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2 RCN Report . Tom Steel raised the question and there was discussion about whether everything went back to the studio or could. LIFT goes directly from the church and SCOLA from the high school. Tom said that in Arlington and other towns where there is fiber, it was easy for everything to go through the studio and there could then be some control. Tom apologized for missing meetings and briefly discussed the trouble with the switch from TV Guide. The problem has been resolved as was the outage. He told the CAC that RCN was willing to do bill inserts but would need considerable lead time and would have specific requests about size, paper and such. Because it’s renewal time there will be RCN discussions with Dave Becker and Dave Buczkowski. Tom said that despite the federal attempts to make town contracts unnecessary, RCN will go for renewal. There was discussion about the bandwidth currently available in Lexington. T1 is 5 megabytes and the fee of $500 per month was forgiven. There is an additional 1.5 megabytes available for a total of 6.5. John Rommelfanger mentioned that WiFi would require more bandwidth. WiFi would compete with current providers. Tom said that in that case, RCN might put in a condition that if it gave bandwidth it could not be used for WiFi. Tom also noted that there is no sale or merger on the horizon for RCN. He also noted that RCN is picking up MDUs (multi-dwelling units) and has a cooperative relationship with Comcast on these and hopes Verizon will be equally as cooperative. Verizon Report . Jill noted that the drop dead date for PEG to be up and running on th Verizon is February 27 and they expect to meet that. She said George and the others at LexMedia had been great to work with. Members of the CAC suggested that they th should be ready before the 27 so that problems could be ironed out. There is a new address: verizon.video.inquiries.ma@verizon.com This is for municipal clients and is the preferred route. However, e-mails could still be sent to Jill. She noted that she could not tell the committee where exactly they would build out next for competitive reasons. Chairperson’s Report . Jeanne read a communication about price increases and the financial reports were discussed. ACTION: Jeanne will check on payments to Peter Epstein on 9/22, 10/20, 11/17 and 12/15. Maria noted that the bottom line on the PEG account had revenues and expenditures exactly the same as last month’s report. There were other issues with the accounts. ACTION: Maria will put together some questions for Jeanne to ask the appropriate officials including how it is decided which account gets charged and who approves payment and on what basis ACTION: The CAC should receive copies of all bills.