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Home My WebLink AboutMN-CABLE-2009-01-13Cable Access Oversight Committee minutes as approved March 17, 2009. The Cable Access Oversight Committee (AOC) met at the PEG Studio on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009, at 4:45 pm. Present: AOC members Will Burbank (chair), Wayles Browne, Wies van Leuken, Jennifer Dotson, Rich DePaolo; studio manager Lauren Stefanelli; producer Mike Brutvan. Introductions: Rich DePaolo (Town of Ithaca) has now been appointed a member per vote of Town Board Jan. 12 (to succeed outgoing member Will Burbank). Mike Brutvan (City of Ithaca) is interested in being appointed a member (to succeed Trish O'Rourke). 0. Notes by W. Browne as AOC secretary. 1. The minutes of the Dec. 15, 2008 meeting were approved with slight changes. 2. Comments from the public. Mike Brutvan: we need to reverse the steady worsening of public access. Is local over - the -air broadcasting possible? 3. Election of officers. Jennifer Dotson: the City Council will presumably soon approve the Town Board's appointment of Rich DePaolo to the AOC. Mike Brutvan can get a form to fill out from the City Clerk; I can tell the Mayor that the AOC welcomes him. Officers needed: Secretary, Chair, Vice - chair. Nominations for Chair: Wies van Leuken declines, citing her job in City Hall. Nominates Dotson. Jennifer Dotson elected Chair by acclamation. Vice - chair: office still vacant, to be revisited at next meeting. Secretary: Wayles Browne re- elected unanimously. Elections of Chair and Secretary effective as of next meeting. 4. Schedule for meetings: 4:30 Tuesday, in general the 2nd Tuesday of every month, but skipping February 10. So the next meeting will be March 10. At each meeting we can decide to hold or skip the meeting date in the following month. 5. Business for this month: We need to call for proposals from schools that need equipment from our capital budget. L. Stefanelli, studio manager: The Town of Ithaca Board has expressed interest in cablecasting its meetings. DePaolo: The Town's Information Technology person is not interested in archiving videos of meetings. For cablecasting, static shots would cost less than what the County spends. Stefanelli: Let's invite Jim Blizzard, video operator for the County, to one of our meetings. DePaolo asks about size of budget. Stefanelli: an estimate of $20,000 per year over 10 years (the life of the franchise agreement, 2003 - 2012). Burbank: each year's budget needs to be approved by 3 entities (City Council, Town Board, Village of Cayuga Heights Board) by approx. June for expenditures beginning the next January. These are for equipment only (i.e. a capital budget). Stefanelli: will draft a letter calling for requests. (To Brutvan) Time Warner Cable (TWC) in general is not interested in webcasting, but might be interested in an "on- demand" cable channel for digital subscribers. Some discussion followed on the virtues of the web. TWC is certainly receptive to feedback from subscribers. Van Leuken: The bulletin -board service (rolling announcements on channel 13 when no program is on) is another way to create public interest in PEG service. (Re the call to schools and other entities:) it should be sent in February so as to get responses before our March 10 meeting. Requests should be for equipment to be used in making programs that will appear on PEG (public, educational, or government) channels. I propose putting the call on the TV bulletin board too. Stefanelli: will draft these notices. 6. Studio Manager's Report (given in appendix, with schedule of training sessions). She added: Take note of the PEG Awards: deadline for submitting shows to be considered = end of January. The awards ceremony will be in February. Judges are still needed. 7. Schedule of future business. Van Leuken: We need a report on usage fees through the end of December 2008. Can we get it for the March meeting? We also need a report from the City (and the Town, and Cayuga Heights) on receipts of the franchise fee. DePaolo will find out when the town gets these. Stefanelli will also ask for a report on the $0.15 subscriber fees. The Committee would like this in her report for the second month after the end of each quarter. 8. The AOC expressed its thanks to outgoing member (and chair) Will Burbank. 9. Next meeting March 10. Adjourned 6:05. Access Coordinator Report to AOC January 2009 • Volunteers: A PEGASYS Christmas parry was held on 12/17. It was well attended, and producers were encouraged to create holiday messages which were cablecast on the channel for 2 weeks during the holidays. A group of 6 volunteers has met and signed up to record Light in Winter at the end of January. They are working closely with LIW staff. • Capital About half of the 2008 capital items have arrived. • Notable Educational Access News I met with Peter Johanns and 2 student managers of ICTV in late December. Joe Scaglione attended on behalf of the ICSD BOE. We resolved a long - running BOE schedule problem to everyone's satisfaction. Among other things, I am now recording the BOE live direct to mpg, saving a lot of tape transportation, improving the program quality and relieving the county staff of any ed access playback work. I also encouraged IC to consider adding something more than the lakecam to the default signal now on the channel to add value to subscribers. They promised to look into it. • Repair The 2 replacement DVD players from the capital budget have arrived and are awaiting installation. The remaining old DVD player is hanging in there, but I have been taking the precaution of creating mpgs of all DVD submissions before the first cablecast, to avoid DVD playback errors. • Outreach Information about our upcoming training is running regularly on the channel and has been sent to all the papers. I have replied to quite a few inquiries as well. Staff produced a PSA for Light in Winter, which is running on channel 13 and has been approved for cross - channel promotion as well. Cris McConkey is organizing an informational meeting for producers who want to webcast their programs. I have been facilitating contacts and outreach to those who have expressed interest. The meeting is scheduled for Feb. 11. Mike Brutvan expressed interest in applying to the AOC for membership. He is a City resident. FIRNSYS Training Schedule January — April 2009 Training Classes: No pre - requisites, but enrollment requires students to have a serious intent to produce programming for channel 13. All classes are held at the 612 W. Green St. studio. There is no charge for residents of the City or Town of Ithaca or Cayuga Heights. There is a small fee for residents of other areas of Tompkins County. Orientation / Course sign -up [no registration required] Wednesday, January 14 7:30 — 8:30 pm Wednesday, February 18 7:30 — 8:30 pm Wednesday, March 18 7:30 — 8:30 pm Wednesday, April 15 7:30 — 8:30 pm Basic Studio Video Production [register at the orientation] Learn how to operate the PEGASYS studio and crew on 1 or more programs. Completion of this course requires attendance at 14 -hour class plus working on 2 volunteer productions. Course dates: January Course: Wednesday, January 21 5:30- 9:30pm March Course: Wednesday, March 25 5:30- 9:30pm April Course: Wednesday, April 22 5:30- 9:30pm Web Applications Meeting: Wednesday, February 11 6:OOpm Basic Portable Production [register at the orientation] Learn to use our digital camcorders and linear or non - linear editors. Completion of this course requires attendance at 4 2 -hour classes plus 2 homework assignments. January Class: Thursday, January 15 Thursday, January 22 Tuesday, January 27 Thursday, January 29 February Class: Thursday, February 5 Thursday, February 12 Thursday, February 19 Thursday, February 26 March Class: Thursday, March 5 Thursday, March 12 Thursday, March 19 Thursday, March 26 5:30- 7:30pm Portable Video Production, Session 1 5:30- 7:30pm Portable Video Production, Session 2 5:30- 7:30pm Portable Video Production, Session 3 5:30- 7:30pm Portable Video Production, Session 4 5:30- 7:30pm Portable Video Production, Session 1 5:30- 7:30pm Portable Video Production, Session 2 5:30- 7:30pm Portable Video Production, Session 3 5:30- 7:30pm Portable Video Production, Session 4 5:30- 7:30pm Portable Video Production, Session 1 5:30- 7:30pm Portable Video Production, Session 2 5:30- 7:30pm Portable Video Production, Session 3 5:30- 7:30pm Portable Video Production, Session 4 Contact information for AOC members: Jennifer Dotson, chair, Common Council liaison <jdotso@cityofithaca.org> Wayles Browne, secretary <ewb2@cornell.edu> "Rich DePaolo" <rd @richdepaolo.com> Wies van Leuken <pmv4(crcornell.edu> and <WIESVL(a�cityofithaca.org> Web site for the PEGASYS studio, with program schedules: http://www.pegasysaccess.org/ studio location: 612 West Green Street Ithaca, New York mailing address: 519 West State Street Ithaca, NY 14850 phone (607) 272 -7272 fax (607) 277 -5404 PEGASYS staff: Lauren Stefanelli lauren.stefanelliktwcable.com