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<br />In attendance: <br />Maria Kieslich, Dave Buczkowski, Steve Ellis, Tim Counihan, Jim Baker, Alan Lazarus, Jim <br />Akimchuk, Jeanne Canale, Ed Vail, Miriam Boucher,Jeanne Krieger. Visitors: Jack Cunha, Roy <br />Glasser <br /> <br />2. Minutes of 4/21/05 <br />Approved <br /> <br />3. Comcast Report <br />Jane Lyman from Comcast did not attend <br /> <br />4. RCN Report <br />Tom Steel reported that they had recently traded out some equipment for the LCTV studio, and <br />have provided a complimentary modem and webpage for the studio. <br /> <br />RCN is excited to see the simultaneous programming from LCTV to both RCN and Comcast <br />customers. <br /> <br />Due to a recent customer complaint on Mason Street, the Town asked RCN to look into whether it <br />would be able to build-out its services to this street. The street is due to be torn up and then not <br />allowed to be disrupted for five years. Thus there is a possible window of opportunity to piggyback <br />on the dig up for RCN to drop its own cable to the residents. Tom needs to review the actual plans <br />for digging up the street since it all depends on the depth and how far up the street the digging goes. <br />He commented that RCN might not be able to get to the upper street numbers because those lines <br />are underground. <br /> <br />In a related matter, Tom confirmed that Verizon does not have plans to dig up streets, removing the <br />possibility that RCN could combine efforts with them to do part of the required buildout. <br /> <br />It was made clear to Tom that RCN does need to show some movement toward providing some <br />buildout. <br /> <br />There continue to be changes at the federal level that could affect the cable providers. The FCC is <br />looking at reforms of the 1996 act due to the advent of VOIP. They just required that 911 must be <br />provided on VOIP networks. <br /> <br />5. RCN Build-Out <br />Covered under RCN update <br /> <br />6. Transition Subcommittee <br />Deferred to Jim Akimchuk discussion <br /> <br />7.Studio Operations <br />Jim Akimchuk provided a detailed update of the status of the LCTV studio operations. <br /> <br />1. The computers are up and running, networked with full Internet access <br />2. The lease for Kite's End is signed for 7/1/05-12/31/05,including a 6 month extension <br /> <br />