HomeMy WebLinkAboutCable Committe 08/01/2002Meeting minutes of the Cable Advisory Committee
September 19, 2002 co, �l
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Chairman Bill Gerber called the meeting to order at 7:28PM. i
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Committee members present were: Gary Crowell, Bill Gerber, MilkeH' aley, Stan Ivas
Did Business Covered
• Meeting minutes from the August Is' meeting were accepted with 3 yeah
and I abstention
• Response from the Selectman's letter to AT &T has not been received as of
-9/188332.
• Bill will be meeting with the Town Manager on Tuesday 9/24 to discuss
why AT &T has not fully responded per contract requirements, to the
Selectman letter.
• Mail is still being forwarded to the advisory board mailbox. Bill to talk to
Ilene about this issue.
New Business
• Bill provided to the board members 12 pages of emails that have been
received-on the advisory web site form April 29th through September IS.
• Bill has generated an Excel spread sheet that summarizes the issue as well
as having all the issues on a word document which he will send to the
board members
• The board took the action to read and review both documents that Bill
sends out to them.
• Bill took the action to provide Gary Crowell a hard copy of the last
presentation to the Selectman by the end of this week.
• Gary took the action to summarize in categories each issue and distribute
the preliminary summary to the board members for _comment. The
following scheduled was agreed up for preparation and submittal of our
quarterly report to the Selectman:
o Generate summary and prepare preliminary report for the
selectman by September 277, -and distribute to board members for
review.
• Board re- conveneson- October 3'd to revieweomments, categories
and contract issues as well as well as finalizing the quarterly report
-for Selectman submittal.
• Submit quarterly report to Selectman's mailbox on or before
-October '10`h.
• Meet with Selectman on October 16.
Meeting minutes of the Gable Advisory Committee
September 19, 2002
Bill took the action to contact Mary Lou to put the board on the
Selectman's agenda for the 16'`.
Meeting convened at 8:15.
I�jspectrvely submitted,
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Stanley IV-as
Secretary, Mansfield Gable Advisory Board
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Meeting minutes of the Cable Advisory Committee
August 1, 2002
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Chairman Gary Crowell called the meeting to order at 7:IOPM.
Committee members present were;
Gary Crowell
Bill Gerber
Mike Healey
Stan Ivas
Chairman Crowell submitted his resignation due to constraints on his time but agreed to
remain a board member.
Bill Gerber was nominated as the new Chairman via a unanimous vote.
Stan Ivas was voted as the Secretary via unanimous vote
Old business was covered:
• Reviewed Br Bugnolo's incident reports, memos and current status of his
issues W.R.T. adult content bleeding through on his TV.
• The issue regarding a black box, which provides filtering of Adult content,
which was not being provided for free. This issue was submitted in our
June report to the Board of Selectman.
• Reviewed letter received via the Selectman, from AT &T regarding cross
channel incident
• Response from the Selectman's letter to AT &T has not been received.
New Business
• Bill is to assign case numbers and dates for open issues so they can be
tracked to closure more effectively.
• Bill took the action to generate a letter and put it into the monthly folder
for the selectman. This letter will request an opinion from the Mass State
Department of Energy and Telecommunications and the State Attorney on
the Mansfield Contract with AT &T to provide adult blocking of tier and
non -tier subscription services.
• It was noted that Ed Markey the local state representative is involved with
the FCC and Cable activities
• Bill took the action to formerly ask for a response to issues identified in
the June Monthly report
• Gary too the action to submit the monthly report for June and July by
August 8a` to Mary Lou Cotton for the Selectman's reading folder
• Gary suggested and the committee agreed that 10 business days into any
month the committee will submit the quarterly summary report for the
Selectman to review. This meant the report would be to the Selectman's
Meeting minutes of the Cable Advisory Committee
August 1, 2002
secretary on August 14a'. This action negates the previous action to
submit the report by August 8a'.
• The August.14`h.submittal -will-include an opinion-to-the board of
Selectman for paying for the services off Fire extinguishers at the Cable
Access facility. It was felt by the committee that Cable Access was
responsible for this bill.
• Reviewed emails that have come into the web site since the last meeting
• Reviewed an email between Fank Foster and the Mansfield Town
Manager regarding the hook up of an in home business to broadband cable
data. Issue appears to be resolved but the Town Manager has requested
the cable Committee to monitor for compliance issues
• Reviewed email from Bill August on cost of a new Van for Cable Access
and what is happening relative to passing onto the subscribers the
subsidization of the balance the cost (over the amount AT &T is willing to
provide) for a new van. Bill took the action to check on its current status.
This is an activity being negotiated by the cable contracts committee.
• The committee went into executive session following the regular
scheduled meeting to cover two items.
• Status of the extended absent of a board member
• Requirement to hold board meetings in open session
espectively submitted,
tanley Was
Secretary, Mansfield Cable Advisory Committee