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TC 06-07-95· '" -"' Cable Television Advisory Committee Regular Meeting ~ June 7, 1995 MINUTES CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order at ?:00 p.m. by chairperson M'&e Wincn. ROLL CALL: Present: Laird Huntsnmn, Donna Poggi, Paul Rodwick, Ernest Tsui, J.M. Wincn Staff: Donna Krey De AoTa College: Run Fish Guests: Linda Grodt, Don Yaeger, Bill Mannion, Daniel Wade APPROVAL OF MAY 3, 1995 MINUTES Donna Poggi made a motion to approve the minutes as written; Paul Rodwick seconded and the motion passed uoan]mously. COMMUNICATIONS Oral: Don Yaeger distributed a letter that he intends to send to the city manager of Sunnyvale requesting that Cupertino programming be allowed on the Sunnyvale access channel. The committee had no problems with the letter with the exception of one minor word change. Linda Grodt told the committee that she had won three BACE Awards, and the committee congratulated her on that achievement. Grodt also distributed information about the award and publicity that she had received for that. Don Yaeger also won a first place BACE Award. Written: There were none. OLD BUSINESS Report on insurance for access producers and equipment: Laird Huntsman told the committee that the insurance agent he had been working with, California Indemnity, has moved out of state, and asked the committee what their pleasure was as far as continuing any research for this topic· Krey suggested that the insurance issue might be something the tripartite parties could discuss as a three-way partnership when it comes to reviewing the tripartite agreement. The committee asked Huntsman to pass on any information that he has on the subject and keep it for discussion by the tripartite group. Final review of grants guidelines: The committee had some discussion on this item. Wincn wanted to know what would happen if a group came before the committee twice for two separate grants and Poggi said that if there were funds remaining, then consideration would be given for second requests at the committee's discretion. Ernest Tsui made a motion to accept the grant guidelines; Huntsman seconded and the motion passed unaniraously. Poggi will give Krey a clean copy of the revised guidelines. Krey will make copies available in her office. Discussion of telecommunications policy recommendation: There were two minor word changes in the policy and Rodwick made a motion to accept it; Poggi seconded and the motion passed unanimously. The policy will go to the city council for their approval on June 19, and the committee thunked Tsui for the work that he had done in drafting the policy. NEW BUSINESS Consideration of grant application from The Better Part: Bill Mannion spoke about the program and infom,ed the committee that through the library tapes, about 1 $0 shows are seen each year. T~ey have records o£ tapes that h~ve been checked out at the library. Poggi said that she and Rodwick, who make up the grants subcommittee, had reviewed the application and were recommending approval for the entire $414. Since this grant comes before the new grants policy takes effect in Suly, the committee didn't have any problems with allowing that amount. In the future, grants will be restricted to $250 apiece. Huntsman made a motion to accept the application; Tsul seconded and the motion passed unanimously. This item also will go to the city council at their June 19 meeting. Consideration of reimbursement for guest dinner ticket for BACE Awards finalists: Huntsman made a motion to grant the reimbursement; Tsui seconded and the motion passed unanimously. The reimbursement will come from funds that the city gives to De AnTa College. Ron Fish will make sure that the reimbursement obligation is met. Consideration of field trip to TCl/Considerstion of cancellation of summer meeting: This item was taken out of order. The committee wanted to first discuss consideration of canceling one of its summer meetings, and after quite a bit of discussion, it was decided that the committee's August meeting would be canceled and there would be a short business meeting during July. After that business meeting, a field trip could be taken to TCI. Huntsman made a motion to take a field trip to TCI in July; Poggi seconded and the motion passed unanimously. Taking a poll of the members, three of them could not be at the August meeting so that meeting was canceled. Poggi made the motion; Tsui seconded. The motion passed unanimously. Krey will talk with Kathi Noe and make sure that she can arrange something in July for those who would like to visit TCI. TCI: Kathi Noe was not in attenSance at the meeting. Neither was Bruce Dinger. City of Cupertino: Krey gave a report on the budget hearings that the council has had, indicating that there were no major problems with the committee's budget. She also talked about the TCI meeting which she will be going to tomorrow morning saying there would be l0 to 15 TCI cities at that meeting where common issues, problems, concerns and ways to handle some of the things that are happening at the FCC will be discussed. Krey informed the committee that the Pac Bell agreement was almost there. Cities had hoped to have sign-off from all on June l, but a couple of the cities had some minor problems with some of the wording, so within the next two weeks it is hoped to have that agreement finalized and taken to city councils. She also mentioned that The City Channel was having several meetings relating to programming. They were trying to come up with creative ideas on how to enhance the programming of The City Channel while still maintaining a government oriented look. De Anza College: Fish informed the committee that he will be going to small claims court on June 30 in the matter of HT Electronics/Horizon Video's non-functional editor. He said the remote studio is progressing rapidly and he estimates that it should be ready for use in two months. Two of the 12 shows submitted to the National Hometown Awards have been selected as finalists. The committee agreed to send a letter to Ralph Steinke urging immediate replacement of the full-time engineer's position. Wincn will draft and sign the letter, which will be sent out on city letterhead. Mayor's Breakfast: Ernest Tsui reported on the mayor's breakfast. ADJOURNMENT Huntsman made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 8:35 p.m.; Poggi seconded and the motion passed unanimously. The next meeting will be held on July 5, 1995 at 7 p.m. ATTEST: APPROVED: