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CABLE COMMITTEE MEETING MIN UTES
DATE: January 5, 2011
PLACE: Town Meeting Hall
TIME: 5:30p.m.
CALL TO ORDER: 5:40p.m.
Roll Call: Diane Morin, Chairman; Mary Winglass, Public Relations/Programmer, Sue Godin, operator/cable member
Sally Woodman, Secretary (late)
Minutes from Previous Meeting of December 1, 2010:
- Mary motioned to accept the minutes as written. Sue seconded and the motion passed unanimously.
Budget:
- Proposed budget was approved by the selectmen.
Correspondence and Communications:
- Communications from subscribers concerning the sound level during the Board of Selectmen’s meeting. Some members cannot be heard. We need to look into using the lapel mics for BOS members.
- Planning Board is a very large committee and sometimes not all members are seen. Sue will talk with the operators about getting a full view.
- Mary W received a concern from a subscriber about the QOS (quality of service) from Comcast to his home. Mary informed him to let the committee know if the problems are not resolved.
Upcoming Events:
- Upcoming Planning Board meeting will be January 11, 2011
- Upcoming Board of Selectmen meeting will be January 17, 2011
- We need to look at using a wireless mic for audience participation.
Unfinished Business:
- Diane will update the project spreadsheet for the Franchise Renewal and send it to the committee members.
- Sally and Mary M. will review past town reports to determine how and when the franchise fee was placed into the general fund. This is to determine whether a warrant article was used.
- The committee discussed whether or not to have a portion of the fees redistributed to the trust fund. We will revisit this after the franchise renewal proceedings are done.
New Business:
- The yearend report is ready to be sent to Nancy Wrigley.
- Mary W. will send an email to the cable email so that one of the operators can create a slide with dates, time and place for the deliberative session and voting.
- A motion was made by Mary M to not renew the camera maintenance contact. Seconded by Sally and approved unanimously.
Other:
- Diane informed the committee about a problem with the PC in the cable room. Sylvania and Diane have been troubleshooting the problem and have determined that the external USB drive is the problem. Sylvania has been making some changes at the PC’s bios level to resolve the issue.
- Diane discussed the need to do a regularly scheduled backup of the pc and nexus files. It was decided on the second Tuesday of the month that the back would be done.
- The question of where to place the external USB drive after the back is done was discussed. Diane will take it home or it will be placed in the Town Hall safe. Diane will write the procedure to perform the backups so that anyone can do it.
- Performance review for Sue and Tavish are due this month. Diane will send Nancy Wrigley an email asking for the forms.
Next Cable Committee meeting: January 19, 2011
Adjournment: 6:50p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Morin Chairman
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