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Town of Newton
Newton Cable Committee
PO Box 378 Newton, NH 03858
MINUTES
January 14, 2015
Call to Order: 7:06 p.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 9, 2014:
- Diane made a motion to accept the minutes with the following amendment, to pay the membership dues in the amount of $50, to NHCC from the 2105 budget. Marilyn seconded the motion and the vote carried unanimously.
Budget:
Correspondence and Communications:
- The NHHC membership dues will be submitted for payment to the bookkeeper.
Review Programing Scheduling:
Upcoming Events:
- Deliberative session: The deliberative session will be held on January 31, 2014 in the Town Hall at 9:00 a.m. It will be taped live for the cable 20 TV station.
- Budget-Public Hearing: The Public Hearing will be held on January 19, 2015 at the Town Hall starting at 7:00pm. The snow date will be January 20, 2015. At this time the BOS will recommend or not recommend each article. The public is welcome to ask questions.
- Candidates Night: The town clerk will hand each candidate an invitation to attend Candidates Night being held on February 11, 2015 at 7:00pm in the Town Hall.
Unfinished Business:
- Chris Liquori’s contract renewal: On behalf of the cable committee Mary and Diane will present the reasons the committee feels strongly that Chris’s contract be renewed at the February 3, 2015 BOS meeting. They will also explain to the BOS the reasons for not sending the needed equipment out to bid.
- Update on wireless microphones: Diane and Sally finished installing and setting up all the wireless microphones. Mary has received positive comments from the residents that the quality of the sound is much improved with the new microphones.
New Business:
- At 7:10pm representatives of the Newton Fire Department joined our meeting. They requested the Cable Committees assistance in getting the word out to the residents of Newton concerning the importance of voting for the warrant article to purchase a new tanker truck.
The committee came up with several suggestions and decided on the following.
1. Slides created by the Fire Department will be sent to the graphics designer to put in a format suitable to be shown on the Cable station.
2. Record an interview with representatives from the Fire station. The venue will be either at the fire station or at the community center at Sargent Woods. The event will be taped and rebroadcast on the Cable station. Marilyn will ask Bill Landry if he could be the interviewer.
Other:
- The committee reviewed the yearend report written by Mary.
- Mary has the list with pictures of the surplus equipment. Diane also mentioned that we have some old wireless microphones that can go into the surplus equipment. Mary asked Diane to give her a list of this equipment so that she can add it to the list.
Next Cable Committee meeting: February 11, 2015 7:00pm
Adjournment: 8:37pm
Respectfully submitted,
Sally Woodman, Secretary
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