Correspondence and Communications: Comcast will be upgrading the town to digital. Subscribers will need a digital adapter in order to receive service.
Upcoming Events:
Unfinished Business:
- The committee reviewed the latest comments from Attorney Epstein. Diane will send an email to Comcast requesting an extension of 90 days to complete the franchise renewal process. She will also include the previous questions that they have not responded to. We are asking that they respond by July 13th so we can review the extension agreement at our next meeting.
- Diane will write a policy for use of the USB drives. The policy will cover anyone who wants a copy of a meeting or event shown on channel 20.
- Mary W will purchase two UBS drives with her next office supply purchase.
New Business:
- Sue Godin indicated that she will be retiring from the cable committee and resigning as a cable operator. She will stay on until we have replacements for Tavish and herself. She will also train the new operators before officially leaving.
- The committee interviewed two applicants for the cable operator/administrator position. Information was exchanged and questions were raised and answered by both the applicants and the committee. After Diane summarized expectations of the position to each applicant.
- Diane will write a job description for two positions.
- The committee discussed each applicant and came up with a recommendation as follows.
- Offer one applicant a position as administrator/cable operator, where the main focus would be on the administrative side
- Offer one applicant a position as cable operator with duties that will include scheduling programs, operators and special events. She/he will also be responsible for cable equipment.
- A new sub-title will be added to the agenda. It will read, Review Channel Schedule. It will be added once a month.
Other:
Next Cable Committee meeting: July 13, 2011
Adjournment: 8:00pm
Respectfully submitted,
Sally Woodman
Secretary
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