Little Falls Cable Review Board ■■ UPDATED ■■regular quarterly meeting 7-17-17

This is what I emailed to Jon Radermacher and others today...see below 

The newest communication about this subject that is becoming more sickening by the minute, will be posted at the top of the page for easy update reference. This is the latest communication I got from Mark Slupe(GRA-TV station mgr) today 7-20-17

The above letter is in response to the email I sent on Monday 7-17-17, the day the Cable Board mtg was held on. (See below)

This email below was sent to Mark on June 3rd, 2017

The following correspondences may be out of order, but at least you get to see the communication between Mark Slupe and myself.

This is a picture(above) taken off my tv, showing Mark was illegally airing this business advertisement.(as per GRA TV policies and procedures)

 These character generator announcements prove that Mark gave these shows 3 airings per week.....but our new shows "Billionaires" and "Church and State" never got an announcement like this, that I requested in December 2016, and our shows were only aired once per week. So Mark is controlling free speech, by limiting some and giving more to others. Everything that comes out of anybodys mouth is free speech....but Mark does not understand that. In fact, dance, signs, and many other things are free speech.  One of his job requirements is understanding all the laws that pertain to public access tv.

 Why is Mark airing school board meetings on the public access channel when they have their own educational channel?  Poor judgement or is he too lazy to recruit more individuals to produce new shows?

Other than our productions, Mark is airing almost ALL old shows produced and filmed by past managers. Why? 

Because he spends MOST of his worktime filming, editing and other jobs for Great River Arts Association. That's why.

Here is another big issue.....Atomic Learning produces videos in the public access studio, but GRA TV policies and procedures, ban using the stdio for profit making. Atomic Learning PAYS to use the public access studio and the money is paid to Great River Arts Association.

Theresa Skorseth and I requested in writing on March 4, 2017 a hearing for our grievances between the 2 of us and Mark Slupe GRA TV station manager, as per the GRA TV policies and procedures policy adopted November 12, 2014 (as seen in the photos below).

We were then told that we would be able to address the Cable Review Board at their next meeting April 17, 2017(instead of giving us a hearing within 10 days of the disputes. City administrator Jon Radermacher should have scheduled a hearing for us with the Cable Review Board 10 days from March 4, 2016 when I emailed him and copied GRA TV staff/general manager Jill Moore and station manager Mark Slupe, as well as our Ward 1 representative Leif Hanson, who is on the Cable Review Board(as mandated by the city charter). It is clearly one of Jon Radermachers duties to supervise the city boards. I had a family emergency so I could not attend that meeting on April 17,2017, so I emailed Jon Radermacher and all others again, requesting another date for our hearing.

Jon Radermacher emailed me back and said we could address the board at the July 17, 2017 meeting, but when we attended that meeting yesterday, we were not even listed on the agenda.  Conveniently Leif Hanson, Al Sandquist, and former LFPD officer Thor Lindquist, did not show, so there was no quorum.  Ironically, someone had added a "public comment" category to the meeting agenda, and Jay Spillum(Cable Review Board president) told us, it was during this time, that we could talk, but were limited to 5 minutes.

Hear what Theresa and I had to say at       16:50 minutes into the video.

In the early part of the video, you can see Jay Spillum pointing to Jon Radermacher and saying that Jon had emailed all of the board members about the meeting held 7-17-17.  The date for the next meeting is always listed on the agenda of the meeting....so all of the members were aware at their April 17, 2017 meeting that the next scheduled meeting would be in July.

It was stunning to discover that president Jay Spillum, had no knowledge of the GRA TV policies and procedures, that this board is to oversee, according to the city website and the city charter. (see pictures below).  He states during the meeting that he has never heard of them(or something to that effect).  Listen to his comments about our hearing of disputes with GRA TV staff.  Shocking. He suggests the entire Cable Review Board may resign because they don't want to be bothered with their required duties.(meeting for Cable Review Board hearings when users of GRA TV have disputes with GRA TV staff.)

Both of these films and 2 others were produced in GRA TV sudio, produced by Mark Slupe illegally(for profit making....these are commercial advertisements for private business vendors in Susy Prosapios downtown business. What a sham. Corrupt as all get out. Reason for termination.