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TO: The Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council FROM: Rex Taylor. City Manager/Utilities Director DATE: August 7, #1997 SUBJECT: GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL // As you ars aware, Channel 13 on TCI is set aside for use by various governmental agencies. This channel has been used by Indian River County, the City of Vero Beach, the City of Sebastlan, the School District of Indian River County, and the Hospital Board to broadcast meetings. The School District also filled vacant slots on the channel on a day-to-day basis by broadcasting a variety of School District related programming. Indian River Community College has recently requested time on the governmental channel for Telecourses. Because of the amount of time and specific time slots requested by I.R.C.C., the traditional playback schedule for the Board of County Commission and City Council Meetings must be altered to accommodate this request. As you can see by the attached proposed programming schedule, the governmental access channel is becoming crowded. Due to this fact, we indicated to the County that we felt it might be better to wait and see 9 the I.R.C.C. programming could be played on a new edueatinnal channel. This suggestion stemmed from the recent request by the Indian River School District for a separate educational access channel to accommodate School District related program- ming. However, it is our undorstanding that the Indian River Cnimty Commission wishes to proceed with the request by I.R.C.C. so that Telecourses may be initiated for the fall semester. While my preference Is to delay I.R.C.C. programming until an oducational channel is established, Telecourses will probably need to wait for another year if time slots are not made available now. Although we have the right to object to the use of Channel 13 for this purpose, I would recommend agreeing to this request which will alter the re -play schedule of the City Council Meetings. A condition of this approval for I.R.C.C. should be that this is only a temporary arrangement and that their programming will be moved to an educational channel if, and when, one is available. Mr. Jim Chandler, County Administra- tor, concurred with this condition. Rex Taylor Date: July 24, 1997 To: Honorable Board of County Commissioners Through: H.T. "Sonny" Dean, Director Department of General Se es From: Terry L. Smith, Telecommunications Manager. Department of General Services Subject: Government Access Channel 73 MOK August 12, 1997