01-25-1988 - Agenda Packet City Council - regular meeting

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MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE December 21, 1987 State Senate live/Cable TV planned By Orepr, W. Planar Suter Writer The "Ism" above the Mind ewu Senate chamber are dark and quiet plain Saute liven up oeaelONlly when classes of squirming school ehlWnn troop in and art hahed to ulence by their sachem But for the mat pan, they are ftauemed by lobbyist, tourists and A few citizen observer. A concept has emerged that the ylleri s should be"pllddd, not by bnc and mortar but by electromes. an the view fee the pllena an be bought into Minnow living rooms. And that idea may come to life in Feb" or March with able klauioa coverage t Md. of the 1991 sesuon. "We "of a regular minutoe fee people In lum to ifthey want to know more about the Senate or its prose itga;' mid Mark Not all 0wr stating will 6e sekvisM, al lent not a fins. Probably only the mace inlereslin{ones. And commilta aenloa Alto lcould be tekviacd when farm ofwlde Itertat an being hashed over. ebMary. Mach and April, he nil, and the money would Dome wl of the Senate" Rental operating fund. The Se nse's electronic eye Is also Insirtstrrgg beyond the .-.ropulisan arts. A statewide able hookup m.ght be in Ihe works in IAe The Sense would fumrt w bong pvebto.pvel coverage of pert point the shown, and lew l." sesoom much like the atioaal she coati beyond ,teas puns would be home GSPAN network ofaryrenioal by able compmn,aceordtng to Nelson. Activities, Abe in the weds art plant to feed code network, with "vlddotak" lining committpe achedula and other con,umer' information. Vldeolext is A wren of leak wmelimes moving up one line at a time. In the background might be the aounds of$ committee or floor session. Nelson and his mural. an planning scene "produced" slow, where a senator or two arc lboupht into a studio to answer phoned-m question,. The show might be fed back to the arnalori' home distress to conelilus a long dinano "low, m[etip,^ Nelson said. Nelson, chmom, of mW a ser d. for the Senase."It', rally expndrng the Seas ve..Allof WaspobdNLAiljapibo�n f69,000 That's UKllery. That's comxpt' -&•'teYt The Senate plan, to neat amen, and wire f F them to a eninowaec disk on the roofer the Capitol to bum the image Orly, Senate in action to able sYale., hooked up to more than 200,000 homes in the metropGun arts, or The Senate, with conaremom from the Mouse, t through a resolution last spring ailing for a study ofthe feasibility of broadcasting kpidalive meeting, An advisory committee is looking Into the matter and will report by Feb. I. A full statewide hookup l mbably wouldn'tstar soul 1989. And even deal year's ki islative show, art not ^main. If depends on the auppon of ads companies, mid Nelson, who has been meeting with able orlciau A prime suppesu N lekvisioe coveraRe is the body's political header, Sete Roger Moe, DFLFiakile. "Par of the prison of serving in pudi...ife is informing the White of what you do And how you do ik" said the Mayon's leader. And with lechnologicwl change,, you use the tahnokgy avutabk As beat you on to inform the pudic about what's going on. "Obviously, the hope is that moo people know about the proem," Moe mid. "And the more that they knew about the title and drives we spend w making decision they'll kww how senora we sake All of this And maybe they%I take their mapmmobilities more acdwdy, whether in voting or running for public office themselves" Live television could give the pudic mart of the give and take of legislative drnwon- aking and would allow deeper coveys ofcomplex inure, Mpe said. "Vw Moll "plain the school aid formula in 40 aecmids on radio or TV on the evening news," he aid. "And they never give a enough newspaper span. Now I'm mot sarng live TV would don n well for everybody, but As teas, for those who want to watch Ile"