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BY: Cablecast Study Group, Hugh Crawford, Chairman
IN RE: RECOMMENDATION ON FEASIBILITY OF CABLECASTING BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
MEETINGS
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The Cablecast Study Group, comprised of Commissioners Crawford, Gershenson, Melton, Moss and
Palmer was established by Chairman Bill Bullard March 10, 2005, to study the feasibility of taping Board
of Commissioners meetings, and duplicating and distributing a tape of the meetings to each of the sixty-
one (61) local communities in the County for broadcast on their cable channel, in the event the Board
decides to cablecast a meeting. The study group met numerous times, and initially considered providing
this service internally. The process would have required the purchase of equipment, use of personnel
from the Department of Information Technology, and contracting out the duplication and distribution of the
tape to the local communities. That process would have been costly, cumbersome, and not efficient. The
study group then, with the assistance of the Purchasing Division, issued a Request for Proposals seeking
bids on providing the service for all Board of Commissioners meetings (approximately 24 annually), or in
the alternative up to four meetings per year. The County received nine (9) responses, and on July 27,
2006, the study group interviewed three (3) of the bidders, and identified Community Media Network as
the preferred vendor. The study group met on August 15, 2006, reviewed all of the information, and
recommends the selection of Community Media Network’s proposal to cablecast up to four (4) Board of
Commissioners meetings annually at a cost of $475 per meeting, with any additional Board related
meetings provided at a cost of $675 per meeting. The decision to cablecast any meeting will be at the
sole discretion of the Board of Commissioner’s Oversight Committee.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Cablecasting Study Group, I move acceptance of the foregoing report.
HUGH CRAWFORD
Report September 21, 2006
Moved by Woodward supported by Melton the Report be accepted.
Discussion followed.
Vote on report:
AYES: Molnar, Moss, Nash, Palmer, Potter, Rogers, Scott, Suarez, Wilson, Woodward, Zack,
Bullard, Coleman, Coulter, Crawford, Douglas, Gershenson, Gregory, Hatchett, Jamian, Kowall,
Long, Melton, Middleton. (24)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the report was confirmed.