And this is very interesting. So, you should be able to hear us now, Rachel. Okay. >> Yes. So, Briana is not able to make it. I wasn't sure whether she was going to make it online. She's got a cold
apparently. So, um, we do have three voting members though. So, we do have a quorum. Um, so I don't know if one of you wants to serve as chair.
um or I'm I'm a non- voting member so I I actually don't know whether I can chair a meeting or not as a non- voting member. >> I'm happy to move us through the agenda. I'm just needing to pull up the agenda first.
>> And I know Rachel, you said you have a hard stop too, right? >> Yes. >> So, and so we'll at that point we won't have a quorum. So, we'll have to we'll have to end the meeting at two, assuming nobody else shows up. >> Um,
all right. Are we ready to >> Yeah, >> I'm I'm happy to to pick that up for us. >> Okay, I'll hit record just so we can get started. Okay, we're recording. >> All right. Um, Brifiger Smith, I'm uh standing in
as chair on Tuesday, May 26th at and calling us to order at 10:07 p.m. for the cable advisory committee for the town of Ammerst. And we need to take roll call out loud because we're not all in the same room.
Um, can folks share your name and say present? >> Member. >> This is Fred Civian, member. This is Peter Bareric, member. >> And Rachel Figer Smith, member. Great.
All right. I do. Is there any public comment? Sean, can you help with that? >> We have nobody here from the public and uh in person. I will just double check. Um, we have nobody from the public remote.
>> Okay. Um, hold on. Where did it go on my screen? Okay. Um, assertainment process. Next steps. I would say Briana knows more than me here, but I'm going to do my best. The
next public hearing is on Wednesday, June 10th at 6:30. Sean, do you know if that's um if that's the advertising for that is moving along as needed? >> I believe it is. I'm actually looking online now just to see if I can see it
posted on the Gazette or not. So, I will report back shortly. >> Yeah. Um and do we have Frank, do you do you have information on the survey that you wanted to share with anybody? So, I have nothing on the survey, but I
think that others do. >> Yeah, I'm happy to um share a little bit. Um based on our last meeting, um we talked about the community survey and decided >> to add a question about future needs of
the system, including interest in a town system. And we broadened some other questions. So, I added the um consumer services suggestions that came from uh Peter and also devised a question using
a four-point scale instead of a 10-point scale um to ask for uh people's sense about their interest in a townowned um system. Sent that information to Bana um last week. The next steps were to
have she was going to take those questions and put them in using Microsoft forms the survey software that we will use put them into a form of a survey and be able to give that to the members so we'd be able to see what the survey would look like. What I suggested
to her was that we can do that and then have members take the survey sort of as a trial run. It's a way of making sure that software is working as intended and also gives us the experience of actually answering the questions which at least
for me is is better than just looking at them if I have physically have to uh figure out what they uh how they really work. Um that's better for me. Um so that would be the next steps. Um I haven't Brienne and I haven't not talked
about when those next steps would occur, but my suggestion to her was to lay it out in Microsoft forms and then what I uh will suggest to her is she sends out um electronic copies of the survey that we can all take that will give us
information about again whether the Microsoft forms is performing as we assumed it would do and then also give us a chance to have feedback for our next meeting about any changes that need to be made to any of the questions. So, uh, that's that's what's happening
next, I think. >> Great. Is there anything you need from any of us? >> No, I don't think so. Your willingness to take a short survey about cable needs uh cable system in Ammerst would be greatly appreciated.
>> That that sounds the plan you've described makes total sense to me. uh you know including the the trial run uh which I would be you know it'd be good for all of us to see and we'll probably end up with a better survey as a result.
But did you and Brianna talk at all about how the survey would be circulating? >> At the last meeting we talked uh we got some suggestions from communications manager Griffin about um ways to be able to publicize the survey. So, that's
still in the works from what I understand. I think we need to do some more followup with town uh officials to make sure that the information is getting out about the survey. We talked about having using using posters, possibly QR codes, things like that, and
also promoting the existence of the survey on uh the town's usual methods of providing information to town residents. So is the assumption that you would have
to proactively find the survey and log into it in order to to take the survey rather than receiving it as a piece of mail or as a piece of email. >> Yeah, we had I I don't know if there's a system the town has for automatically
sending emails out to town residents. what in lie of any um direct marketing to residents who have Comcast, we'd have to rely upon them um taking the step of
um downloading, if you will, the survey so they can take it on their phones or take it on their desktops. We also discussed asking Comcast to send it out to all their subscribers. My hope is that Comcast will do that. that can
be done anonymously. Uh they don't g would not give us the email list but they would using their own e email list send to all subscribers a link to the survey. That would be ideal. >> We also talked about setting a popup on
the screen on on the Ammerst town website screen. So, anybody who's visiting the town website for any reason will get um directed to the survey and then having some flyers around town with QR codes up. >> Rachel, I apologize, but I I don't hear
well and I couldn't understand what you just said. >> Let me turn Rachel's volume up for you. Hold on. >> Sorry, Shock. Sorry, everybody. >> Yeah, if you keep raising your volume a bit. >> Is that better, Peter? Great. Okay. Um,
I just was saying we also spoke about having the website set up with a popup. So, anytime someone goes to the town website for anything, it'll automatically direct them to the survey, which I I think will be helpful for the folks we're looking for. Great. Okay.
Um, >> just one more thing. I'll go ahead and follow up with Briana um and make sure that those next steps are implemented as I talked about. >> Great. Um and I know Sam Griffith is um happy
to support. So if you know please include her as this helpful. Um all right, Ammeris Media Business Plan next steps. Um, I don't have anything to report just yet
except that I'm making some progress. Um, we're final Ammerst Media is currently finalizing our our fiscal year is July to June. So, we're f we're finalizing our our budget for this coming July. Um, and I'm
setting that up as a three-year budget, which will lend itself nicely to creating a 10-year budget plan. Um, I had a couple of my staff on vacation. So, they are back and we are now working over the next week or between now and
our next meeting on a fuller a full list of supplies that we expect to need over the next 10 years. Um, so we're moving on on pace, I think, with where we need to be. I don't have so much specific to share just yet, but I will by our next meeting.
>> Great. Thank you. That's good to know. Yeah. Anybody have questions? Great. I don't know um for 3D if Briana had anything. This is going to be a very quick meeting because I don't know all the information, but I don't know if Brianna had anything more to share in
terms of other updates on ascertainment. Does anybody else know more than me? >> I have nothing nothing else I know of. >> Okay. Is there you know anything about Do you know anything about the kind of
publicity the town is going to put out about the the June 10th meeting? >> I know the legal notice needs to be posted and I don't see that in the gazette. So I will ask about that. Um as
far as notice for that be the same as the survey. We can put something on the website. Um, I would imagine we'd be able to just put something along the top, the alert bar that shows up. So, right now, if you go on there, you'll see a water use restriction. Um, that
that will capture everybody who comes on the website, the notice will show up there. The other thing is we do have as we post things to the calendar and certain activities um list, it will go out to anybody who's signed up who wants
information on that. So there's the most common one is boards and committees. Um and so um anybody who's signed up for alerts through that I don't know if anybody here has so they experienced it but
you'll get an email um about when a border committee is going to meet um or some something changes it. If anybody signed up for it, they would have seen, you know, yesterday that the Memorial Day parade was move was the parade was cancelled and this the um ceremony was
moved in indoors. So that I think we have several hundred people signed up for that. So it does go out to several hundred people. Um but so that the June 10th meeting would would go out to that
group of people. So that that's one way we could publicize it. >> Would it be worth asking Comcast to send out a notice? >> Yeah, I think we could ask. Um I don't
know whether we would get a um I don't know whether they would do it or not. Um but we can we could certainly ask. Um >> they they certainly won't do it if we don't ask. >> Yeah. So, no, I can ask I'll ask Paul on that one just because I think it would
it would come from him. So, >> okay, great. >> One one question if I may. Uh >> would it be worth trying to promote an article in the Gazette uh or in the
Amoris Current or in the Amoris Indie uh to as a way of reaching more people just to announce the the meeting? >> Yeah. Yeah. So, I will check with Sam. I believe she has a list of press conf contacts that if she sends out a press
release on anything, it goes um to those different organizations, I believe. So, I I will ask her on that. >> I apologize for asking questions which are based in ignorance and >> no absolutely ask because >> routine ways of doing all this that I don't know about.
>> Yeah. We also I I just know from the Ammer on the Amoris Indie end they are always happy for folks to write in opads or reach out. Um typically that goes through the chair.
So maybe I'll include that as a followup to Briana. But um Art should be Art is the well Art and his wife whose name I'm not remembering right now. Um, but they are typically very happy to do anything that helps
promote anything resembling media access. So, Sean, maybe you can follow up with Sam and I'll also >> follow up with um Briana about reaching out to the indie. >> Yeah. And Rachel, if you all need a draft article, I'd be happy to help with
that. >> Okay. Great, great, great. Um, all right. I'm going to move us right down then our next upcoming well so June 10th at
6:30 the next upcoming dates for us are June 10th at 6:30 and then June 12th is our next regular meeting at 11:30. Is that an obstacle for anybody? >> Still looks good. >> All right.
Um, I'm going to wait till Briana's here to talk about the next date after that because we're a small enough committee that I think that's for the best. If that's okay. >> What' you say?
>> Smart. >> Um, and then I think the last thing on here is just approving minutes. Does anyone have any >> had sent out um copies of the minutes for the May 14th public hearing which
were proformed on the May 15th regular meeting. Um I was suggested that we concentrate on item 3C and 3D particularly Rachel 3D to make sure I've captured accurately our discussion about the community survey and the Amoris
media plan. Um, I notice I have some extra letters at the end of the bolded um, number four. So, I'd want to delete those. The >> uh, whatever QDQW stands for.
>> But if people could take a minute and read read 3C and read 3D and then we should probably have a motion to adopt the minutes for the 14th and the 15th. Um, the Yeah, I read. It's amazing what your brain just filters out when it doesn't make sense to you. I didn't even
notice those extra letters. Um, I don't have anything to discuss. This looks good to me. Peter, do you have anything to talk through? >> Peter, Rachel was asking if you had any comments. >> I'm sorry. I'm continuing to have my uh
hearing issues in understanding everything you're saying, Rachel. No, I don't. The minutes seem to me to be an accurate reflection of what happened, which is >> great. Ask for >> Okay. Well, then I motion to approve the minutes that we have.
>> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> I Great. Okay. And that would be those are the minutes of the 15th. We should also adopt the minutes of May 14th which reflect the
public hearing. The only um there's only one in B I described um Steven Fitz Gibbons of Comcast and his participation. Other than that it's mostly proforma. So if people could
take a moment to read 2B for May 14th that'd be helpful. I noticed no extraneous letters in this one. >> That looks good to me as well. Um, I'll make a motion to approve. >> Second.
>> All in favor? >> I >> I >> I Okay. Are there any topics that have not that are not anticipated that we need to discuss? Nothing from me.
>> Nothing for me. Nothing else. >> Okay. Well, then I will keep this short and sweet and motion to ajourn. >> Second. >> Second. >> That's the best part of the job. All in favor?
>> I >> I >> All right. I will see we will see each other again in a couple weeks. Everybody have a great day. >> Thank you. Thank you, acting chair. >> Thank you. Take care.