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5.a. SWCSR 08-06-2015 Sherburne Wright Cable Commission Equipment Report August 6th, 2015 Announcers We had to cancel a fair amount of shoots last year because our announcers fell through. In some cities we haven't been able to find people who will announce. We seem to always find people willing to run camera but most volunteers are either too shy to announce or know nothing about sports announcing. We have an opportunity to use a person who has announced for us before when he was a student at Big Lake High School. He was the best student announcer we've ever had. He came prepared to each shoot with rosters and notes on each team. He was meticulous in gathering stats and team information and he has good diction. He currently announces for St. Cloud State and does an excellent job there. Since he would be driving from St. Cloud he is concerned about mileage to the cities farthest from there. We would like to use him for about 10-12 games this year only in cities where we can't find an announcer. A recommended rate would be $100 per game with$125 for games that go into overtime or have extra long delays. The cities pay meeting cable casters in that range depending on the length of the meeting. We would not use him all the time and we would like to use this rate for other equally qualified announcers that we come across. We would still use the volunteer model first and would only use this option when we had no one else available. Action Requested: Approve paying Daniel Papp $100 to $125 per game for announcing select sports and community events Journalism Student I contacted one of the professor's in the U of M Journalism school to ask if he could recommend a suitable student to assist us with our City Works videos. He wants me to create a job listing that he can post. The employee committee is working on this. Phil Kern has helped by sending us his intern job description and information. 1 Charter and Government Channel Technical Problems At the last meeting I reported that Charter had sent me an email asking us to use the 800 number to report problems. I'm pleased to say that so far they have been very good in answering direct service calls and emails from us. We had a much lower converter failure rate this last quarter as the local office seems to be pro-active in trying to figure out when the computer will trigger the converter shut-offs. Please continue to report any outages or converter problems to me. Trailer Summer Season We spent some time this spring getting the trailer ready for our spring and summer shoot schedule. Our first parade went well as Mark will report. It was especially rewarding to show the trailer at the Expo at Delano High School. Students loved the trailer and I dare say that we were one of the most popular booths. Mark has more in his report. We want to do more events like this so please let us know if you have a similar show in your community where we can represent the Sherburne Wright Cable Commission. '4 d ;:ile, 'del: s xt A a 1 19 4 ; - . r 6 4`q fie' ' ' r4 t3�' ^z" " .. Aim'' ffiy" ,� 4 JY A� i� Fw.w ; . Delano HS Expo Trailer Tour 2nd Phase of Cities HD Upgrade As mentioned before we have finished with the camera install work to upgrade our camera systems in Buffalo, Delano, Elk River and Monticello for HD recording. Our next city for camera upgrades was Big Lake. We finished that install on schedule. Our cost per city has turned out much lower in the first phase due to taking advantage of a special trade-in offered by Newtek and AV Solutions and aggressively managing install costs. 2 Big Lake Control Room Upgrades Delano Bucket Truck Camera Delano 4th of July Announcers a * ,, , 4 € d .�; r l ; .. _ � 4\ A — L, . v yF .vim 1 Bui410 4a d n , ,,- i,,', x t a - Official Parade S ponsor of the •,e. � �"�� �' r t'_ e 1 S { 1 i1 1 �l.M! \ 1 _ p 1 _ ... A Y�' f ,,may k_ ,, , , art t ' 1-,, ' f, �g. + =' j . Elvis in Elk River Elvis has a new bodyguard Delano 4th Parade Main street Staff training has been going well and every city seems to be very happy with their upgrades. In the area of presentation equipment we are continuing to upgrade our computers that either still have Windows XP on them or are old and not working correctly. Some cities have had these special workstations for a long time and they are reaching their operation limits. We are replacing them before they cause the cities problems during meetings. 3 I continue to work closely with Commission Chair Tina Allard and Merton Auger our Treasurer on day to day commission issues. We have had a very busy summer shoot and movie event schedule which is still going. We have 10 straight days of either trailer shoots or movies starting tonight. Special Note: We have had some cities report that they are missing windscreen and mic clips. I just received another order and can get some to your city if you let me know that you are out. The clips had been on back order for awhile and hard to obtain. Equipment Repairs, Upgrades and Miscellaneous Notes Buffalo -2 Staff training sessions, Meeting room install, Sympodium monitor install, software install plus other software upgrades, installed new DVD recorder, audio system install. Elk River- installed 3 new wireless mic systems, new disc printer, new GoPro camera, Meeting room work, training with staff, help staff with edit equipment,Nexus outage, software updates, mtgs. with city staff re county coverage. Rockford—Software upgrades, We had an issue with sound in the playback rack but otherwise everything is working well. Big Lake—playback issues, software updates, replaced Sympodium remote, helped hire cable caster, work on upgrade. Cokato—We had some equipment issues in their playback rack that have been repaired, installed new RAM in Nexus, re-wired entire playback rack, fixed power supply problem in SmartBoard, several software upgrades, new staff training. Monticello - Service calls for channel outage, sent in Nexus for repair, audio repairs, replaced broken Apple TV, worked with staff and IT on wifi problems with equipment, microphone replacement., meeting room equipment repairs. Delano - School Expo with trailer, software upgrades,replaced aging Sympodium workstation, installed software, repaired mic connections, repaired conference room interface cables and changed housing, replaced control room rack battery backup, installed portable monitor Dassel- worked on playback system, installed Lobby monitor, ran extra cable TV lines,replaced defective DVD recorder, found replacement for their failed TriCaster. Helped Dassel with a crazy Charter billing issue also thanks to Bob Vose for his help! Watertown—repair faulty video wiring, software upgrades, audio repair work, cable TV problems. 4 Maple Lake—Parade coverage, new staff training, software upgrades, channel outage repair, network problems to Nexus. SWTV and Commission—Handling day to day commission questions, phone calls and email, Meetings with commission Chair and Treasurer, Prep Trailer for Parade, work on cable reels, replace parts in SWTV Nexus due to channel outage, software updates, Phone calls with Commission Attorney Robert Vose, Phone calls and emails and phone calls with Charter. 5 Sherburne Wright Summer 2015 Equipment Upgrades Here is information on the equipment that we are requesting for this quarter. Leightronix The Live streaming boxes are being discontinued to support a new streaming format. Leightronix has a list price of$3995 on the new units and are offering a discount of$2495 per box with trade -in and we have 6. I negotiated with them and got them to lower it substantially to $749 each with a trade in of the old box. That is a very big difference! This is because of the relationship we have developed with them. Any new purchase will be at the higher price. Truck Mark Davis has graciously let us use his van to pull our movie and production trailers since we acquired them. His van is nearing the end of its lifespan and we need to look at alternatives. Our trailer weighs approximately 11,000Ibs. We are hoping to find a vehicle like a Ford E450 or k Chevrolet 4500 equivalent with a super duty crew cab and lockable topper. We currently use a tow package that adds stabilization with a Curt round bar kit#17063 that would be needed. qG Generators J We have had ongoing problems obtaining adequate power in many of our cities. Some cities and schools do not have the availability of it in the locations we need to setup. We need 3 generators to use with the production and movie trailers. We would like to get these 3 models: Honda Eu3000is, Honda Eu200i and a Honda Eu2000a. The last 2 can work separately but also have a kit to join them. Honda Parallel Cable#08E93-HPK123HI. Newtek TriCaster We will need to purchase 2 of the cheaper model TriCasters for the smaller cities to replace the 2 that are very old and can't be repaired. They cost $10,000 each and are $5000 cheaper then what we have already installed. Power Center We need an Arrow/Hart Rhino Box model RB3001A to hook into city power at city parks and buildings. They are around $756.00 Retail Sherburne Wright Equipment Upgrades-Summer 2015 City Equipment Make Model Cost Notes Date Buffalo Live Streaming Leightronix VieBit IncodeX $749.00 Trade-In discount 2015 SWTV Live Streaming Leightronix VieBit IncodeX $749.00 Trade-In discount 2015 Delano Live Streaming Leightronix VieBit IncodeX $749.00 Trade-In discount 2015 Elk River Live Streaming Leightronix VieBit IncodeX $749.00 Trade-In discount 2015 Big Lake Live Streaming Leightronix VieBit IncodeX $749.00 Trade-In discount 2015 All Cities Tricaster Newtek 410 $10,000.00 To replace old units 2015 Tricaster Newtek 410 $10,000.00 To replace old units 2015 Trailer Honda Generator Honda Eu3000is $2,750.00 2015 Production Live Streaming Leightronix VieBit IncodeX $749.00 Trade-In discount 2015 Trailer Honda Generators Honda Eu2000i $1,200.00 List Price 2015 Movie Honda Generators Honda Eu2000a $1,400.00 List Price AC Distribution Box Arrow/Hart Rhino Box RB3001A $756.00 List Price 2015 08E93- Parallel Cable Honda HPK123HI $49.99 List Price E450/ Super Duty Crew Vehicle Truck Ford E450 or Chevy 4500 4500Style .(o ? Cab 2015 equivalent ----l_ Lockable Topper Needs to pull#11,000Ibs. Tow Kit Curt Round Bar Weight Dist.Kit #17063 $502.00 List Price 2015 ayd.f4q-S /gis--G■,, 1■„1 } $31,151.99 Total Action Requested: Approve purchase and/or replacement of listed equipment. i i,, .' hk1 s� 5e