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CABLE COMMITTEE MEETING MIN UTES
DATE: March 9, 2011
PLACE: Town Meeting Hall
TIME: 5:30p.m.
CALL TO ORDER: 5:38p.m.
Roll Call: Diane Morin, Chairman; Mary Winglass, Public Relations/Programmer, Sally Woodman, Secretary;
Sue Godin, operator/cable member, Mary Marshall,
Production Manager, Tom Gasse was in attendance for part of the meeting.
Minutes from Previous Meeting of February 23, 2011: Mary M motioned to accept the minutes as written. Diane seconded the motion and it passed unanimously.
Budget:
Correspondence and Communications:
- Questions for the survey were table to be discussed at our April meeting.
- There have been no responses at this time from the department heads.
Upcoming Events:
Unfinished Business:
- The board reviewed Sue’s evaluation with her. Tavish, however, was not in attendance. The board voted unanimously to give both Sue and Tavish a 5% merit raise.
- Sally reviewed the prices she had found for many of the items on the wish list. Mary W. has spoken with Bob Donavan about the risers we hoped to acquire. Bob said that the cable committee could borrow his any time we needed them.
- The board discussed the possibility of connecting a fiber cable from the Middle school to the cable room at the Town Hall. This will allow the Middle school to have the second channel that Comcast has set a side for the town.
- A discussion was then started on how to pay for this new equipment. The redistribution of the franchise fee was suggested. This will need to be presented to the Board of Selectmen as part of the franchise renewal process.
- Sylvania has acquired Microsoft 2010. Mary M made a motion to pay Sylvania $130.00 from the cable’s equipment fund. Sally seconded and the motion passed unanimously.
- Buying the Prism software has been tabled until our April meeting.
- David has not as yet evaluated the materials in the cable room. Once he has done this we can organize the cable room. Sue will ask David to have his report to the committee by April 6th, 2011.
- Mary M. gave each member the organizational list for presenting the slides. After Diane explained several points needed for the formula to work, Mary M said she would place all of the present slides in the formation discussed.
New Business:
- Mary M has been trying to speak with the music teacher to see if any group would like to take part in adding new music to Channel 20. She will get back to the board with her findings.
Other:
- Mary W., Diane, Tom, and Sally all wish to continue to be Cable Committee members.
Next Cable Committee meeting: April 6, 2011
Adjournment: 7:10p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Sally Woodman
Secretary
DRAFT
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