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NSCC/NSAC Proposed PEG Channel Realignment Background: Eight PEG (public, education and government) channels are currently activated on the Comcast cable system in the NSCC/NSAC service area. Of those, three are designated for use by the three public school districts: Roseville, Mounds View and St. Anthony/New Brighton (SA/NB). Of those three, the SA/NB channel has, by far, the least amount of programming. They currently show only the school board meetings. Last summer, the NSCC/NSAC Executive Director met with the SA/NB superintendent and discussed moving the SA/NB school board meetings to another channel in order to more effectively and fully program the channel that the district is currently using. The SA/NB staff was amenable to the idea and said they would like to move to the St. Anthony city channel 16. Then, all of the St. Anthony local government programming would be on the same channel. However, since the district also serves a small portion of the City of New Brighton, they wanted to have their school board meetings on the New Brighton channel 16 as well. This information was shared with City Manager Mark Casey and City Council Member and NSCC/NSAC commissioner Hal Gray. Franchise and transfer of ownership negotiations took precedence last fall and negotiations with CenturyLink took precedence this spring, but the NSCC/NSAC staff hope to implement a new channel lineup this fall. The NSCC/NSAC Executive Director has discussed scheduling SA/NB school board meetings on the New Brighton channel with that city’s staff, and they are amenable to the idea. NSCC/NSAC now seeks permission from the City of St. Anthony to program the school Board meetings on that city’s channel 16. Once permission is granted and the new channel lineup is approved by the NSCC/NSAC, the staff will implement the change and will work with the city and the school district to communicate the district’s new channel and schedule. 28