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4 <br />arrange for another contractor to operate the equipment, or the County may <br />use its own staff. <br />• There are tradeoffs across capital investments and operating expenditures: <br />after outfitting the two meeting sites with new equipment, the County should <br />be able to lower its per-meeting operating costs. A $3,00o investment in <br />equipment might reduce the per-meeting operating costs from $80o to $200, <br />for example. <br />• Mr. Murray's contributions to the October 13 meeting were especially <br />appreciated, in that he offered a historical perspective to cable operations in <br />the Town and County as well as useful information about what exists today <br />and what could be done in the future, <br />• Ms. Lazorko has been charged by the Chapel Hill Town Council to improve <br />utilization of the Government Access channel in 2005, The initiative <br />proposed by the County and TWC would help her to achieve that goal. <br />• Equipment and logistical details still need to be worked out. <br />• The mediation parties report that the Town's position is that if a conflict in <br />sharing channel 18 arises, then "Chapel Hill rules." The shared arrangement <br />will be as good as the working relationship across the two jurisdictions. <br />• Two other entities broadcast board meetings live on channel i8: the Orange <br />Water and Sewer Authority (fourth Thursday of each month) and the Chapel <br />Hill Carrboro School Board (first Thursday of each month), No scheduling <br />conflict with BOCC meetings (Tuesday evenings) is anticipated, <br />• If Battle Courtroom in Hillsborough is appropriately outfitted for live <br />broadcasting, then the Orange County School Board might be invited to use <br />the space to broadcast School Board meetings. <br />• Once BOCC and Chapel Hill are cooperating to broadcast BOCC meetings live <br />to unincorporated and Chapel Hill subscribers, the Town of Carrboro or its <br />residents might initiate changes to their use of channel r8 or to the Board of <br />Aldermen's meeting schedule to allow Carrboro subscribers the same access <br />to live BOCC broadcasts. Alternatively, Carrboro could tape the live <br />broadcasts and show the tapes to its subscribers at a time of its choosing. <br />Carrboro does not but could choose right now to broadcast the tape-delayed <br />BOCC meetings that the People's Channel airs in Chapel Hill and <br />unincorporated Orange County. In order to do this, Carrboro would stop <br />blocking the signal coming in from Chapel Hill into the Carrboro node, <br />Carrboro also could acquire from The People's Channel a tape of the BOCC <br />meetings and then play it from Town Hall at a time of its choosing, <br />