Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutMN-CABLECOMM-1991-12-02 CAAB Resolution 6.91 - Recommendation for Revised Procedure and Time Line for Developing a Capital Budget for Access;passed 12/2/91 1. During the first two weeks in October (January*), the CAAB and ACC will conduct a public meeting for PEG access users to discuss their needs and priorities for access equipment. In the same time frame, the Educational and Governmental Access Committees will solicit the plans and needs of educational and governmental access users. 2. Before November (February) 1st, the whole CAAB will meet to consider the capital equipment recommendations resulting from the public and institutional input and will prioritize these recommendations. At this meeting, the CAAB will also appoint three of its members to a Capital Budget Planning Committee. 3. The budget committee will indude, in addition to the three members appointed by the CAAB, the Access Coordinator and the Chief Engineer from ACC. The committee will draft a capital budget to conform to the priorities set by the CAAB, within budget constraints. The budget committee may ask the access coordinator to arrange for equipment demonstrations. The committee may ask the Access Coordinator and Chief Engineer for technical specifications, ordering specifications (make and model numbers), and prices for equipment in the categories established as priorities by the CAAB. ACC staff members will respond to these requests in a timely way. The budget committee's report will include a prioritized list of equipment, listing make, model number, and prices. If there are equipment categories where it is impossible to get specific price and/or model information, as much explanatory detail as possible must be provided. The report will be submitted to the CAAB in time for its December (March) meeting. 4. At its December (March) meeting, the CAAB will consider the budget plan the committee has submitted. It will approve the plan as is, approve it with modification, or refer it back to the committee for additional work. When approved, the plan is sent to the Cable Commission. 5. At its first meeting after receiving the plan from the CAAB, the Cable Commission will consider the plan. It will approve the plan as is, approve it with modification, or refer it back to the CAAB for additional work. The plan, as a recommendation of the Cable Commission, is sent to the General Manager of ACC for action. 6. If the management of ACC does not accept to the plan passed by the Cable Commission, the Chair of the Cable Commission, the Chair of the CAAB, and the Manager of ACC will meet to negotiate a final agreement. 7. It is the responsibility of the chairperson of the CAAB to monitor this process and see that indicated time objectives are met, with a goal of having a completed budget by January first. 8. After a yearly budget has been accepted, either the Access Coordinator or the CAAB may initiate proposals for adjustments. Changes under $2500 require the agreement of the CAAB and the Access Coordinator. Changes over $2500 require the approval of the Cable Commission and ACC management as well. *Month in 0 applies to 1992 budget year only. CAAB Resolution 7.91 - Creating a Committee to Administer Educational Access Channels; passed 12/2/91 1. By this resolution, the Community Access Advisory Board (CAAB) hereby creates a standing Committee on Educational Access and charges it enter into a written agreement with American Community Cablevision (ACC) to assume primary responsibility for the administration of the educational access channel(s). 2. After the committee is formed, its first task will be to draft an agreement with ACC outlining the responsibilities it will take on, and how it expects to discharge them. 3. The committee shall be constituted as follows: I. Internal (CAAB) representitivess • Members from the CAAB who will automatically serve on the committee are: -The two institutional appointees to the CAAB -The access coordinator -The chair of the CAAB • In addition, one other member of the CAAB who has no educational affiliation shall be appointed to the committee by the CAAB . II. External representitives. Remaining representitives to the committee shall be appointed by a majority vote of the membership of the CAAB from among qualified nominees. Nominees must be affiliated with chartered educational organizations operating in the ACC coverage area. Nominations may be made by the organization to be represented, the Educational Access Committee or the CAAB. No organization may be represented by more than one member of the committee, including CAAB representitives. (except in the case of school districts, as described below). • Representitives will be sought from the following organizations: Cornell University, Ithaca College, Tompkins Cortland Community College, Tompkins County Library, Tompkins Seneca Tioga B.O.C.E.S. • In keeping with the state mandate to assure appropriate representation of local school districts, representitives will be sought from each of the public school districts in the coverage area. • Up to four additional representitives may be made appointed from qualified organizations not among those mentioned above. For these appointments, preference will go to organizations that have not recently been represented on the committee. This category may include representitives of public schools whose district administration is also represented on the committee. 4. The committee will hold open public meetings at least twice a year, which will be announced at least one month in advance of their occurrence. Minutes will be kept which will become part of the public record. Other organizational matters are left to the committee. 5. The agreement reached between ACC and the Educational Access Committee shall serve as a model for the administration of the government access channel(s) as well. The responsibilities delegated to the Educational Access Committee by the agreement will fall to the full CAAB for government access channels. Report to ICC of CAAB Meetings of 12/2 and 1/7 December Resolution Recommending a Revised Capital Budget Procedure.Discussed resolution and passed it, 4-0. Resolution Creating a Committee to Administer Educational Access Channels. Discussed resolution and passed it, 4-0 Public meeting on priorities for capital equipment budget.We scheduled this meeting for 1/9/92 Not-for-profit access management. We discussed how to set up the committee and voted in favor of opening it to non-CAAB members.We agreed to postpone first meeting pending completion of other CAAB work. Suspension.We discussed whether to recommend that suspension not include cablecasting privileges and voted 3-1 not to do so. Conflict/Behavior Problems.We scheduled a committee meeting to meet to make recommendations to access staff. Copyright. Lauren reported that ACC does not retain copyright on programs produced with their equipment;producers are required to sign an agreement not to sell or redistribute such programs without express written permission of ACC. Use of programming for resume material or submission to contests is routinely permitted. January Expiration of terms of CAAB members.Four members' terms are expiring in February `92. Three of these are City appointees: Rick Gray,Eloise Greene and Cathy Johnson. All have expressed willingness to be reappointed, although Cathy and Eloise expect to resign before their second terms end. (Eloise wishes to devote her energies to the educational access committee when it is formed.) I said I would recommend,for reasons of continuity and experience,that the ICC reappoint all of these members to second terms. New Chair of CAAB.We discussed the procedure for CAAB to recommend someone to succeed me as chair of the CAAB. I said that I would recommend to the commission that the CAAB Chair be made a member of the ICC--permanent if there is an opening,ex- officio if not. New Day for CAAB Meetings. Meetings will henceforth be on the forth Tuesday of each month. Our next meeting will be on January 28th an will initiate this new schedule. Future CAAB meetings will be at City Hall, since the library is no longer available to us. Public meeting to discuss the `92 capital budget recommendations. This meeting will take place at ACC this Thursday, Jan 9th, at 7:00 PM. Jim B., Rick G. and myself will be there representing the board. Lauren will be there with both her hats. Discussion with Barbara Lukens. We discussed the following topics with Barbara: the I- Net,proper uses of the access capital budget,problems regarding repair and maintenance of equipment, expansion of studio and editing facilities,emergency notification, and placement of commercial radio signals on access channels during idle periods. The need for continued ICC attention with regard to the I—Net and capital issues was noted. Jim Blizzard will work with public safety people on emergency notification. The CAAB will pursue guidelines for use of capital money for equipment refurbishment, non-profit access management, and facilities expansion. Changes to Policies and Procedures Manual.Lauren passed out copies of the proposed changes. We discussed one of them,pertaining to tightening the restriction of commercial programming. Some of the other changes resulting from actions taken by the Cable Commission and the CAAB over the past year are: -Removal of time restrictions on adult programming -Removal of restriction on political endorsements -Inclusion of appeals procedure for people found in violation of access rules