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;",;'i. .....,~~~'iI;';~9~SAND CUTBACK:t)JiH8:t~ e e Further Cutback Options If the City is still outside a comfortable budget, a few items have been outlined that may be considered for further cutbacks from the existing system design in this report. Item One: Rednce Touch Panel Reducing the touch panel or "big remote" will save about $800 and will reduce the amount of control the staff and presenters have over the system, Item Two: Less Expensive Cameras The current cameras maintain a quality that is acceptable for cable casting. Savings could be achieved by reducing the cameras to a lower quality camera system. The result of this reduction is a lower quality image to the televised audience. Estimated cost reduction of the two-camera system would be around $4,000. Item Three: Less Expensive Rack Console Option Cost savings can be achieved by using a simpler rack layout within the control room. The result of this reduction would be essential pieces of equipment in the control room being placed in awkward and potentially difficult locations for the operator. Also, some equipment would not be mounted at all and would be placed somewhere in the control room. The estimated cost reduction by using a less expensive rack console is $1,500. Item Four: Reduced Cablecast Transitions Reduction of the cablecast transitions to be able to "fade" between sow:ces to doing only "cuts" between sOllIces would be a possible cutback. The result is a choppy presentation to the cablecast audience. The estimated cost saving by reducing the cablecast transitions is $4,000. e Item Five: Overhead Projection Only As discussed during a council meeting with Dickson Stewart. substantial cost savings would be achieved by abandoning the current reco=ended presentation design and install an overhead projection system. This would involve eliminating the recommended presentation, video display, and video processing modules, and reducing the control module by an estimated $5,000. The result would be a system similar to the existing system. It is important to note that the cablecast cameras will not be able to present a clean picture of the overhead screen to the cablecast audience. Reducing the budget modules described above will result in estimated cost savings of $51,135. The new pull-down overhead screen would be added to the architectural section of the project. The estimated installed price for a pull-down screen is $2,700, and the overhead projector would be $700. Incorporating Item Five with the overhead screen and projector would result in an estimated cost reduction of $47,735. Electronic Interiors, Ine 10 DRAFr S~OI~31N[ JINO~lJ3l3 May 9, 1999 Zl/Zl 'd 998v'oN ~dlg:v OOOZ '6 '^e~