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<br />o The cities of Ham Lake and Centerville made use of Rose's skills <br />with the installation of their high speed internet connections. <br />o Rose continues to monitor and maintain city Scala systems. <br />o Rose continues to assist the cities with computer issues. <br /> <br />. Video equipment problems <br />Whenever one of the cities experiences a problem with their video production <br />equipment or signal Rick Kocinski is dispatched to help in any way he can. <br />He has successfully advised cities regarding new equipment purchases, <br />repaired decks, and cleaned up signal quality. <br /> <br />With the completion of our new master control Rick now has the ability to <br />monitor our seven government signals. He has established a daily schedule <br />for doing so. With this system, we hope to discover and solve problems <br />before the cities even realize there is one. <br /> <br />. Master Control services <br />In 2004 we took the preliminary steps necessary to allow us to assume <br />master control responsibilities for the cities. With the completion of our new <br />master control we were able to route all seven city signals through our <br />program routing equipment. This not only allows us to monitor the city <br />channels, it also will allow us to program them. Staff met to assign <br />scheduling and encoding responsibilities and to establish a procedure for <br />maintaining the channels. We expect to begin programming the city channels <br />in January of 2005. <br /> <br />The Commission <br /> <br />It was another busy year for the Commission. I was apparently delusional to <br />think that things would slow down after the establishment of the new franchise. <br />Two primary issues consumed most of the Commission's attention in 2004. First <br />were the issues and processes surrounding the Commission's participation in <br />two rate regulation challenges, and the second was the actual construction of the <br />new Media Center facility. <br /> <br />Rate Review <br /> <br />Comcast filed two FCC forms, a 1240 and a 1205, indicating to what level they <br />intended to raise the maximum permitted rates for basic cable service, <br />installation, and related equipment costs. The Commission was charged with <br />determining whether the proposed rates were justified. The Commission chose <br /> <br />16 <br />