City of Portsmouth, New Hampshire Cable and Broadband Internet Commission, 17 Aug 2022

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Cable Television and Communications Commission 8.17.2022

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All right, um as as everybody I guess we started, we should say who's. President of the reporting.

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uh For the president, uh who is president, I am rob capone, uh jason ash, pickering and suzanne woodland.

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Okay, uh just uh going down the uh we do have suzanna mentioned that she's gonna be at her body.

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So we'll definitely try removing not that we've never had we really don't, but this is a heads up.

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All right, not a problem. Okay, uh has everybody had a chance to.

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Look at previous minutes. Okay, so um everybody have any problems with them.

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Are all seconds okay,.

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Second item: um as far as the approach changes to the envision yep, so I can explain um so.

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After we last met, um I checked in with the governance committee to see when they might.

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Actually get an opportunity to get more public input on this, and it sounded like it was going.

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To be a little while to get a lot on their agenda and their next meeting is the end of august.

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So since I had more time, I took another close look at this. I took the some of the comments that the.

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Committee had made at the last meeting, tried my best to incorporate those. And while I was looking.

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At it again and fresh, I thought you know we should probably clean up some of this other language here.

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Because I was in the document, so that's why you will see in blue in this change, is some of the.

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Edits that the committee had recommended in terms of expanding um that defining, I guess you know.

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What is broadband and internet, um and then the purple is the additional language that I thought.

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Oh, you know we should probably clean this up while we're here. So that's why you'll see I struck out.

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Some of the language related to a particular subcommittee that we don't use.

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And yeah added a little additional language about negotiation with agreements.

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So you want to kind of take your time and and read through everything um and see if this captures.

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Both what you had intended at the last meeting, as well as whether these additional edits make sense.

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Then we'll know that that's what I should try and bring forward to the governance committee.

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Essentially, the major change I made was to take out the reference to that standing.

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Subcommittee and just leave you with the broad authority to create any subconscious.

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That was my big contribution.

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But did I capture sort of the changes that you all were looking for.

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From the last meeting, which is, I thought we were talking, I added like the word.

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Physical transport methods- because I know that's what we had talked about for the capture better.

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um I'm not fixed on this, so if you've got better language, I'm.

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I don't know when people be confused wire versus fiber, because fiber is actually glass.

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So physical, it may.

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I feel like I'm being like, I have a tendency to.

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Ocd, so I'm okay to leave it. I don't know what you guys so you're thinking. Why don't you specify.

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That coaxial private well, no, I'm thinking like be more broad and say you know physical cabling or.

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Over the wire, because that way, then, because you've got a cup you've got you know wire.

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Could mean coax, but you mostly at this point anything's being installed now- is fiber optic.

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Which is really not wired right, so physical, cabling or over-the-air delivery, which covers.

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Coaxing fiber, as well as what we've talked about expanding for that cellular piece as well.

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Not to mention here like with yes with okay yeah physical paper.

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All right good, I will make that change um any other changes. Okay, all right, so I will then.

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Finalize this and I will send it to the governance committee, and I will let you know whether.

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They can fit it on their august agenda or whether it moves to their september. So.

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Do we need that you can have a motion to.

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uh To discuss membership opportunity sure um we can actually do that under others.

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Well, all right, uh so we're all good come on four all right, sell coverage so.

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I have not drafted anything. Did I provide you jason with the contacts? No, that was going.

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To follow up with you, I was I had an email drafted. I looked today going. Oh I've got to.

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Make a better check in my draft, so I have to email to you that I never pressed send on it.

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All right, that's! Okay, because I've been busy and we'll get to that. So maybe you and.

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I will try once more to connect between your draft and my list of that's right.

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It's my failure to do so was partly bound up in the membership question which will become apparently then so.

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It could be right now. Are you really good, I'm just gonna say with. uh I was taught I'm sorry. Yeah.

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um Great conversation said he was interested. He was going to contact his application. The mayor.

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Reviewed it this morning this afternoon and on monday night's agenda will be for consideration.

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uh His appointment to the cable commission, so it takes two meetings of the city council, so.

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Consider you know, gets on for consideration and then they take the vote to appoint.

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The new member at the second meeting, so that will be in september.

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But I did let him know the meeting today um and he's certainly welcome to come to.

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The meetings ahead of being appointed but gotcha as a member of the public. So during the closed.

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Sessions, if, if it is likely that he will be moving forward, we could probably.

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I did invite him, but I did not think to remind him.

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I had let him know what the date was too, so I was interested in having frankly guys. I don't know.

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Very energetic very intelligent manages for his wife's uh mental business. It's dental, but it's.

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More than that, it's more like oral surgery yeah. So um on the younger side, which is I'm sorry, I.

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Should say that early in his career, so he has a lot of energy. How about that right um so and.

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Lots of good perspectives on he lives in the south part of town or in a particularly bad area. So he.

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Could give a lot of color to the issues that we have? That would provide input, but I go ahead and.

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He did say that there might be some meetings that he couldn't attend in.

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Person but he might be able to do assume- and I said that's fine, because we have a quorum.

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In person- and that would be uh certainly yeah- that's his last name.

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So he's only a gentleman super interesting guy I mean just great yeah.

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Any other business okay, so uh I guess at this point we move into uh item number six, which is discussion we'll.

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Close the meeting we need a formal motion, okay and for emotion to move sessions.