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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Cable Communications Commission - 11/21/2005 MINUTES CABLE COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION November 21,2005 PRESENT Chairperson Juan Garcia,Jr.,Robert`Bob"White,Dr.Bruce Stratton,and Steve West, Sylvia Dancer City Staff Lisa Aguilar, Assistant City Attorney, Susan Cable, Director.of E-Government Services and Holly McCarty,E-Government Services Cable Operators Paula Kolda,Time Warner Cable Dottie Lane,Grande Communications Chairman Juan Garcia called the meeting to order at 12:00 p.m. and verified the necessary quorum. The minutes from October 17, 2005 meeting were reviewed and approved. Dr. Stratton motioned to approve the minutes and Sylvia Dancer seconded the motion.All Commissioners approved. 1. PRESENTATION BY CITY STAFF ON WIFI—Leonard Scott, MIS, gave a presentation on WIFI in Corpus Christi. DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON COMMISSION PROCEDURES FOR EXCUSES ABSENCES — Susan Cable explained that the Commission does not have any language regarding excused and unexcused absences and that at this time any Commissioners who misses three meetings will be automatically removed from the board. Dr. Bruce Stratton noted that a Commissioner should not miss that many meetings in a year. Dr. Stratton motioned to keep the absence language the way it is now. Bob White seconded the motion. All Commissioners approved. 2. DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON PROPOSED CHANGES TO RULES AND PROCEDURES FOR PUBLIC ACCESS"CABLECASTING—Bob White proposed to change the language of the locally produced programming statement on Page 2, Section 1,to the original language allowing those programs that do not pay for programming anywhere else to be aired in Corpus Christi. Susan Cable stated that if the language is changed back to the original verbage, the defmition of Producer would need to be modified for consistency. Jerry Vestal commented that the original intent of public access was for producers in Corpus Christi, not New York City or anywhere else.Juan Garcia motioned to the language from"No non-locally produced program shall be transmitted on public access channels 10 or 18" to "All programs must be locally produced."Dr. Stratton seconded the motion:All Commissioners approved. 3. UPDATE OF GRANDE'S APPLICATION FOR A STATE FRANCHISE — Susan Cable stated she wanted to inform the Commission that Grande was accepted as a state franchise on October 25,2005. 4. CABLE OPERATOR REPORTS—Paula Kolda, Tim Warner Cable, submitted a report to the Commission detailing information on their community outreach, Katrina/Rita relief and cable theft projects. Dottie Lane, Grande Communications, stated they are providing free intemet to students at Baker and Cullen middle schools. 5. STAFF UPDATES—Susan discussed regular meeting times. SCANNED 6. PAUG UPDATES — Jack Gordy, Channel 10 PAUG, said he disagrees with action of Commission,that there is a producer on Channel 18 who lives in Portland,and they have resolved the issues with the tags. Jerry Vestal, Channel 18 PAUG, stated he will check into the producer who lives in Portland and they made the new guidelines very clear to all the producers. 7. PUBLIC COMMENT—none 8. COMMISSIONERS COMMENTS —Bob White stated that the rule regarding the production date is old and is glad that producers have been getting the production date on their tags. Sylvia Dancer thanked everyone for attending. Juan Garcia stated that having a petition is ok, but it should have come to the Cable Communications Commission first and the reason behind the production date is for the producer's protection. 9. ADJOURNMENT — Dr. Bruce Stratton motioned to adjourn the meeting and Juan Garcia seconded the motion.All Commissioners approved.The meeting adjourned at 1:50 p.m.