AR 021709 follow-up prior public comment

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Mr. Fuzane has explained to us that - after the meeting of January 20th when he was taking steps to review the digital recording of the meeting and set it up for a re -broadcast on Channel 3 - he noticed that the hard drive that is used for this purpose was full. He also noticed that the digital version had stopped recording after approximately 32 minutes into the meeting.2 He completed the task of finalizing the DVD recordings, and left for the night, leaving until the next day the task of replacing the incomplete digital recording with a copy of the DVD version for re -broadcast on Channel 3. The following morning, Mr. Fuzane archived the 2006 and 2007 meetings to make room on the hard drive for the recording of the January 20th and future meetings. Mr. Fuzane then began downloading the January 20th meeting from the DVD version to the hard drive. He began this downloading process at 10:24 a.m. and ended after 2:00 p.m. Since this investigation began, Mr. Fuzane has put together a timeline related to this DVD downloading process, which almost certainly explains what happened to cause Mr. Grossich's comments to be impacted. He looked back at the re -broadcast schedule for Channel 3, and he discovered that - while his DVD -to -hard drive download process was occurring between 10:24 a.m. and after 2:00 p.m. - Channel 3 was broadcasting scheduled programs which consist of slides and videos .3 While subsequent research has shown that the broadcasting of slides during the downloading process does not appear to present any problems, the broadcasting of videos does. One hour and thirty-four minutes and fifty four seconds (1:34:54) into the download process (at 12:00 noon), Channel 3 broadcast a video (Colton Welcome), which ran for one minute and twenty-three seconds (1:23) until 12:01:23, followed by a video (Vets Park Ground Breaking), which ran for six minutes and thirty-seven seconds (6:37) until 12:07:50, followed by a third video (CART 2"d Class), which ran for six minutes and twenty second (6:20) until 12:14:10. While the total time of the broadcast videos (14:20) is longer than the apparent "lost" time on the digital version of the January 20th meeting (approximately 9:26), this is almost certainly the cause of the problem. The timing of the first "Colton Welcome" video broadcast on Channel 3 at noon (1:34:54) into the DVD download process) coincides almost precisely with the time frame of the problem in the January 20th meeting. That is, when you view the problematic digital recording of the January 20th meeting, the "glitch" first appears at the one hour and thirty-four minutes and fifty-seven seconds (1:34:57) mark of the meeting, which is almost the precise time frame into the DVD download process. After a thorough research into the cause, Mr. Fuzane discovered through the hard drive manufacturer that the hard drive can halt some frames when a video recording coincides with a scheduled video broadcast. It is not a precise problem, but the "static" nature of the interruptions resembles the way that regular television stations behave when they get a static interruption. The "glitches" appear to be jumpy or "static" in nature, rather than clear edits or cuts. If a person were to edit the video, there would be clean cuts in between clips, not a static. 2 Since the City Attorney responded with preliminary information to Mr. Grossich via email on Monday, February 9th and to inquiring reporters on that same date, his discussions with staff have lead to further relevant details. Those details will be provided in this report. 3 All slides and videos that are broadcast on Channel 3 are also stored on the same hard drive as the City's digital recordings of meetings. 4 ORANGEODERLETI n54438.6