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18ti ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action A enc a Item No. ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: JANUARY 5, 1987 SUBJECT: CABLECASTING BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS MEETINGS DEPARTMENT: COUNTY MANAGER PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: MANAGER'S OFFICE,X501 CORRESPONDENCE TELEPHONE NUMBER: Hillsborough - 732-8181 Chapel Hill - 968-4501 Mebane - 227-2031 Durham - 688-7331 PURPOSE: To consider allocating matching funds for cablecasting of Board of Commissioners meetings. NEED: The Village Companies has offered up to $25, 000 as a matching grant to help the County, Town of Chapel Hill, Town of Carrboro, and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools buy and share cameras and equipment for cablecasting. The Town of Carrboro and City School Board do not desire to participate. The Town of Chapel Hill accepted the offer on June 9, 1986. Recently received correspondence from the Village Companies earmarked October 15, 1986 as the deadline for formal acceptance of the grant and January 15, 1987 as the final date for the deposit of matching funds into an escrow account. All grant funds must be expended by July 1, 1987. On October 6, 1986 the Board decided to request the Village Companies to extend the January 15, 1987 deadline for depositing matching to a date after July 1, 1987. The Village Companies responded by indicating the deadline will not be modified. IMPACT: Matching grant funds were not allocated in the 1986-87 Budget for cablecasting. It has been conservatively estimated that from $62,500 to $82,500 would be required of which only $12,500 would result from the Village Companies grant. RECOMMENDATION(S) : 1. Decline the Village Companies ' grant offer since matching funds are not yet available, and 2 . Decide on when to start cablecasting once permanent meet- ing rooms are selected for Hillsborough and Chapel Hill and once funding is available for the equipment purchase and operating cost.