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Minutes of the meeting of the Brewster Cable TV Advisory Committee scheduled for 7:00 pm on
Wednesday 7 June 2006.
The meeting is called to order at 7:12 pm on Wednesday 7 June 2006 by Larry Greeley.
Members present at this time are:
Larry Greeley
Norman Adams
Walter Powers
Ellie Smith
Art Stringer
There is no person present in the audience area.
Larry says that he has talked with Rika Welsh recently. Comcast will be starting to send $5000.00 checks
soon.
Larry says that he has received a specific proposal fibm Steve Lipman concerning the server /streaming
arrangements that Steve outlined in his presentation to us at our regulaz meeting on May 3, 2006. The cost
for the proposed arrangement would be $70 /month.
Presumably this arrangement is a version of the "smaller server which could store and access 5 gigabytes
of digitized video" mentioned in Steve's presentation to this committee on May 3, 2006.
Art Stringer moves that this committee empowers and instructs Larry to contact Verizon (ie as a possible
supplier of cable TV to Brewster). Walter Powers seconds the motion. The motion is passed unanimously.
Norman Adams distributes copies of the meeting of Wednesday 3 May 2006.
Walter Powers makes and Art Stringer seconds a motion to accept the minutes of the meeting of
Wednesday 3 May 2006 as presented. The vote to accept is unanimous.
Walter updates the status of the report called for in the meeting of 5 April 2006 in the motion recorded in
the minutes of that meeting to wit:
"That Walter Powers go to the Community Access studio in Orlearu and prepare a list of obviously
unsatisfactory equipment there and report back at the next meeting of this committee."
Walter says that, although the full specified report is still delayed due to the medical condition of Steve
Duerksen on whom Walter is relying for technical expertise, nonetheless he has some information to report
at this point, relying on an email from Steve, and on a discussion with James Paul Ludwig:
1) The DVD decks in use at the studio need repair or replacement.
2) A more or less modern character generator is needed. Suitable devices are made by Compix. Such a
character generator costs about SS000.00.
3) Equipment for digital editing is needed.
For our next meeting Walter will put together and present the above report in the form of a first draft of a
letter from this committee to the Selectmen.
In the ensuing discussion the times of availability of the community access facility are mentioned. There is
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a general consensus that a broad statement such as "the studio will be open 40 hours a week" is insufficient
and allows for inappropriate choices. Rather, the times of opening and closing should be defined in a
thoughtfully considered specific fashion taking account of the needs of the users. As a useful example Art
points to the careful attention to user needs shown by the hours of operation specified by the Brewster
Ladies Library.
Larry comments briefly on asemi-formal meeting in the Wellfleet Library at ]0 am on Saturday, 6 May
2006, at the Wellfleet Library. This meeting was attended by people fmm all of the 6 Lower Cape towns.
The principal topic at that meeting was a presentation by Terry Duenas about the operation of the Cape
Cod Community Media Center (formerly "C3TV") which handles the Public Access channels of several
mid-Cape towns. Terry is the manager of that facility, reporting to a board of directors drawn from the
several towns served by that facility. The chairperson of that boazd was also present and made a few
comments.
Larry mentions that the next meeting of that group is scheduled for Thursday June 15, 2006, at 5 pm in
the Wellfleet Library.
In view of the expected attendance by some members of the Brewster CTVAC at the national meeting of
the Allaince for Community Media which is set for July 5 through July 8, 2006 in Boston, the next
meeting of this committee is shifted to one week later than the regular time (the regulaz time being at 7:00
pm on the first Wednesday of next month, which is S July 2006). That is, the next meeting of the Brewster
CTVAC is scheduled for 7:00 pm on Wednesday 12 July 2006.
The meeting seems to be out of other business to be taken up tonight. Art Stringer makes a motion to
adjourn. It is seconded by Ellie Smith and is passed unanimously at 8:43 pm.
Submitted by Norman Adams, Clerk, Brewster CTVAC
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