Norma is a Town Meeting Member who has been videoing the Danforth Farm Planning Board Hearings. This is very hard work to make the tapes and to coordinate with both of the TV stations. The problem is that she has run into some kind of administrative snafu where only material that is (ostensibly) filmed by a government employee can be aired on government access TV. This, despite that what she has video'd are Planning Board Hearings where literally hundreds of people have shown up. It's very clear that with all the people who do show up (I expect over 200 at the next meeting on Tues Aug 20 8:30), that there are a significant number of people who can't make it who would very much like to see the proceedings. I'm forwarding this to frambors as well as the danforthfarms list, because fewer people in frambors would attend the Danforth Farm hearing but would probably want to see it on TV. Hey, what else is there to watch on TV anyways? :-)
The appropriate numbers and email addresses to contact are as follows: Office Telephone email -------------------------------- Planning Board 620-4837 Jay Grande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Administrator Town Manager 620-4811 George King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Selectmen 620-4811 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:47:31 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cable coverage for planning board meetings For forwarding to all the relevant email lists: Government Access programming, which brings you the Selectmen's meetings and Town Meeting, is currently limited to just those two types of meetings for live and re-broadcast coverage. To enable the public to keep up with the Danforth Farm public hearings, I have been taping those as public access productions (meaning I am the producer, not the town or either cable company). Since Government Access policy does not allow them to accept public access tapes (made by a volunteer), we have to provide the tapes to both AT&T and RCN separately. And we are able to give copies to the other towns that want to broadcast the hearings. AT&T adds them to the channel 17/9 schedule which is prepared two weeks at a time and is available online and on their bulletin board. RCN is attempting to run them on channel 3, with a schedule posted for one week at a time on channel 3. The problem here is that they are not yet able to provide any other access to the schedule or to any longer range schedule. This week the schedule posted on channel 3 was for last week's programs. In other words, they don't quite have a workable system up and running. Personally, I would like to see a more official system to insure proper coverage of such important meetings, particularly including live coverage of the Planning Board. I intend to continue taping Danforth Farm hearings as long as that is the only means of making them available to the public. With that as background, here's what you can do. If individuals wish to request of (1) the Planning Board AND (2) the Town Manager AND (3) the Selectmen that the Planning Board hearings/meetings be broadcast live and/or as part of Government Access programming (which appear on both cable providers), they certainly should make their wishes known. This might contribute to future Framingham cable TV planning. Norma Shulman [ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe Archives available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ For help send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web interface at http://frambors.syslang.net]
