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Town of Newton
Newton Cable Committee
PO Box 378 Newton, NH 03858
Minutes
The Newton Cable Committee will meet on, July 27, 2015 at the Newton Town Hall starting at 4:00p.m.
Call to Order: 4:08pm
Roll Call: Mary Winglass, Chair, Public Relations/Programmer; Sally Woodman, Secretary; Diane Morin, Station Manager; Marilyn Landry, Vice Chair, Chris Liquori, Consultant
Minutes from Previous Meeting of June 9, 2015: Marilyn motioned to accept the minutes as written. Mary seconded and the motion passed unanimously.
Budget: Review was done and we are still within the budget.
Correspondence and Communications:
- Mary received a letter of resignation from Connor Leavitt. She spoke with Connor about remaining employed and working during his college breaks. Diane will send an email to the town administrator, bookkeeper and cable committee updating the status of his employment.
- The first quarter franchise fee was received from Comcast and the portion deposited in the cable revolving fund was $12,667.
Review Programing Scheduling:
Upcoming Events:
Unfinished Business:
- Review quotes for equipment: Chris reviewed the spreadsheet he created detailing the differences between the quotes from 3 different companies. He is recommending HB because they have superior support. Some items will need to be added to the spreadsheet. Chris will send the updated spreadsheet to Diane to review. Chris estimates that he will need about 3 hours to update.
- Electrician will be needed to run power for the projector and screen.
- Re-order the quotes so that the companies we are comparing are next to each other.
- Add a column with the differences in price from HB and ISG.
- Add note that Valley Communications did a site visit but never submitted a quote.
- Number each line.
- Estimation of the number of hours Chris will need to be on site.
- Split the spreadsheet into different sections. One for equipment, another for installation and setup. The third for Consultant hours.
- Phase 1 will be purchasing the equipment.
- Phase 2 will be the installation/setup.
- Phase 3 will be training for all operators.
- Diane brought up the possibility of adding a fourth camera and microphone to record meetings that occur in the back room. These would be cameras that just record the meetings to a recording device. Then they would be broadcasted using the Nexus. The committee will re-visit this at a later time.
New Business:
- Diane Morin will update the committee: Diane has lengthened the amount of time the slides are displayed from 10 seconds to 15 seconds. She worked with Leightronix on making the update.
- Posting for cable operator position: No update needed at this time as we have an applicant being interviewed.
- Review application for cable operator. Due to the age of the applicant we are going to ask the applicant to re-apply in April, 2016.
Other:
- The Committee interviewed Douglas Drury for the position of cable operator. Mary motioned to recommend to the Board of Selectmen the hiring of Douglas Drury as a cable operator, grade 9, step 1 at an hourly wage of $11.14 per hour. Marilyn seconded and the motion passed unanimously.
Next Cable Committee meeting: August 26, 2015 7:00pm
Adjournment: 5:50pm
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