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North Andover Cable Television Advisory Committee
Meeting Minutes
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Date: February 9, 2016
Time: 5pm-6pm
Place: Police Department 2nd Fl. Conference Room,1475 Osgood Street , North Andover, MA
Attendees:
Committee Present: Christopher McClure (Non - voting)
Ronn Faigen (Chairman)
Brian Fraser (Non- Voting)
Chanida Oros
Paul F. Blinn
Robert Parker
Absent: Arthur Fundeklain
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Agenda
● Call to Order
● Acceptance of Minutes
● Discussion on Ascertainment Timeline and Process
● Old Business : Attorney Selection
● New Business : Review Online Survey
● Adjournment
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Meeting was called to order by Christopher McClure at 5:07 pm
Approval of Minutes
th 2016
Paul Blinn made a motion to approve minutes of January 19. CAC Chairman, Ronn Faigen second
the motion.
Discussion on Ascertainment Timeline and Process
● CAC Chairman, Ronn Faigen, updated the committee that the lawyer, Bill August, has been
retained. Chairman has already signed retaining letter which was forwarded to town for approval.
● Committee discussed the timeline for ascertainment hearing which is confirmed to be in 6
months. Ronn has proposed the formal meeting in Fall 2016.
● Christopher McClure discussed the need to conduct and organize initial hearing in April’ 2016 to
gather needs from local communities as well as the residents. The initial hearing has been agreed
to be tentatively on April 12th. CAC Chairman stated that he has some previous agreement and
he will not be available on April 12th. Christopher McClure asked other committee members to
confirm their availability on April 12th to ensure that we will have quorum for the hearing.
Robert Parker, Paul Blinn and Chanida Oros have confirmed to be present for initial hearing
scheduled on April 12th. Christopher McClure also suggested that hearing invitation will be sent
out via email.
● Ronn Faigen has suggested to move the timing for the hearing to be at 7pm instead of 6pm to
ensure that attendants will have plenty to time to commute to attend the hearing. All in favor.
● CAC Chairman asked Brian Fraser to present costs/budget needed for the future which will help
CAC Committee to understand budget flexibility.CAC Chairman has asked Committee to include
budget process and budget discussion into the future meeting agenda.
Old Business Attorney Selection
● CAC Chairman asked Christopher McClure to follow up with the town manager on the budget
approval for retaining lawyer. Christopher sent Town Manager an email to follow up and he also
provided clarifications on financial implications on budget for the town for peg fee etc.due to
some concerns about higher lawyer fee presented in the proposal.
New Business : Review Online Survey
● Committee members discussed questions in the draft of the proposed survey. Few changes were
discussed. Committee suggested that we should also include additional questions on billing,
technology and local cable programming needs and satisfaction. Due to limited timing for the
meeting, Christopher McClure suggested that all committee members to review the questions
offline and share with the team members in the future.
● Robert Parker asked Christopher McClure to share plan how the survey will be conducted.
Christopher shared that there is a requirement to make it public therefore online survey will be a
mean to conduct the survey while town website and water bill etc will be venue to make
announcement on online survey.
Next Steps
● All members to recruit or recommend new committee member to replace Arthur Fundeklain who
will leave the post as CAC member, per CAC Chairman’s request.
● Brian Fraser to share with the committee his budget needs ( staffing needs as well as non-
operation needs ) for cable studio.
● Christopher McClure to share with BOS and town on the tentative date for initial hearing. He will
also follow up with town manager on the approval of lawyer budget.
Adjournment
Meeting was unanimously adjourned at 6:00 pm. Respectfully submitted by Chanida Oros, Committee
Member.
Upcoming Meeting Date
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February 16, 2016,5pm-6pm, Police Department 1st Floor Conference Room, 1475 Osgood St, North
Andover, MA 01845