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NEWTON CABLE COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
DATE: February 15, 2012
PLACE: Town Meeting Hall
TIME: 5:30p.m.
CALL TO ORDER: 5:40p.m.
Roll Call: Diane Morin, Chairman; Mary Winglass, Public Relations/Programmer, Donna Judge, Operator
Minutes from Previous Meeting of January 12 2012: A motion to accept the minutes as written was made by Mary W, seconded by Donna and it passed unanimously.
Budget: Not available
Correspondence and Communications:
Review Programing Schedule:
- Donna is reviewing the schedule on a regular basis and modifying as needed.
Upcoming Events:
- Candidates Night will be held tonight after our meeting at the Town Hall.
- Donna emailed the schedule to board members for upcoming BOS, PB and Rec meetings. She has it under control!
Unfinished Business:
- The retention policy was reviewed and signed by the members of the committee. Mary W will present it to the BOS for their approval.
- Donna and Mary M have and continue to work on the infomercial for the new police station. Donna is editing the video and hope to have it ready by the end of February 2012.
New Business:
- Diane will send an email to David to fill out a time sheet for the hours (3) that he worked on the station logo.
- A motion was made by Mary W to allow Donna to purchase supplies as necessary and not to exceed $50 per month for. Mary M seconded and motion passed unanimously.
- Scott is already working on slides for the warrant articles.
Hardware:
- We have been experiencing some interment problems with the Nexus. Some recordings are saved and then later are no longer found in the Nexus library. They then have to be retrieved from the storage library and re-schedule. Back in December when we had a similar problem Tech Support for the Nexus thought it might be the internal flash memory. We would need to send the unit out for repair. Once Comcast sends the first franchise fee payment we will look into upgrading the Nexus instead of repairing it.
- The monitor used to preview programs is broken. Donna found a small TV on the side of the road. She will see if it works, and if good, will replace the broken one.
Other:
- David has showed up for Rec meetings and no one was there or they didn’t have enough for a quorum to meet. The meeting was then cancelled. It was agreed by the committee to ask Donna to be the contact for all scheduled events. The event coordinator will contact Donna at least 1 hour prior to the scheduled event should the event be canceled. This will give Donna time to contact the scheduled operator and inform him/her of the cancelation.
- A motion was made by Mary W. to pay cable operators a minimum of 2 hours per meeting. Mary M. seconded and the motion carried unanimously.
Next Cable Committee meeting: March 21, 2012
Adjournment: Motion was made by Diane and seconded by Mary M to adjourn at 6:10p.m. Motion passed unanimously.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Morin
ChairPerson
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