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8/4/88 4 <br />libraries, city governments, and other government agencies; <br />7, that a community access operation should provide <br />services to organizations, individuals and institutions in the <br />North Suburban area based on the parties' interests, energies and <br />willingness to become involved in a*:cess, and on the established <br />resource allocation guidelines; <br />8. that effectively promoting the access opportunity by <br />targeting organizations, individuals and/or institutions within. the <br />resource allocation guidelines is vit^L to the success of community <br />access; <br />+u. +.,,.oa n4 +.,,mina and production assistance made <br />available through community access operations must be flexible and <br />varied enc;;3h to: a) accommodate the users' levels of knowledge, b) <br />insure that users fellow through with program and/or message <br />production, and c) produce projects satisfactory to the users and <br />their audiences; <br />10. that a community access operation must provide to <br />community access users user-friendly, well maintained production <br />equipment in a format compatible with consumer video equipment and <br />at a time that it is requested by the users; <br />II. that the staff employed by a community access operation <br />is key to the developm,.nt of a successful operation, and that <br />efforts must be made to attract, support, and retain quality <br />individuals for staff positions; <br />12. that Cable TV North Central has failed in its efforts to <br />provide the proper mix of resources to support and produce a <br />successful community access operation as outlined in Section VI. of <br />this report; <br />13. taking into consideration the various types of entities <br />which might manage community access .n the No.rth Suburban area, <br />that community access would best be managed by a non-profit <br />corporation rather than by Cable TV North Central or its <br />successcrs; <br />14. that direction of su::h a non-profit corporatiou should <br />have strong ties to the member cities but that neither city <br />governments nor the Commission should directly manage community <br />aOCesa; <br />15. that such a non-profit corporation should take <br />appropriate measures to establish an identity separate from the <br />cable company, Commission and cities; <br />16. that such a non-profit corporation be supported by <br />Cable TV North Central as directed by the cities through the <br />Commission, through an orderly transfer to the non-profit <br />