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On Monday, February 10, 2014, there will be a 2nd meeting of the Community Access TV Committee
http://www.medfordma.org/community-access-tv-committee/One of the fundamentals of this new access TV station is to move forward, and that means excluding the baggage of the past - board members, staffers and selfish members of the old Medford Community Cablevision, Inc.
In a September 20, 2013 article written by former Medford Transcript writer Nick Iovino, On Page 2 Arthur DeLuca, board member on a station called "embattled" by the Transcript for over eight years (must be a world's record) makes his hatred of free speech and public access known to the public:Community accessDeLuca, who currently sits on the embattled community access station TV3’s Board of Directors, said if he is elected mayor, he will eliminate funding for public, education and governmental (PEG) access stations and instead steer those dollars to the city’s general budget.“I would want to do away with PEG channels so the money can come to the city,” said DeLuca. “You could still use that money to fund education at the high school — teach them how to put video on the Internet. We’d be freeing up the money to do other things with it.” -
See more at: http://www.wickedlocal.com/x1803293478/ELECTION-2013-Arthur-DeLuca-bills-himself-as-second-best-choi...
That statement has already been mailed to the 3-person Community Access TV Committee and to individuals who want to build a better access TV station. DeLuca's spinning and egregious postings on Patch also bolster the argument that such toxicity would move a new station backwards, not forward, and that the higher standards needed to improve access TV cannot be implemented or achieved with the philosophy DeLuca told the entire city with his "campaign," such as it was.
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The night after the Community Access TV Committee meets there is another City Council meeting where Jeanne Martin has a petition on the agenda - the information is on Councilor Penta's Twitter
https://twitter.com/robertmpentaRobert M. Penta @RobertMPenta 19h
I have two motions prepared for the Medford City Council on February 11, 2014, 14-065 and14-066 plus Jeanne Martin addresses access TV
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So the community will have two opportunities to discuss access TV this week on Monday the 10th at the Medford High School Library and on the 11th at the City Council at Alden Chambers, City Hall.
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We residents are fighting hard to install a new access TV station, find out the financial situation of the old Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. - when its dissolution is complete, where the monies were distributed to, how much money is left for a new station, etc.
Given the high anxiety by Harvey Alberg and Doria Alberg on Patch, ridiculing and throwing rocks, it seems obvious that they are spending so much time attempting to distract the residents of Medford by posting either with their own names or with their plethora of aliases, that something is amiss. Their postings are being forwarded to the police and to the office of the District Attorney as something just doesn't feel right when a Little League shuts down with only $100.00 in the account. Rather than spend their entire lives commenting on Patch, there are two suggestions for the Albergs:
a)Come clean with the meeting minutes and financial statements. Put up or shut up. If your records are squeaky clean the public would expect you would WANT them held out for inspection. If you can't provide the documents and go on smear campaigns, it appears that something very wrong happened under the "guidance" of a self-professed "Money Manager" whose own Alberg Financial company and personal finances are a total wreck on the public record
b)operate your $39.95 seminars for the elderly and your Alberg Financial Corporation, if - indeed - it still is a corporation.
It is very simple. We are looking to build a new access tv station. Under the "guidance" of Harvey Alberg the public was forced to endure Alberg looking at the wrong camera as the "weatherman," forcing an infomercial promoting his for-profit business disguised as a "Money Managers" program, and the ludicrous "Math Man" show hosted by the pariah over at Medford High School, one of the few teachers at the high school, ahem, no longer teaching (to put it nicely.)
You rarely hear that a teacher leaves of their own volition. When a person goes to college to become a teacher and abruptly leaves their position in life to run an insurance company and wreck an access TV station, the public has a right to know exactly who those public figures were at the very public access TV station.
Then there's the false bomb threat indictment by a Grand Jury and the letter from Frank Pilleri to city hall striking a deal with the Issuing Autority for everything to simply "go away."
Those are red flags, people. Doria Alberg going on the attack is a tactic designed to thwart the message. This time the public is hip to the agenda of Harvey Alberg and his use of his wife as the pit bull.
Now, what is the purpose of the new Committee?Purpose
The Community Access TV Committee will develop the guiding principles for the future of community access television in the City of Medford.
The Committee seeks to develop a plan for vibrant community access television in Medford that includes educational and community programming, locally produced content, broadcasts of public meetings and events, increased learning opportunities for students interested in media production, community classes, and enhanced online video capacity.
Meetings
The Committee’s next meeting will be Monday, February 10 at 6:30pm in the Medford High School Library.
Committee Members
Father “Chip” Hines, Chair
Pastor, St. Joseph’s Church
Co-host of “Spotlight,” a movie review show on Catholic TV
Frederick Laskey
MWRA Executive Director
Former co-host of Medford show about energy issues
Allison Goldsberry
Medford Public Schools/City of Medford Webmaster
High school web design teacher and education station coordinator
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The guiding principles don't include spending close to $100,000.00 on lawsuits against the city, and against two former members.TV3 Medford couldn't purchase a building - it was too busy tying up taxpayer monies in a lawsuit against City Hall for $55,000.00. Interesting that no one in the press ever mentioned that Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. lost the lawsuit it filed, though it tied up the Solicitor's office for a couple or few years over such foolishness.
On November 20, 2008, the Medford Transcript posted a story about Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. suing the city of Medford. The station lost the suit, yet claimed (falsely) to the auditors at Melanson, Heath & Co PC that the lawsuit was why they posted 50K in the audit.Despite the end of the performance hearing process between the city and Medford Community Cablevision, aka TV3, the two will again lock horns — but this time in court and over $57,500 in missing funds. - See more at: http://www.wickedlocal.com/x1772954806/TV3-sues-city-for-57k-in-fees#sthash.wcbREj6O.dpuf
Since TV 3 used the lawsuit as an excuse, and tied up taxpayer monies (and the City Solicitor) for years, only to find out they weren't owed $57,500.00, where's the fifty grand Frank Pilleri couldn't account for to the auditors?
Is this what Mr. Pilleri wrote to City Hall about when he said he would dissolved the corporation if the Mayor allows this all to "go away" ???
The new Community Access TV Committee is creating "guiding principles." They probably do NOT include having individuals who sued the city, thought about suing 5 High Street (see the letter to City Hall about that) and who sued members to frighten away other citizens from using access TV. This is what Harvey Alberg, Doria Alberg, Arthur Deluca, Deric Dyer, Dyer's neighbor Ronald Delucia, Francis R. Pilleri, jr., Steve Marra, Jay Ricci, Cornelius Murphy, Daniel Ryan Mailhiot and other board members engaged in, deceptive business practices designed to frighten residents away, this is the kind of thing that the Community Access TV Committee has to learn from and protect us from.
COMMUNITY ACCESS TV COMMITTEE
http://www.medfordma.org/category/community-access-tv/
Mayor McGlynn has appointed Father “Chip” Hines, Frederick Laskey, and Allison Goldsberry to the committee. Father Chip, pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in Medford, will serve as the Committee Chair. Father Chip co-hosts Catholic TV’s movie review show “Spotlight.” Laskey, Executive Director of the MWRA, formerly co-hosted a show in Medford about energy issues. Goldsberry is the webmaster for the Medford Public Schools and City of Medford. She teaches web design at Medford High School and is also in charge of the school’s educational access TV station.
The Community Access TV Committee will develop the guiding principles for the future of community access television in the City of Medford.
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Keep in mind, Mayor McGlynn wanted to appoint Reverend Chip Hines to the Medford Community Cablevision, inc. board of directors. Clearly the Mayor had concern about throwing Father Chip into the lion's den, and Father Chip is now on the Community panel without having to deal with board members who engaged in lawsuits, defamation of character, color bars, no education for Medford residents in cable techniques or computers, etc. etc.
Just look at Doria Alberg's invective on Patch to see what this writer has protected the citizens of Medford from. If D