https://sleepyhollow.localarchives.org/files/original/ece732984c53f766a05a310572ea80fc.pdf 4861a8b1589bd1b2b8ba9a125b8e2742 PDF Text Text Minutes of the Board of Trustees Village of Sleepy Hollow 4 A work session of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Sleepy Hollow was held on Tuesday, May 15th at 7:00 P.M. in Village Hall, 28 Beekman Avenue, Sleepy Hollow, New York. Present: Mayor Philip E. Zegarelli Mario DiFelice James J. Hart Patricia M. Rodriquez Robert Higle Richard Zieja Donald Stever Trustees Also Present: Dwight H. Douglas, Village Administrator Barbara Napoli, Treasurer Brian Murphy, Village attorney Chief Warren At 7:03 p.m. Mayor Zegarelli called the work session to order to present various awards and commendations in recognition of important contributions from members of the Sleepy Hollow Police Department. After a brief recess at 8:20 p.m. Mayor Zegarelli called a special meeting of the Board of Trustees to order (Trustee Hart having left to attend another meeting) to consider the fbllowingactions: -"—-"Resolution §1 Van Tassel Neighborhood Block Party-approved a requestfor the closing of Van Tassel Ave, Wirth Ave. and Holland Ave. for a neighborhood blockparty to be held on Saturday May 2&h, 2001, rain date of Sunday, May 27A, 2001 starting at 11:00 a.m., ending at 7:p.m, subject to review by Police Chief Warren and Fire Chief Grossoffered by Deputy Mayor DiFelice, seconded by Trustee Stever, carried unanimously. Resolution W2 Hudson River Walk—On a motion of Trustee Higle, seconded by Trustee Rodriguez authorized t?ie Hudson river walk request (attached), carried unanimously. Resolution #5 Lateral move — Paola Rios - attached resolution approved on a motion of Deputy Mayor DiFelice, seconded by Trustee Rodriguez, carried unanimously. Resolution §4 Sergeant Corona Resignation -on a motion of Deputy Mayor DiFelice, seconded by Trustee Zieja and carried unanimously, the Village trustees accepted with regret the resignation of Sergeant Corona to take a newjob in Westchester County D.A. Jeanine Pirro 's office, expressing thanksfor hisfine work, and noting that Sergeant �Corona reflected well on the department, both for the quality of the work he performed while serving the Village and the importance of his newjob he has accepted Resolution #5 Warrant — the annexed warrant was approved unanimously on a motion of Deputy Mayor DiFelice, seconded by Trustee Higle. At 8:40 p.m. on a motion of Trustee DiFelice, seconded by Trustee Higle, passed unanimously the trustees went in to executive session to discuss personnel and litigation. The meeting adjourned at 9:20 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Dwight H. Douglas Administrator �"A non-profii community access organization for public, educational and governmental use" Box 575 (43 Wildey Street) Tarrytown, NY 10591 Studio 914-631-2727 -Office 914-366-7409 -Pager 914-951-4342 e-mail ComunitvTV@aol Mayor Phil Zegarelli 21 Beekman Avenue Sleepy Hollow, New York 10591 And Mayor Paul Janos 23 Wildey Street Tarrytown, New York 10591 March 1,2001 Dear Mayor Phillip Zegarelli and Mayor Paul Janos: As the co-founder Community Television Channel 19 of Sleepy Hollow, Tanytown, Mt. Pleasant and Briarcliff— a volunteer non-profit Organization of the Tarrytowns, I want to first, thank both of you for taking the first step towards securing the management and "local control of your own dedicated access station and system-wide channel. Over the past few months, we have provided written materials from other local access stations, outlining the process of how your municipality develops your "own" access structure. In addition to these materials, we've had discussions with you and your administrators, representatives of The Writerrs Center, Arts Council, Go-TV Channel 6 in Ossining andNCCTV Channel-24 of New Castle. In the past, local leaders were unable to grasp the value of how— cable TV, broadband and Internet technology enhances local communications. Now, your administrations have a second chance to finally dedicate your own studio and channels. The ownership of "your own" access network station, channels and electronic connections of municipal buildings and local channels would provide the municipality the ability to share information and promote local government, ideas and commerce broadly. Your willingness to take this first step will clearly lay the foundation for local communications of future generations. Your immediate attention is requested to gain "local control" of the area channel 19 and the electronic connections needed for that system. Since the signing of the last franchise contract in 1997, our four communities were left in a default position. The conclusion at the time, was to table the decision of designating an "access provider" and a "charge on the cable bill". That charge of 60 cents to $1:50 times the approximate 14,000 cable house holds per month, would provide the means to support a modest budget for a community access studio and equipment and staffing. At the very least if only Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown request and secure the channel agree to a fixed cable fee on the bill, the Villages would gain their local control. The access funds would be reduced as the two villages combined have less cable subscribers, about 7,500 house holds. That number �times .60 -1.25 would yield about $7,500 factoring a $1.00 cost per household. This would support new studio equipment, overhead, p/f staff and the electronic wiring of the municipal buildings for live transmission to the hub studio/station in Neighorhood house or another larger inter-municipal community-use building. The Villages would finally gain the local control of your transmission of area wide channel 19 to 42,000 viewers in the seven communities. The final understanding at the end of that last franchise meeting were as follows 1) consent to MediaOne transmitting your programs from their office in Peekskill on the "area channel 19" until such time the four communities could agree on some form of access structure. 2) MediaOne agreed to provide the transmission of channel 19. 3) The four communities programs would have first use of the channel because the four communities signed the franchise, currently pay fees to support your local municipal closed circuit transmissions to your electronic Cable boarders. However, you the "Village" along with Tarrytown, Mt. Pleasant and Briarcliff are the "authority" that provides the them, the "operator", the rights of way to your streets and, currently pays fees for your local television electronics and equipment to do the job. Currently, your locally produced talk shows, meetings and event programs are : The Sleepy Hollow Report The Village Board Meeting Sleepy Hollow Recreation Presents The Village Work Sessions SH Recreation events St. Patrick's Day Parade The Columbus Day Parade The Memorial Day Parade The Veterans Day Ceremony The Fireman's Parade SH Street Fair and Race SH Fire Department Inspection SH Fire Department Fire Coverage Village Dedications &A\vards The Writer's Center Presents Writer's Center Poetry Series The Village Special Meetings TNT Baseball Parades TNT Baseball games The Sleepy Hollow Senior Events PSTT Ask Supt. Don Kusel! Art In the Park Sleepy Hollow Fire Department Spagetti Dinners Neighborhood House Events Sleepy Hollow Ambulance Corp Events Art In The Park Life Center Events . Warner Library Events & Meetings The Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow Arts Council Presents The Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow Arts Council Events And many man)'more These programs were supposed to have "first use" of area channel 19 along with Tarrytown, Mt. Pleasant and Briarcliff Manor programs similar in content to The Village of Sleepy Hollow programs. Continuing the results of that last meeting: �The access center would loose it's transmission. We originally secured our local transmission from MediaOne in 1992. The franchise meeting dictated that until such time where the four communities could agree to designating Community Television as your access provider and place a fee on the cable bill to support community access the Center would loose it's LIVE transmission in Neighborhood House . (See your cable franchise PEG Access). The cable operator closed its' studio and moved its' offices and electronics to Peekskill, 20 miles away from the Villages. The access center would have to provide for its' own operations without a franchise commitment to support it's volunteer three camera studio, community video workshops, internships and event coverage all originating from our facilities at Neighborhood House. Now, four years later, the cable operator has co-opted your access channel for their use and, has adopted their own rules which override the former franchise meeting agreement of the four municipalities. The existing situation prohibits residents, organizations and local government access to cable TV, media facilities and air time. The results are as follows: 1) The operator now arbitrarily designates your program time slots; where and when they want to place your programs on the air. 2) The access center continues to voluntarily coordinate the scheduling and air dates for your programs on area Channel 19. 3) We have to deliver those 20- 30 programs each month to Cablevision, in Peekskill "20 miles" away. 4) We do not have power or choice over your cable schedule anymore. 5) We do not have control over arbitrating or discussing your programs. Cablevision will not listen. 6) The access center is not given any consideration in the scheduling process anymore. From 1983-1997 our organization produced, administered, scheduled, administered and programmed your cable shows. 7) The cable company requires excessive paperwork to process your air dates for your programs. This work is also provided voluntarily by the Center. 8) The cable company is now adopting new prohibitive rules and regulations where your programs will have even "less" opportunity to maintain your regular scheduled program series and time slots.( those slots at earlier times where regular time slots for many years). 9) The cable company is now placing cable programs from the County, the Post Office, the State, the Navy, Peekskill, Ossining from other towns and other states outside our franchise areas on "Your" channel 19. (Those tapes are called "bicycle" tapes, programs from outside the franchise area. Those programs are not supposed to have first choice over your time slots. Your residents are paying cable charges on their bill a mythical service and ownershiD of vour cable channel that doesn't exist 1 10) Cablevision has been placing commercial programs and pay service channel promos on your channel. They continually bump your shows for theirs. �-If To address these and other problems inherent to the cable company having control over your access and air time, we are requesting that the Villages take the first step to ask for your "local control' over the channel. To suggest the appropriate language to request Cablevision, your management of area channel and access facilities, we sought the advice of James Horwood, a Washington based attorney and board member for the "Alliance for Community Media", the national access advocacy organization. Jim represents local governments in franchise matters. Recently, he helped The Village and Town of East Hampton renegotiate their franchise. Jim can be reached at Spiegel and McDermott at 202-869-4000. In 1997, Jim addressed our franchise negotiating committee in the last franchise meeting held in Sleepy Hollow. In that work session, he described your rights, the importance of community access and the steps to secure access management. However, at the time, only Sleepy Hollow showed concern in making that claim and, since the franchise is a joint cooperative agreement, the summation of the meeting was to table the decision for access until a later time where governments could agree. Considering Cablevision's recent transfer of MediaOne, Jim, Rob Lutz, the former access director for NCCT V and myself, are advising you to make your request your channel and control of access, without delay. Your request may not yield an immediate "positive" response from Cablevision nonetheless it will trigger the access process and open discussion with Cablevision. Thank you again, for your interest and efforts. Sunny Mdiian Community Coordinator Community Television Channel 19 Dear Cablevision: We the Mayors of Sleepy Hollow and Tanytown are jointly requesting local control and management of our access system and area channel 19 to better serve the communication needs of our residents. Thank you. 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