TC 02-07-01Telecommunications Commission
Regular Meeting
February 7, 2001
MINUTES
CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order by Chair David Eggleston at 7:00 p.m.
ROLL CALL
Commissioners present:
Commissioners absent:
Staff: Linda Lagergrcn
De Anza: Bob Haber
Guests: Linda Grodt, Nan-Sing Chuang
David Eggleston, L.T. Guttadauro, Ernest Tsui, Reginald Duhe
Sal Algeri
APPROVAL OF DECEMBER 6, 2000 MINUTES
Guttadauro made a motion to accept the minutes as presented, Duhe seconded the motion. All
in favor. Algeri and Eggleston abstained. Motion passed.
APPROVAL OF JANUARY 3, 2001 MINUTES
Tsui made a motion to accept the minutes as presented, Guttadauro seconded the motion. All in
favor. Duhe abstained. Motion passed.
COMMUNICATIONS
Oral: None.
Written: Lagergren distributed the monthly report from AT&T and a memo from AT&T
regarding the addition of International Channel Networks.
Commission asked Lagergren to follow-up with Eddie Garcia's offer to set up a visit to the
AT&T Switching Center in Santa Clara.
Commission was concerned about AT&T not meeting its basic customer service standard of
answering 90 percent of incoming calls within 30 seconds. For the month of December, AT&T
answered incoming call within 30 seconds 87% of the time. Commission suggested the City Manager
send a letter to AT&T regarding this matter.
OLD BUSINESS
Activities Calendar. Commission reviewed the activities calendar and no changes were made.
Tsui reported on the Mayor's breakfast meeting. Duhe. Commission asked Lagergren to invite Colin
Jung to the next meeting to report on the progress of the antenna ordinance and consultant.
Annual report video update - Guttadauro reported the annual report video was not finished,
but he will be meeting with Bob Haber on February 20 to complete the video. If the video is completed
by Feb. 26, Commission will present the video to council on March 5, otherwise the video will be
presented at the March 19 council meeting.
NEW BUSINESS
Review of 2001 goals/workplan - After discussion, Guttadauro made a motion to approve the
workplan as amended. Duhe seconded the motion. All in favor. Motion passed.
Discussion of Forum Topic - Three forum topics were suggested by the Commission:
1. High Definition Television.
2. Wireless Communications
3. Internet Forum - Part 2.
a) Wireless
b) DSL
c) Cable Internet
d) Satellite Internet
e) TV Intemet
It was the consensus of the commission that the Forum topic be a continuation of the first Internet
Forum.
Commission agreed to make contact with prospective speakers for the Forum. TV Internet (Eyeburst) - Ernest Tsui
Sprint PCS Broadband Wireless - Ernest Tsui
~Home - Eggleston
Pac Bell ISDN - Duhe
AOL PC Satellite - Guttadauro
Commission discussed the format of the Intemet Access Forum. Each business representative would
have 10 minutes for a presentation. A question and answer session would follow, featuring questions
from the audience and the commission.
Reports from:
AT&T: None. (Eddie Garcia did not attend meeting).
City of Cupertino: Lagergren reported that Rick Kitson was hired as the new Public
Information Officer to replace Donna Krey. Kitson's start date is Feb. 20.
Lagergren reminded the Commission that the Commissioner's Dinner was on Feb. 9 at the
Quinlan Community Center.
De Anza College: Bob Haber thanked Kelly Bennett, Michelle Houde, all the law enforcement
community, the city of Cupertino, and the De Anza College administration and staff for keeping De
Anza campus safe on Tuesday, Jan. 30.
Haber reported the Hometown Award entries have to be postmarked by Feb. 16. The
Hometown National Conference and Trade Show will be in Washington, D.C. from July 11 through
14. Plans are to enter 25 programs this year.
Another program was started on the new Macintosh G3 computers. This will be the first
episode of "What's Up Wit That?" which was created on the non-linear edit suites. January was an
active month with the computerized video editing and digital camera training classes. In addition to
producers and their volunteers, students from De Anza are taking the training classes.
Haber reported more videos have been added to the web casting service.
ADJOURNMENT
Guttadauro made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 8:48 p.m.; Duhe seconded and the motion
passed unanimously.
ATTEST:
APPROVED: