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1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No. X - ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: October 16, 1990 SUBJECT: Clarification of Charge and Composition of the Cable TV Citizen Advisory Committee DEPARTMENT: County Manager ATTACHMENT(S): 1979- Charge of Cable TV Citizens Advisory Committee (Excerpt from 12 -3 -79 Minutes) 1986 - Charge of Cable TV Citizen Advisory Committee Cable TV Citizens Advisory Committee Members PURPOSE: BACKGROUND: PUBLIC HEARING YES: NO: X INFORMATION CONTACT: Manager's Office Ext. 2300 TELEPHONE NUMBER- Hillsborough - 732 -8181 Chapel Hill - 968-4501 Mebane - 227 --2031 Durham - 688 -7331 To clarify the composition and charge of the Cable TV Citizen Advisory Committee. The Cable TV Citizen Advisory Committee was established in 1979 to review Cable TV Franchise Proposals. In 1986 the committee was reactivated and reappointed to review Alert Cable TV Franchise Expansion Proposal. Currently the committee is inactive. The Manager's Office receives a moderate amount of cable TV calls inquiring about extension policies, service complaints, programming and other cable issues. Regular Cable TV Advisory Committee meetings with citizens, cable companies' general-managers and committee members engaging in dialogue would serve as a better method of responding to inquiries and complaints. Additionally, the committee could monitor Cable TV activities, request and review periodic reports from cable companies and.make recommendations to the Board on Cable TV issues. The current membership has a mixture of technical and lay members, however, the technical members' backgrounds are not specifically in the area of cable TV or communications. Most of the existing members would like to continue serving on the committee. Two of the seven members do not desire to serve. New members with technical backgrounds related to Cable TV would enhance the function of the committee.