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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Cable Communications Commission - 05/16/2010 RECEIVED MINUTES CABLE COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION JUL 1 S 2010 MAY 16,2010 CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE PRESENT Chairperson Connie Gutierrez, Commissioners Steve West, Carolyn Moon,Latrice Sellers,Leo Estrada ABSENT None CITY STAFF Lisa Aguilar,Assistant City Attorney,Kim Womack, Director of Public Information Ms. Gutierrez called the meeting to order at 12:04 pm and verified the necessary quorum. Ms. Moon made the motion to accept the minutes as presented and Ms. Sellers seconded, and all present were in favor. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING ABSENCES Mr.Estrada explained his absence was unexcused and no vote was taken. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING VIOLATION APPEALS Representatives from the Sinai Evangelistic Center PM were in attendance and asked the commission to view their identification as they believed they did not have a violation. Commissioners viewed the program and Ms. Moon motioned to dismiss the violation and Ms. Sellers seconded. A vote was taken with all Commissioners in favor. Mr. Mark DiCarlo was not in attendance regarding "Voices of the Coastal Bend" violations. Mr. DiCarlo has until the June meeting to attend the meeting or provide a written statement. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING VIOLATION NOTIFICATION Ms. Moon has requested the item regarding violation notification be added to the agenda. The process to notify producers currently requires a certified, registered copy be sent to the producer. In a cost saving move, Ms. Moon felt we could still maintain notification with the additional cost of certified letters. Discussion occurred and a solution regarding a secondary notification was included to copy the PAUG presidents on any notices sent by the City. Ms. Moon motioned to change the procedure,Ms. Sellers seconded and all present were in favor. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING CABLE OPERATOR COMPLAINTS No cable operator representative was in attendance at the meeting. A brief discussion occurred regarding Time Warner possibly encoding programs too close to the identification tag causing some of the violation issues with proper time length of identification.No action was taken. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING PRODUCERS DISCONTINING PROGRAMMING Documentation was provided regarding producers that have chosen to stop producing public access programming. SCANNED • • REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING MEDIA DELIVERY LOGS All was well with the media logs PAUG UPDATES Channel 10: Mr. Gordy briefly discussed the channel 10 lottery and felt it had gone very well. Commissioners Moon and Gutierrez were in attendance. Ms. Gutierrez is a producer and noted she was not acting in her Commissioner capacity at the lottery. Channel 18: Becky Nesmith was at the meeting in place of her husband,Jesse Nesmith, Channel 18 PAUG president. She said the lottery went well. Only one Commissioner was in attendance: Ms. Gutierrez. PUBLIC COMMENT None. ADJOURNMENT OF MEETING Ms. Moon moved that the meeting be adjourned. Commission agreed and the meeting adjourned at 12:26 p.m.