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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Cable Communications Commission - 10/18/2010 MINUTES CABLE COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION RECEIVED OCTOBER 18,2010 DEC 132010 PRESENT Chairperson Connie Gutierrez,Leo Estrada, Carolyn Moon, Steve West CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE ABSENT Latrice Sellers CITY STAFF Lisa Aguilar,Assistant City Attorney,Kim Womack, Director of Public Information Mr. West called the meeting to order at 6:03 pm and verified the necessary quorum. Ms. Gutierrez came in immediately after the meeting began. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING ABSENCES Ms. Moon motioned to excuse Mr. West's absence due to work related issues. Mr. Estrada seconded the motion.All Commissioners present were in favor. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING MINUTES Ms. Moon made the motion to accept the minutes with one spelling adjustment as presented and Mr.Estrada seconded.All Commissioners present were in favor. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING APPOINTING COMMISSION CHAIRPERSON AND VICE-CHAIRPERSON Since the entire Commission was not present, Mr. Estrada motioned to table the discussion again until November. Ms. Moon seconded and all were in favor. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING MEETING ADMINISTRATION Since Ms. Sellers originally asked for this item to be placed on the October agenda, Ms. Moon motioned to table the discussion again until November. Mr. Estrada seconded and all were in favor. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING VIOLATION APPEALS Ms. Moon congratulated all the producers and the Public Access User Groups (PAUGS)on doing such a good job on self-monitoring their shows resulting in no violations in September. Three separate programs had the opportunity to appeal for failure to turn in tapes for four weeks. The programs are: The Robstones (Eric Perez), Living Rock Church.Inspirational Service (Silmeon Flowers) and Living Rock Church PM (Charlotte Dennis). Mr. Dennis was in attendance and represented the three programs. He appeared before the Commission and explained the producers had some technical issues that were not fixed and the producers would like to continue to air the programming.After discussions ended Ms. Moon motioned to return all three programs to the air,Mr.West seconded and all Commissioners present were in favor. (Note: Each program vote was taken separately). REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING UPDATES TO THE RULES AND PROCEDURES FOR PUBLIC ACCESS CABLECASTING Mr. Gordy had submitted suggestions regarding changes to the existing rules and procedures as referenced in his letter received in the Public Information Office on August 20, 2010. This item was originally tabled from the September meeting. The Commission discussed and agreed to no SCANNED action on suggestion #1 (revisions to Section 55-445(h) concerning weekly logs and #3 (Section 55-449 (c) (2) regarding PAUG lists for Cable Operator. The #2 suggestion (Section 55-447 (h) regarding the audio/video tag was discussed and agreed to add to a working list of changes the next time the Rules & Procedures need significant changes since the process includes City Council ratification,publication, etc. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING REPEAT PROGRAMMING Mr. Gordy ask the Commission to let the PAUG submit repeat programming in order to fill void time slots currently black on air.The Commission agreed that it sounded like a reasonable request but asked that Ms. Aguilar examine the franchise and determine if it is allowable. The item was tabled pending legal review. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING CABLE OPERATOR COMPLAINTS No cable operator representative was in attendance at the meeting. A discussion occurred regarding the sound levels for Channel 10. Mr. Gordy has been in contact with Time Warner representatives locally with several letters going back and forth. Mr. Gordy further noted that the sound issue had been resolved after he had visited Time Warmer in-person. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING TIME WARNER CABLE ANTICIPATED DIGITALIZATION OF PEG CHANNELS Lisa Aguilar and Kim Womack provided a brief updated on the legal action regarding the Time Warner migration of PEG channels. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING ASSIGNMENT OF CABLE COMMISSIONER ATTENDANCE TO PUBLIC ACCESS LOTTERIES IN OCTOBER After Commission discussion, it was determined that Ms. Moon and Mr.West would attend the Channel 10 PAUG lottery. Mr. Estrada and Ms. Moon would attend the Channel 18 PAUG lottery. REVIEW AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING MEDIA DELIVERY LOGS All was well with the media logs PAUG UPDATES Channel 10: Mr. Gordy noted there were 6 new applications and lottery was being held at the end of the month. Channel 18: Mr. Nesmith said everything was running smoothly and they were looking forward to the lottery. PUBLIC COMMENT None. ADJOURNMENT OF MEETING Ms. Moon moved that the meeting be adjourned. Commission agreed and the meeting adjourned at 6:47 p.m.