6/2/2016 CABLE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE Minutes

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Budzet Report–Dawn Thayer,Finance Director Dawn Thayer advised the Department of Revenue has issued guidelines on changes in how Accounting is to be done regarding cable funding to the Town. bunds go into a special fund—not into the general fund. Mashpee already did this, but now no longer allowing us to do as a-revolving account. Money is separated and put into its own account. We have to now go to Town Meeting and appropriate budget,but you have to have funds in the account in order to appropriate funds. Therefore,Town had to front-load the account. Dawn said that is how it will operate—must have appropriation at Annual Town Meeting for the following year's budget. Dawn provided FY 2017 Cable Fund Estimated Expenditures spreadsheet; she said she took estimate from past years to get estimate for 2017. Dawn said if funding increased,then would go to May Town Meeting to appropriate; if less funding comes in,then appropriation has to be decreased. Andrew Eliason noted that MCAT used to have an excel spreadsheet that was easier to read than report now generated. Dawn said she can provide a simple report for MCAT Board. David DelVecchio suggested to scan invoice and match those up to Munis report. David volunteered to do the scanning Dan Riley said data is hers-- don't need to recreate the process. . Dawn said she will email some samples of different reports. Dawn noted that because of expenditures restrictions,there will probably be more communication between Finance Director and MCAT Board. Mashpee Community TV Bill Nay provided an update on Mashpee TV that was presented to the Board of Selectmen last January. Copy of the update is attached to the printed set of these minutes. Andrew asked 2 questions: (1) Why is Town Meeting not done on the government channel 18? (2) Why lack of sound at one microphone during broadcasting of last meeting? This is distressing to those watching the broadcast. Bill Nay responded that as to question(1),broadcast being done out of the school and that's channel 22 so they send signal out and are doing broadcast out of Channel 99 Bill said he would like to have signals going directly to Mashpee TV studio, as well as High School,so we wouldn't need all those modulators. As to question(2), Bill explained they set-up and checked everything out hours before the meeting. During the broadcast they discovered the one wireless MTC was just connected to the gym so everyone in the gym heard okay, but didn't broadcast. Wayne Taylor noted that for future meetings they are taking a wired MIC from Finance table and putting the wired MIC in place of the wireless one. Andrew Eliason suggested if something comes up and looks like an improvement to the system,Bill Nay sbold come to MCAT to review. High Definition discussion Bill Nay again stated that OpenCape fiber optics does not come to Masbpec TV. Wayne Taylor commented that Mashpee TV is the media of the Town. Dan Riley said he thought under the grant OpenCape was to give this access. David Dc]Vecchio said"no"the grant covered Municipals/schools/library/policesnot industrial. David said CapeNet put in the infrastructure for Town Hall/Schools, etc. Bill Nay said Mashpee TV could be an"anchor"station and could be considered an"anchor institution"of the Town. 2