2014-03-20 (2)1 Beverly Cable Advisory Commission
2 Quarterly Meeting with BevCam March 20, 2014
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4 Members Present: Muriel Zaginailoff, Chair; Donald. Berman, Secretary;
5 Eric Overberg; Al Torsey; Alex Ushakoff
6 Alternate Members: Neil Overberg (absent)
7 Members Absent: None
8 Others Present: John Augeri (BevCam board member); Walt Kosmowski (BevCam E.D.)
9 Recorder: Donald Berman
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11 The meeting was called to order at 7:00 PM by Muriel.
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13 The meeting was turned over to Kosmowski for reports and discussion.
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15 Walt explains that sports and meeting coverage can now be covered live on location
16 with a new studio -in -a -box with volunteer and staff camera crew.
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18 Training hours have increased to 6 classes and they are experimenting with modular
19 topic presentations although one -on -one training is still offered also and there is a new
20 module on editing prepared by Kim Alyn.
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22 Walt presented charts of programming hours by category, and membership which
23 peaked at 259 and is now 253, and a 2013 P &L report.
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25 He also mentioned that a letter of credit exists to cover cash flow problems but has
26 never been used to date.
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28 A 2014 P &L budget report was presented with a 2014 capital equipment budget that
29 will include $50K additional at end of this year due to the end of the agreed upon
30 withholding of $150K for I -Net expansion per original agreement with the city.
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32 Muriel questioned the adequacy of coverage of video following audio in council which
33 leads to not seeing the speaker for long periods of time and Kosmowski responded
34 that volunteers are now also handling council coverage and may not be experienced
35 enough yet.
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37 Muriel requested a salary breakdown that is not provided in the financial report.
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39 Walt reported that new hire Matt Greenberg comes with access experience.
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41 Additional edit stations purchased and owned by BevCam are now placed in the school
42 media room to relieve pressure on the stations in the studio caused by student activity.
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44 No further equipment is scheduled for purchase this year except for an emergency.
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46 The BevCam annual report was distributed to all Commission members.
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48 At 7:45 Kosmowski concluded his report and departed with John Augeri.
49 The minutes of the February 20 meeting were accepted.
50 Muriel reported on the continuing effort to meet with Mayor Cahill on the I -Net
51 extension initiative. Discussion of options followed.
52 No committee reports were made.
53 Observation /Aircheck comments on several programs were discussed. Common
54 comments were on low and indistinct audio levels on many programs and lack of
55 speaker identification at Council meetings either by not seeing the speaker or not
56 having a lower third graphic.
57 The reports were collected by Muriel.
58 The next meeting is scheduled for April 17 at 7:00 PM.
59 The meeting was adjourned at 8:50 PM.