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After last night's city council meeting a Medford notable said
to me "there should be a five year cooling off period" (before any of
the individuals who put color bars up - that was after they replaced
your voice with Al Jazeera - get to participate in our access TV again.)
We cable TV subscribers pay a hefty bill every month, and with
documented evidence on City Council meeting DVDs of disruptive behavior,
including a long-time president being removed by the police per order
of the council president, there is no way the city wants to be potentially liable for more of the same.
If Mayor McGlynn even wants to entertain the idea of certain
individuals who ruined access TV rushing in to ban people, stop
elections, not give meeting minutes, say in the weekly paper they want
to put all the P/E/G monies into the city's "general fund" the city will
be in jeopardy of a lawsuit.
On August 25, 2011 Medford
Commuity Cablevision, Inc.'s alleged "executive director" went to
Medford City Hall and wrote - under oath - that the TV station was now
doing business as Community Media Medford. The problem for that
individual is that I was informed that the signature on a document of a
corporation has to be from a member of the board of directors, not a
staff member. A staff member making a corporate decision does seem to
be a little out of the ordinary, and since there are no meeting minutes
you can bet someone is scrambling to find a way to come up with
paperwork to cover this incident, now that it is known to the victim.
I established a website Community Media Medford before the fling was
made at City Hall allegedly by MCC TV3 with the signature of a person
the public thought was station manager, but who listed himself as
"Executive Director."
This kind of craziness has gone on in
Medford for over two decades. Now we see an individual from the old
board of directors posting on Patch that he wants to operate a new
station after the old station had failed to facilitate programming,
failed to have classes, failed to do outreach to the point where the
Mayor and the Budget Director of Medford pulled the funding.
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We understand the logic behind not wanting new faces, fresh eyes
looking at access. When a new access station is formed and the public
sees what they were missing (and what they would be missing again if
the old crew ever got back in power,) there could be renewed anger
against former board members. When the books and lack of meeting
minutes are considered by a new corporation, just as West Medford
Hillside Little League had a fresh set of eyes looking at things after -
oh so coincidentally - twenty years of one person running the
enterprise, it will become obvious that change is imperative. I'm
saying that as nicely as possible.
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The contradictions by the board member
in the middle of a dissolution claiming that at least two ex board
members are going to continue the same old same old are chilling, and
will be presented to the Issuing Authority who, trust us on this, is NOT
going to want to have someone responsible for The Chumley Report
sitting on a new board of directors. The City Council will be up in
arms, the City Solicitor should be up in arms, and, once again, two
individuals who don't have the experience or the knowledge to operate a
501c3 (primary point being to shy away from political speech if enjoying
non-profit status) cannot and will not be allowed to open the door for
the mistakes of the past to harm the future.
They can put in
a thousand petitions to participate in the new entity. The City
Council, the citizens, the cable TV providers (no doubt) and even the
Patch won't want to see the feud go on and on and on.
That's
why God made public records requests and the "people's forum." Those two
opportunities gave us the information we needed purportedly to force
the issuing authority's hand to pull the funding. The Issuing
Authority doesn't need the headache, and he'd be a fool to open himself
up to litigation and questions he really doesn't have the time or
political capital to field.
It is over. We won. Deal with
it. I created Community Media Medford, and the sincerest form of
flattery is that the now dissolving hefore your eyes attempted to hijack
my intellectual property. That isn't their job, and that document and
other documents will be waved in front of the Mayor's face if the time
comes that certain individuals will try to embarrass themselves again in
front of this community. We are ready and we are not backing down.