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North Andover Cable Television Advisory Committee
Meeting Minutes
Date: May 22nd. , 2017
Time: 5pm-6pm
Place: Town Hall, Conference Room#2, 120 Main St. North Andover, MA
Attendees:
Committee Present: Christopher McClure (Non- voting)
Brian Fraser (Non- Voting)
Ronn Faigen(Chairman)
Chanida Oros
Paul F. Blinn
Shane Woodruff
Other Attendee: Michael Grant
Attorney Bill Solomon
Committee Absent: Robert Parker
AAgendcr
• Call to Order
• Acceptance of Minutes
• Review contract language and terms
• Old Business : Review Draft Contract Language, ascertainment and timeline
• New Business: Prepare for Meeting with Verizon on June 5th, 2017
• Adjournment
Meeting was called to order by Ron Faigen at 5:04pm
Approval of Minutes
Paul Blinn made a motion to approve minutes of the previous meeting.
Review contract language and terms
• Attorney Bill Solomon provided update that Verizon has reached the agreement on license
renewal with both Burlington and Ipswich. Attorney Bill Solomon also shared his recent
experience working with other communities to renew VZW license. Then Attorney Bill Solomon
started to share the current draft of the proposal for the committee to review.
• The agenda item was a general discussion between the committee members and the Special
Counsel Bill Solomon about various aspects of the current draft of proposal. Attorney Bill
Solomon and the committee members discussed the strategies and plans to conduct the upcoming
first meeting with VZW representative. According to Bill Solomon, Verizon is concerned with the
cable business generally and are only interested in a shorter term contract -- not ten years like the
first contract signed. The committee members then had a general conversation about cable
competition in the community and the length of the term.
• Attorney Bill Solomon also advised that the new license will look like the existing license with
relatively small changes in wording which he went through some of the suggested changes with
the committee members. The committee then talked in general about how the session would go.
New Business:Prepare for Meeting with Verizon on June 5th, 2017
• Christopher McClure confirmed with the committee members and Attorney Bill Solomon about
the planned timeline with the meeting scheduled with VZW on June 5th.
• Christopher McClure also provided details of expectations for the upcoming meeting.
• Christopher McClure also suggested that if there is any questions for VZW, the committee
members should forward the questions to Christopher McClure to ensure that we have the list of
questions organized. And Attorney Bill Solomon will be our one voice for all questions/concerns.
Next Steps
• Attorney Bill Solomon to revise the current draft and send it to the committee by Wednesday May
24th. 2017
• All committee members to send questions/concerns for VZW discussion to Christopher McClure
before June 5th.
Adjournment
Meeting was unanimously adjourned at 6;15 pm. Respectfully submitted by Chanida Oros, Committee
Member.
Upcoming Meeting Date
June 5th, 2017