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REQUEST FOR ACTION <br />To Item Number <br />Ci Council 5.2. <br />Agenda Section Meeting Date Prepared by <br />Administration Ma 5, 2008 Tina Allard, Ci Clerk <br />Item Description Reviewed by <br />Direction for Future Cable Channel Needs Lori ohnson, Ci Administrator <br /> Reviewed by <br />Action Requested <br />CouncIl feedback on what direction you would like to see fox the cable channel: whether it would be <br />hiring another part-time employee as we have done in the past or outsourcing wank. <br />BackgroundlDiscussion <br />Staff would like direction on addressing Cable Department needs with the Assistant Government Cable <br />Producer position now open. Options include: <br />Authorx~e adver2i.ring for the j~art-time Ar~artant Government Cable Producer <br />This option would provide the city with two employees who could fill in fox each other with <br />taping of city meetings when someone is sick ox on vacation. It would allow the employees to <br />work together on the creation of video packages fox in-house productions such as Fire Chief's <br />Corner ox the promotion of community events. It also helps to have staff that can establish <br />working relationships in the community. <br />2. Consader outride contractor to tape meetings <br />This option would outsouxce the taping of all city meetings. They would not provide any videc <br />production services. The channels productions and community events programming would be <br />limited with one full-time employee. <br />3. Consider outride contractor to provide some form of video services, whether at be partial services such as taping <br />community events and productions for completion by current staff or providing completed productaons. <br />^ Productions and community events could be taped by a contractor and then given to city <br />staff to edit and create video packages. <br />^ Productions could be completely outsourced fox full video packages. <br />These options may help to provide more productions fox the channel. The downside of this <br />option is that we would have one employee who would do limited production work due to the <br />time needed to tape and edit city meetings. We would not have a backup employee to fill in to <br />tape meetings if this employee were sick or wanted to take a vacation. Other concerns include <br />knowledge of the city and compatibility with city equipment. <br />S:\AdrrwilsKation\Council RCA\Cable Commission\Dicection Asst Position.doc <br />