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3. Furniture generously provided by Dave Buczwkowski is great. Jim will provide Dave with an acknowledgment from LCTV. 4. The volunteer program is going well. Alan Lazarus has researched two options for the studio scheduling/management software. We have demo'd both and are currently in the process of preparing a recommendation to the committee. One option is called Facil which was designed specifically for Local Cable Access stations. It is $700 for a single user and $2700 for network version. They will probably ask for the network version. 5. Kay Bell, Shelby Kashket, Mike Richie and Jack Cunha have all visited the studio to help in their assigned areas(procedures, software, networking and complaint protocol respectively). 6. Town Meeting. Is done and done well. The staff is working to document as to what to do for next year to make it run more smoothly and improve the broadcast. 7. LCTV has received a purchase card from the Town that will make it much easier to operate. 8. Jay Kaufman coverage. Jim worked with Representative Kaufman to get his weekly show broadcast again on LCTV. Apparently there were some problems when Comcast was providing services. We will now provide taping once a month. It will be a truck shoot, using his staff but our switch director. His 100th show will be in June and there maybe broader coverage of this event. 9. The tapedeck to timeboard editor just failed. It is the only one and they will shortly determine if they will fix or replace it. It is key for producing gang tapes. 8. LexMedia Board of Directors Maria Kieslich provided a brief update on the formation of the Board of Directors for LexMedia. The Board meet for its first official time last week, adopted its bylaws and also elected officers: Alan Lazarus (Chair), John Hayward (Treasurer) and Maria Kieslich (Secretary). They also discussed at length their response to the recent RFP, will have a draft done by the 20th of May and fully expect to have the response ready on June 9th, its due date. 9. Lexington Access Studio News Article. Maria informed the Committee that both the Lexington Minuteman and Colonial Times recently published articles about the development of LCTV. Anyone wanting copies could contact her. 10. RFP Process Dave Becker updated us on the RFP for management of the Town's local cable access channels. The RFP came out as published on 5/28. Rika Welsh will provide a briefing to all interested on 5/23. There is a bidder briefing at the LCTV studio on 5/26. Any questions about the RFP will be answered then but must be submitted in writing by 5/24. Bids are due 6/9. 11. CAC Financials Udpate It was determined that the account labeled Cable TV account was the Selectmen's Gift Account. It requires approval by the Selectmen to spend. This information will be provided back to Town Manager's office. Close caption monies were taken from the cable TV account Expenses for Peter Epstein advising the CAC came from the PEG account. Previously fees for Hanscom Litigation were erroneously taken from the PEG account. This error has been corrected with the appropriate credits.