Finance Committee — 12/15/2021 Page 2
Mayor Donchess
You would mind?
Laurie Ortolano
So | believe that you have a very compromised legal office and that Attorney Bolton is seriously
underperforming for this city. He clearly does not recognize his limitations and last night’s meeting was a great
indication. | really think that he needs to understand that his role isn’t to take control of a meeting, interrupt,
and speak out of turn, taunt citizens to pushing them into legal action. Basically, bringing the “bring it on”
mentality. At the end, I’ll continue my thoughts on that. Thank you.
Mayor Donchess
All right. You have made that statement many times in the past. So it’s nothing new.
COMMUNICATIONS
From: Kelly Parkinson, Purchasing Manager
Re: Television Studio Production Switcher in the amount not to exceed $34,000 funded from 81100 Capital
Improvements/PEG Access Channels Special Revenue Fund (CTV Nashua Community Television)
MOTION BY ALDERMAN HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND APPROVE THE
REPLACEMENT OF A PRODUCTION SWITCHER WITH A NEWTEK TRICASTER 2 ELITE WITH 2 STRIPE
CONTROL SURFACE AND ASSOCIATED ACCESSORIES AT A PRICE NOT TO EXCEED $34,000 FROM
DEPARTMENT: 81100 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS/PEG ACCESS CHANNELS SPECIAL REVENUE FUND,
BY ROLL CALL
ON THE QUESTION
Kim Kleiner, Administrative Services Director
Good evening. So this request is actually for the PEG and the Access AV. This request did get favorable
recommendation from the Cable Television Advisory Board last Friday. What’s happening is there is a
switcher that was put into production back in 2013 at the TV studio over on Riverside Drive. That switcher now
has been operating poorly, and causing great issue, and there’s a problem because the switcher works with
Windows and there’s no updates, and the manufacturer is no longer providing any backup or support for this
model. Generally, it’s about five years for the life and this has gone way past that.
So the ask was for $34,000 to replace that switcher, and a couple of monitors, and accessories which the CTV
Board approved on Friday. Luckily we are in the middle right now of negotiating with the Comcast for the
franchise renewal and as part of that process, we'll be looking at all of this equipment and getting an aging of
all it so that we can look but this is by far the most expensive piece of equipment.
Mayor Donchess
All right. Questions or comments?
Alderman Jette
I’m the liaison to the CTAB and | just wanted to support Ms. Kleiner’s statements. Evidently this is an essential
piece of equipment they have for the production of TV shows there. They explained to us it’s reached the end
of its useful life. They’ve negotiated a buy back from the vendor and a substantial discount. We’re told that
prices will go up after the first of the year. So! support and encourage you to please approve this. Thank you.
