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o Question #4: The CAC requested that LexMedia provide a brief overview of it's discussions with Lexington Police and Lexington Fire. o Question #5 : LexMedia's 501D3 application was not filed until October, 2006. It was noted that the RFP required LexMedia to have filed its 501D3 application no later than December, 2005 -- and as such, LexMedia was in direct violation of the RFP. o LexMedia was reminded that this annual evaluation was intended to demonstrate whether or not the terms of the agreement were being fulfilled by LexMedia. Included in this scope is a public assessment of quality. o Question #10: It was noted that the response did not include any discussion about KLINE HALL. Mr. Preston stated that it is anticipated that the studio will be moving sometime in the summer/fall of 2007. It was requested that an update, to include transition plans indicating a plan for no interruption of service need to be presented. o Mr. Preston stated that no fixed asset accounting is currently in place. It was noted that this contract provision was intended to safeguard the assets of the Town of Lexington. It was further noted that the Town provided LexMedia with an inventory of equipment for which LexMedia was custodially responsible. Mr. Preston stated that Facil was purchased in January, 2006, and a barcode system was purchased in August 2006. He went on to state that in total, there were between 200-300 pieces of equipment that needed to be catalogued... and that cataloguing this equipment was a significant amount of work. Mr. Preston then stated that this has not been a priority of LexMedia... but that LexMedia would have a full fixed asset accounting system with barcodes in place by January, 2007. There was further discussion around the validity of Mr. Preston's estimate of work involved in appropriately documenting these assets. o Mr. Preston stated that LexMedia is a Public Access Station. A discussion ensued as to the definition of public access vs. local origination programming. Mr. Preston stated that LexMedia is producing some programming... but that it did not want to emphasize this at the public hearing because he felt LexMedia did not have the ability to provide this service to everyone. During a discussion around LEF's request to have LexMedia cover the Trivia Bee (11/9/06), Mr. Preston stated that LEF was offered a volunteer to broadcast the Trivia Bee live. o Question #14: LexMedia's response indicates that courses in basic television production are offered at the studio. Upon questioning, Mr. Preston stated that LexMedia's first training course took place in September, 2006 (one year after the signing of the contract). Mr. Preston stated that 25 people have attended new member orientation -with 50% of them having had some previous training. 13 people have been trained (2 classes) in basic camera operation. o Per Mr. Preston, LexMedia does NOT have a formal "Non- Discrimination" policy.