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<br />and County staff on cable franchise compliance oversight as well as a broader scope of <br />electronic information technology issues. <br />3. Include the following in the charge you give to the transformed CAC: <br />® Advising the Board and County staff on cable franchise compliance oversight, <br />with these compliance oversight issues being of immediate concern: <br />o Monitoring of cable system extensions. <br />o Promoting PEG channel awazeness and content development. <br />o Conducting PEG access channel viewer surveys to assess and promote <br />awareness. <br />® Promoting access and enjoyment by all residents of unincorporated Orange <br />County to electronic information technology, including collaboration as needed <br />with the EDC's Infrastructure Work Group to ensure access by all County <br />residents to high speed Internet service. <br />® Identifying opportunities for assisting, improving coordination with, and avoiding <br />duplication across other County advisory committees, task forces, and work <br />groups addressing information technology issues. <br />® Keeping track of developments within the community and society at large, <br />including the information technology industry and the relevant regulatory <br />environment, which might impact access to information technology by residents <br />of unincorporated Orange County. <br />4. Direct County staff to provide on the County website easy to find information on how <br />residents of unincorporated Orange County should register complaints about their cable <br />television service, and an online complaint form that will support the generation, <br />collection and analysis of data relating to citizen complaints. <br />Discussion <br />Convening <br />The Committee adopted the proposed meeting plan, which had been distributed earlier <br />and contained the Desired Outcomes, Agenda and Ground Rules for the meeting. <br />Committee Chairman Michael Patrick opened the meeting by noting that Ms. Harvey had <br />suggested and he concurred with the focus of tonight's meeting. Over the fifteen years of <br />his membership on this Committee, he said, he has seen the Committee's activity <br />increase and decrease in intensity. As Chair, he said, I've never been one to hold <br />meetings unless there was meaningful business for the Committee to address. The way to <br />keep volunteers engaged is to have them doing something that is important and <br />rewarding. With the change in the regulatory environment with respect to cable <br />television, there is probably a number of things that can be usefully done to transmute <br />2 <br />