The last meeting for the Gillette Public Access Television Board will take place Thursday following a decision to disband the corporation.

“Initially the GPA Board was set up as a nonprofit to oversee Gillette Public Access Television which served as a nonprofit entity,” explains public information officer Joe Lunne. “GPA was brought into the city in 2001, and since that time, all of the oversight, the budgeting, paying the bills, management decisions have been overseen by the city. And so we really felt like they weren’t necessarily acting in the advisory capacity that they were when the nonprofit actually began.”

Lunne says the City of Gillette is thankful for all the members who served on the GPA Board from the present all the way back to its inception in 1993.

Although Gillette Public Access Commission, Inc. will be dissolved, Lunne says GPA’s coverage of local events will remain the same.

“Nothing is going to change,” he says. “GPA will still be covering public meetings and filming different activities throughout the city.”

In the meantime, Lunne reminds the public that GPA Television is always looking for volunteers.

“If you’re interested in having your own television show, come on down and they’ll set you up,” Lunne says.  “A lot of people don’t understand the kind of work that goes into that, but that’s what public access is for.”