PEG Capital Grant Exp RequestsTHE CITY OF
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MEMORANDUM
February 1, 2007
TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
SUBJECT: PEG Capital Grant Expenditure Requests
The Cable TV Tele-Programming Commission is recommending the approval of three
requests for funding from the Capital Grant for Access Equipment and Facilities.
concur with the recommendation and respectfully request Mayor and City Council
approval.
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Michael C. Van Milligen
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cc: Barry Lindahl, City Attorney
Cindy Steinhauser, Assistant City Manager
Craig Nowack, Cable TV Coordinator
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TO: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
FROM: Craig Nowack, Cable TV Coordinator ~~ fL)
DATE: January 23, 2007
RE: PEG Capital Grant Expenditure Requests
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this memorandum is to forward recommendations from the Cable TV Tele-
Programming Commission to approve three requests for funding from the Capital Grant for
Access Equipment and Facilities.
BACKGROUND
The Capital Grant for Access Equipment and Facilities created by the cable franchise
agreement that went into effect on June 5, 2005, began FY07 with a balance of $199,630.
Subsequent interest payments and quarterly adjustments have added $19,206 this fiscal year.
Thus far in FY07, the City Council has approved $54,735 in requests; currently there is a
balance to be awarded of $161,059.
Last night the Commission recommended three grants from this fund:
1) $42,755 for 30 terabyte server for the City of Dubuque on which to store the large media
files generated by the Cable TV Division's increased local video production.
2) $8,025 for new production equipment at Wahlert High School, including three tripods,
three camcorders, two DV recorders, and a 3-in-1 video recorder/player. This
equipment will replace aging, poor-quality VHS equipment and greatly enhance
Wahlert's productions on educational access Channel 17.
3) $5,000 to upgrade the server software at Mediacom's public access studio. The
upgrade will enable the playback server there to automatically encode files from a
number of native formats to the proprietary server format.
RECOMMENDED ACTION
I respectfully request that the Commission's recommendations for all three requests be
forwarded to the City Council to receive, file, and approve. Thank you.
CC: Randy Gehl, Public Information Officer
Cable TV Tele-Programming Commission