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Interesting wrote on May 19, 2007 8:55 AM:
I love how this guy figures he can just create a tax without a vote from the people who pay a cable bill. I am already paying for channels I don't watch. I do watch channel 14 and appreciate the little window it gives me into the local government. I hope the Charter Laughs this guy out of their local office.
Charter Communications doesn't serve every home in the county. So I wonder what the good people on North Bank Road or those in Riverton or Arago would think about paying a fee for this?
Perhaps this group should look at PBS. Maybe they need to get sponsorships? As long as we are considering dumping tax payer money into a non-profit group maybe we should get all the local churches together and see what they thought about a Church tax?
Wow! This guy is so off course.
What I find equally disturbing is that the government folks are not willing to spend any of the money we gave them to tell us how they are spending the balance of our tax dollars. Maybe if we knew more, county employees would not be getting layoff notices and our roads would better off?
A tax assessment might fix the problem around here. Why are homes selling for $350,000.00 and only assessed at $120,000.00? If Oregon uses property taxes to fund government so that police, fire, roads, and schools are what we want then why are assessments to low? How many little hidden taxes are we paying?
Just Another Observer wrote on May 19, 2007 8:36 AM:
I agree with using students of North Bend and Marshfield High School to record these meetings. They should then be taught to use the equipment to process the video and audio by somebody in the community who'd like to give back.
Frachnise fees, still included in your cable bill, used to pay to operate this channel. Now those same fees go to what I don't know.
My understanding is the city can't charge you anymore for these franchise fees through the cable company.
Let's take those franshise fees and send them to the school to fund using students and volunteers to operate this service.
Just An Observer wrote on May 12, 2007 6:24 PM:
Recording cameras are cheap and microphones with cables aren't that spendy. So are playback units that can be located at Charter's head end. Let each government body find a volunteer or an employee to record the meeting and send the recording to Charter's Coos Bay office rather than forking over $25000 or worse yet, expecting the subscriber base to pay extra. It's amazing how a simple problem with a simple solution can get so costly in poor old Coos Bay...LOL! Heck, have media/AV students do the meetings in each community as a work experience program item and thus involve the young people in this at no cost to anyone!
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