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<br />Becky Brazys <br /> <br />From: <br />Sent: <br />To: <br />Subject: <br /> <br />Terrence Heiser <br />Monday, May 11, 2009 10:22 AM <br />Becky Brazys <br />RE: Agreement <br /> <br />Becky, <br /> <br />I checked with our Cable Coordinator Tim Pratt to see if there was an opportunity for <br />Roseville to provide this service by utilizing our audio-visual (A/V) technicians that <br />tape our public meetings. Tim looked at the meeting schedules and he found that we would <br />have a scheduling conflict as our Council meetings fall on the same day of the week. <br />Roseville holds Council meetings 3-4 Mondays each month, the same weeknight as Arden <br />Hills. To accommodate this overlapping schedule it would be necessary to employ an <br />additional part-time technician. However it would not be very cost effective at this time <br />to hire a person to work 20 hours per month. <br /> <br />Looking at the New Brighton schedule it appears that their meetings are held on Tuesday <br />evening. This created an opportunity to extend services to Arden Hills and also provide <br />additional hours for their part-time technician without impacting New Brighton meeting <br />productions. <br /> <br />Looking at the rate charged by new Brighton it appears that they are simply recovering <br />staff costs and not much of anything else. Arden Hills could not do better by staffing its <br />own part-time person since there is a great deal of overhead managing the individual, <br />providing training, and simply just getting the person a paycheck every two weeks. New <br />Brighton takes care of all of these tasks. So the service partnership with New Brighton <br />for taping your meetings is a good deal for both agencies. <br /> <br />Perhaps things will change next year as North St. Paul is also looking for a technician <br />but lacks the resources to manage and train an employee that works only 6-8 hours per <br />month (2 - Tuesday Council meetings). We could look at cross training two of our network <br />support technicians to extend this service as part of other related tasks at your <br />locations. But this could not be considered until 2010 or later. Until then, if the <br />relationship with New Brighton has been positive, I would suggest that you continue to <br />work with them on this task. The price is very reasonable. <br /> <br />Hope this information has been helpful. · <br /> <br />Terre <br />