CABLE TV - COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT - UPDATE MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Community Meetings scheduled for May 24th & 25th - June 8th & 9th The City and County of San Francisco has announced (4) more cable franchise renewal Community Needs Assessment meetings. Your attendance at one of these meetings is critically important to the future health & stability of community media and public access television in San Francisco. We strongly encourage you to attend at least one of these meetings to tell the City what local resources you want out of a renewed cable franchise with Comcast, including on-going, sustainable operations and capital support for your public access channel and facilities. The meetings are listed below. If you are unable to attend these meeting, you may also send comments to: cable.franchise@sfgov.org Thank you for your support! --------------------------------------------------------- Meetingsare scheduled for the following dates & times: - Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 7:00 PM Junipero Serra Clubhouse - 300 Stonecrest Drive - Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 10:30 AM (NOTE: Daytime Meeting!) Tenderloin Recreation Center - 570 Ellis Street - Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 7:00 PM Sunset Recreation Center - 2201 Lawton Street - Thursday, June 9, 2005 - 7:00 PM Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts - 2868 Mission Street For more information & helpful maps to the above locations, please go to http://www.mediasf.org/index.php/articles/189 For more information on what's at stake with S.F.'s cable franchise renewal, click here to go to the San Francisco Media Advocates Website. - The City's community meetings are being hosted by an outside consultant in order to hear from local citizens & nonprofit organizations directly about the future of cable and related digital technologies in San Francisco. - These meetings are the only opportunity that San Franciscans will have to provide public input on the City's future cable-related needs prior to closed-door negotiations between the City & Comcast later this year. - This is your chance to get involved, spread the word in your neighborhood, and help shape the digital future of San Francisco!  Click here to learn more about the community needs assessment process.