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4 arrange for another contractor to operate the equipment, or the County may use its own staff. • There are tradeoff's across capital investments and operating expenditures: after outfitting the two meeting sites with new equipment, the County should be able to lower its per-meeting operating costs. A $3,00o investment in equipment might reduce the per-meeting operating costs from $80o to $200, for example. • Mr. Murray's contributions to the October r3 meeting were especially appreciated, in that he offered a historical perspective to cable operations in the Town and County as well as useful information about what exists today and what could be done in the future, • Ms, Lazorlco has been charged by the Chapel Hill Town Council to improve utilization of the Government Access channel in 2005, The initiative proposed by the County and TWC would help her to achieve that goal, • Equipment and logistical details still need to be worked out, • The mediation parties report that the Town's position is that if a conflict in sharing channel t8 arises, then "Chapel Hill rules," The shared arrangement will be as good as the working relationship across the two,jurisdictions, • Two other entities broadcast board meetings live on channel t8: the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (fourth Thursday of each month) and the Chapel Hill Carrboro School Board (first Thursday of each month), No scheduling conflict with BOCC meetings (Tuesday evenings) is anticipated. • If Battle Courtroom in Hillsborough is appropriately outfitted for live broadcasting, then the Orange County School Board might be invited to use the space to broadcast School Board meetings, • Once BOCC and Chapel Hill are cooperating to broadcast BOCC meetings live to unincorporated and Chapel Hill subscribers, the Town of Carrboro or its residents might initiate changes to their use of channel r8 or to the Board of Aldermen's meeting schedule to allow Carrboro subscribers the same access to live BOCC broadcasts. Alternatively, Carrboro could tape the live broadcasts and show the tapes to its subscribers at a time of its choosing, Carrboro does not but could choose right now to broadcast the tape-delayed BOCC meetings that the People's Channel airs in Chapel Hill and unincorporated Orange County, In order to do this, Carrboro would stop bloclting the signal coming in from Chapel Hill into the Carrboro node. Carrboro also could acquire from The People's Channel a tape of the BOCC meetings and then play it from Town Hall at a time of its choosing.