Town of Newton
Newton Cable Committee
PO Box 378 Newton, NH 03858
Minutes
The Newton Cable Committee met on, May 13, 2015 at the Newton Town Hall.
Call to Order: 7:04pm
Roll Call: Mary Winglass, Chair, Public Relations/Programmer; Diane Morin, Station Manager; Marilyn Landry, Vice Chair
Not present: Sally Woodman, Secretary
Minutes from Previous Meeting of: Marilyn motioned to accept the minutes from April 8, 2015 as written. Diane seconded and the motion passed unanimously.
Budget: The budget was reviewed and no discrepancies were found.
Correspondence and Communications:
Review Programing Scheduling: Diane has removed older re-broadcasted videos.
Upcoming Events: Memorial Day –Diane and Mary will handle the taping of the parade and ceremony. The parade has changed this year. It will now pass the town hall where they will set up to record the parade. They will then move to the cemetery to record the ceremony.
Unfinished Business:
- Review NJBC camera options: Diane reviewed with the committee Chris Liquori’s recommendation to the Newton Junction Baptist Church. Chris has offered his services to the church free of charge.
- Update Station Manager: Diane reported that she spent several hours working on restoring the overlay that is displayed during meeting play backs. She was able to resolve the problem with the help from Leightronix support. They suggested we update the Nexus to the latest firmware. The amount of downtime they estimated would be about 2 hours. Diane will work this into her schedule.
- Pay grade for cable operators: Diane reported that Sally is still looking into this.
New Business:
- Updated phone list: Sally has updated the phone list. Mary asked if it could be emailed to everyone. Diane will send the updated list out.
Other:
- There was a discussion about recruiting for cable operator’s position. Mary will research old help wanted ads. We will update them at the next meeting.
- Diane will ask Chris if he can have the quotes ready for our next meeting.
- Mary reviewed the process for the BOS meetings. We discussed how we could use our new equipment, once purchased and installed, to broadcast slides or documents during the meetings. This should be possible with the updated equipment. The BOS secretary will see that the slide presentations are updated as needed.
Next Cable Committee meeting: June 10, 2015
Adjournment: 7:45pm
Respectfully submitted,
Station Manager
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