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TOWN OF LEXINGTON <br />COMMUNICATIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEE <br />MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF APRIL 20, 2023 <br />CONDUCTED BY REMOTE PARTICIPATION <br />1. Call to order and roll call <br />Communications Advisory Committee (CAC) Chair Kenneth Pogran called the meeting to order <br />at 6:34 PM, and called the roll. The meeting was conducted remotely via Zoom. <br />Members Present: Ken Pogran, Chair; Dorinda Goodman, Bob Avallone. Rita Vachani, Nick <br />Lauriat, PK Shiu, Smita Desai, Raman Taraz, Dave Buczkowski and Dave Becker <br />Members Absent: Steve Kaufman <br />Quorum: A quorum of members was present. <br />Others Present: Florence Delsanto, LexMedia <br />Materials Referenced: (1) Draft Minutes of the meeting of March 16, 2023; (2) Slides for <br />discussion of the Comcast ascertainment <br />2. Town IT Update – Dorinda Goodman <br />Ms. Goodman reported that there have been a number of telephone service (Voice Over IP) <br />outages over the past several months: Last month a significant outage affected both the <br />Municipal and the School buildings for over a day due to the utility provider (Windstream on <br />Verizon) infrastructure. It was attended to by both the School and Municipal IT departments, and <br />was reported on the Town website. The Town is working on putting redundancies in place so <br />that there are three providers (RCN-Astound; Comcast and Verizon). Two will connect in a <br />School building and two will connect in a Municipal building. Dorinda stated that the outages are <br />frustrating to parents because they can’t call into the schools. <br />Communication has also been lost recently because of failures of HVAC systems. Such critical <br />support systems are also being inspected to determine those that may need to be replaced. <br />On another matter, at least one transmission of a meeting (the 2023 Town Meeting) failed before <br />the meeting was completed, and so was also not available from LexMedia’s ON DEMAND <br />service. <br />3. Review and Approve Minutes of the March 16, 2023 CAC Meeting – Bob Avallone <br />The minutes were approved unanimously (except for Dorinda Goodman and Rita Vachani, who <br />abstained because they had not been at the March 16st meeting).