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1 1 8/4/88es 3 5. resources necessary to support a successful community access operation. In that process, the Commission members also received information from various sources -- their consultant, those involved in various access management situations, Cable TV North Central access staff, access users, and non-users on the following: 1 . resource needs for supporting community access, 2. community access management structure options, and 3. options for handling administrative and personnel tasks, and for owning and maintaining equipment and facilities. IV. SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS As a result of their study of community access, the North Suburban Cable Commission members have come to a number of conclusions regarding the structure and activities that will best serve the North Suburban area' s current and potential users and viewers . Following is a summary of the conclusions and recommendations of this report: 1 . that community access can serve the communications needs of the variety of community organizations , institutions and individuals that are part of the member cities served by the cable communications company; 2. that community access can enrich the cable subscribers/viewers by providing information about community events and resources and by providing an awareness of the scope and dynamics of activity within the ten-city area; 3. that common standards and expectations of a community access operation (as established in the full report) should be understood by all parties involved in community access; 4 . that a community access operation should be planned and evaluated through the use of the various performance indicators (as outlined in the full report) so that its degree of success 'can be easily assessed by- all parties; 5. that a successful community access operation should result in an increase over time of a) original programs produced locally, b) the involvement of community organizations, individuals, and institutions , and c) of viewership of the community access channels; 6. that formal guidelines be established periodically which • provide direction to the entity managing community access by allocating resources to various types of users which include but are not limited to community organizations, . individuals, school districts,. non-public schools, higher education institutions, libraries, city governments, and other government agencies;