ok welcome welcome everyone we have reconvened as a board of selectmen and we are now going to hold our varieties and cable licensing agreement ascertainment hearing so this is a statutory hearing that's required as a first step in our negotiation process with horizon over the cable licensing agreement that expires after ten years hard to believe it's been ten years we we went through this process with comcast previously and did you know it you know the process did end up with a new ten year license agreement with comcast and now we're going through this process with the rise in cable it's a statutory hearing so there is a script i have to go through and you know so i ask you to bear with me so that said good evening my name is sammy s baghdadi i'm chairman of the belmont board of selectmen which is the statutory issuing authority with me also our mark palermo vice chair jim williams who is also a member and phyllis marshall our assistant town administrator who has been involved in in this process before going further let me introduce the other members of the board of selectmen i've satisfied that part of the script ok as well as members of the town's cable advisory committee who are in attendance this evening and we have here mark carthy and our newly elected member chet messer and jonathan green who's the chair sitting there as well oh is a well congratulations then ok my mistake the former chair right ok notice of tonight's hearing has been published in the has been published in the boston globe on october twenty second two thousand and fifteen and october twenty ninth two thousand and fifteen what i am going to do is i'm going to ask one of the other members of the board to read the public notice into the record you want to do during its current license term and to hear testimony on future keeble related meet related needs and interests of the belmont community interested parties are encouraged to attend and offer testimony and eat any cable related matters and the applications or reports to be considered at the hearing or available for public inspection of the belmont town hall during their regular business hours in for reproduction at a reasonable fee for more information on the public hearing please call the board of selectmen is office at six point seven nine one three two six one great ok tonight's hearing is mandated by the renewal provisions of the federal cable act the current cable television license held by verizon new england  will expire september twenty seventh two thousand and sixteen the town is currently involved in the federally required ascertainment process the purpose of tonight's hearing is to one identify future cable related community needs and interests and to review the performance of horizon under its current cable television license once the town has gathered community input it will forward the results to arise in what amounts to a request for proposal or r f p this r f p will basically inform horizon of the kinds of services and facilities that the town expects will be provided during any possible renewal term thus the testimony that you will that you will give this evening is very important and i encourage all of you to speak candidly and specifically about any cable related matters you must come up and provide your testimony at the microphone in order for your views to count and be part of the official record so please testify when you come up to speak please give your name and address because this is an ascertainment hearing for the town i ask that you not pose direct questions to of arisan i i direct that you not post your questions two varieties and but pose them to me as the chair for verizon to take note of all testimony and or inquiries should be directed to me finally i would like to clarify that while this is an hearing on cable television matters there are two related subjects over which the board of selectmen has no authority to regulate the first is the rates that verizon charges for its services the second is the commercial programming that verizon chooses to show on its cable systems i realize this these are two important issues for cable subscribers while paper while people are certainly free to comment on these matters this evening it is important for everyone to realize that the selectmen cannot mandate the specific rates that verizon can charge nor can the selectmen mandate the commercial programming that verizon carries on its belmont cable system with those introductory comments i would not i would now like to call on the town's cable advisory committee to make its presentation after that i will open up the hearing to comments and testimony from the public please come up to the microphone and speak understand that the purpose of this hearing is to take in information so as you direct your questions to us they will be noted in the record your questions and concerns but we will not be directly responding to those this evening so we will remain primarily quiet and we will take your comments and for the record but but don't feel disappointed that we are not responding to those comments because that's not the purpose of the hearing tonight with that cable advisory committee members please testify you can you can sit  here so for the record i will ask you to identify yourselves so thank you my name is mark kirk the i'm the chair of the cable t v advisory committee for belmont and again i'll introduce you to my colleagues on the committee jonathan green and chet messer recently appointed very recently heard so i think to begin with and my remarks are actually quite short i really want to thank everyone for coming out this evening and i also thank all of the people who have been very helpful in this process in the past couple of months as you know the belmont media center has been very helpful and will design has designed a survey which will be given hard copy and online and that survey is currently underway and some of it we've already been very pleased with the response so far and for those people who are taking the survey we're very grateful for all the effort because it's very useful to us the cable t v advisory committee as we go forward so a role here as as a committee is to advise the selectmen as to what sort of license terms might be appropriate given the community input that we've received so far and the license terms that we will suggest to be submitted to varieties and so in order to give you a sense as to what's going to happen in the next couple of weeks let me highlight a couple of dates this public hearing is part of the bigger process i've described some of the earlier parts in the ascertainment process but now from here on we have a meeting on wednesday december ninth at four pm it will be a cable t v advisory committee meeting but it's an open meeting where we'll basically assimilate all of the information that we've received to date and formulate a set of recommendations that we'll deliver to the board of selectmen those recommendations will be delivered to the board of selectmen hopefully the next meeting or subsequent meeting that we were we can get on the agenda and we will hope we had we don't have a date for that yet but we're hoping to hear what they that will be sometime after december ninth so we'll be delivering those recommendations to the board at that time assuming that the board agrees with the recommendations or if they have modifications to the recommendations the go then is to set as following that board meeting and submit to for arisan in or of p request for a proposal that will be accompanied by a draft license agreement then that draft license agreement will actually incorporate all of all of basically the suggestions that we've provided to the board of selectmen and which they've approved and those suggestions again will be the result of the input that we've gotten from you who've been very helpful in this ascertainment process so that's basically the timeline going forward i think that we've heard so for can be best summarized in a couple of ways and really it's obvious from all the testimony that we will hear tonight that the belmont media center has really become an integral part of the town in the last ten years and it's really not a luxury anymore it's really become a necessity part of our town people rely on the media center for its ability to communicate with the public and to better tie the public to government for the training that it can do both training of children to training of adults in media literacy and it's really quite important so i think what the board of selectmen can expect that from this committee there will be a strong set of recommendations that will advocate for the continued support of the media center not only at its current level but actually at enhanced level so that it will continue to fulfill the mission that it set out to do similarly although we've talked mostly about the media center this evening the new set of recommendations will be delivering to the board of selectmen law to encompass other issues that are important to the community at large like an equitable rate structure that is more sensitive to the needs of seniors as well as just overall a constant high level of quality high level of customer service that we've going to demand from fries so those are the sort of broad brush items that are a small subset of what you'll hear and like to hear more about on december ninth when we summarize the details  survey and that's the summary that i have at the moment and i hopefully you'll of tune in and to see those results thank you very much ok thank you mark will you e mail copies of what you read representative of horizon present here tonight ok i guess not and now that the cable advisory committee members have testified i'd like to hear from resident of belmont and i came here i didn't know anything about verizon or comcast or the belmont media center but i soon learned about it because they were involved in schools and they were teaching the kids how to make movies and become journalists and playwrights and then i was able to watch on television and see what our town politics were doing and realizing there were some things that i disagreed with and i started to get involved in that and then i would see out i used to coach soccer and basketball and the kids would be on the team and they would say we were on t v and it was because of the belmont media center so that i would went to the bell media center to thank them for all the nice programming that they did and they asked me if i want to get involved and then i started doing the christmas tree  ceremony and i got it we started the food pantry telethon which raised a lot of money for people that struggle and belmont the belmont media center i have people that tell me when we had our last election that the only way they were able to get the results was watching that because no one else knew what was going on so it really is the first line news for a bunch of people about things that they're extremely concerned about i love the belmont media center and i love verizon and comcast for recognizing how important it is for a community to stick together this helps our seniors who can't get out we show all sorts of programs on television from children to seniors to exercise programs to music programs and i want to thank the bellamy the offender for all they do there are so many volunteers are there so many people sitting in this audience that don't get paid anything that show up at our sporting events and make our kids feel proud and show how good our schools are in our teachers are because of the talent that they put on display for the whole community so thank you media center and thank you of arisan for another decade of wonderful funding by hi that both the it without belmont media center i'm not sure that that the twenty five year anniversary of the pay some part music festival would have gotten there i think they expanded our coverage they always brought volunteers to do our our videos and so that's one of the programs that they've been very helpful people who are who cannot get out get to watch those concerts that take place on wednesday evenings in the summer so without their help we would have been able to do that the second thing that i've been involved with i've been attempting to do belmont rising with two co hosts and this is our third year belmont rising is belmont's program to talk about ending domestic violence toward women and we bring in we bring in speakers we had the saheli foundation we had two attorneys who represented the framingham eight so we've learned an awful lot we have two more programs hopefully we'll get them done before the end of two thousand and fifteen and then we've already had some commitment from marion ryan she has a great program called cut it out and i wanted to bring her in with a hairdresser so you know these are programs that are of interest and we hope will maybe maybe give support and confidence to people who might be otherwise struggling with domestic violence the third thing is and being my counterpart on the opposite side of the table i chair the belmont republican town committee in and i have served as she said we gave them we did our election night coverage and people watched and we're grateful wasn't you know when charlie one that was great night for us but you know there have been other nights where we haven't won in a man has won but at any rate belmont media has provided us with meeting space we've had book signings way back in the day we you why am i yeah he did a book signing for us we also had a state representative campaign announcement from there so now my media has been very supportive i want to you know say especially jeff it's been great julie has been outstanding julie to stefano she's been there every time i've needed any any help so i hope that in your negotiations with  you can encourage them to maintain the minimal support at the minimum support but actually they need more resources to do even more thank you i'm a member of the tom meeting precinct for member of the human rights commission the cultural council the armenian genocide commemoration committee of boston the masters of centennial armenian genocide commemoration committee member of palms that's parents of music students and i'm a volunteer producer at belmont media center and i would like to applaud belmont media center for doing such a fantastic job and moving exponentially for the last ten years twenty years and that's with the help of comcast and arisan so what i would like to see being a producer is to see true h d programming right now when a program is produced in h d it is downgraded to the and then it's shown on cable as s d i would like to see it shown in full h d i'd like to see more state of the art equipment  center for example additional cameras camera harnesses makes it easier to move around and to carry those bigger ments camera monitors audio microphones faster editing equipment computers and simpler but effective editing software the software that there is right now it's for some people it may be complex so if they have easier editing equipment i think more people would be willing and would not be afraid to get their hands dirty in this area dollies wireless field transmissions i see wireless is because  it would be well i'll mention it later on the capability to transmit live programming that's why i said wireless from town facilities and anywhere in town not just in buildings outside and also in buildings that are not town buildings let's say a church or something like that so a wireless transmission would be very very beneficial something similar to  skype i'd like to see ed ethnic programming representing the thirty six or more different nationalities in town and it would be very nice to see who your neighbors are  more human rights programming including police and pound safety drill programs i like to see more programming of the district's cultural and performing arts diversity religious programming and also i like to see the creation of an atmosphere to encourage and train middle school and high school students to participate in the audio visual arts undertaking production responsibilities of events in their schools that would make more programming available to the community and these are just my thoughts and i would hello i'm marion scaly i am chammy member from freezing to but i'm here to represent the belmont league of women voters of which i'm the president and i voted myself to represent you tonight and so the league would like to thank the media center they have been absolutely wonderful over the twenty years not just the ten years from belmont has gone and each time we have a candidates night they happily come and do everything for our us any voter information meetings we've had they've always been very helpful in the town relies on that many of the older people in town who you don't see watch cable television and they know more than a lot of us joe because they don't miss a heartbeat and they have a lot of opinions to talk about so the league would like to thank the media center and julie and jeff and paul kerry who's no longer with us i mean he's living but it's you and on the other hand nancy sarahs who is the president of the belmont women's club member i'm resenting them tonight too we'd like to thank the media center for all their help and i personally was on the cable committee that have choose some of the people that are working on the cable advisory committee now and i was part of the media center in the high school and i have to agree with the previous speaker i think it would be wonderful if you had asked them to do more programming with the high school kids and the middle school kids it is so important the only thing i regret is that they had to leave the high school but they have a great center where they are in it's fabulous and everything the previous media person said who seems to be very happy and what he's talking about i totally agree with the more you have in the future for the media that's what's important so the league thanks the media center and the women's clubs and verizon for carrying our service for the last ten years and i think i'm speaking on behalf of all religious organizations whose service is being broadcast it because it is a very valuable connection to our members and expression of the elderly who has been shouting a war with the mobility issues this is the last remaining one of the last remaining connections that they really value and in surprise how many people are watching so i really thank you for that and if i have a two wishes first one is that many of those elderly's also do not have a good eyesight so i think it would be wonderful if wor services broadcasted in h d indeed stace and it will give their life you know much joy and second no unease people have been saying that they have hard time finding the programs so if the media center program is broadcast it also in the programming channel there will be very helpful but i'm here to say thank you in behalf of our churches for having this connection with the wider community and thank you  chairperson board thank you for letting me speak my name is jay fed again i live in fifteen carrollton road in belmont i've been a resident for more than ten years and i am a documentary filmmaker and film producer i've been working in the field of media for more than thirty years and the belmont media center is just a tremendous facility you know the the equipment the studios the editing that available to people to use and especially that so much of it is that either no cost or low cost to students teachers i also have to say that as a professional i've taught several classes at the media center i'm thrilled to be able to give back to the community and show people how to work the equipment give them some basic production techniques and even talk through with some of the people to to put together and produce the shows that they put on line i think it's just a tremendous facility also the mass the flash film festival i've been a judge on the for that festival since it started you know the way that it you know there's been a lot of talk about different age groups the way it invigorates the young if you look at this last year the you know i don't know what the average age was but it was pretty young and it was great to see people get excited about a video about filmmaking and have such a tremendous facility that they can use to to get that and the staff i mean everybody there is just terrific they know what they're doing  the h d channels and you know a lot of people just kind of are only in the h d world anymore these days other t v and it be nice to see these channels on there so you know i want to thank verizon of course for their continued commitment and to you know this panel for listening to me tonight and oh and one other thing the spelling bee from wellington from last year it's still on my d v r i've got two kids of that big so it's a great resource thank c and i do hope for eyes and will look upon them very favorably in the future i started five years ago with b m c the support of that group is enormous it's very important for just getting started you can do way beyond local with this kind of facility they're very generous and very competent with the technology with the software development stuff and with the helping people develop programs and they're very good with the device advice and everything else i can't say enough they're also that that group a c is is really puts itself at the service of the producers and this is an enormous community kind of benefit but you can go much further than just an immediate community with these kinds of facilities and i do hope they'll keep it up thank you thank you my name is dolores b doll my address is forty dalton road and i feel quite privileged few able to speak to you and like to impress upon you  the value that i feel b m c provides to belmont i've had the privilege of being interviewed on one of the programs that is aired  and i'm sure it won't come to your mind immediately so i might as well tell you which one it is what's going on and we knew that you could you were and it it has given me an opportunity to meet people who provide services in the town or talk about things that are of interest to people in town i mean from whatever is going on in the town to whatever services are being provided like for example cluttery sizing down making important moves in people's lives these are all very valuable services that i think are provided by the belmont media center we have local artists it's also an art gallery people are able to exhibit the works that they produce then and there all the local sports and there's the music in the and it's a place where the children can learn about media producing aspects and i find it a very lively place and i have to second or third or fourth on it that have been made regarding how helpful the staff is and how welcoming they are so i just feel that technicalities about a g and so on are a little bit beyond me but i'm going to second them anyway and i thank you for the opportunit good evening and i thank you for hosting and allowing us to have a voice my name is kevin she and i'm belmont resident with my family for ten years i've been building innovative businesses in the commonwealth for twenty five years since i left the harvard business school including a national retail brand and we're now building a nonprofit called hope collaborative right here in belmont to provide leadership development education for non profits and kids who are disadvantaged around metro boston and around the syria a couple things just to amplify i've met members of our community who've been touched by this network everywhere i go from a seventh grader who interview you had me about a leadership book that i wrote on the network a b m c two seniors who have broadcast news on the network you seem to be everywhere and verizon therefore is everywhere around this town the second idea that i want to share with you that hasn't been talked about is that you know facebook is only eight years old and this new video media storytelling component of our society is new but it is now as essential as tap water and writing pencils and the things that we used to consider essential it's a new means of connecting and communicating that fifteen years ago didn't exist but now is part of the flow and fabric of every kid's lives in this town every adult life in this town  my generation baby boomers use it to communicate and be part of life it's about storytelling and storytelling is primal and old but now there's a new way to do it through recorded media and that place story at a show about leadership and kids in poverty and what it means for them to develop their voice and to find their authentic self and to therefore heal and come out of poverty together with the great so i'm just here to testify to the power of what's going on and thank you offer for your time thank you good evening the name is john leonard in kind of an outsider because i'm a town meeting member for mowing to have also a forty year employee retired from her eyes in two thousand and ten and once i saw the notice in the paper i felt necessary to appear before you not so much to say say bad things about the rising but to bring some facts to your attention which may or may not have bearing in your negotiations the number one priority right now is that the union in the company have been in contract negotiations since june twenty third and latest reports have it that it doesn't look very good so it might be something to keep in the back you mind that i'm not saying there's a possibility of going out or anything like that but it might have some bearing the rise in how we're going to be affected if there is a bad thing that happens number two is what a lot of people  basically say we'll do something for you with your contracts and stuff if you can clear up some of this stuff to tang it off the poles and stuff like that there we had very little success the board of select town meeting members that particular time that we got a resolution passed is that you have to understand something in today's day and age that whether people are rising or any other utility they don't make any money by taking stuff out there you make money by putting it in and that is why you see a lot of stuff just hanging on the polls right now because if they don't make any money  the scariest part is information i just received a couple days ago i'd rather not give out the source but i was told that as of right now for a rise in has sold company that sold off three states a fair point that sold off ten other states to frontier and now all the polls in braintree and winchester have been sold hundred fifty one fifty thousand pounds again we know admitting no disrespect to the previous speakers but i thought it would be necessary to bring up a couple of these points to you think hi my name is christine john and i'm coming to you tonight as a member of the board for the foundation for belmont education and also coming to you as a belmont citizen and founding member of the board of the belmont mia center and also  member of the media industry itself for more than twenty years representing the f b i just like to reiterate a lot of the points that are made tonight that the ballad media center does provide an essential an important means for the a to share its news and events about the organization and about its collaboration with the public school system and with others in the community i think so many mention the spelling bee earlier it's very wildly popular as you know and many many parents and students across the town do watch it in order to watch the results of see how people did but there's other news about special presentations from you know invited guests in other events at the school there aren't a lot of outlets in belmont for us to share information about what we're doing and as a community organization who depends upon the generous donations of our community in order to help support our schools it's important for us in turn to have outlets like the belmont media center in order to share with the community what we're doing and so media center becomes a very important part of that ecosystem as a citizen and as a founding board member of vomit media center and also as a member of the media industry just want to also reiterate the importance of how since we live in a digital age having an opportunity to educate the public about media is very important i think that it's really important that we continue the classes at the ballot media center has to offer in order to allow our community members to explore media in different ways the belmont media centers classes give our children an opportunity to learn skills in media that they aren't exposed to in the school system and that they don't have access to otherwise but it gives adults a real opportunity as well there are many adults who use the classes in the media center to help retrain themselves so they can explore new careers for themselves in media and it also provides an importance you know avenue for self expression and for creativity as a public relations executive now i can tell you that the public access channels are important means for government at all levels here in the state of massachusetts i know of  state level you know officials themselves who specifically say they rely on the cable access channels in order to help them reach their constituents when they want to share information and news and lastly i just like to point out that channels like the belmont media center provide an important avenue as citizens for us to express our first amendment rights to free speech that provides that ability for us to express ourselves and our views thank you thank you music special music for my show there so this is just one of them and i was i didn't know what to be mc was all about and then i was invited to come in the i was sure the equipment and i went then issue a good and i was very impressed and before i knew i was sucked in and i've my name is brian saper i'm not thirty three year resident of belmont and i'm not speaking to you tonight as a volunteer cameramen at belmont media center tonight i'd like to represent the effort see ben library which is a volunteer run organization in our town under the auspices  we provide an five a one c three organization an opportunity for residents to come in and take advantage of our services and our facilities and i think it would be of great value to us to have the rise and provide us with internet and television service and perhaps phone to offer to the people that come in to enhance the services and facilities we offer thank you thank you  good evening my name is scott stratford resident alexander ave twelve year member of the boston belmont school committee tamim from precinct eight i'm here this evening to read into the record for the statutory purposes a statement of support from d during the proceedings b m c also provides extensive sports and fine and performing arts coverage through staff student and parent volunteer involvement some examples of that on the air and on demand available on their website  vaillant helps provide a venue for b m see footage to show all the good news about the belmont school district through their outreach program b m c enthusiastically gets involved in student and teacher projects last year b m c provided in studio training to fifty high school students into english classes for a learning module that had students record their essays there will also be three programs going on this year across the school district for english large language arts curriculum our director this fall they're working with middle school student t v teachers and three hundred middle school students the entire each grade and how to set up a remote studio to film their mock trials c also brings in professionals in film and television production to help in this regard as well as having seminars that all can attend in january the cinematographer of the television show mad men is coming to be mc to do a seminar on how to use visuals to tell a story b m c also has a video training series for equipment and producing really be able to belmont residents teachers and students online as well as customized teacher technology training available upon teacher request the partnership with the students and teachers have averaged approximately five times a year but is growing as more teachers use technology in their curriculum and utilize b m c for this and for training there are more innovative uses coming this year b m c is doing a series on preparing students to go to college with the belmont high school p t o the series to be entitled preparing for college and it will showcase experts in the field such as college recruiters tutors and financial experts this is already available on the b m c website as an easy to use resource for parents and students and will be shared on the b h f website students also have the opportunity to learn remote and studio camera operations skills that are transferable to the current job market and i would add very much in the interest of today's visually oriented students student shows are on the air and the belmont film club a beach a student club is using the media center to do their short films which saw teams from graduate belmont participate in the end you will mass flash film festival one of the other speakers refer to this last october having belmont media center as a partner and a friend has been invaluable for our teachers and students from teaching skills that can be used in the real world to real in real job situations as well as giving the teachers the opportunity to add technology to their classroom to their curriculums sincerely john p feeling some kind of school's going to massachusetts i forgot to add that i and if someone from rising were here i would point out to them that as of many other speakers already have the available the availability of high definition broadcasts for the channels that we serve the public with through verizon would not only enhance readers viewership i believe would also increase viewership as you know verizon has roughly sixty percent of the market here in belmont i would submit that they would do better that they would have a competitive advantage where they to make a very miniscule investment in a few additional high definition channels so that the caliber of the work that's done at the media center can be shared with the public in the way this produced rather than having to be actually downgraded for the public to see chairman my name is jim williams i'm a reza resident of belmont i stand to request that and consider some accommodation for those living in affordable housing and perhaps a senior discount so they mix experience the benefits so aptly described this evening this is something that we didn't achieve with regard to the comcast licensing and i'd like to see some consideration from bribes and in this regard  the service is much more than just entertainment as we've heard tonight and i think it's an important link to the community for families in their children thank you you thank  tonight this evening to represent in the belmont food pantry i'm the director of the belmont food pantry and oh a little over five years ago the previous editor of the belmont citizen harold and jeff met with me to discuss this  why don't we do a telethon at the media center studio for the belmont food pantry december twelfth of this year will be our fifth year of doing this it is a great support for the food pantry we've raised probably over the last four years almost you know ten at least ten thousand dollars it's a great afternoon for everybody we bring all different types of musical talents and we bring special gas we talk about you know how what the food pantry is doing and how to support it and i think it also adds a chance for anybody who has musical talent which we are now looking for their ten minutes of fame and we've had all the kids from dancing to special musicians to different types of music so it's been a great support for the food pantry it's another venue for us to get the word out to the public that we do exist and to educate people on you know that we do need this food pantry and it also you know let everybody know that those who are in need where to go and to help those awesome thank you thank you and the other comments how could you not well i've i'm jeff fans of the executive director of the belmont media center i just want to thank all the folks who have come tonight to present their comments they really said it all so i really appreciate the time you've all taken to weigh in on this and i'm really not going to say very much except that we did a ten year report in two thousand and fourteen so as we wrap up the surveys that are out there now and by the way folks there are copies of the hard copy surveys right out here if any of you want to do it on hard copy rather than online and you'll see which one you can pick up on the top of the survey and then a fight that and as we pick up those surveys and before november twenty third we will put on the public record a new ten year report maybe ten eleven your report i don't know or nine your report and we'll include some of that input so that is it is current but that's really what  the meat of what i wanted to say tonight and i thank you for your continued support ok thank you jeff finally if there's a representative of the rise and who would like to make a brief statement you may do so now ok there is not concluding remarks if there's no further testimony that concludes tonight's public hearing i will keep i will keep tonight's hearing open for fourteen days in order to receive additional testimony interested parties are encouraged to submit written testimony on any brain or related issue discussed tonight or indeed regarding any cable related issue written testimony or comments must be submitted to the board of selectmen office by november twenty five two thousand and fifteen those comments should be sent to the board of selectmen office town hall four fifty five concord avenue  massachusetts zero two four seven eight if you have any questions about tonight's hearing or the cable television or process please call the board of selectmen office at six one seven nine nine three t