1994-10-17Cable Television Advisory Commission
City of Beverly, Maesaehuoetts
Members:
Dan Murphy - Chairman
AI To~sey- Ass~. Chairman
Amy 3[emasko
Arthur Crandall
Susan Alvey
John Hurley
Robert Tauzella
Thomas O~onnor
FAizabeth Mc'Glymi
Cable Television Advisory CommiUion
City of Beverly. Massachusen~
Meeting of 0cmber 17, I994 -Beverly Public Lbrary
Present - O'Connor, Murphy,. T~n-~us, Torsey, Alviy; From
Continental - Jill Stark, Jane Lyreart
Then being a quorum present, the meeting convened ai 7:13
p.m.
Highlights:
· Communications · No citizens airended.
· Licensee Complaint Form 50 0A, Quarterly Complain.t Form
500B, Significant Service InL--rraption Form 500C and Continental
Technical Service report for the Third Quarter 94 were distributed
and reviewed. It was noted thai no significant problems or in~er-
raptions in service occurred during the reporting period.'
· For the TechnoloSy Subcommitfee, Murphy reported thai the so-
called Hollings Bffi on reform of the telecornmunicatio.ns indnswy
had been effectively killed in the U.S. Senate. The legislalion would
have mandated a widespread deregulalion of the industry. Rep.
Edward J. Markey, chairman of the House. Sub~:ommittee on
Telecommunicadons, expressed dismay at the ouwome and was not
op~mi-~tic about new legislation in the next congressional session.
· In the absence of Amy Siemasko of the Education Subcommittee,
Murphy reported that Mrs. Siemasko had met. with a group of
citizens interested in the mission of the School Public Facilities
Commi~.e. Thai group seeks to iclentixey school facih'ty needs and
w ii/form the Beverly public about their status. AI the meeting,
among others, were Jill Stark, Siemasko, School CommiRee mere-
ben' Linda Goodenough and. Lawrence Chas~ superintendent of
schools. As a result, 1. Continental will nm a special 6-week training
session for volunteers, 2,- Supr. Chase will aplP, sr on "City Watch"
on November 28 to talk about school facilities, ~. Siemasko will
research the possibility d producing a videg. on school facffities..--
' .......' ' Susan' Alvey'dis~b~~ ~u~o~t0 be ~i~'~'
teachers. The goal is to survey the use of "Cable in the Classroom,, .
pwvided by the cable indusw/;, the degree of training using televi-
sion, suggestions regarding use of television for training, and
relaied information. Alvey sugger, td the questionnaire be managed
through the various grade school principals.
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· O'Connor suggested seeking the support of Lawrence Drouin, supervisor of
Creative Arts in the school s~zm.
· Torsey suggested the high school students might be trained to produce videos for
use in the lower grades.
· The quesu'onnaire will be reviewed and finalized through the education subcom-
mittee.
· It was suggested tha~ the so-called I-Net, a cable link among all the grade ,,Whools,
might be checked for status, and possibly utill Ted in the future for city wide conferences and
teacher training.
· Jane Lyman described two videos ss useful to pwmote Media Literacy in the
schools. The commitwe will review and evaluate their poss~le use a~ the next meeting. She
said the cable in Beverly passes 15,322 homes with 1 I, 618 of them receiving the service for
a percentage of 75.8.
The next meeting will be Tuesday, November 15, I994 at the Beverly Public Library.
The meeting adjourned at 8:3? p.m.
For the COmmillee