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TC 10-06-99 Teleeommunieatlons Commission Regular Mooting October 6, 1999 MINUTRS CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order by Vice Chair L.T. Guttadauro at 7:00 p.m. ROLL CALL Commissioners present: L.T. Guttadaum, Bill Mannion, David Eggleston Commissioners absent: Sal Algeri, Ernest Tsui Staff: Donna Krey, Linda Lagergren AT&T (formerly TCI): David Walton Guests: Linda Grodt, Kathleen Tully APPROVAL OF SEPTEMBER 1, 1999 MINUTES Mannion made a motion to approve the minutes as written; Eggleston seconded and the motion passed. COMMUNICATIONS Oral: Linda Grodt announced she had four finalists in the WAVE awards (tWO in the children category, two in thc youth category and one in the documentary category). She also said she had received publicity in several local newspapers - Campbell Reporter, Cupertino Courier, Sunnyvale Sun and the Metro. She received a letter from Assemblyman Jim Cunneen who had seen the article in the Campbell paper. Written: Krey distributed to commission a news article from the Mercury regarding the release of a three-month moratorium on AT&T's expanded cable-modem service in the Peninsula and South Bay. She also distributed a Mercury News article in which Fremont unveiled a proposal Thursday to establish customer service stand_~rds for the ~Home service. Among the written material Krey also distributed was a Coramunity Media Connection newsletter and the Society of Cable Telecommunications En~neer's newsletter. Commission agreed to take New Business item - grant request from Kathleen Tully - out of order. NEW BUSINESS Grant request from Kathleen Tully - Krey reported Bob Hsher called her earlier that day to give his support of Kathleen Tully to the conunission. He said she was a very hard worker and Haber hoped the commission would approve her request. The commission asked Tully to describe her program and they reviewed the budget of $731. Eggleston said this program was a very novel, creative idea and he had never seen anything like this done on public access before. Commission noted that typically $250 is the amount they grant but in this case, they felt the normal grant amount should be doubled. After a brief discussion, Mannion made a motion to approve the grant application for $500. Eggieston seconded the motion. All in favor. Motion approved. Krey said the grant request would go to City Council on October lith for their approval. A check would be released two weeks after that date. OLD BUSINESS Activities Calendar. There were no changes or additions to the calendar. Review and updste of producer guidelines and agreement form with De Anzs College access director - Commission requested the reference to AT&T be removed and changed to read "Public Access Channel 15." Commission reviewed the grievance procedure and everyone agreed to it as written. Mannion and Eggleston said there were several typos in the document and Mannion agreed to mark up a copy for Haber. Commission will receive a clra~ in the November commission packet and vote on it at that meeting. Review of educational ~rants program - Tsui and Eg~leston met with Mike Isbutt from Fremont Union High School District to discuss the educational grant program and exchange ideas. Isbutt would like Fremont High School to be the focal point in the district. Cupertino High School is not as active, he said, and typically things are done at Fremont and taken to Cupertino. Tsui and Eggleston were interested in helping Fremont but the school is in Sunnyvale. Krey said she could give Isbutt the name of the Snnnyvale r~ department representative, Shawn Hernandez. Krey said she could make the Sunnyvale representative aware of our grant program and possibly, F~mont can initiate it. TCI is already involved and working with Fremont High School. The commission can be a resource for Sunnyvale. NEW' BUSINESS Resource for planning applications (antennas) - Krey said the planning commission was looking to the telecommunications commission as a resource for applications they receive regarding antenna height exceptions. It was suggested that a couple of commissioners act as consultants to the plannlng commission when these applications come in and that Tsui and Algeri would be the best choices. Since Tsui and Algeri were not present at the meeting, Krey will e-mail both of them to see if they are interested in participating in this endeavor. TCI representative - I~Home service - Walton infom~ed commission the technical representative was unable to attend the meeting to give a report on the ~Iome service but would be in attendance at 'the November commission meeting. Walton reported (~-Iome is up and running. Commission asked Walton about the customer service standards that Fremont has put in place and if TCI would be amenable to an addendum to Cupertino's franchise agreement to apply these standard~.. Walton said he thought the standards were a good idea and that he would check into a franchise addendum. Reporls from: TCI: Walton reported TCI's completion of the Rancho Rinco~adn area was projected for the end of the year. TCI decided not to seek pole attachment agreements and so they have applied for permits for trenching. As soon as the p~.,,its are approved and they have a date for construction to begin, Krey would like to relay that information to the residents through the Scene. - The city did not receive a report from TCI this month. Walton reported TCI exceeded customer service standards and outages were reduced dramatically for the month of September. The letter commission received from Jelinch last month regarding his disconnect was a physical mistake on TCI's part and he was reconnected immediately. City of Cupertho: Krey reported the City Chnnnel was a/hal/st/'or two WAVE awards. The first was for their SWING video "Close Encounters of the Cupertino Kind" in the p~ofessional -- children's pro~mnxing category and the second was for the Y2K preparedness video in the public education category. Krey also reported the City Channei was working hard on election coverage and the candidate's forum would air soon. Kt~y mentioned there were over 500 participants in the citywide garage sale. De Anza College: Haber was not in attendance at the meeting and his report will be included in the next packet. ADJOURNMENT Eggleston made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 8:17 p.m.; Mnnnion seconded and the motion passed u~nnimously. ATTEST: APPROVED: