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CATV &Communications Advisory Committee meeting minutes 3/21/98
Meeting called to order 5:55 PM
Present:Jane Gharibian (Clt),Julie Tressel,David Carver,Raoul Marques, David Becker Robert
Warshawer, David Kantor,Ted Mairso,&David Buczkowski.
Minutes of 4/16/98 meeting were approved as written
Mairson has complaints fur June,Warshawer volunteered to be secy for meeting.
Ad hoc Antenna Regulation committee met and started work. The regulations are moving forward.
Info: Application for an antenna inside the tower at the Fallen church was returned to NEXTEI., it
was incomplete
Cable system ownership discussion was tabled.
Negotiation - Still some unanswered financial andtechnical questions, expect to move to public
hearing reconunendationin next 30 days. A discussion about wide- band internet access ensued.
Ray Marques presented a plan for a public access corporation (attached). There was a discussion
mostly about space available in town buildings (an assumption of the plan). It was generally felt that
we are not ready to go forward with such a corporation. D. Kantor assured us that this does not
influence on the RCN Negotiation. Everyone agreed that it is a good idea but the question arose "Is
the town ready for it?" Comment:The number of people watching public access should not! be the
metric used for evaluation ("If you build it they will come", Field of Dreams).Tabled for now
There was a discussion about upcoming legislation(copy attached) regarding town control of zoning
for towers and antennas. We are asked to recommend to the selectmen that they support legislation
proposed by Representative Pa vane.The committee voted to "Endorse any language which
overturns the DTE determination that cellular telephone providers arc a utility and, therefore not
subject to local zoning regulations Additionally "To oppose the supplementary budget, which
supports that DTE determination'
Report from Cablevision is attached. Note: the head tech now has his own monitoring system
allowing better isolation of problems on the Met.
Technology report was tabled for the next meeting.
Next meeting: Thurs,8 June,5:45PM
Adjourned at 730
Respectfully submitted
R.D.Warshawer