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8/4/88 I. INTRODUCTION From January through June, 1988, members of the North Suburban Cable Commission (Commission) conducted a study of community access on the cable system that serves its ten member cities. The goals of the community access study were: 1. to improve community access, 2, to better understand community access needs and support, 3. to respond to the request to change the access management structure in the North Suburbs, and 4. to ensure that resources for successful community access operations are provided. During the atudy's initial stage, Commission members outlined several Objectives, listing individual tasks necazsarj to Zoach these goals. They are: 1. to list the functions of a commmiity access canter, 2. to study community access management structures, 3. to determine community access success stanOnrds, 4. to inventory current resources available for community access, 5. to define resource needs for access operations that would C., increase activity in community access, 6. to determine the relationship of public, 9ducational, government, library, special needs, and religious access in a management structure, 7. to design a community access management structure and operations and/or guideline for the same, and 8. if appropriate, to discuss the tr?s,sition methods between current and proposed access management sti.ictures. Throughout the course of the study, Commission members roviewed materials prepared by their consultant, discussing and using them as a basis for policy recommendations regarding the future of community access. Commission wambers invited persons involved in comunity access including those employed by Cable TV ;forth Central who work in community access to comment and to discuss access issues with them, commission members formally solicited comments and suggestions from access users, potential access uses, those trained to use access facilities but who have not made use of that oppurtunity, and others. The Commission members prepared this report to summarize their work, and to outline the new direction for community access which they have determined will provide the most successful community access operation in the ten city area. Following formal adoption of this report by the Commission, each member city will discuss and adopt a resolution which endorses the major conclusions and recommendations of this report, and which directs the city's representative on the Commission to implement the recommendations. This report will be presented to Cable TV North Central and to members of the public. In so doing, the Commission hopes that its view of community access will be shared by all.