TC 08-06-03Telecommunications Commission
Regular Meeting
August 6, 2003
MINUTES
CALL TO ORDER
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ROLL CALL
Commissioners present: Ernest Tsui, Sal Algeri, Steven Ting, David Eggleston,
L.T. Guttadauro
Commissioners absent: None
Staff: Rick Kitson, Linda Lagergren
Guests: Linda Grodt, Doug Broomfield, Don Yeager
APPROVAL OF JUNE 4, 2003 MINUTES
1. Algeri made a motion to approve the minutes as submitted. Ting seconded the motion. All in favor.
Motion passed.
COMMUNICATIONS
Oral: Don Yeager thanked the Commission, City Council and staff for their efforts to secure
the production facility in Mountain View for use by the access producers. He said he regretted not
being able to bring Linda Walker over as the spokesperson for Able Cable.
Linda Grodt said she spent the last two weeks of September finishing the last Silicon Kids show
on the National Association of Student Councils Conference.
Written: None
The Commission took item #6 out of order.
NEW BUSINESS
6. Public Access Agreement - Kitson thanked the Commission, De Anza College and the public
access producers for their efforts in the public access agreement endeavor. It was a very
difficult fiscal situation for De Anza and the City was in a very difficult budget year. Kitson
briefly reviewed the agreement with the Commission. The City is very pleased to be working
with KMVT who has a reputation for very good programming. The agreement was approved by
City Council. Doug Broomfield mentioned that KMVT is looking at a regional approach. They
have taken on Los Altos and Cupertino and are looking at Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and Milpitas.
The Commission expressed an interest in touring KMVT station. Rick Kitson will send out an
e-mail with proposed dates for a tour.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
3. Status of Planning Commission's review on July 28th of the wireless master plan - Tsui and
Algeri attended the Plaiming Commission meeting of July 28th. Colin Jung reviewed the wireless
master plan with the Commission and Algeri and Tsui were on hand to explain and answer
questions. The Planning Commission voted to delete Item 6.5 as recommended by the
Telecommunications Commission. There was a lot of discussion at the Planning Commission
regarding safety issues which led to discussion about public noticing and education. Ting suggested
a plan be developed to educate the general public on the wireless ordinance and that this be added
to the Commission's work plan.
NEW BUSINESS
4. Select Antenna Ordinance Work Group - Algeri and
subcommittee to review the antenna ordinance.
Tsui volunteered to
act as the
5. Wireless Services Discussion - This item was continued to the September meeting. (It will be
referred to as E-Services on the next agenda.)
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
2. Discuss topics for upcoming Informational Forum - HDTV - After a lengthy discussion on the
difficulty the commissioners were having trying to contact the appropriate people from Comcast
and Intel to put this forum together, it was the consensus of the Commission to do instead a series
of Scene articles on HDTV. Guttadauro will prepare an outline of suggested topics for this series:
· Why
· Hardware
Programming
· Delivery
Reports from:
7. City of Cupertino - Kitson distributed three handouts 1) Communications Law Update on
franchise fees and intemet cable services, 2) Comcast programming changes 3) June Comcast
monthly report
8. Comcast- No report
MISCELLANEOUS
10. Activities Calendar. Updates included assigning Ernest Tsui to attend the October 21st Mayor's
Tea, L.T. Guttadauro will attend the November 18th Mayor's Tea and David Eggleston will attend
the December meeting with the Mayor.
11. Action Item List: Items 2 and 4 were combined (Write article for Scene and Write article after
implementation of EFM on what residents can do to improve cellular coverage) Item 5 was
completed (Clarify the producer grant language) and Item 7 was also completed and deleted off the
list (Write article for Scene on DSL access.) An item was added to the action item list - Outline of
topics for Scene.
ADJOURNMENT
Guttadauro made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 9:03 p.m., Algeri seconded the motion and
the motion passed unanimously.
SUBMITTED BY:
Lagergren,
APPROVED BY:
Ernest Tsui, Chairperson