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Mounds View City Council August 28, 2006 Regular Meeting Page 19 programming, and installation is approximately $25,209. She stated it is recommended that 1 $5,940.57 is derived from the City Hall Rehabilitation Project, $12,260.28 is derived from the 2 2006 Cable Equipment account, $1788.89 is derived from the Cable Supplies/Equipment account 3 and the remaining $5,219.26 is derived from the Cable TV balance. She stated Staff is 4 requesting that the 2006 Cable Equipment account be increased by $6,000 to cover the cost of the 5 remaining expense. 6 7 Councilmember Thomas asked if a standard television in a smaller size could fit in the original 8 place discussed. Communications Coordinator Blackford replied that a 27 inch television would 9 not fit. 10 11 Councilmember Flaherty asked if the City could run an extension cord through the dropped 12 ceiling. Kimberly Backford stated it could not be run from the ceiling due to fire code issues. 13 14 Councilmember Flaherty asked the cost of running a cord from the wall. Communications 15 Coordinator Blackford replied that installation would cost $200 and part of the request. 16 17 Councilmember Gunn stated that it will be difficult to watch if it is hung and not in the original 18 place. Mayor Marty stated that overflow groups could watch the meeting and listen to the 19 monitor. Councilmember Gunn stated that there have been complaints about people not being 20 able to hear or see. She stated that she supports a flat-screen monitor in the original placement 21 rather than the regular television hung in the corner. 22 23 Mayor Marty stated that from what he recalled, the flat screen was $1300 and the regular TV is 24 under $500 with the $200 added for installation, which is a large savings. Communications 25 Coordinator Blackford stated that the next smaller size flat-screen was 20-inches. 26 27 Councilmember Stigney stated there are 27-inch flat screen televisions available. Finance 28 Director Beer stated the City could probably find a flat-screen TV under $1000. He suggested 29 the Council remove the television from the price quote and find a flat-screen TV under $1000. 30 31 Mayor Marty stated he believes the items should come out of the cable funding and not the City 32 Rehabilitation Project funding, with the exception of the presentation table. Councilmember 33 Thomas agreed. Mayor Marty also asked about purchasing a smaller television. 34 35 Mayor Marty asked about the rebroadcasts of the meetings. He stated that the video quality was 36 very poor and asked if any of the new equipment will fix the quality. Communications 37 Coordinator Blackford stated there is a problem with the focus of one of the video cameras. 38 39 Mayor Marty stated that overall the quality was not good. Communications Coordinator 40 Blackford asked if he had noticed a drop in the quality. Mayor Marty replied that the quality is 41 the same, but that the quality for New Brighton’s meetings was much improved. 42 Communications Coordinator Blackford stated her guess is that the cameras were higher quality. 43 44 Councilmember Gunn asked if the presentation table and television would be removed from the 45