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<br />explained that it was the result of the new digital equipment <br />installed by Comcast and would not effect their recording or live <br />meeting appearance. <br />o Met with Centerville staff to discuss options for streamlining their <br />video equipment. <br />o Served as project manager for the Lexington equipment upgrade. <br />o Is currently working with Blaine to make equipment upgrade <br />recommendations. <br />o Fixed audio buzz for Circle Pines. <br />o Examined a proposal for NY equipment for a training room in the <br />new police headquarters. Worked to bring down proposal costs via <br />equipment recommendations and by offering to install equipment <br />himself. <br />o Designed layout, tore apart, moved, and re-wired NY equipment in <br />Centervillecontrol room <br />o Revised Spring Lake Park proposal to include a video projection <br />system. <br />o Evaluated audio feedback problem at Ham Lake Senior Center. <br />Made recommendations for repair. <br />o Dismantled, moved, and inventoried Ham Lake equipment during <br />city hall construction. <br />o Placed order for new Ham Lake microphones and stands. Made 10 <br />25 foot audio cables. <br />o Received Lexington's new equipment and did as much pre-wiring <br />as possible. <br />o Troubleshot microphone problems for Lino Lakes. Ordered new <br />microphones. <br />o Prepared Ham Lake Senior Center so it could be used as the <br />temporary chamber during city hall construction. <br />o Readjusted Circle Pines camera in council chambers that had been <br />dislodged by painters. <br /> <br />. Master Control services <br />One of our primary goals for 2005 was to assume program playback <br />responsibilities for our cities' government channels. We put a lot of thought <br />into developing a server-based master control system that would give us the <br />power and flexibility to handle this major undertaking. It was important to us <br />that we be able to reduce the equipment and staff investment that cities were <br />previously required to make to get their meetings out on the channel. While <br />the acquisition expense will never go away for cities, the cost of programming <br />the channels can now be minimal. <br /> <br />The first step was to assign scheduling and encoding responsibilities and to <br />establish a procedure for maintaining the channels. Michele contacted each <br />city, created a schedule of all the meetings requiring encoding, and <br /> <br />19 <br />