12/9/2008 CABLE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE Minutes

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TOWN OF MASHPEE CABLE & ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY BOARD Minutes of the Meeting of Tuesday, December 9, 2008 Board Members Present: Members Absent: Also Present: Andrew Eliason Jaynes Moroney Joyce Mason, Torn Mgr Lolita McCray Peter Cohen Rene Read, Asst. Town Mgr James Chisholm Maxine Wolfset Chairman Andrew Eliason called the meeting to order at 210 PM. Review of 12/02108 Minutes Minutes of the meeting held on 12/02/08 Frere amended as follows: - Page 2, paragraph 4, line 3. Add the following sentence: Section 6.4 of the112001 license indicates "annual funding for educational and governmental access rogramrrringft c nologyhe MCA T advisory aboard is recommending that the wording be changed to 'programming ming anal technology- in the next license. A motion was made, seconded and passed to approve as amended the minutes of the meeting held on Tuesday, 12109/08. Jinn Chisholm abstained from the vote. Recommendations for License Renewal 1. Joyce Mason stated that the Board was going to have to take a position and a Grote on list of items to encumber the funds received from Comeast. with a cash balance on hand of close to $375,000, the Board will leave itself open to justification of what our real needs are. Joyce Mason stated that she is putting together a list of items for the Board to consider, including technology requests on our CIP, school/educational needs, surveillance cameras, etc. 2. Andrew Eliason recommended that the Board, in releasing Comcast from providing support to I Net technology, request some flexibility in the use of the funding received to continue to use a portion of it toward support of I Net technology. Joyce Mason stated that she will provide Peter Epstein with the language to be used in the new contract. 3. Senior Discount. Andrew Eliason stated that he felt the Board should push for a senior discount of 10% on the basic tier. There is no specific senior discount in the current license. There is a discount for people who can prove through documentation that they are medically unpaired. Andrew stated that he would life to add to the list to submit to Peter Epstein, the request to determine whether there is any enhanced language available to ash for provision for a senior citizen discount. . Maxine Wolfset's Recommendations to MCAT for Comcast cable TV License Renewal (see Attachment Af In the event that Comcast declines to renew its Studio contract with Ma tepee, the general concen us of the Board, along with Joyce Mason, was that it would be preferable for I ashpee to develop its own public access television studio, rather than to use the facilities t