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Cable TV Advisory Commission Meeting
St. Louis Park, Minnesota
6:00pm May 13, 1996
at St. Louis Park Senior High School, Room 254
1. Call to order at 6:04pm by Chairman Bruce Browning
2. Roll call Also attending were: Commissioners Joel Brand, Tony Raiber and
Ken Huiras; Paragon Cable representative Kim Roden; Carol Johnson, Tom Ireland,
Carolyn Charles, Tom Marble and Theresa Glasgow from the School District; and
John McHugh and Reg Dunlap from the City.
3. Minutes Commissioner Huiras recommended the approval of the minutes
be carried forward to a future meeting, since there were only two
commissioners available tonight that had attended the April 22 meeting.
Motion passed 4-0.
4. Adoption of agenda (add public comment if necessary)
5. Old business
A. School District request for funding
The School District has requested $25,000 from the franchise fees received
by the City. Carol Johnson, Superintendent of St. Louis Park Schools,
called the request seed money for many activities related to the cable tv
studio and classroom instruction at the High School. She emphasized that
students learn the process of making tv shows, and that this instruction may
expand from the High School to the Junior High School and Primary Centers.
Carolyn Charles reinforced the value of tv classes in reaching students, and
distributed a hand out headed "Channel 32" that describes how tv
production skills can meet Minnesota graduation standards. She said the
Bush Foundation chose St. Louis Park for a technology study.
Tom Marble is responsible for video production for the District, and gave a
case study of a request for a program about the new Central health clinic. He
also emphasized that there is an educational goal for all of the students
video projects, and showed a clip of Police show parodies based on Romeo
and Juliet.
Tom Ireland described his role as looking at the role of the technologies and
future planning. He described the Visioning project at the High School that
is underway and expects to have a draft in June for the 3-5 year
technology plan. The final report will be done between September and
November, with the implementation stage by the beginning of 1997.
Excerpts from the question and answer session that followed the
District's presentation:
Commissioner Brand commented that the District's curriculum was
excellent, but that channel 32 was underused and a separate issue; that the
lack of programming and viable text information doesn't reflect well on
the community. Tom Marble said that having Teresa Glasgow on staff would
help in that area.
Commissioner Brand made several other suggestions for services, like listing
lunch menus, Cable in the Classroom and other free programming available. He
also asked, if the funding were not available, would the TV Department be
short this year? Carol Johnson said yes, the money was included in budget
projections.
There was discussion that the District has made impressive presentations in
the past that have not resulted in improved hours of programming on Channel
32, but that clarifying criteria could improve performance in this area.
After further discussion, a motion was made by Commissioner Brand,
seconded by Commissioner Raiber, to recommend that the City Council approve the
request by the School District for $25,000 from the franchise fees pending a
detail of 1995-96; and that any future funding requests be based on the
following criteria:
1) Detail on how the funds will be used to program Cable Channel 32 and produce
original programming
2) How the District's television production facilities will be made available to
the community
3) A review of the previous year's programming as reflected in monthly
program reports as provided by other locally funded channels.
The motion passed 4-0.
B. Other School District related items (reports, background, new
Commissioner, youth representative, etc.) Carol Johnson said in her
presentation that no appointment has been made for a regular or student
member yet, but that the process is continuing.
C. Meeting dates for rest of 1996: 7:00pm on July 22, September 16, November
18
6. New business
A. Paragon annual filings
7. Communications: Chairman Browning
8. Communications: Paragon Cable
9. Communications: City staff John McHugh told the Commission that
the Cable TV Department has now moved to the first floor of City Hall, and
invited Commissioners to drop by and see the new space.
10. Other
11. Adjournment Motion by Commissioner Huiras, seconded by Commissioner
Raiber to adjourn at 8:36pm. Passed 4-0.
Recording secretary
Reg Dunlap