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Annual Report/2007 A second application for funds was allotted to cover costs of $37,000 from the equipment grant to upgrade the master control room to fiber from an analog signal. This upgraded the program signal quality for CTV3 and programs cablecast from city hall on the local cable system. The fiber line for CTV3 was completed during 2007 and a fiber modulator installed to connect the city to the Time Warner Cable fiber network. The third application of $50,000 of the initial grant is slated for offset costs for Coaxial [-Net capital expenses, the cost for a two-year period for Institutional Network (I -Net) equipment maintenance. The city plan migrated away from the (I -Net) prior to June 30`h, 2007 to new technology including fiber and internet. Notification was sent previously in August 2005 to all I -Net users, schools, college and city fire departments to notify them of this change and to encourage them to plan accordingly for this migration. Santa Ana College and the City of Santa Ana are now both connected to fiber. Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) made their own arrangements to continue utilizing the I -Net with Time Warner Cable and they are the only Educational Channel users that have not made this transition. Alexandra Ito, Santa Ana Unified School District engineer stated the school district has opted to pay for a year of maintenance (2008) with Time Warner while they are preparing to install a cable fiber connection line for the SAUSD educational television channel. • Programming and playback was completed for a total of 46 programs for CTV3 during 2007 by Time Warner Cable. Program playback responsibility migrated to the City of Santa Ana on January 3, 2008. To achieve the programming transition, the city purchased playback channel equipment during 2007. After installation, a playback operator technician, Mr. Dean Phan was hired and trained to playback the city's programs including programs such as City Council Meetings, Orange County Board of Supervisor Meetings, outside videos obtained for the channel, video shorts and public service announcements. The city produces and records its own city council meetings and is now totally independent from production assistance at Time Warner Cable. • Cable Assistance Plan- Time Warner continues to provide low-ncome cable assistance for all those who qualify including seniors. The city worked to establish a senior discount rate, however Time Warner is offering the low-income service to all. This is a discount of 20% of the Time Warner Standard Cable service. Those purchasing Standard Cable at $50.00 dollars would receive a discount of $10.00 from their cable bill. Subscribers may also purchase a limited level of service for 2