reading of minutes of previous meeting

CABLE TELEVISION ADVISORY BOARD

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

A meeting of the Cable Television Advisory Board was held Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 8:36 a.m. in the Aldermanic Chamber.

Members of Committee present: Diane SweenyAlderman Fred TeeboomAndrew CernotaPaul Johnson, Citizen RepresentativeKelly Dowling, Mayor’s AppointeeNick DarchikCharlie MatthewsDennis Ryder, Citizen RepresentativeRick Farrenkopf John Barker

Members of the Committee absent: Dorothy Clarke, Esquire Roger Hatfield, Fire ChiefBryan Christiansen, ComcastEd Lecius Ken TyrrellKathryn Vitale

READING OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

MOTION BY ALDERMAN TEEBOOM TO ACCEPT AND PLACE ON FILE THE MINUTES OF THE MEETING FOR OCTOBER 13, 2006MOTION CARRIED

WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS

Andrew Cernota

We received a statement of purpose from the CTAB Federal State Industry Watch Committee from Paul Johnson. He also has a letter from a constituent, specifically Jim Miller. There is a copy of that available here. Unfortunately copies weren’t circulated. If the Clerk would like to read that into the record if there is a requirement for that?

Alderman Teeboom

Copies? Can you read it into the record? Is it a lengthy letter or can you give us copies?

Andrew Cernota

Cable Television Advisory Board – 11/16/06

Its 3 paragraphs. It’s not especially long. We can circulate copies if that’s preferable.

Alderman Teeboom

Yes. I’d like to see that we get copies. I don’t have Mr. Johnson’s letter either, unless it was e-mailed to us. Was it e-mailed to us?

Andrew Cernota

I believe it was an e-mail.

Alderman Teeboom

This is from Paul Johnson and Kelly Dowling. This letter? Did we get a copy of this?

Kelly Dowling

It went a couple days ago via e-mail.

Alderman Teeboom

When was that?

Kelly Dowling

Tuesday.

Alderman Teeboom

Okay. I’m sorry. I didn’t see it. Could you circulate the…

Andrew Cernota

Just a note for the record, Rick Farrenkopf joined the meeting.

Kelly Dowling

Okay. This is address to Chairman Cernota: “Dear Mr. Cernota, This is to call the CTAB’s attention to an error in the testimony given by Mr. Christiansen at the CTAB meeting held on Friday, October 13th. I testified at the CTAB meeting regarding the unreasonable assignment of cable channel 99 for a PEG service and urge the committee to require a channel assignment below cable channel 36 due to subscribers having older TVs, cable converters, and VCRs that even though they are cable ready when


purchased they cannot truly tune to cable channel 99. The cable box that I brought to demonstrate was the first one I received as a subscriber in Nashua. That would have been in the 1980s. Mr. Christiansen of Comcast said that the cable box I showed the committee would not receive channel 16. I tested it, and Mr. Christiansen is quite wrong. It receives the cable channels up to 35 and channel 16 appears where expected – between 15 and 17. Even though the selector is labeled with designations 2 through 13, a through w. Perhaps Mr. Christiansen mistook the device to be a different model. But in any case, the testimony he provided is not about receiving channel 16. The testimony he provided is not about it not receiving channel 16 is wrong. I will lend you the device if you would like to verify my observation.

Upon further research, I have determined that channel 99 is the standard cable frequency chart is assigned to frequency 115.25. Also designated as traditional channel A1. I do not know if Comcast uses the standard assignment. The Sony VCR whose user manual I brought along includes channel A1 as a tunable channel. I cannot test it since there is currently no signal on channel 99.

Please do not allow any PEG channels to be unavailable to any subscriber due to their continuing to use obsolete TV cable converters, etc. Unless the CTAB board or Comcast will supply free of charge the equipment necessary to view the public education and government programming they are paying for. Thank you very much. Sincerely yours, James E. Miller of 5 Columbine Drive, Nashua, New Hampshire.

Andrew Cernota

The next correspondence that we have is…

Alderman Teeboom

Mr. Chairman I would like to request to see if there is any comment? I would like to make a comment on that letter.

Andrew Cernota

Okay.

Alderman Teeboom

I did check the FCC website to look at the frequency assignments. As strange as it may seem, channels 96, 98, 99 – except for the ones that we assigned for educational and government channels – and the public channel are a low frequency range. I don’t know how they come up with this numbering system. You look at it and 1 through 7 is low frequencies, and 96 and 98 are low frequencies. Seven starts at a higher frequency range. So any television channel that is equipped with 99, at least selections on the dial,


can get these. The channels are in such a low range that there should be no problem with older connections or older cuplers. I don’t see a problem with getting 99. It’s not up to us. I did dial up 99 and it did come out clear. In fact, the signal is much clearer on 99 than it was on channel 16 strangely enough even though it was a static signal. Thank you.

Andrew Cernota

Thank you.

Rick Farrenkopf

I was just going to comment (inaudible – not speaking into the microphone).

• Approval by Mayor for audio update in chamber and auditorium dated October 18, 2006

Andrew Cernota

If there’s not further comment on that letter, I’ll move on to the next correspondence. The approval by the Mayor for the audio update in the chamber and in the auditorium. The correspondence is dated October 18, 2006. I believe copies were sent to all the members by the Mayor’s office.

Alderman Teeboom

Mr. Chairman are we going to get to that agenda? Are we just taking introduction of the communication or are we…?

Andrew Cernota

These are just the introduction.

Alderman Teeboom

And we’ll get to those later on the agenda?

Andrew Cernota

The next item is the proposal by Mr. Farrenkopf and subsequently a memo we received yesterday from Jim McLean the new PEG Program Manager regarding the Nashua Turkey Bowl cable casting. Again, we’ll address that as a separate action item further into the meeting.


MOTION BY ALDERMAN TEEBOOM TO ACCEPT AND PLACE ON FILEMOTION CARRIED

• Financial Statements

Andrew Cernota

All received by e-mail the updated CTAB ledger. Is there any motion regarding financial statements?

Kelly Dowling

I just had a quick statement to make about the ledger as provided. Every time you see videographers do you see the word “WAR”. That word is short for warrant article. Then number after that is the warrant article on which it is approved. I just want to point out that CTAB picks up the tab for the videographers for every broadcast. So if it’s the Board of Aldermen, if it’s the School Board, if it’s this program all of that comes out of CTAB’s budget. So that’s what each one of those are so if you say gee we didn’t have a meeting on that day, well that wasn’t us. So when you’re looking at the financial that’s what that is.

Alderman Teeboom

Quick question. On the stenographers – these are the $247, $213 – these are for the minutes I take it? And we’re now up to date on the minutes and we just accepted…

Diane Sweeny

Yes we are.

Alderman Teeboom

The other question I have was what are we paying our videographers now for the record?

Diane Sweeny

The videographers are paid $50 for the first 4 hours and then $12.50 an hour afterwards. Alderman Teeboom

To me paying for the videographers is part of our function no matter who we televise. Certainly the only one we televise are the government channel. This bill, I presume, will go up significantly once the education channel gets on board. I see we have a nice healthy balance here. Thank you.


Dennis Ryder

I see we have a reimbursement for a luncheon interview. I hope we’re not following the School Board’s pattern here in approving excess expenditures - $50.

Alderman Teeboom

Wow. A lot of hamburgers.

Kelly Dowling

I’d like to speak to that. During the interview process we felt it best to have all the interviews for the PEG Manager conducted one right after the other in the same day. So we literally held captive 7 or 8 people for 6 hours here in the building. We thought the least we could do is feed them lunch. So the Mayor approved the $50 expenditure for lunch as proposed by Director Lemieux and we fed them.

Unidentified Male Speaker

I just want to add a clarification there also. The fact is that two of the individuals participating in the process were from local community television. So we had outside City employees in, which is what permitted us to utilize funds for meals. So we were actually taking that course also because we had two individuals who gave up their business days to come from their organizations to ours.

Andrew Cernota

Okay. Thank you.

Alderman Teeboom

That’s satisfactory. Thank you.

Kelly Dowling

And it was pizza.

Andrew Cernota

If there are any further comments regarding the financial?


MOTION BY ALDERMAN TEEBOOM TO ACCEPT THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTMOTION CARRIED

Andrew Cernota

People have mentioned that there are other commitments that they may need to leave early for so if there’s a vote, we should probably move that item up closer to the beginning of the meeting. To that end, I think this might be a good opportunity to discuss the cable casting of the Nashua Turkey Bowl. I’m not sure if Mr. McLean or if Mr. Farrenkopf would like to start us off on that discussion.

Rick Farrenkopf

I was approached by Maureen Lemieux around 2 weeks ago because the City apparently was unable to procure a person to videotape the turkey bowl at that point in time. She asked me if the School District could look into doing it. Around the same time, we were in the process – we hadn’t at that point in time made channel 99 live. But she had mentioned it would be pretty cool if we could broadcast the turkey bowl live, which I obviously agreed with. So timing being what it was, right around that time channel 99 was activated by Comcast. We began the process of testing the origination points and looking into how we could video the turkey bowl and make it live. From my understanding, and I wasn’t a part of it last year, 1 or 2 cameras were used last year and subsequently a DVD was created apparently.

What we wanted to do this year was since channel 99 was live, we thought it was an awful great opportunity to try and broadcast it live and rather than have 1 or 2 cameras, we opted to go with 4 cameras so we could have long and short views of the field. We could view the announcers, and we could have camera line interviews. Jim Pfeiffer who’s worked at the high school and runs a program of videography for the students has volunteered his time to produce the show and started to move forward with that, and made a proposal of what was needed. Basically I had sent out a proposal based on what Mr. Pfeiffer needed for some funds that we would need in order to make that a live broadcast. The major difference, so people understand between last year and this year, really is around cabling. When you’re not doing something live you can walk around with a camera and just videotape it and edit it later on. When you’re doing something live, you need audio and video cables to make it into a mixer so that it can go out live. Our intent right now is to do it live, create a DVD broadcast.

The only other thing I’ll add is the same time Mr. McLean has come on board and is working very closely with Mr. Pfeiffer in helping us in that regard, so I view this as a terrific opportunity to not only make the broadcast for the turkey bowl live, but it is also going to be videotaped, broadcast – all of the work involved absent Mr. Pfeiffer and Mr. McLean’s help will be done by students. So we’ll have students videotaping the turkey bowl showing students. As our first broadcast on the educational channel, I think it is a


terrific endeavor. Right now I believe our plan is once we discuss it here to put message thereto on channel 16 and channel 99. The channel 99 plan is to show the turkey bowl live. Right now there’s a character generator just saying that the channel is live. Once the turkey bowl is shown live, we’ll probably change that message to say – I hope the content was meeting to folks satisfaction and more good content will come soon. Obviously we don’t have the equipment yet through CTAB to do much more. With that I’ll leave it to Mr. McLean to comment or whomever.

James McLean

I concur with everything Mr. Farrenkopf said. This is a great way to kick off a great project. It is going to be a multi-camera broadcast level production put on by students by the school system. It’s going to be a plus for everybody involved. It’s a great way to get the community involved. Sporting events are always a huge affair in the City. I just look forward to helping make this all happen.

John Barker

Yes, I want to speak a little bit to the evolution of the request. The initial request was $3,500. We have creatively found ways to reduce that request to CTAB to not to exceed $1,500. We believe we’ll come in a bit below that as well by utilizing donations from other organizations and other creative ways to take care of it. It’s also important to recognize that the school system will be assisting in funding some of the additional pieces. Lastly, that those – I believe the majority of the funds we’re asking for here would be for things capital assets that we would retain after the broadcast and use for future PEG programming. To me it seems that now we’ve taken a second pass of looking how we’re going to do this and revise the request, it is a win both financially as well as meeting the needs of the citizens. Everyone knows for PEG being able to broadcast sport events is one of the biggest citizen attention grabbers. It’s the things they are looking for. We’d like to give that to them. A great opportunity, as they said, to collaborate together and to provide some opportunity for our students, and to have the 2 channels link up in their mission. I’m certainly recommending that we authorize this not to exceed expenditure of $1,500.

Paul Johnson

I’m delighted that we’re broadcasting this. I’m excited about the 4 channel shoot as well. That’s a level of quality that is quite unexpected on a 2 or 3 week lead time. If we can pull it off, it would be just fantastic.

Regarding that, there is a considerable expenditure for rental of the switcher. I’m curious about a couple of things in that. Is this the model switcher that would be purchased ultimately or a different model switcher? Is it a switcher that they are familiar with now and how long do we have it for? I guess that’s leading into whether we could arrange


that some portion of the rental be applied toward ultimately purchasing the device?

John Barker

Good idea. It’s actually been suggested here today by someone else that we look at this as an opportunity to procure a switcher and perhaps try it out and utilize this as an opportunity to try that out or talk about application of the rental fee to a purchase. Whether it would be ultimately the switcher we would want to use or not, I think would depend on how fast we can negotiate something like that with a particular vendor. As soon as we leave the meeting, we’ll pursue that. If we can get that expenditure off the table also, we’d love to do so.

Paul Johnson

I assume that the switcher is it the same type switcher that they are currently in the schools? Are they already trained in it or are they going to have to learn this model? If so, we have it for enough time that they can get up to speed.

Rick Farrenkopf

I don’t know whether it is the exact same model, but I don’t have any concerns around Mr. Pfeiffer and the students being able to use it. It’s a switcher I know that I think he told me goes for about $38,000 normally, and we have it for one day right now as a $500 rental. So he’s familiar with the switcher and there won’t be any concerns with that. But you do bring up some good ideas we can pursue as Mr. Barker said.


$500 or $600?Paul Johnson

You said it was a $500 rental for one day. The memo said $600.


I’ll go with the memo.

Alderman Teeboom

We haven’t made the motion yet right? A motion is going to be…let me know make it and we can discuss it.

MOTION BY ALDERMAN TEEBOOM TO APPROVE $1,500 FOR THE PURPOSE DESCRIBED IN THE NOVEMBER 14TH MEMORANDUM FROM PEG MANAGER JIM


MCLEAN

ON THE QUESTION

Alderman Teeboom

I think this is absolutely going in the right direction. This is exactly the kind of discussion we need to have. We’ve been discussing policies, procedures until it comes out of my nose. Okay. I’m tired of talking about policies and procedures. I’m ready to start talking about doing things. First of all Mr. McLean welcome to CTAB. This is going to be an easier meeting. You may not find them all so easy. I’m just delighted on such a short notice that we get this.

A couple of things. Advertising. (inaudible) expenditure we need also advertising. There’s no sense to have this channel and nobody knows how to dial to channel 99. It’s an unusual channel. I had to program it into my program just the other day to make sure that 99 doesn’t skip. So it needs to be advertised and make a camera discussion on how you technically advertise. It needs to be in The Telegraph and a fairly decent write up feature article talking about channel 16 as being unveiled on Thanksgiving and the Thanksgiving Turkey Bowl. That’s a great way to get channel 99 in people’s minds. There will be a lot of people dialing into it – maybe tuned into the hand held device.

On the program itself, I have a question about the 4 cameras. The switch, I guess, is programming 4 cameras. Can you explain briefly what the 4 cameras are going to be used for? Can we have Mr. McLean address it or…?

James McLean

Three cameras is pretty much a basic standard. Four is even better. Your local broadcast channels even - for instance channel 50 when it did sporting events before it became My TV. WMUR TV. Four is considered the basic minimum to make a good broadcast. It gets students involved. Mr. Pfeiffer seems to have staff. His students seem to be – he is comfortable with them trained to do what he feels that they need to do. The further logistics to be worked out, those are really Mr. Pfeiffer’s as the executive producer of that event.

Rick Farrenkopf

If I could just comment. The plan, as I understand it right now, is there would be a camera – we’re working with a radio station for the audio. I think, actually, Mr. Lecius as far as I understand would be doing the broadcasting. So his idea is to have a camera available but could focus in on the broadcasters for commentary. Two cameras that would provide zoom and wide angle views of the field and the play and then another mobile camera on the sidelines to interview coaches, people about the experience or


whatever. So that’s generally, I believe, what the board cameras would be utilized for.

Alderman Teeboom

I understand also on the audio. Audio is going to be provided and piped in through the station correct? Now when they do the commercials you’re going to cut away from the commercials and do the interview. Lecius is going to be doing that? He’s going to cut away for a commercial interview when the commercials are done. Can you explain how that’s going to work?

Rick Farrenkopf

I think those are details that Mr. Pfeiffer and perhaps Mr. McLean and Mr. Lecius are still to work out in terms of how that is going to be. I know that Mr. Pfeiffer is going to try to provide some level of graphics given the abilities of the switcher that he is renting and in terms of his orchestration of how he’s going to do that. I think those are still some details to be worked out.

Alderman Teeboom

Final question on the assets. A couple of questions on the assets. One is I guess is asked are we going to save is the correctional cable run – what’s this a whole role of collection of cable or? That’s going to be owned by CTAB, correct?James McLean

That will eventually be going by CTAB.

Alderman Teeboom

How many feet are we talking about of cable?

James McLean

I did not do the specs on that. Did Mr. Pfeiffer give you specific information on that?

Rick Farrenkopf

He did. I just don’t have it in front of me.

Alderman Teeboom

So this is a question to Mr. McLean and started working about it. Obviously we start to accumulate equipment. There's a piece of equipment that is used as a doorstop today that you may want to take a look at it. It’s the old server. All right. A $55,000 server.


Now we’re getting probably a huge amount of correction of cable. Probably, I can imagine, 50 feet or more of cable.

James McLean

Maybe about 1,000 feet.

Alderman Teeboom

All right. I’ll say a huge roll of cable. I don’t know how thick the cable is. So we’ve got to find a place to store this stuff.

James McLean

A thousand feet cable reel is only about 2 feet high and about a foot and a half in diameter.

Alderman Teeboom

Well it’s still 2 feet high. It’s still not trivial. So I guess my point is we’ve got to start working about property, property protection because this becomes part of the CTAB inventory. You may want to start an inventory list and maybe next time after the breather, after this thing is done, and you catch your breath, maybe you can give us an inventory of a list of exactly what we have because we don’t have an inventory list. Where it’s being stored? Under what lock and key and how it is being safeguarded. Do we have a list?

Diane Sweeny

We do have a list. I’ve been keeping it.

Alderman Teeboom

Well add this to your list and then tell us next time how you are going to…

James McLean

I will find the list within the list. I promise.

Alderman Teeboom

The final point about Mr. Johnson’s point about show we buy it. I hope we’re not going to piece meal purchases. The whole idea of assist and design is for Mr. McLean to come forward with the system design. I don’t want to endorse any – maybe we can


make a deal and say look if you buy it, can you give us a rebate on the rental? That’s okay. I’m not proposed to buy anything until I see, I’ll speak for myself of course, but see a full system design sound laid out for the channels as we have talked about during the interview. When you get your breather, you’ll have time to do that. Just my point is not to jump ahead and start buying something, and buying something, and buying something there and not having it all work together.

Rick Farrenkopf

Just to clarify. That’s was not my part. My part was just to see if we could leverage the rental possibly and it was saving in the future and we could recover some of that money.

Dennis Ryder

I have one small question here. We’re talking about student involvement. Presumably they are going to get credit for their academic lessons and record for this. Why are we paying them? I’m not too pleased with the idea of a stipend for the students.

Rick Farrenkopf

Well first of all I think you’re making an assumption that they will get academic credit. There is no plan that I’m aware of to give them any academic credit. This is for them things that they’re vitally interested in in pursuing careers for. To them, and I don’t want to speak for them, I believe they are volunteering to do this and taking their time away from Thanksgiving Day for the experience. Typically, and I’m going to use that word Mr. McLean maybe can talk to it more intelligently, but I think typically you need to pay folks on an ongoing basis. We struggle to get volunteers to do taping because these kids need money as well and they have jobs or whatever. They ordinarily probably wouldn’t be working on Thanksgiving Day. I think this is an extra special opportunity for them and our ability to pay them as we would any other videographer is important to them. I don’t believe they are getting credit. I think it does makes sense to pay them. The fact that it is students videotaping students, I think, is just an added bonus for us.

Dennis Ryder

I disagree that we should be paying students. I really do. We’re already paying the students to go to school. We’re paying all their costs and everything else involved. I don’t like this idea of stipends. It seems to be quite prevalent in city government. A stipend – what is it? Is it a salary? In which case, there ought to be volunteers they are paid. We’ve got to sort this thing out some where along the line. As far as I’m concerned, there should not be stipends paid.

Paul Johnson


I’m just going to ask a question of Mr. McLean. In your experience in PEG type broadcasts are students in other communities typically paid for this type of thing or are their volunteers?

James McLean

I don’t have an answer. I know that it is incredibly difficult to get somebody to put in an 8-hour day before their Thanksgiving dinner on a holiday. The students have crew call after school, the day before setup, then they have a 7 o’clock crew call that morning, which is very early. Then they are there for the full breakdown. They’re putting in a full day’s work.

Paul Johnson

I don’t begrudge the students a stipend for that kind of work. I’m just curious as to whether it’s – I do think it’s something we want to address as a future policy. I supposed it maybe, and we’ve discussed that, that there may be differences between the government and the educational channel’s policies even for that because I imagine a lot of the work in the E channel will be performed by students. If that’s a fully paid 24/7 staffed operation, the cost of that would be daunting. It will be interesting to discuss that downstream.

John Barker

Just to put in perspective also. The time for Jim McLean has volunteer at the time for Jim Pfeiffer has volunteered. If we had hired a videographer, that expense alone would exceed anything the students would receive. That’s a $50 flat pocket money for them. They are not getting paid by the hour. They are not getting so many dollars per hour over the initial 1, or 2, or 4 hours or whatever. Net this is cheaper than the alternative.

Kelly Dowling

Would we be paying the students, say they decided they are going to tape the school board for us. Would we then be paying them and do we set a precedent that well you paid me for the Turkey Bowl why aren’t you paying me for some other?

Rick Farrenkopf

I’ll answer that by saying, and obviously it needs more discussion, but if we are producing shows during the school day, then clearly it would not make sense to pay students their part of the school, in my opinion at least, and they’d be performing some function related to school activity in learning something. We’re not going to have kids during the school day work as a videographer unless there is some type of educational opportunity for them. Having said that, if you want students to videotape your school


board meeting at night, I’ll say right now you had better pay them otherwise they are not going to show up. They have other opportunities to work and make money. That’s a need for them. I think our expectation setting students videotaping for free on off hours is going to unrealistic. I’m not sure that all of them that would be interested. There may be some. I think in some communities I’ve heard that there are occasionally volunteers who do this because they want to and cease the opportunity. There may be some kids like that. I’m not saying there won’t be. My suspicious from talking to Mr. Pfeiffer and my knowledge of somewhat of other communities is that if they have a hard time getting coverage because these kids have jobs at Taco Bell, Burger King, and they have bills that they need to pay, and money they want to make.

Andrew Cernota

A further issue regarding what sort of precedent this might set. The educational channel is open as far as content to all the schools, educational facilities, libraries in the City. Would we be setting a precedent, if you will, that when BG is in the State finals for football or something like that and they want to videotape and have their game broadcast on channel 99, would we be on the hook for paying for them?

Rick Farrenkopf

The way our Policies and Procedures are written, Bishop Guertin could provide content of their game, and we would air it on channel 99. We are not on the hook to go out and video tape and produce shows for those other schools unless CTAB goes in another direction. That’s what the educational content is meant to do – to receive content and broadcast it. You could make the same argument now or on the hook to broadcast every single football game there is period. I’m not sure if it’s all or nothing.

Andrew Cernota

I guess my question relates to if we’re treating, again we’re providing this forum for broadcast of educational programming that would be governed by the educational subcommittee, which I believe we have an update on as far as their makeup but I don’t believe that they’ve met yet, that this would essentially be provided to them as far as how we would go about approaching funding for the production of the different things. Again, whether we go for the source neutral if we are going source neutral, wouldn’t that also apply to the school department.

Rick Farrenkopf

I guess I’ll just answer that and then I’ll refrain from further comment. Sporting events is definitely a part of what the educational channel, I think, is meant to do, which is to showcase our students, showcase our school, showcase what’s going on with our students both in academics and athletics. I would totally be supportive of CTAB


expending funds just so I’m made clear of going down where Bishop Guertin might be playing an important game and videotaping that. I think, again, that’s showcasing Nashua students for those students who are Nashua residents. It’s perfectly fine. Keep in mind that one of the things that we chose, I’m going to say we chose, but it’s in the contract, was that we created an origination point at Stellos Stadium specifically for this capability so that we could broadcast events at Stellos Stadium live. Where Bishop Guertin might be playing, we would not be able to broadcast live with the same technologies. So we’ve paid for wiring for Stellos to be able to broadcast live, and to me the Turkey Bowl is a major event for the City of Nashua. It clearly makes sense that that would be something that we’d want to take advantage of.

Paul Johnson

Just thinking more on this and thinking back to my own days in school, I think back – and this was a long time ago unfortunately, but we had the audio visual club. I was starting the 7th grade, I was running the video center for the school district, which happened to be out of the junior high school that I was in with 2 inch thick AMPEC black and white video tape and never dreamed of getting paid for that. When I was at Dartmouth we ran WVCR radio and (inaudible) while I was there. We wouldn’t have thought of getting paid for that. We were thrilled doing it. I would think that kids who are interested in a career in video and learn more about it would be excited to have the opportunity to do a live full camera shoot of a football event without expectation of compensation. I know if I were in those shoes I would. In fact, I volunteered my time that day to help with it as well because it’s an exciting opportunity. Whether that’s needed or not, remains to be seen. Because we’re willing to pay a stipend, I’m a little disappointed to think that we might have to get kids motivated to do this. I would hope that there is an active core of people who are really interested in video between the 2 large high schools that we have who would be just chomping at the bit and lining up to see who could be first in line to do this.

Dennis Ryder

I can’t throw in an anecdote about my school days because television wasn’t around then. The point I would like to make here – I’m not so much after the cost. It’s the principle of this thing. Mr. Farrenkopf was saying these people are giving up their Thanksgiving. Well so are the kids that are playing the game. They are giving up their Thanksgiving too. Are we give all of those a stipend? At least the idea of stipends is wrong in my opinion. If you want to get future volunteers for videography for something other than for school, you want to use them like they did in some of the TV stations that we went to. I have nothing against paying a volunteer there, but not for this type of thing. This seems to be wrong in my opinion.

Kelly Dowling


Do we have a backup plan in case child a, b, c or d does not show up?

Inaudible speaker

Kelly Dowling

Secondly, when channel 99, the for profit radio station that will be providing the coverage goes to commercial, did I understand you to say that we will not be airing their commercials?

Rick Farrenkopf

I did not say that.

Kelly Dowling

Okay. Is that good?

Rick Farrenkopf

I’ve had direct discussions with the general manager of WGAM who has said that we do not have to air their commercials. That their advertisers are paying for radio time and not for television time. I’ve known him for 25 years. SO that is not an issue. We have made arrangements that we will take their feed and run it through some kind of an audio mixer device where we can fade them down and fade up our own announcer or field any (inaudible) or whatever. That issue has been resolved.

Kelly Dowling

Super. Very good. Also, as we air this it will be aired on 99 live and there’s a plan to air it at another time originally broadcast is that correct?

James McLean

Yes. We plan to run it on channel 16 as it was done last year.

Kelly Dowling

Channel 16, as I understand it, is the government channel. Per our Policy and Procedure Manual it is intended for the broadcast of government meetings and not high school football games. Do we cross a line by airing it on TV 16 taped or not? If we do that, are there other things that will creep into TV 16 that really should be held for either the public channel when it gets here or stay on the educational channel? Having said that, I’m all for a TV16 slide that says at 6 o’clock tonight tune to channel 99 to see the


Turkey Bowl again.

Paul Johnson

I strongly agree with Ms. Dowling that this should be something that’s on channel 99. I think not only is the Policy and Procedure’s Manual clear on that, but there are other good reasons (inaudible) channel 99. As Alderman Teeboom mentioned earlier, they need to start promoting this as soon as we’ve actually voted on this motion promoting the fact that this will be on multiple times on channel 99 and providing instructions for people on how to program their TIVOs, how to program their VCRs, how to program their televisions to pick up a channel that previously wasn’t broadcasting a signal. It will be important that that character generator stay up full time so when people go and do the auto channel detect, that it will detect the channel now. I know personally a long, long time on TEVO, TEVO gets their information – the boxes get their information on TEVO central over internet feed. So they won’t know anything about 99 for quite a while. There is a way to set that manually. When we talked to The Telegraph about this, we’ll have to make sure we have some instructions there and maybe put instructions on the City web site as well so people have full access to this channel. That will serve us well if we get that out a little early.

Alderman Teeboom

I’ll be very brief. This is a good discussion. I’m not sure this is the right place for it now. It’s a good discussion. We have an E committee, and the folks in the E committee are to come up with policies and procedures for the E channel. I’m looking for their recommendations to tell us what to do about videographers and student videographers. When it comes back to this board, we can vote it in as a policy of CTAB. I don’t feel like getting into what the students should get paid and not get paid. I have no problem with the students getting paid $50 for this thing. It’s a small amount. It’s a token amount. To me it’s a token of appreciation frankly. It doesn’t set a policy. Police still has to be set. Sometimes you have (inaudible) in mind. As far as doing it on channel 99, absolutely. It shouldn’t have been done last year at 16, but they didn’t have a 99. There really wasn’t a good policy in place anyway last year. We didn’t have a policy really in place. 99 is where it should go. Advertising for it on 16 obviously there’s a problem. We’ve got to deal with it anyway. We’ll have 3 channels up hopefully. Who advertises what and where, and we can ask for Mr. McLean another time his advice on how programming ought to be done. Advertising ought to be done for one channel and advertising another channel. There’s a lot of interesting things coming up. The main thing is that we get this thing into 99 well advertised, on radio, on WSMN, on the Woodland show, The Telegraph, and get it as wide a distribution because it’s next week. I don’t know what the plan is, but Rick hopefully you can get some people to motivate.

As far as Mr. Pfeiffer, I met him. He’s running an outstanding operation in the high school. Very impressive. He himself has extreme experience. So between his


experience and Mr. McLean’s experience, I have no problem seeing this thing really coming off well.

John Barker

I’d just like to make some comments. If the interest of this committee are to see that this kind of programming is available to all the citizens, then I believe it should be rebroadcast for this instance for this particular event on 16. We do have a precedent from last year. B – I believe there is going to be quite a few individuals, especially those with older equipment, where no amount of instructions in The Telegraph – and I’d be surprised if The Telegraph would agree to print instructions, but no amount of instructions in The Telegraph are on our slides on 16 to 99 will be able to help them. There is no help desk they can call that is going to tell them how to reprogram their TVs unfortunately. We can reach out and help them more, but we don’t have the time to do that now. If we want them to be able to access it and if our interest is to make this content available to them, this one time I believe it ought to be Saturday and Sunday on 16 rebroadcast to them again. Then it can be from 99 from there. I do want to point out that other communities routinely broadcast sporting events on their government channels also and MCTV where Jim came from does that. I know because I turned it on all the time and watched it myself.

I also want to point out that in this Policy and Procedure Manual, it does say that the government channel can produce or distribute city sponsored events. I think in this particular case and in the interest of giving them that access in this short term, we should do that. I would agree that going forward the educational channel and CTAB can set a more clearly defined and, of course, the PEG Program Manager can set a more clearly defined policy regarding that.

Kelly Dowling

The Holiday Stroll Committee is interested in having the stroll put on TV16. One day after the Turkey Bowl, we would deny a city sponsored event access – because this would be a one time deal to air the Turkey Bowl and not the holiday stroll which brings 25,000 people into the City.

Alderman Teeboom

That’s out of order for the motion Ms. Kelly.

Kelly Dowling

I did have permission from the Chair to speak. So we draw a line that it’s just the Turkey Bowl and not the stroll?


John Barker

No. The point was that the Turkey Bowl was an educational event. So should an educational event come over onto the government channel? What you’re talking about there is a City sponsored event that specifically would be on the government channel. I don’t think what I was proposing was to exclude anything like that. I was proposing to say for this educational content that we consider this one time having it here until we have a policy that speaks more directly to it.

MOTION CARRIED

NEW BUSINESS

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• PEG Manager process update

John Barker

I’ve got a number of things to update the committee on so I’ll do my best to be as brief as possible. First I’d like to introduce Jim McLean from our new PEG Program Manager to the committee and to the citizens who are watching. When I finish my comments I would like Jim to tell us a little bit about himself, his vision for CTV here in Nashua, and some of the near term plans that we’ve been discussion so you are all aware of what we’re thinking about what he’s thinking about.

I want to start by acknowledging and thanking all of the participants who were a party of the selection process who did give so graciously of their time. CTAB members such as Alderman Teeboom and our Chair Mr. Cernota, city staff such as Kelly Dowling, Maureen Lemieux, Diane Sweeny, Rick Farrenkopf, and Jim Pfeiffer from the school system, and our peers and colleagues from other New Hampshire organizations – Dotty Grover from Londonderry and Bill Jennings from Bedford. This process was successful because everybody worked together. I think it was a good example of how this committee can work well.

I want to make the committee aware of some changes in membership. Now that we have the PEG Program Manager here, I am replacing Ken Tyrrell as the IT representative on the committee. He has been my designee up to this point. Now that we have a PEG Program Manager here, I am releasing him from that responsibility. He will still assist us in technical issues as appropriate. I will sit on the committee as the IT representative. Jim McLean, per the Policy and Procedure Manual will become leader of the Technical Subcommittee.

Let me tell you about changes in operations now that we have the PEG Program


Manager here. In terms of budgeting, effective the next meeting, Jim McLean will take over managing and reporting on the CTAB financials. He will do that utilizing the format that’s laid out in the Policy and Procedure Manual. We’ll develop a spreadsheet that will do that and we’ll use the good work that Diane Sweeny has carried on up to this point.

In terms of scheduling, Jim McLean will take over scheduling of the videographers, tape, and DVD duplication activities. Communication – Jim has already been trained and will begin maintaining the CTAB web site. Anything that needs to get put in there should be directed to him and he’ll maintain that going forward.

Other activities that he’s been beginning in his busy first week besides meeting you wonderful folks is he started to meet City staff and management. He’s been to the Mayor’s meeting this week and we’ve introduced him there. He’s beginning to form relationships and build on those to effectively do his job and make this into a useful service for the City. He started to review and assess our existing resources. Certainly he will take advantage of the inventory that Diane Sweeny has maintained. He’s also, through the efforts of individuals like Nick Darchik, he’s been to the sites of our equipment at Spit Brook Road, 38 Lake Street, the School District, and of course here at City Hall. He will be performing a needs assessment on the basis, and I’m sure he will tell us more about that.

I think what I would like to do if the Chair would permit is talk about the audio upgrade project for a moment, and then allow Jim to give us his comments.

Andrew Cernota

Okay.

John Barker

Okay. Just to upgrade everyone on the audio project. First off I want to thank Alderman Teeboom and committee member Paul Johnson for their excellent guidance and assistance in putting together the RFP. Thank you very much from myself and from the City. The RFP has been published; vendor walk-throughs have been conducted with three of the vendors. So we know at least 3 of them will be responding. We’re hoping to get a few more in. The opening date is November 27th for sealed bids. Those bids will then be summarized and presented to CTAB with a recommendation and for your consideration at that point per the original request. Leadership of this project has been transitioned from myself to the PEG Program Manager Jim McLean. I will continue to participate and help to guide that. That is really all I have to report on the upgrade project at this time. Unless someone has any specific questions about those, I’d like to ask Jim to speak.


Alderman Teeboom

I have a question. On November 27th opening is at 2 o’clock in the afternoon?

Jim Barker

2 p.m. Yes Sir.

Alderman Teeboom

Actually I’m going to attend that one. I’ve never attended one of those openings before. It’s a sealed bit, so it’s pretty pro forma. You open up the envelopes and look at the prices. Still, the recommendation comes before this board. I presume we can look at all the proposals or only the one that is recommended?

John Barker

My intention was to bring forward all of the bids and summarized bids, and of course the supporting material, and a recommendation for what we believe is the appropriate one. I believe that if a bid is excluded because it is incomplete or it doesn’t address the particulars of the request, then we wouldn’t bring that one forward.

Alderman Teeboom

No. I would presume you would bring forward the ones that comply and also the less price unless (inaudible) purchase and procedure says, you’re supposed to normally take the lowest price. I guess you’re probably going to have to review that whether we are required to take the lowest price or…

John Barker

Certainly we want to consider, but I don’t believe we have to take the lowest price depending upon the – looking at the totality of the proposal.

Alderman Teeboom

Excellent. The final is there is – how many bids – are we sure we have a lot of bidders? Do we have some idea on how many…

John Barker

I believe there are 5 and possibly 6 companies that have expressed an interest, and we have done walk-throughs with 3 of them. One wouldn’t need a walk-through because


they’ve been here before.

Alderman Teeboom

I did look at the PowerPoint. I looked at the package on the website. If you go to the gonashua site, the City site, select go to departments – I think it’s called “departments”…

John Barker

Departments, yes.

Alderman Teeboom

Pull down it says purchasing, click on purchasing, it says bids, click on current bids, and you’ll find above a long list the audio system. Maybe in the future on the CTAB you can update to make update links in CTAB website to directly link into the RFP. That’s the formal procedures that you set up. If you look at it, you’ll see your packages – about 17 pages. It’s quite a model for sealed bids. It’s a very impressive package Mr. Barker.

John Barker

Well certainly some of the thanks goes to you gentlemen also. At this point if no one has additional questions of me I’d like to ask Jim to talk about himself, his visions, and some of our plans.

Jim McLean

I started in broadcast in television at WMUR TV in Manchester, and I moved to WNDS TV in Derry, and then on to Cablevision of Connecticut directing morning news. After there I came to Caribbean and Presentation Services in Boston as their video lead and field engineer. After that I came back to New Hampshire. I missed it. I spent the last 6 years as the government access coordinator in Manchester. I’d like to thank the selection committee for choosing me to work for you, to work for the City, and to work for the citizens of this City.

I’m very excited about this opportunity to work for you as the PEG Program Manager and to take on the challenges that this whole program will entail. There is a lot of work to do. I intend to work with everyone involved to achieve the goal that is outlined in the Policies and Procedures Manual for CTAB.

My government vision is that currently Channel 16 airs government meetings, has the traffic cameras, and the notice board with the scrolling text and occasional voice overs – our Sally voice. For me government access is about transparency at the local government and action letting the people that can’t be here have the opportunity to see


how government works. The Zoning Board, the aldermanic meeting, the Planning Board, the Finance Committee – with our new systems coming in there will be more I promise. We’ll have more committees on air.

Equally important is the education of citizens on how government works. By showing them programming that we produce that explains and promotes city departments, programs, and services. Everything from the fire training …end of Tape 1, Side A… and police, D.A.R.E. programs, and being out in the community.

For education access, many facets also promote the educations. Educate the citizens concerning their programs and services and events at the school district and other local educational entities provide. It will be my responsibility as I see it to put in place the resources and procedures and equipment for the E channel to work properly and to work with the E channel committee to determine the right balance and outcome based on the parameters outlined in the CTAB Policies and Procedures Manual.

My next steps will be to convene a meeting of the Technical Committee next week to review the disposition of everything that has been done to date, identify short and long term technical objective, and establish what steps need to be taken to move forward. I’ll ask the E channel Chairperson Stacy Hines to convene a meeting of the E Channel Committee as soon as possible so that I come in and establish and work with them on guidelines and time lines.

Lastly, we have one more access center to visit in Manchester – MCAM, which is Manchester’s public access station to inspect their playback system. After that, we’ll have another Technical Committee meeting to discuss the findings. I’ll then begin a needs assessment to make an outline to create a phased infrastructure design, write the RFP, and start the ball rolling with all of your approval.

I’d like to thank the entire IT staff for all of their help and support in getting me started. They’ve been incredibly helpful. I just walked in the door and already had a computer set up for me. They had a desk set up (inaudible) phone numbers, people to talk to, who I needed to see, and everything was coordinated to the IT staff. I was not left wanting at all. It’s been great. The Mayor’s office has been fantastic; meeting other departments has been very helpful throughout the City. Everyone has been very helpful. I’d also like to thank committee member Nick Darchik who drove me around for 2 ½ hours yesterday to get everything squared away on figuring out where all these things are, how things work, all the planning that’s gone into putting it here, why it’s here. It’s a lot of information and a man with his resources and experience being here for over 25 years, it’s really nice to have the insight from the local side. I’d also like to point out we will be saving quite a bit of money thanks to committeeman Darchik. We have a habit of holding on to things. We’ve got some equipment cabinets that will be saving us a couple thousand dollars on our buildup for the next couple of events. Thank you very much. If there’s any other questions, feel free.


Paul Johnson

It just occurred to me, you don’t live in Nashua or do you live in Nashua?

Jim McLean

No.

Paul Johnson

You won’t be able to see any of the programming or the quality or anything.

Jim McLean

As soon as we get the appropriate systems in place, I do have broadband. I just need to get my feet a little wet before I make the jump down the road. But I live right in southern Manchester. So I’m not far away at all to take care of things.

Rick Farrenkopf

I just wanted to welcome Mr. McLean. I know I spent some time with him, and he’s obviously off and running. I think he’s going to be a tremendous addition to us. He mentioned having a technical review meeting next week. I just want to remind him that next week was Thanksgiving, and I’d really like to have Thursday and Friday off.

Jim McLean

Monday?

Kelly Dowling

I know that Mr. McLean will be sending us all an e-mail with his contact information so that he can be added to CTAB membership lists, etc. and we’ll all have access to him. I would like to note I have a memo here that I will hand a copy to each of you that states from Mayor Bernie Streeter re: personnel assignment. Basically at one time the Mayor had issued a memo to this committee stating that the Mayor and/or his designee would own the PEG Manager. At that time, he had proposed that his designee would be my office. Gleefully with this memo, it states clearly that the PEG Manager reports directly to the Division Director of IT. So employees who provide services for the implementation and operation of the municipal access channels will consult with and respond to CTAB requests on functional matters, including reports, budgets, technical acquisitions and implementations, and other information as requested. They may be required to attend meetings and actively participate on subcommittees. The PEG Manager reports to the


Mayor and/or his designee. Per this memo, the PEG channel manager for the City of Nashua reports directly to the Division Director of IT.

Alderman Teeboom

Just one question. Did Rick Farrenkopf give you a ride on his Harley yet?


No, but I do have a motorcycle license. I’d be happy to go rent one and go cruising up through the mountains.

Rick Farrenkopf

Just for clarification, I don’t own a Harley I own a Honda Goldwing.


Those are great bikes too I must add. I had one before.

• Technology committee update

Rick Farrenkopf

We have not update. We have not had another meeting. We decided we were going to wait for Mr. McLean to come aboard. I think our next potential action item was to invite James Cole back who set up our infrastructure with the modulators and to give Mr. McLean an overview of that in answer with whatever questions or confusion there still might be. So I think that is probably the next thing for them to consider, but we have not met.

• Educational committee update – Ed Lecius

Andrew Cernota

Ed Lecius is not here, but he did send a memo. I believe it went to everyone on the committee. Copies are being circulated. If the Clerk would like to read the report into the record.

Kelly Dowling


On Tuesday, November 14th, at 12:10 p.m. Ed Lecius, the Chairman of the E Channel Committee sent an e-mail to CTAB members stating: Due to a previously scheduled meeting, I will be unable to attend the CTAB meeting. However, I would like to update you on the progress with the E Channel Committee. CTAB E channel consists of Ms. Stacy Hines, who’s the Chair, Ms. Karen Widner from Bishop Guertin, Ms. Karen Cooper from Rivier College, Mr. Rick Farrenkopf from the Nashua School Department, Mr. Ed Lecius who is the Vice Chair of CTAB. Invitations also extended to the New Hampshire Community Technical College, Daniel Webster College, Nashua Catholic, and Nashua Christian Academy. Others to be determined based on CTAB Policy Manual. Ms. Hines is planning the organizational meeting for early December. It will be listed on the City meeting calendar. Ed Lecius.

Charlie Matthews

Mr. Chairman, I would like to offer myself as a member to the E Channel Committee as another interested party in representing the Nashua Public Library. I don’t know if I need to contact the chairperson on the committee or if that’s something you can do. If you could go ahead and do that and contact Ms. Hines.

Andrew Cernota

I think you can contact Ms. Hines and consider our approval for that addition to be granted. I’d say there’s no objection.

Charlie Matthews

Thank you.

• Federal/State Industry Subcommittee

Paul Johnson

I believe everybody received a copy of the communications with the statement of purpose for the Federal/State Industry Watch Subcommittee. I can belabor things and read it out loud if you prefer, or we can just say reading?

Andrew Cernota

It looks like there’s interest in skipping the reading.

Paul Johnson

I’m circulating, however, just a very brief – we don’t have a formal report yet. So for Ms.


Dowling and I are the sole members of the committee. If anyone else is interested in joining with us, we’d welcome you. I will just mention that the purpose of the committee was really in response to rapidly changing regulatory and competitive initiatives of the national level and the State levels now which may impact the City’s ability to regulate and also to derive revenue from cable t.v. and other competitive services from the phone companies, internet providers, and what not. So they’re forces that work in the national and State levels and lobbying levels that put all of what we do at risk here. So I just circulate just as an example of what’s going on excerpt from a congressional budget office review of the senate version of Communications Act of 2006. The senate and the house both have versions (inaudible) and the house version is nicknamed “coat”. The alliance for community media, which is a lobbying organization for PEG organizations such as ours nationally deems the (inaudible) bill the least bad of the two. So to give you an idea of how bad the other one is, if you look at this (inaudible) bill will limit the fees that initial government may impose on the rise of cable services, prohibit us – municipal government, from imposing requirements of providing cable services and negotiating future changes of franchise agreements, including restructure of franchise fee payments, which is something that we may want to consider in the future, and the number of PEG channels provided by the providers, and pre-empt a variety of other State and local laws that respect to the granting of franchise or cable service. This bill also will – the final paragraph – by prohibiting governmental entities and charging certain video service providers more than one percent of gross revenues to provide PEG programming out of the services. More than one percent. Right now we are at one percent, which I think is the lowest of any of the surrounding communities in our region. Most of them get considerably more than one percent. This would prohibit more than one percent for PEG programming and would lead to a loss in State and local revenues. The congressional budget office estimates the net cost of this prohibition. That is the amount of revenue that State and local government could no longer be able to collect could total about $100 million in some years during 2007 a 20/11 bill. So this is what we are up against. This is the better of the two bills. This is the one sponsored by Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska. This is why we have this committee, and we’ll be monitoring these things closely. I don’t know what we and a small group in Nashua can do but if we ban together nationally, we can help fight this back. Maybe some of the changes in the makeup of the congress will help or maybe it will hurt. We just don’t know. We have to say on top of this or the funding that we’re counting on as we build this out into operating in the years to come may evaporate.

James McLean

I’d like to offer to join your committee if you would accept me.

Kelly Dowling

Inaudible.


James McLean

Wonderful. Thank you.

Alderman Teeboom

How is this bill affected by the changes in the house bill?

Paul Johnson

This is actually the senate bill. This was the senate’s analysis. (inaudible). A good question was how is it affected by the change in the make-up of the congress? I’ll have to – I’ll admit I don’t have a crystal ball. I think it’s anybody’s guess right now.

Alderman Teeboom

I though the democratic part of the house and senate were more in tune with providing these services than the republican side of the…

Paul Johnson

I think it’s too early to speculate. We can try to come up with a more definite answer in our committee for the next meeting.

Alderman Teeboom

That would be good to do. I can tell you – just to correct, we’re getting 4 percent of gross revenues. Most communities get 5 percent. We’re getting 4. CTAB gets 1, but the City gets the 3 percent. That 3 percent is absolutely used for government operations. I mean some of us complained that it’s not being used for television operation. We’re talking about a sizable amount of money. $600,000 goes to the City (inaudible) our tax revenues. So there’s more interest in this than just the community of television cause not everybody is as lucky as they are in Lowell where they get all of the money for television use. Even not Manchester doesn’t get it all for television use.

Paul Johnson

That is correct.

Alderman Teeboom

I’m entirely interested in – and nobody asked this question. None of my very active and presidential politics was invited to the White House (inaudible) that was President Jimmy Carter who pulled his sleeve to see if he could do something, which is what lobbying is


all about through good and evil. So yes, I think your committee is an important committee. You’re also on the technical committee. Please keep us informed on this so we can see if we can (inaudible).

Paul Johnson

Thank you. You’re welcome to join with our committee if you’d like. I’ll mention also that my colleague here to my right has also elected to offer to join our committee. So if we can add him to the list.

Andrew Cernota

That would be Dennis Ryder.

PUBLIC COMMENTS


I have nothing other than to welcome Mr. McLean and to wish him well in his future endeavors with the City of Nashua. MEMBER COMMENTS

Kelly Dowling

On behalf of the Mayor, I’ve been asked to congratulate Jim McLean on his appointment. We look forward to working with him in his current capacity. Just as importantly, we’d like to thank Diane Sweeny for her years of service to both CTAB, this body, and to the public. The fact that we have TV16, the fact that it is up and running, the fact that it continues to provide us with what we do have is a direct result of Diane Sweeny’s hard work and dedication to this program. There are times I’m sure when she would have preferred to have someone else to call to, but there are also times when she just went above and beyond went and just took the initiative to make things happen. So on behalf of the City, we thank you very much for your service.

Alderman Teeboom

There’s one thing Ms. Sweeny is glad to get rid of. I remember last year the interrogations about have you and can you now operate the display – (inaudible) whatever you call it. You were never quite able to prove – I don’t know if you were able to prove to Kevin or not, but I went with the interrogations and you’re excuses for not being able to do so. So you don’t have to worry about that any more.


I did want to bring up something. There is a meeting tomorrow and Paul didn’t mention that.

Paul Johnson

I won’t be able to attend.

Alderman Teeboom

You’re not attending?

Paul Johnson

I can’t get free from business tomorrow.

Alderman Teeboom

I didn’t quite hear that.

Andrew Cernota

Mr. Johnson won’t be able to attend; he has a business commitment to tomorrow’s meeting that you’re referring to.

Alderman Teeboom

Yes. He’s not going. I was going to go to – okay, then I can dispense with that question. Thank you.

Andrew Cernota

Are there any other remarks by members of the committee? Okay, seeing none. Again, thank Diane Sweeny for her service.

ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN TEEBOOM TO ADJOURNMOTION CARRIEDMEETING ADJOURNED

The meeting was declared closed at a.m.Committee Clerk

reading of minutes of previous meeting

Documents

cable box

cable converters

cable channels

channel assignment

ctab meeting

alderman teeboomthis

alderman teeboomcopies

alderman teeboomwhen