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Home My WebLink AboutMN-CABLE-2018-09-11City of Ithaca Cable Access Oversight Committee Meeting Minutes Tuesday, September 11, 2018 at 5:30 PM Meeting Room, PEGASYS Community Media Center 612 West Green Street, Ithaca, NY Present: Chair Rich DePaolo, vice-chair Wies van Leuken, secretary Wayles Browne, Common Council liaison Ducson Nguyen, member Sue Perlgut; Access Studio Coordinator Lauren Stefanelli. 01. Call to Order by DePaolo at 5:42. 02. Agenda Additions and/or Deletions: none. 03. Public Comments: none. 04. Approval of Minutes of the August 7, 2018 Meeting: moved by van Leuken, seconded by Nguyen, approved 5:0 without changes. 05. Access Studio Coordinator Report (attached) Question on candidate debates. PEGASYS will cablecast several election debates. Stefanelli: I reached out to the League of Women Voters re covering the debates they host, but didn't hear back. a. Maintenance and Repair Report: see attached. b. Producer’s use of PEGASYS Logo: Stefanelli will put the logo on FileZilla [a free FTP application] and let producers know how to access it. Van Leuken: using the logo on programs is important for making PEG visible to the public. c. Podcasts: on agenda for next meeting. Stefanelli: we could begin by putting an existing podcast (audio broadcast) on PEG as an example of how to use multiple platforms. d. Archiving public access shows. See attached report for response from the Tompkins County Public Library. Stefanelli: there is also a national site archive.org that can preserve public-access shows from anywhere in the U.S. It requires conversion from older formats before one can upload shows. 06. Member Reports a. Quarterly Franchise Fee Report from City, Town and Village: The City received the 2nd Quarter fee. DePaolo will inquire about the Town. b. Publicity & Outreach Committee: presently inactive. We should move its topics to the general agenda. c. Charter Communications’ Franchise (on July 27, 2018, the NY Public Service Commission gave Charter 60 days to present a plan to exit its NY operations ): nothing new has appeared in the news media on this since the beginning of August. 07. Old Business a. Franchise Agreement. The Tompkins County Council of Governments (TCCOG) is frustrated with the lack of response from Charter; some members of TCCOG consider declaring an impasse. 08. New Business: Stefanelli reported that PEGASYS’ hours of operation will remain unchanged during her absence. Jim Hofecker and Jonathon Stamp (Cortland access staff member) will staff the studio during that time. 09. Next meeting. No meeting in October; next meeting Nov. 6, 5 pm. 10. Adjournment 6:28 PM. ================ Contact information for AOC members: City of Ithaca: Wayles Browne, secretary <ewb2@cornell.edu>. City of Ithaca: Ducson Nguyen, continuing Common Council liaison <dnguyen@cityofithaca.org>. City of Ithaca: member Sue Perlgut <sperlgut@gmail.com>. Town of Ithaca: Rich DePaolo, chair <rd@richdepaolo.com>, <RDePaolo@town.ithaca.ny.us>. Village of Cayuga Heights: Wies van Leuken, vice chair <pmv4@cornell.edu>. Web site for the PEGASYS studio, with program schedules: http://pegasys.webstarts.com/index.html 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: studio manager Lauren Stefanelli <Lauren.Stefanelli@charter.com> September 2018 Access Studio Coordinator Report  Media Center Projects Access Program Digital Archive: The library responded to my inquiries to have PEGASYS programs made eligible for inclusion in their local digital archives. Meghan Molloy is the new Local History Librarian at Tompkins County Public Library, and she promised to consult with the staff about the technical considerations involved.  PEGASYS Equipment Maintenance and Repair We have a laptop that has intermittent power issues. I will be sending it up to our engineer for evaluation later this week.  WENY WENY is back on Spectrum’s line-up in Ithaca, on channel 11. They have contacted the county about showing Tompkins County legislature meetings on their channel in addition to channel 15. The advantage to the county would be the possibility to show their meetings in HD.  Special Programs We are running 2 election debate shows provided by Manhattan Ne ighborhood Network, featuring the Democratic candidates for NYS Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General. It looks like we will also have a local debate show on the Tompkins County sheriff’s race, which will be recorded by the Ithaca Voice and submitted by sheriff candidate Josh Brokaw.  Personnel The new Charter access staff person for Charter’s access office in Cortland, Jonathon Stamp, has been training in Ithaca, with the intent of providing another person who can provide backup in case I am unavailable. He will be working on the days when Jim Hofecker is not available during my vacation, so, contrary to what I thought last month, we will not need to have any days when we are closed while I am gone.