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<br /> <br /> <br />Converter Exchanges <br />We had planned to start discussions with Charter for the trade up of our old cable TV converters <br />for newer HDMI converters after the council chambers upgrades were completed. So far they <br />have been good about giving us new converters when we need them as older ones fail. The plan <br />was to do this in a city by city group. I'll keep the commission updated. <br /> <br />Merton Auger <br />In 1990 the Sherburne Wright Cable Commission at the time had an attorney named Tom <br />Creighton who was acting as their Cable Administrator. Tom and another attorney had written a <br />large share of the cable franchise agreements in the Twin Cities and the surrounding metro area. <br />I had just finished working in the 10 city Roseville Cable Commission as their Interim <br />Administrator. Tom was the Attorney there so I knew him pretty well. He told me that I needed <br />to meet a City Administrator named Mert Auger. <br />"You'll like this guy'' Tom said "but he's been kind of a pain because he wants to put some kind <br />of new technology into his city hall and I have no idea what he's talking about, can you please <br />talk to him and get him out of my hair!" and that's how I met Mert for the first time. <br />Well when I met Mert and he showed me around Buffalo's Council Chambers, they had a small <br />sound system and nothing else. He described what he was hoping to add and much to my <br />surprise he wasn't difficult at all. In fact he was the first City Administrator that I had met who <br />was kind of a nerd about technology! <br />4 <br /> <br /> <br />