[The Cable Television Advisory Board (CTAB) held its September meeting on September 11, 2026, without a quorum present. The board reviewed operational reports, discussed a potential franchise fee increase, and received updates on equipment, community events, and programming. No votes were taken due to the lack of a quorum; a special meeting was requested for budget discussions.]
All right. Welcome everyone to the uh September meeting of the Cable Television Advisory Board. We'll uh begin with a roll call, although we don't believe that we have quorum at the moment. Steve Buxton is not here. Lauren Byers. Yeah. Andrew Sinoda is here. Tim Cummings is not here. Patrick Hannon is not here. Jennifer McCormick is not here. Nick Meiservich. Here. Cole Morgan. Here. Amber Morgan is not here. Emily Vassar is not here, but Oscar Viakis. Velassis. All right. Here. Okay. Thank you. All right. So again, we don't have a quorum, but we will uh do reports. Uh Mr. Painter. Alrighty. Our current balance of the operating account 2505 is 223,195.04 cents. Our expenses for August of 2026, and this includes salaries and facility operations, totaled 36,222. Excuse me. We had 796 cable casts in total between June and August. And of this, 143 were live events, and this split down to public six, I'm sorry, public 25, education 40 and government 1651, and our uh high definition channel 27. We had 5291 playbacks, and of this the public had 2,677. Uh education 22 had 713, and government 16 had 813, and our HD channel or high definition channel had uh 1,089. Uh we reported in June that the media controller for the uh in-room monitors and computers in the City Hall Auditorium was at its end of life and had to be replaced. On advice from the manufacturer Xtron, uh Key Code, our our vendor, uh, sent the dysfunctional controller to them, and they are going to be able to repair it for almost one quarter the price uh for us replacing the system. Uh so we we are awaiting delivery of of the repair devices and key code will uh then reinstall the update uh and update the system. Uh again, we we didn't realize in June that Pete would be on vacation this week of September, so that's why we're having it here in the chamber, and then we'll uh we'll kind of eye December for for us to have it in the studio. Uh we've also we've not purchased our new uh field cameras as of yet, and we continue to research our best options both technically and budget wise. Um Dan, do you have any I do uh Dan Young Nashua Community Media? Um we have actually looked at three different um well, several, but we've looked really close at three different uh cameras, a Canon, a Panasonic, and a Sony, and we were really happy with the Panasonic until we found out that um one feature doesn't work in tandem with recording things. So uh it looks currently like we're going to go with the Sony. I don't know the model number off the top of my head, but I know that Pete was working on getting an accurate quotes uh prior or earlier this week, but we weren't able to get them in time. Okay. Uh the Alliance for Community Media uh Northeast Region is coming to Nashua this November. Uh the annual conference and trade show will be held at the Sheritan Terra uh November 16th to 18th. And although the conference pricing isn't available at this time, we we have some kind of a an idea. I think it's $300 for the entire thing uh for the for the 16th through the 18th. Um we hope to see some of the the more national community media and interested CTAB members to attend. Uh there'll be single-day and full day conference pricing. Uh the event also includes the free RSVP admission to uh a Alliance for Commun Community Media Northeast.