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Town Hall Hours
Monday - Wednesday
8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Thursday
8:30 am - 6:30 pm
Friday
8:30 am - 12:00

24 Main Street
Gray, ME 04039
Tel (207) 657-3339
Fax (207) 657-2852
Gray Town Seal
 
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2007-01-08 Cable Television Committee Minutes
Cable Committee Meeting Minutes
January 8, 2007

The Policy Manual was reviewed with changes being made to some spelling errors, fees for VHS and DVD copies were recommended to be reduced and changes have been made to the political programs section of the Manual

Draft Budget was reviewed for Personnel and other operating expenses; and this was combined with a capital outlays proposal for a complete budget draft. Including costs of retirement and medical expenses for a fulltime person, a budget draft for total Public Access Television operations in Gray will be submitted to the Town Manager for $72901.40.

A recommendation will be made to the Town Council to authorize the establishment of a fulltime Station Manager to start in April 2007 and whose salary and benefits will be transferred from the current Penn Cable Account to the General Revenues.



PERSONNEL SERVICES
Temporary Help
$5,040.00
2 People each night for Town Council Workshop, Reg Meetings
School Board, Planning Board and ZBA meetings. 8 meetings
per month at $60.00 per meeting. Does not include other
public events or meeting such as Town Meeting, GBA Auction
political debates, etc
Part Time Help - Summer
$4,320.00
Summer help for 12 weeks to develop and assist with developing
local origination programming and conduct two two week summer
video camps for children ages 10-14 - goal is 40 campers
(12 weeks at $9.00 per hour)
Full Time Station Manager
$27,040.00
Medical for Station Manager
$15,359.12
ICMA Retirement for Sta. Mgr
$1,622.40
Utilities
Telephone 657-5898
$600.00
Telephone 657-5897 (Seacoast)
$600.00
Now carries the alarm calls for Stimson Hall to Seacoast
Equipment maintenance
$1,500.00
Repair technicians, bench charges and replace minor equipment
if necessary
General Operating Expenses
Travel reimbursement
$600.00
Training (Avg $60.00 ph)
$1,200.00
Allows for 20 hours of training on new equipment, software upgrades etc
Membership Dues & Subscripts.
$200.00
Cable Television Association of Maine and professional magazine scripts
Internet Service
$720.00
Maintains internet service to Stimson Hall for Cable Use
and various committees
General Supplies
$500.00
Printer inks, pens, pencils, staples
Video labels, DVD storage cases  etc.
Minor Equipment and Hand Tools
$800.00
Lens, deck and computer cleaning equipment, tools to repair
equipment on site
NOAA Weather Service
$300.00
GCTV broadcast National Weather Service and local weather
Media Storage and Batteries
VHS Video Tapes
$200.00
Used for distribution to Library of governmental meetings
Mini - DV Tapes
$600.00
All portable cameras use these tapes
Digital Video Discs
$318.00
Used to record all programs, meeting, productions, etc
Batteries for wireless mics
$250.00
CAPITAL OUTLAY
LaCie External Hard Drive
$600.00
Provides 1.28TB storage space for editing computers
Adobe Photoshop
$650.00
For use in digital editing and enhancing graphics with still
pictures and allow touch-up and repair of some images
Dell Precision 390 Computer
$3,600.00
Will add a second video editing workstation so two projects
can be worked on by two people at the same time
Avid Express Pro Editing software
$2,500.00
Jib arm/Camera stabilizer
$300.00
Will allow a person to walk with a camera and reduce the
ups and downs and other motion associated with movement
Portable light set and 1 Camera
Light
$650.00
Will allow GCTV to set up anywhere there is electricity and
have proper lighting outside of Stimson Hall and for certain
types of programs in Stimson Hall
Two Wireless lavaliere Mics
Sony UWPC1
$1,000.00
Will allow people to wear unwired microphones for interviews,
programs outside of Stimson where there is no electricity,
in the field interviews, etc.
10 Mini DVD Handicams
$4,500.00
Would be used for summer video camp, loan to other
town departments. Once every 4 year expenditure
9 inch color monitor
$300.00
For use with remote program recording kit
Total Expenditure
$72,901.40
Anticipated Revenue
Time Warner Franchise Fee
$65,000.00
Requires Town to notify Time Warner to increase franchise fee to 5%
from the current 4%
Video Camp
$1,200.00
40 video campers paying $30.00 each for 30 hour camp
Total Projected Revenue
$66,200.00