Town of Newton
Newton Cable Committee Minutes
PO Box 378 Newton, NH 03858
MINUTES
Date: May 8, 2014
Place: Town Hall
Call to Order: 9:08a.m.
Roll Call: Mary Winglass, Chair, Public Relations/Programmer; Sally Woodman, Secretary; Diane Morin, Station Manager; Marilyn Landry, Vice Chair
Minutes from Previous Meeting of December 11, 2013
Mary motioned to accept the minutes as written from December 11, 2013. Marilyn seconded and the motion passed unanimously.
Budget:
- The committee reviewed the operating budget, including invoices and requisitions, for the period including 1/01/2014 to 4/01/2014.
- The Revolving Account is $88613.75 as of April 30, 2014.
Correspondence and Communications:
- Comcast sent a communique announcing the merger of Comcast with Time Warner Cable.
Review Programing Scheduling:
- Connor Leavitt recorded the opening ceremonies for the baseball season.
- The Newton Historical Society’s program “New Hampshire Haunting’ given by Roxie Swicker, is scheduled for May 28, 2014.
- The Memorial Day events will be taped by Connor and Diane.
Upcoming Events: Memorial Day Parade
Unfinished Business:
- Surplus equipment: This will be taken up at our next meeting.
- Lapel Mikes: One lapel mike was tested and it worked. The sound system needs a little tweaking. The committee decides it would purchase several new pieces of equipment. Mary wrote up two requisitions.
- Requisition #2505: One Roll RS80 Quartz PLL synthesized AM/FM tuner costing $253.26 and 1 amplified AM/FM antenna. This equipment will allow the station to provide music and news when the slides are running. The total cost of these two items is $286.25.
2 Requisition #2504: 12 wireless Lavalier Microphones Kits @$594.00 totaling $7124,00.
- Software purchase of Windows 7: Diane recommends the purchase of Windows 7 to be installed on the back up PC in the cable room. Mary will check to be sure we do not have this version of Windows available.
- Video editing software: Diane recommended Video Pad costing $69.95. She said she thought we could try this on a trial basis before committing to the purchase.
- Update from Station Manager: Diane reviewed the problem with the April scheduling. She missed scheduling the first Tuesday in April. There was also some confusion at one of the Planning Board meetings, no cable operator was present.
Diane will ask Chris if rechargeable batteries can be used for the lapel microphones.
Diane reviewed the hardware problems we had and how they were resolved. One of the external speakers in the meeting hall needed a new cable which Len installed. The sound to those speakers needed adjusting. This was done at the amplifier.
New Business: Chris Liquori contact has expired. Diane would like to renew the contact
so that he can assist us with further equipment updates. Chris has access to demo equipment which Diane does not. This gives us the opportunity to test the equipment prior to purchase. There is still more hardware updates we need to do such as, live streaming meetings, camera upgrades, projection screen for displaying slides and a new controller for the cameras.
Diane motioned to extend Chris Liquori’s contact for 6 months. Marilyn seconded and the motion passed unanimously.
Other:
Next Cable Committee meeting: May 12, 2014
Adjournment: 9:56a.m.
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