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<br />. 10-7-99 <br />To: Elk River Council Members <br />From Marissa Lee, Government Cable Producer <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Hello council members! <br />I recently went to the National Association of Telecommunications <br />Officers and Advisors (NATOA) national conference in Atlanta, Georgia, <br />September 15th through the 19th. <br />The Wright/Sherburne cable commission paid for the five-day trip. <br />Every year the commission budgets one person from each city to attend. <br />I attended seminars from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. Attendees could pick from <br />different seminars. For example, lawyer's and administrators attended the <br />regulatory sessions, editors attended technical programs and producers <br />attended programming sessions. <br />I found the programming sessions very helpful. I meet inventors from <br />leading software companies, brilliant web page designers, popular <br />government producers and press reporters. <br />This organization focuses on government related topics geared to assist <br />media and communication departments throughout local government <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />agenCIes. <br />Cities like Denver and Santa Monica had government cable channels <br />that looked like NBC. I saw government web sites and cable programming <br />that won national awards (Cottage Grove and St. Paul took home a few of <br />those). I saw the capabilities that a government accesses channel can have <br />within a community and what it can achieve. <br />Elk River's government channel is progressing and narrow <br />broadcasting is right around the corner. Last I heard, at the end of October, <br />Elk River would go live. <br />Since rumors of such event have been circulating since I started 21 <br />months ago, I've been able to prepare. I have visited Delano, Coon Rapids, <br />