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L <br />8/4/88 <br />18 <br />staff and discussion of their responses and other issues continued <br />throughout the study. <br />As a result of the input received from all parties, the standards <br />set for community access, and the proposed structure of a <br />non-profit corporation managing community access, the Commission <br />members will seek to effect the following changes in the resources <br />available for community access. <br />A. Channels and Signal Routing <br />1. Transfer of the control of the public access, community <br />bulletin board. religious access, special needs and special needs <br />access currently designated as Channels 33, 62, 63, 68, and 69 <br />respectively, to the nonprofit corporatioi,, <br />2. Transfer of the administration and programming of the <br />Community Bulletin Board to the non-profit corporation. and <br />3. Use of Ch. 69, the discrets public access channel, as a <br />master program guide. This will allow a subscriber full time access <br />to the schedules for all community access channels plus the <br />regional channel. Due to the discrete nature for Ch. 69, <br />government programming schedules for government access Ch. 16, <br />which are different in each city, would be displayed only in the <br />appropriate community. <br />B. Video Production Equipment/facilities <br />1. Change of the VCR's for portable use, for editing, for <br />studio recording, and for the van recording to S-VHS format <br />equipment. This will provide users with less bulky equipment that <br />is much more user friendly and will provide an excellent video <br />signal. Further, this format will allow users who own consumer <br />video camera/VCR's to use their own equipment for access <br />production. The condition, bulk, and operat'.onal difficulties of <br />the present 3/4"format equipment used for community access were the <br />most prominent complaints regarding the presently available <br />equipment and faciltt.es; <br />2. Due to the age and condition of the present cameras in the <br />Woodhil: and Edgewood studios and vans, replacement of the car.eras <br />with better quality cameras that can operate in lower light <br />conditions; <br />3. Transfer ownership of all equipment for community access <br />made available by Cable TV North Central to NSAC, plus <br />equipment to program the community bulletin board on Ch. 62 and the <br />master community programming schedule on Ch. 69; <br />4. Upon transfer of eouipment to the non-profit corporation, <br />consideration of relocation cf the equipment presently located at <br />the Edgewood facility to another location, executing an agreement <br />whereby the host site would provide space, utilities, moving and <br />installation, and maintenance in return for use of the equipment <br />and facility duritg hours that are not designated for other types <br />of community access use; <br />5. Upon transfer of equipment to the NSAC,'location of a site <br />for the main community access facility which meets the following <br />