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Bob Avallone pointed out that the meeting agenda had the November and October complaint assignments swapped, though the assignment spreadsheet was correct. Ken Pogran explained how the complaints process works, and that there is a document about the complaints process on the Committee's page on the Town website. Ken Pogran took an action to send P. K. Shiu the spreadsheet. c. Letter from Department of Telecommunications and Cable re Verizon FiOS license expiration October 29, 2021 and renewal process The town received a reminder letter from the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable that the Verizon FiOS license is due for renewal. Ken explained that the Town Manager needs to know about the renewal process because it involves a contract, but Dave Becker said that Selectmen sign the license, not the Town Manager. Joe Pato pointed out that its legal review is under the Town Manager's purview. The state also sent a guide to license renewals. Ken Pogran mentioned that Verizon asked Bedford for a 5 instead of a 10 year renewal period, and that that the Verizon representative had confirmed that at the Committee's last meeting. d. Wireless Services Working Group meeting The Committee reconstituted this working group at the last meeting—Ben Moroze, Dorinda Goodman, Ramin Taraz, and Ken Pogran had agreed to participate. Ken Pogran would like to get this working group going soon—perhaps the week of November 12'h 5. LexMedia update Ken Pogran mentioned that LexMedia owes the Committee an annual report. This report was due 60 days after the end of the fiscal year, but has been pushed out to 90 days. Florence DelSanto mentioned that an audit of LexMedia is not done yet, and that state law requires a complete audit every year because they have a budget of over $500,000/year. This audit will be part of the annual report. Florence DelSanto said LexMedia owes the Committee a first quarter report by the end of October. The LexMedia annual meeting is the same day as the next CAC meeting, but the Committee will get the report before the next meeting. Smita Desai, Rita Vachani, and Bob Avallone are in the LexMedia oversight group and will review the report. The LexMedia annual meeting is on Nov 15''. Florence DelSanto met with the new Town Manager and invited him to visit LexMedia for an interview. New camera equipment has been ordered for the Selectmen's Meeting Room--this will allow control of the cameras from LexMedia. There is currently a booth in the town office building to operate the cameras. The room projector will have a feed directly to LexMedia for presentations, similar to the hall in the Cary Building. These will be high definition cameras. Ramin Taraz asked about security of the network link between the Town offices and LexMedia: the video feed goes over private fiber, and camera control and video may share the same link. Dorinda Goodman said that it's a private LexMedia network. Dave Becker asked how we send video to the cable providers from LexMedia: it is sent to each provider from Klein Hall. LexMedia projects underway: redesigning the LexMedia website (Cider House is the contractor for the website); there is new building signage for LexMedia, but Avalon