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Current Issues North Suburban Cable Commission Prepared for the St. Anthony Village Council by Dennis Murphy, Cable Commissioner. 1. Negotiations for Transferring Public Access o February 1, 1989 . Commission 's Negotiating Committee presented proposal to company. Proposal followed "A New Structure For Community Access in the North. Suburbs, " prepared by the Commission during 1987 and o June 14, 1989. After approximately four months the commission received no formal response from the company. Executive Committee began procedures to - impose sanctions on company for underfunding public: access and for reduction in performance bonds. Underfunding Public Access : Based on work by Kevin Catoor, Consultant for the Cable Commission, . it was determined that the Cable Company failed to provide the required funding to the community programming function of -the North Suburban franchise area. The underfunding is estimated to be $366,000 for the- fiscal years of 1987 ,and 1988 . B. Performance Bonds : The company reduced the performance bonds from ten $500,000 bonds, one for each city, to a single performance bond of $500,000 . This 'action was taken without approval of the Commission . o June 27, 1989. Negotiating committee met with company for first significant movement for resolving the transfer issue. o August, 1989 . "Conceptual" Negotiations expected to be completed. Items discussed have included the amount of money available to NCTV for operating expenses and for capital expenditures;- the location of the access studios and access function; control and configuration of 'head end interface ' ; relocation expenditures; institutional network capacity, configuration and control; the quantity of access and local .or.igination channels; and comparison - with other deals.