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TOWN OF LEXINGTON
COMMUNICATIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF DECEMBER 17, 2015
Call to order.
CAC Chair Ken Pogran called the meeting to order at 6:35 PM in the
Parker Room (G-15), Town Office Building.
Present:
CAC Members: Ken Pogran, Chair; Ben Moroze; Dorinda Goodman; Nick
Lauriat; David Buczkowski; Frank Cai; Smita Desai. Others: Suzie Barry, Selectman;
Elaine Ashton; Mike Barry.
Members absent:
David Becker; Maria Kieslich and Steve Iverson.
Materials passed out:
November 19, 2015 meeting minutes, Cable rate regulation FCC
form, committee membership application and resume of Mr. Timothy Zack, and meeting
agenda,.
1.Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes.
The minutes of the meeting of November 17, 2015 upon motion to approve,
second were unanimously approved.
2.Carrier Reports
No representatives were present from carriers.
3.Selectman’s Report – Suzie Barry
No report.
4. Chairman’s Report
a. Chairman has received application for CAC committee membership from
Timothy Zack.
b. Office of Selectman has received letter from Department of
Telecommunications and Cable (DTC), Commonwealth Of Massachusetts, about
cable service effective competition. The Committee agrees with the assessment of
the DTC that there is enough effective cable service competition in Lexington.
Therefore, the letter does not affect our town.
c. CAC committee working group timelines. Smita Desai has provided a timeline
for the LexMedia working group. The cable license negotiation group, wireless
application approval group and wireless service group also need provide their
timeline. The Chair expects to receive the timelines about three weeks from now.
d. No complaints have been received for the last several months. Selectman Suzie
Barry suggests posting the complaint process statement to the town website under
the CAC committee page. Chairman Ken Pogran suggests a complaint tab to be
added close to the contact tab on the page. Dave Buczkowski suggests a Q&A
page might be necessary for the CAC web pages. For complaints, this committee
considers that Lynne Pease should be informed but does not need to be involved
in the process. The committee chair will pursue the change in procedure.
e. Ken will schedule a wireless service meeting some time in January.
5LexMedia Update
No update. Ken will touch base with Florence DelSanto to make sure she pans to
attend the CAC January meeting.
6. Wireless Communications working group update
There was no meeting in the past month.
7. AT&T cell site update
The town administration decided that the AT&T cell site plan would need to be
brought to the Lexington Historic Districts Committee for approval.
Because the proposed wireless tower is also a necessity for town public safety and
will be paid for by AT&T, this committee strongly favors its final approval.
Chariman Ken Pogran will discuss with the Town Manager the strategy and
sequence for this application.
The Committee recommends that the Police Chief or his representative should
attend the HDC hearing.
8. Town IT Updates
The Town website update is a little bit behind schedule, but the new website has
brought huge improvement. There is new “Welcome to Lexington” page. IT
needs to transfer data into this new system.
Comcast provides five cable boxes with basic SD channels for the Lexington
Community center. Comcast representative Jane Lyman has tried to provide HD
service but did not get approval within Comcast. The Town is considering
updating the service to HD on the Town’s budget.
WiFi has been available in Lexington Community center. Town IT is rolling out
WiFi connectivity building by building. There will be a public open network and
a town IT network. The IT department is still fine tuneing the WiFi access policy.
IT Director Dorinda Goodman is pushing to have WiFi installed in Cary Hall
before this coming spring town meeting.
There was no update on the redundancy network solution.
9. Wireless Applications
No new applications were received.
10. Complaints
No complaints for November. None yet for December 2015.
11. New member application
Timothy Zack has applied to join this committee. Chairman Ken Pogran has
interviewed him and highly recommended approval of his application in view of
his qualifications and his interest in this committee.
CAC members preferred to postpone the vote on his application untill he attends a
CAC meeting, so that members can meet him before voting on his application.
The vote was postponed to January’s CAC meeting.
12. New business
No new business was proposed.
13. Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 7:35 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Frank Cai