2013-11-19Beverly Cable Advisory Commission Meeting
DATE: November 21, 2013
LOCATION: Beverly Public Library, Beverly Ma. Fogg room.
TIME: 7:00 P.M.
COMMISSION MEMBERS:
Muriel Zaginailoff — Chair - person, George Johnson, Al Torsey, Eric Overberg, Don
Berman, Alex Ushakoff, Diane Costa, Alternate - Neil Overberg.
• COMMEMBERS PRESENT:
Muriel Zaginailoff — Chair - person, Eric Overberg, Don Berman, Alex Ushakoff, and Al
Torsey.
• PUBLIC PRESENT: None.
• A quorum being present the meeting was called to order at 7:12 P.M by chair - person Muriel
Zaginailoff. Don motioned to accept the Oct. 17, 2013 CAC minutes as amended. Muriel
seconded.
• CORRESPONDENCE: None.
• REPORT FROM THE CHAIR; Muriel Zaginailoff - Muriel all members must return signed
consent form re: C.O.B. (City of Beverly) harassment and conflict of interest policies.
• OLD BUSINESS: Refer to subcommittee reports.
• NEW BUSINESS: Refer to subcommittee reports.
• SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS:
• Compliance and oversight Don Berman, Al Torsey, Alex Ushakoff:
Don presented summary of items from BevCam's agreement with C.O.B. re: record keeping
and reporting; future needs assessment pp's 10, 12, 36, 37; Beverly council of aging; and use of
BPL's lecture hall. Discussion followed. Don suggested these items be addressed with BevCam at
the March joint meeting after appraising BevCam of them at the December joint meeting.
• CAC policies and procedures: Muriel Zaginailoff and Diane Costa:
George opposed linking commission members' anniversary dates to January first. Muriel
presented a draft of new members handbook. Discussion and amendments followed. Carried
forward to the December meeting.
• I -NET and Operation Alert: George Johnson and Eric Overberg:
On November 18, 2013 a meeting was held with Mayor Scanlon to address the Cable
Advisory Commission recommendation for the expansion of the Beverly Institutional Network (I-
Net). The group recommended that the City request and implement I -Net expansion to Lynch Park
carriage house as described in the Comcast agreement section 6.3(e). We recommended that the City
not request the expansion to Beverly Farms as described in the Comcast agreement section 6.3(d).
After discussion, the Issuing Authority decided to defer both expansion requests to Comcast and
consider alternative projects to provide Access programming capability at these locations. Comcast
funds for this effort will be held by the City for future Access project plans. The project planning
will be taken up by the Advisory Commission in 2014. It was agreed not to carry "operation alert"
as an open issue.
• OPEN ISSUES:
• Results of meetings with Mayor Scanlon re: letter to Comcast.
• I -Net build out. Ongoing.
• Long term strategic plan from BevCam.
• New member search.
The next CAC meeting will be held at the Beverly Public Library on Thursday, December 19, 2013,
at the Beverly Public Library in the Fogg room at 7:00 P.M. This is Q4 joint meeting with BevCam.
At 8:57P.M. a motion to adjourn was made by Don, and seconded by Eric.
Respectfully submitted: Eric Overberg, Secretary.