B) Maintain private independent status for statewide entity and local access entities.

C) Maintain local control: Local autonomy is the governing principle. The role and responsibilities of the statewide entity (for convenience called the "Council") must be focused, clear and construed narrowly. If it is a gray area about whether the council should control a particular issue, then it should not. This will continue to keep our primary focus, authority and responsibility with the community access organizations, and will prevent the centralization of access.

D) Limited (or no) State involvement.

E) "State-wide" definition

E) Council would enter into a contract with DCCA for the funding (including accounting, financial statements, allocations, monitoring and reporting of results against agreed upon benchmarks, etc.) Major responsibilities would be in the financial area (administration, allocation of funds, financial statements, etc.) contract compliance (reports on benchmarks, progress, etc.) administration (scheduling of meetings, agendas, minutes, follow up, etc.). Others may be identified.

F) Local access organizations may also have a contract with the Council, outlining their participation in the organization, formalizing the finding mechanism, commitment to certain programming criteria (e.g. if DOE has a program that needs to be in all schools at 10:00 a.m., the organizations would agree to do so), commitment to the benchmarks, etc. to be established for access (guiding principles of cooperation, etc?)

G) Local access organization will also need to modify their agreements with DCCA:

perhaps make them coterminous with the DCCA-Council contract. Also, the local access organizations would still be responsible for reporting to DCCA on the local access (vs. statewide access) piece, and be accountable for their funding, etc. These would still be incorporated in the contract. (The benchmarks, etc. would be similar to the ones set out in the statewide Council - so that we will have some kind of coordination of measurements and benchmarks. For example, if we are looking at increasing the number of original program hours - then we would measure that for both state and local programming, albeit with different targets. That way, we could see if the state and local pieces could work together smoothly.)

B) Program control and channel control remains with the local access organization.

D) These statewide, technical baseline requirements do not reflect what is currently in place for the four PEG access organizations. These requirements merely document what a minimum technical standard should be for any PEG programming access entity.

E) An individual PEG access organization, at this time, could meet, exceed or fall below any of the identified requirements. The long term objective is to have all PEG access organizations meet all stated requirements.

 F) Areas to be monitored for future baseline purposes: ability to expand distribution capacity, multimedia distribution via the Internet, the role of PEG access in community development.

G) Implementation plan of technical baseline requirements needs to be developed.