 Welcome to the annual meeting of ACMI. This year, we're obviously doing it via Zoom because we can't all be up in the studio for obvious reasons, COVID being one of them. And tonight, I'm not even sure of our whole production. I imagine it's gonna just be like one of the, if we were in the studio, but just take a minute to introduce the board members that are with us tonight. I'll let Norm do the staff when I'm done. We have Michael Ruderman, our treasurer. Oh, Nancy, I'm forgetting your last name. I'm sorry, I know it, Nancy. There's two lost names. I'm gonna make you think. I know. Nancy Flynn-Barvik. Barvik. Nancy Flynn-Barvik was one of our board members on our newer board members, Rihanna Ash. Were you here last year, Rihanna? Yes, it was my first one. Oh, it was her first one last year. So she's been through a year, although this year we've had remarkably few board meetings because of COVID. Our other board members can't be with us tonight. Otherwise, that's about it. The only thing that the board has to do tonight is we're gonna just reappoint our same officers, our slate of officers and directors. And I'm gonna just assume that everybody is in favor of that. So I'll just take a yes, and our Madam Clerk, Ms. Flynn-Barvik will note that in her records. And that's it for me. Thank you. All right, and we will next hear from Michael Ruderman as the Treasurer. Pleasure to be with you tonight. This is my fourth annual meeting as Treasurer of ACMI. Let me give you a report on some of the business matters of ACMI. We have moved out of our Studio B on Mass Ave, 892 Mass Ave. After some contention with the landlord regarding the landlord's intentions for the property, but I can report to you tonight, good news, we have signed a lease for the next year plus to have a room at Arlington High School. And when this, I believe it's like a 16, 18 month lease, we have, when that comes up, we fully expect to extend that into the future. So our Studio B will be located inside of Arlington High. One of the advantages of this, of course, is that it puts us closer to the population that Studio B intends to serve. Another advantage is that it's free. We will spend money on outfitting it, of course, but it certainly lightens the loss of the tenant improvements that we could not take with us from 892 Mass Ave. The two other points. Our investment of our endowment continues to do well. One of the first things I did as treasurer four years ago was to move a portion of the savings that the previous boards had accumulated over the years and get that invested into a combination or blend of equities and bonds. We are hedged against market crash by investing in bonds. We are also trying to take advantage as to the extent that it is prudent in the activity or some might say volatility of the stock market. Over the last four years, we have been very well served by the blend of investments that our professional hired managers have put us in. I calculated after expenses at about eight and a half, maybe 8.67% annual gain. I'll tell you, four years ago, I would have been very happy to report a nice steady four and a half, 5% gain. Looking at an endowment fund, that's a very solid number to shoot for year after year after year. That means that you're growing the money responsibly. It has been a very volatile number of years in the stock market, but in all the trends have been upwards and we have ridden that trend upwards. So our cash on hand, including endowment reserves, has continued to improve. Speaking of cash and other accountings, I wish to thank Norm and his staff for all the work that they do in preparation for the annual audit, which once again has come back without any serious difficulties. The annual report is contained in the document that's already been circulated among the board members. It's at the back of our statement of accounts and we are in good shape. That's the bottom line. Last thing from me, I thought it would take a couple of minutes tonight to talk about an issue that came up in online discussions in town over the last year, specifically where does ACMI's money come from? There was some confusion to the fact. So let me begin from the beginning. We exist because of money that comes from the cable access providers who have contracts in Arlington. One of the conditions of their contracts with the town, RCN Comcast Verizon, is that in order to be able to provide service in town, they agree with Arlington to remit 5% of their proceeds on a monthly basis every quarter to the town for the sole purpose of funding local cable access. Where does this generosity come from? Certainly not the cable companies. This is in the Federal Communications Act of 1984, which basically created the regimen, the scheme of the for-profit cable providers making sure that local access would have funding in return for what they received from each town. After all, their cable, their hardware runs along the lines and poles that are in the public roadways of the town. So they are benefiting from the town's permission to use the rights of way to run their wires. In return for that, and in return to the federally granted privilege of having a piece of the national bandwidth, they are obliged to offer as much as 5% every year to the municipality. And of course, the contract that they have with Arlington therefore asks them for 5% of their proceeds in order to promote local cable access. The next step is that the town contracts with a provider which they designate and award a contract to to make this cable access going to effect. Every so many years, I believe it's 10 years, Arlington puts out a request for proposals and invites anyone in the public to bid on this contract. Arlington Community Media Inc. is the present and long-term successful bidder on this contract. Our contract with the town of Arlington says that the town will forward the payments they receive from the cable access companies to us so that we may fulfill the purposes of that 1984 federal law which is to provide channels which provide public access, educational components and government. Government being as if you were sitting in on all the meetings that we cover, select board town meeting, zoning board of appeals, those things. So when you hear PEG funding, that's the acronym PEG, Public Educational Government. We operate under the provisions of this 1984 federal law that says that our town on our behalf may take 5% of the revenues of the cable access companies each quarter and give it to their designated tenant, us in order to put our programs on the airways and serve the public interest. The question that I'm addressing came up that someone had a complaint about you guys are favoring this or that. And after all, you get money from the town to put out your programs. So you should be acting in a certain way. Well, no, it's not quite that. We have a contract with the town. The contract says that the town is obliged to send the payments that they receive from the cable companies. That's the way that we stay in business. So we operate under a contract where the entailed payments to Arlington from Verizon, RCN and Concast come to us for the purpose of providing a public channel, providing an educational channel and providing a channel that covers government activities. That's how we exist. That's where our funding comes from. That's our mission in a nutshell. And I'll turn it back over to Katie. Or James. Or James. We have Norm up next. That was very well said, Michael. That's a very good explanation. I hope anybody who is watching this really understands where our funding comes from and who we are and what we do. And in general, let me just begin by saying, I wanna thank, first of all, I wanna thank the staff. Staff consisting of Jeff Monroe, who's the operations manager. Katie Chang, who's our production manager and a media guru. Sean King is a government access coordinator. Kevin Wentmore, our youth coordinator and who's not here tonight is Cheryl Brascullo, says the administrative and programming assistant. And Sarah Alfaro Franco is our public affairs person. She's unfortunately cannot be here. The other person who's not here is our news director, Jeffrey Bond. Jeff had taken another position in August. But Jeff over the last two years has done a phenomenal job in developing the news, ACMI news, to the point where when issues arose in town of a social nature, Jeff was right on it. And we have become a source of information for the town. And unfortunately, Jeff did leave. He will be, I'm gonna say it's hard to say he's gonna be replaced. It's hard to replace that character. But nevertheless, life goes on. The other thing I want to mention is the annual report is going to is done. And I wanna thank specifically James and Katie for doing a phenomenal job on the report. Yes, indeed. They, it takes a lot of time to do this. It really does. We do have to also wait for the audit to be completed before we can actually send the report out. And the audit has come back as James, as Michael had pointed out, with no major problems at all. And every year we seem to be in good shape. I'll mention something about that a little bit later. The annual report also is online just for you folks who don't get it in the mail for some reason or another. It's on the website also. It's under resources under documents, resources documents. Or you can go to the AGM blog post and you can check it out there. But as people have been referring to this, this has been really an extraordinary time that we're living in. The staff has really stepped up. Most of the staff is really doing two jobs at this point. And we're providing the service to the town the same way we've been doing it for years, but it's phenomenal what these folks are doing. And I'm really very proud of all of them. We are living in extraordinary times. And in fact, if you look at the annual report, I mentioned some mention of Charles Dick talking about in the tail of two cities talking about this is the best of time and worst of times. It was best of times in the sense that up through March of last year, everything we were doing was going full guns, more meetings, more sports coverage, you name it, more in studio coverage, more training people asking for equipment. It was great, but March hit. And as I say in my report, the world stopped and unfortunately, we had to close the station. So what do we do? Well, we adopted a very creative bunch of folks here and we have become the virtual, what I was calling the virtual meeting guru or the go-to company in town. And specifically, Jeff Monroe and Sean Keane are handling a lot of that, a lot of hours to take cover these meetings and have them work without any technical difficulties. And if there are technical difficulties, we're really on it as you heard earlier, we'd really been trying to correct any problems that may work, it may be a problem if we're as we interface with the cable providers. But hopefully in the future, that will go back to quote normal. And I'm sure everybody who's watching wants to go back to normal too, but we are operating a little bit in the handicapped side with smaller staff, but let's say the staff has been stepped up and is actually working in effect through jobs at the same time. So congratulations to them. I hope your spouses, wives, husband, spouse are understanding of long hours, let's put it that way. So all of our town meetings are now virtual, that was mentioned before. Michael mentioned how our funding transpires, where we get it from. And some of our funding has decreased over the past year. The reason for that is, well, go back to COVID. When COVID hit, a lot of folks were out of work. And when you're out of work, you have to conserve what money you do have. And some of the things that get cut are extraneous types of services. And some fortunately, a lot of folks are saying that their cable is extraneous and we don't need to deal with that. So they cut the cable, which means we get less money with fewer people on cable. It's not as bad as I thought it was going to be, but we definitely have less funding than we had anticipated. The other major factor that took place here was, as Michael mentioned, Studio B is no more, unfortunately. We had a great run with it. Everybody in town, in fact, jokingly, and we'd say, oh, you guys moved to Studio B, you're on Mass Ave. No, we didn't, they just, they didn't understand where Studio A was up in Park Avenue. That's the main studio where everything takes, where everything happens. Studio B was created across from the high school, and specifically for visibility, for more people in town to come in and join, but more importantly, for a lot of the youth to just walk across the street and get video instruction, and that's what they've been doing. But fortunately, again, the other side of the coin is that the Studio B will be in the older part of the high school in two years approximately until the new high school is built, and we've been in discussion with the architects about where we will be located in the new high school. That's an ongoing discussion. Looking a little bit to the future here, we have a federal level, national level, we have a change of government coming up. I don't hear any cheers, I don't hear any boos, but be that as it may. The FCC is a critical factor in our existence. Up until this time with the Republican majority and the FCC, what that meant was that one, net neutrality went by the by. That's unfortunate, in my opinion. The second thing was a lot of the cable company decided that they were gonna want to charge back cost to them, give it, charge it back to us for things like connection to the high school, connection from ourselves to the cable company head, and anything basically they could think of that they could charge us back for, including bandwidth, they were gonna charge back. The FCC did not make a ruling on this, it was held in abeyance. And as it turns out now, because it looks like the FCC will be full democratic and the chairman, probably a chairwoman by the look of it, is gonna be in control, I think that net neutrality will come back up again and maybe net neutrality will be back available to all of us, including those folks who cannot afford to pay higher prices for higher speeds on the internet that the cable companies want to charge us. And I think that charge that they want to give back to all the PEG access stations will go away. And that was, again, that's on the national level. Don't know where that's gonna go, but with new government coming in, in January, there'll be a lot of changes and hopefully it will be all for the better for PEG as you now know what PEG is. I think that's pretty much it for me. I'd like to pass this over, if there's a question and answer period at the end of this, folks, by the way, but I'd like to pass this over to Jeff Monroe, our operations manager and James, I think I'm gonna let you carry on from one person to another as we move forward, okay? Who's James who? James who? Oh, that's right, the communications, of course, why would I talk about James? He's only the communications manager. That's right, James is actually doing two jobs as well. James is actually stepping in for the news director and he's working with interns, as well as being communications manager. I apologize, James, but yeah. I don't know which one to say that you are, which of the three? Yeah, there you go. It is of no matter, obviously, and we are moving on to Jeff Monroe, our operations manager. It is nice to actually not have to wear a mask for a while. So we did the news in studio tonight. It's pretty much the only thing we're doing in the studio and control room lately, outside of the community conversations, virtual town forums, even some bid openings. I'll mute myself, okay, sorry about that. But glad to be here with the facilities and equipment with the state of the studio address, I guess this can be. It's been great to be in the control room and in the studio. We're obviously, we had to house all of the things from studio B since we moved out of studio B. Everything moved into studio A as we wait for studio B to be completed where we can move things back. And there have been some equipment usage, some control room usage, like I said, for the news. But it's been tough on the staff. I wanna thank the staff for their flexibility and all of the multiple hats and multiple jobs we've all been taking on over these past few months or this past year. But it's funny, in my report, I talk about new media and I've done this every year. In 2019, I'm thinking back, September 2019, we were talking about VR and 360 cameras. And we're not sharing the goggles anymore. Like we were for town day, town day 2019. But that was an exciting time. We were playing with some new equipment. We still have the VR equipment. The 360 camera has been in use. The ACA used it for some of their website photos. We did a number of different projects with the 360 camera. And then the drones are some of the other new media equipment I was talking about. And Michael Ruderman did a project, tile of Valencourt flying the drones over the monument in the center of town. That was some fantastic footage. But it's really exciting to see the equipment being used just prior to lockdown. And then during lockdown, we got creative and we were trying to be flexible where we could. We were trying to navigate to new media or new equipment. Now is using StreamYard or using Zoom and we're continuing to do programs. So volunteer member producers are using the virtual studio to do talk shows. The news has been using the Zoom platform to do interviews. So it is exciting to see that even though we're not here in this building, that there's still a lot of content being created. The community access is still accessible. And the staff is handling all of those resources and services as we are designed to. The back to the state of the studio, we're growing in all these different areas. We have some new cameras that just came in that are specific for sports because they do live streaming. And we're hopefully when we're back to normal and back to sports, that we'll be able to go from camera to air. And do that a lot easier than we have lugging a lot of extra equipment around with us. The DSLR filmmaking program has been growing. We've been buying more lenses, more DSLR cameras. And that's been exciting to watch filmmakers create in that way. This past year, we saw a lot more live multi-cam music programs with things like Studio B sessions. I'm not gonna steal your thunder, Kevin, but the mobile studio usage was up just prior to COVID too. So we were looking to see how we could use those portable studios. And that's been exciting to share with other groups. So we've now done a couple multi-cam events even in the COVID situation where we were bringing our mobile studio, keeping safe and actually covering, I did an interview in the gallery at Arlington Center for the Arts this past week. So that was a new type of setup and a new experience for all of us. We're hoping to do more of that. And back to the report, I did report master control, got some upgrades with network-controlled KVM. So we can actually have an IT service come in virtually and reset servers. We upgraded and expanded some of our server programs so that they can output and input live streams and do that better than we were before. But I can't say enough about the ACMI staff. I'm very proud and grateful for all of you. So at times like this, when we all pull together to get a meeting together and do a report like this that is exciting to look at the list of things that we've been doing all year. So that's about it for me. I wanna thank everybody. I don't know if there's questions at the end. I'll be here. But I'm gonna pass it back to James. All right, thanks so much. Jeff Frieze. And so now we are going to begin. We'll have the first of a series of kind of area reports. And each one of these will have the person responsible talking about what's happened in the last year in that area. But then we will also have a short reel of examples of work from that field to follow. So a little variety of things. To follow. So a little variety coming up and we'll start with Katie as our production manager. All right, thank you, James. And yeah, I guess I just wanna kind of reiterate what Norm and Jeff kind of said that it's been a very challenging and creative year. I mean, I guess every year is creative, but and there are always challenges, but this year was definitely different for everyone's. But I think, you know, as a staff and as a community, everyone really stuck with it. And I think that really shows. But thinking back even like a year ago, like in August and September, you know, we were all focused on still things that we're focusing on our community and volunteering. You know, like a year ago we were doing Town Day where a lot of our volunteers come out and help crew with this townwide event. And you know, then later on our volunteers are coming out to help us to crowdsource Boston, which is kind of like a statewide crowdsourcing project where everyone picks a scene from a film and all these different scenes get put together to make a film. And that was amazing. And it's a little bit different now, but we're still kind of pulling things like that together. And before COVID, you know, we were still doing our workshops and our trainings in individual kind of like one-on-one lessons like we usually do with Premiere camera training with our JVC camcorders and GH5s. And even when COVID hit, you know, it was a little bit more difficult, but we still had some trainings utilizing Zoom. Of course, Zoom kind of became everyone's go-to once that hit in March. And it was challenging, but using Zoom as a way to even teach Premiere still worked out, you know, sharing your screen and showing someone right there at home how to use Premiere, it still worked out. So we adapted and we were creative with what we were doing. And I guess some of the things that I was really proud of before COVID hit is that we started to really do a lot more studio productions. We had a lot of new members coming in for studio productions and doing like live-to-tape graphics with VPIX. So being able to pull graphics in live during a studio shoot really helped speed up the process so that there's kind of less editing for people. And last year we even had like a fall workshop series where some of the highlights were, you know, just using how to play with shutter speed on cameras. I did like a YouTube channel class. So kind of like different things like that kind of cropped up over the year. And then again, COVID hit and we all kind of started using Zoom for studio productions, you know, like virtual studio productions, right? So we mostly did a lot of interview studio shoots using Zoom and of course the town utilized Zoom a lot with meetings and community conversations. I'll kind of let, you know, maybe Sean will mention that later on. And of course, local elections, we really used that a lot to help film our debates and our one-on-one candidate conversations. And then moving on later in the summer, we started utilizing StreamYard, which was kind of a similar platform to Zoom where you can have audio and visuals on your webcam, but just the added benefit of having different camera views and graphics kind of right in the platform. So the StreamYard is kind of like our new go-to thing. They're all really excited about, we've done productions with a lot of like other nonprofits in town recently. So A-C-E, A-E-F, we might be using that for like MLK Day this upcoming year. So StreamYard's kind of like the new fun thing we get to play around with. So even though it was kind of a challenging year, you know, I think everyone still kind of came up with things to do and ways to still be productive together. And I didn't even mention, but Studio Nights, which was, you know, going on weekly Wednesday evenings here at the studio, we were able to, I think, successfully transfer that over to a virtual format where we still met every Wednesday evening on Zoom. And sometimes it was more social, but we did a couple of really great productions as well, from interviews to more creative like group projects, like participating in the Fox and Owl Festival, as well as making some like Black Lives Matter video series together. So I think I had a lot of fun. And I think, you know, I think members did as well that came, I do have a video to share, a little highlight reel of the year that I put together. It's just over six minutes long. And it kind of highlights a lot of these productions that I've kind of touched on, but you'll get that visual. And if you're looking at the annual report, some of the ones that we highlighted was, I'll just read them off, and then you'll see kind of clips of them in this reel. But a documentary by Rodrigo Soza, he went, did a trip to Vietnam. So there's a really nice, like musical documentary he did. Trinity Update, which was a show by an ACMI production intern last fall, I believe, where she interviews and meets with different nonprofits. A sand sculpture documentary that our long-time ACMI member, producer Margie DeMonte made, where she, she did the whole thing herself. She filmed a sand sculpture competition in New Hampshire and edited the whole thing herself with a voiceover. You'll see a clip of that coming up. Of course, our another long-time ACMI member, Charlotte Pierce, brought back St. John's Coffee House series. So she spent lots of hours and got groups of us together to help film at the church and edited that, like herself, Full Multile Cam and Premiere. So you'll see a clip of that. And then some great interview shows, Conversations with Great Authors by Michael Imonius. And then two new shows from the Spring Fandom 101 by Julia Bloom. And we hold these truths with Michael Brown. And let me pull that reel up for you guys. Yeah. Sorry, just before you go to the reel, I did want to just add one other thing. You had so much to, to, to touch on. But mostly at the aforementioned Charlotte Pierce's behest, but with Katie and Jeff really following through on that. We also created a producers meeting, a weekly producers meeting for people a few months back. And that's, it's always a real challenge, obviously, to keep members and producing members, especially engaged when you can't get into the studio. So this is one way in which we are just kind of tapping into the power of our community and really still being able to foster creativity, foster collaboration, et cetera, in a simple way, but which demands really good follow-through. And so kudos to Charlotte for getting us going on it. But then again, in typical ACMI fashion, we followed through in a way that is working quite well for everybody who's involved. So just wanted to make sure we talked about that. At least mentioned it. Yeah. No, thanks for reminding me. I forgot. I just sort it up. I think it was September. I'm sure Charlotte can remind me later if I'm wrong, but yeah, it's been really successful. And I think it has a really good place to go looking forward in the next couple months and stuff. Let me pull up this reel like I was doing. Like I said, just over six minutes long. And yeah, like just don't forget, like, you see these names, these producer names and you see these hosts, but there are a lot of people in the background that you don't see, both staff, volunteers and interns alike that make this stuff happen. 2019. It's outstanding so far. We've just only hit the food vendor, so we're trying to make our way up Mass Sam. It's the Holiday Panda welcoming you to ACMI's holiday show. And then a big blue smile. Yeah, look at that nice smile. It's fun, this is definitely not the ACMI logo that I thought it was gonna be, but the colors are there. In you, that's the main character, sorry, deku from My Hero Academia. Can you tell me a bit about this costume and its process? Why do you think I actually got this t-shirt online? Oh, neat. Yeah. Stoke your ambition to write, or did you have it kind of before that and then this just intensified it? I had the belly fire, I wanted to write, and now that I had a storyline about the black marketing, what he did was demystify the process. So on this show, you are going to meet people who are making it possible to have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. People today who are making the words of the Declaration of Independence come true. The white police officer saw two black people talking and yelling and screaming and getting at each other. He may have go over and hit them. He said because he assumed the next thing was gonna be someone throwing a punch. And I've been actually witnessed to incidences where I've seen police officers pull their revolvers on people of color because they were talking loudly, assuming that they're arguing that they're going to get into a fight and then everyone would be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, like you're totally misinterpreting the situation here. This is where their physical endurance begins and is being tested. The competitors have three days to complete their work. Eight hours a day, a total of 24 hours to finish their masterpieces before being judged. The population of Saigon is growing faster than expected. The official number is now over 13 million, but illegal residents and a transient population could make this figure much hotter. This number and the government plan very soon will transform Saigon into a megalopolis. Sharing toys with your younger brother, Alex, even though he might break them, good, but murdering people. I'm Steve Katzos and we are excited, but I thought you would have quit by now. No! Well, dad, I didn't quit. Now you lost the bet, so you better pay up with me. Thank you. That's all right. Defining images of hope. Well, congrats to ever, that's just the tip of the iceberg of what was produced last year. So hats off to all the volunteers and producers and members and staff that helped with just a few of those. And if you haven't seen some of those, go to ACMata.tv or our YouTube channel to watch like the full episodes of those. I just want to point out those last two where Steve Katzos show and we're going to do an Alessio's AM Garden did win awards for the National Alliance for Community Media Awards that happen every year. So congrats to Steve and Alessio and hot off the press from last night, the Regional Community Media Awards. I forgot their call already, but Steve Katzos, nor the Nor'easter, Nor'easter Awards. Yeah, so Steve Katzos placed first place for a general talk show, Rodrigo, one of his shorter documentaries won third place for music and performance. And then Isidre, who's a student, got second place for, I think it was another performance in theater. And then Salon by the Sea also won third place. I think I got my categories mixed up, but Salon by the Sea was group project, same category. Okay, yeah. So yeah, congrats to all the creative volunteers out there. Norm, is that, do you wanna be recognized, Norm? Yes. There you go. In addition to forgetting about you, James, I forgot about a couple of other people I wanted to mention. And these folks are important to who we are as ACMI and what we've been able to do. One is, these folks are no longer with us unfortunately, it's Alex Van Thong. Alex was a sports producer for us. Sorry to interrupt, they are with us on earth, they're just not with the organization. Oh yes, thanks for the clarification. They no longer with ACMI, they put it that way. Nice catch, Jim. The other person is Brenda Mahoney, who's the assistant news director. Also, Len Diggins. Len is now the select board member. And Jonathan Barbato, I think you saw some clips of him in there as well. Jonathan was a production manager, he's gone on to bigger and better things. I think he's worked for the BSO at this point. And more importantly, somebody who is still with ACMI, thank you, Jeff, is Jared Sweep. Jared is our editor, video editor, supreme editing skills, he's marvelous. So I didn't wanna forget all of those folks. So I apologize. And James, I apologize to you again. Thank you. And if I can just interject before we moved on to Sean Keane with government, which will be next, I did wanna say that in an example of life following art, you may recall because they're very striking images that in the clips that Katie was just showing of Rodrigo's film from Vietnam, there was a patch of green under a bunch of really huge buildings, a really beautiful part of Saigon, which my son who is married to a Vietnamese woman now and is currently living in Saigon, had not heard of at that point until he saw Rodrigo's film. And he and his wife are now living in one of those buildings that you saw on the screen. So pretty, pretty cool, pretty fun. Anyway, talking about pretty cool and pretty fun, it's Sean Keane with the government report. Hi, this is Sean Keane, the Comerton Program Coordinator. Yeah, the pandemic has brought a host of challenges to our coverage of government meetings this year, beginning with the fact that they went fully remote starting in March, 2020 via the Zoom platform. We had to make a lot of adjustments just technically, logistically, just getting all these meetings covered. One of the biggest things is just how much hours have kind of increased just with meeting coverage, largely because I think as we can kind of suspect when people aren't in a government building room and looking at the clock, it's a lot easier to kind of talk in the comfort of your own home. We've also increased our meeting coverage. This year we started fully recording the zoning board of appeals and I've also looked into other meetings. Just as now all meetings are in Zoom, it's much easier to record multiple meetings at once by just one person. There's also been a lot of cut-down issues in town between lots of different elections and then just information sessions regarding COVID-19. This is one of the most, I would say contested election cycles I've seen just in my time at ACMI and this with the complications of COVID-19, we had to have some different circumstances of having virtual debates for school committee and select board as well as board of assessors and town clerk. We enabled candidates to film their own profiles and we also held one-on-one conversations with a vast majority of them. These comprehensive efforts along with the election being delayed the pandemic met the ACMI broadcast more election-based content this year than ever before. And then one of the most unprecedented circumstances of having one of the first outside town meetings on the Pierce field at the high school. It was a broadcast live on ACMI and yeah, those were some big ones. We also had community conversations just about financial impacts, COVID-19 and other big things happening in town. Of course, we just had the virtual town meeting finish. I have a video that shows a lot of this stuff I talked about. Nicely done. It makes me think that all government meetings should come with a canned music soundtrack. What do you think? Just kidding. Sean, anything else to say? Cause I know you're itching to say something probably. I think I said enough rambling on and such. All right. Well, thought I'd try. We are going to move right to Kevin Wetmore, our youth coordinator, always a very busy man. So I expect some more visual delights coming up. Kevin. Hello everybody. So yeah, this was a busy year for our youth productions. Before COVID hit, we were, as Norm mentioned, doing more productions really than we ever have before. We were doing a lot of sports games. The Alex Vanthong, who has now moved on from ACMI, but he was a huge help in really covering a whole lot of our online sports that we haven't been able to cover before, such as wrestling and a lot of the games, both boys and girls, hockey, basketball, soccer, et cetera. I should mention that this was the first year that we had a boys hockey season without Walter Scott, our longtime commentator, who sadly passed away last December. And he was really a gem, and we were really lucky to have him as part of our ACMI community. He was a local hockey legend, if you didn't know him, and he just had a lot of passion for the game and loved calling the boys hockey games. So Ken Colberg this season, or last season, stepped up to take Walter's spot, and Ken had been calling our soccer games, and he's done an amazing job doing both soccer and now hockey. And he actually had the opportunity to meet with Walter shortly before he died to kind of pick his brain and talk about how he'd be taking on his role. And then the boys team had a great year last year, and they went to the championship, and we had our press passes and everything ready to go, filmed the championship game in the garden, and that's when everything got shut down. So they ended up being co-champions, unfortunately. But it was a really exciting year, none the less for sports here in Arlington. Aside from sports, we've really built our partnerships within the high school, especially with the music tech program, which has been a growing partnership over the last five or six years, or however really long that program's been in existence. But now it's gotten to the point where it's having a video crew is really part of their curriculum, where the students are expected to build a video team and film all of their concerts. So last year, we had multi-cam recordings of all four music tech concerts, and they do a great job, and as the year went on, they got better and better. And so that really lends itself well to ACMI, and now that will be in the high school physically, building these kinds of partnerships will be even easier. And especially with classes like music tech, kids won't have to get field trips or permissions to come across straight to the studio. They can just come on down to the studio during school or during their class, or I can come up to them easily. So I'm really looking forward to that. I think that'll really do a lot for us, not just in putting these productions together, but also recruiting youth to come in and get involved with us. We also continue our partnerships with the AP History classes, where we train students on documentary filmmaking. And they produced a lot of documentaries, covering various subjects that came out really great. We submit these to a C-SPAN contest, and for the second year in a row, one of them was a winner in one of the finalists, and they won cash prize from C-SPAN, which is pretty awesome. And then we also do, we did a lot of work with the Audison, as always, filming all of their concerts. We build our youth crews at the Audison when they're in seventh and eighth grade, and then by the time they get to high school, they're professional filmmakers and videographers. So it's a great program over at the Audison. I've got to mention Edith Moisan. She's amazing. She recruits all the kids and puts together all these amazing projects, and I try to get over there as often as I can to help out on the technical end and offer training and support in all of our equipment. But a lot of the concerts got cut short last year because of COVID, but we still got a lot of productions done with the Audison. They also continued their teen cooking show, which is a lot of fun. It's where each month we film an episode of a French cooking show with professional French chefs hosted also by middle school students and produced by middle school students. And then in March, the pandemic hit and school was shut down and everything went remote and a lot changed from the youth perspective, but we were super busy during that time. The school relied heavily on us for support in a lot of ways. We built a page on our website called The Ponder Remote where Principal Janger would post daily announcements every single morning that students would watch and give them updates on all sorts of things about remote learning and what's going on. So they really used that a lot to kind of communicate because at first it was really difficult for teachers and educators figuring out how to navigate around this situation that got tossed upon them. And the biggest thing that we really took on to help out with the schools was the 2020 graduation, which couldn't be in person. So we helped produce a virtual graduation, which meant that we filmed all of the speeches separately. We filmed each student in the senior class getting their cap and gown and diploma and edited together a really nice production that was aired at the same time that graduation would have happened. So they had all the speeches, they had musical performances. You saw every student graduate had their name read. So it was a massive undertaking and I hope we don't have to do that again, but it was pretty cool. I thought the show was pretty fun to watch. And we didn't have to sit outside in 95 degree weather either, which was okay. But so that was a big thing. We also helped put together virtual choirs. So because the school musical was canceled, they were going to be performing Tommy by the Who. So we helped create with the school a virtual choir of all the cast members singing the finale from that, which was really popular, got over 10,000 views. I don't even know what the number is now, but that was back in May on our various streaming platforms on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and then we also had a virtual, our annual A-town film festival for teen filmmakers had to go virtual as well. So that was another thing that happened right after everything shut down. So we actually had all of our judging in person. I think like that Thursday night when like the MBA shut down and then we got out of that. And I found out, you know, the MBA shut down, Tom Hanks has COVID and I think like the next day school was done. So we had to shift to having the screening be online, which was still fun. We had a lot of views. We did that in partnership with the Regent Theater if they put it on their website. Doesn't make up for being able to show your film in front of an audience on a big screen. So I felt bad for all the filmmakers, but we had some really talented kids a lot from our LinkedIn making some really great films. And that's always one of my favorite events that we put on every year. And another thing I wanna mention before we get to my reel is that one of our, a new show we have on the channel on the education channel called You View is a news and variety show that was put together by one of our incredible youth volunteers named Sam Derringer. And he's covered various topics from Black Lives Matter in Arlington and in the school system to the monotony Hunter logo for the school. And then a lot of more late-hearted fun segments on that show as well, highlighting student artists and musicians and all sorts of things. It's a really impressive show. He did the first few episodes all by himself with the help from Dan Gorbinov, another great youth member. And now he's built it to be a very large crew of volunteers from the high school working together. And we partner with the journalism club and brought in a bunch of new students. So Sam's a senior and he's hoping that this awesome show he's put together can continue and kind of be a mainstay of the education channel going forward in the next few years. So if you have time, watch what he's done. It's really great. Anyways, so I will now share my reel. Oh, and I also mentioned, the first thing you're gonna see on this reel is a clip from Studio B Sessions, which is our awesome music program we would have at Studio B, which we will no longer be hosting there, but hopefully we bring it back in some capacity. But this year we had some really great bands and it was all youth crews producing it. And it was really a lot of fun. So here we go. And I am in front of Studio B as well for the last time tonight. So say goodbye. These blues have soon I'm feeling no pain. Lucy, Madeline, Belle. Luke, Michael, Beriducci. Galen, William, Thornton, Bermudas. Hello one and all and welcome to the first ever community-wide live virtual talent show event. Arlington's Got Talent. These black women saved me yet again. I got up out of my bed for the first time in weeks. I started talking to them, what can I do? What can I help? I forgot. People look up to me as a leader. How am I supposed to lead if I can't even walk out the door? It's my first time out of months. But I know today, I know today that my life matters. But we need committed advocates in all branches of the government and at the state, local and federal levels. In coming years, there needs to be a revolution of information, commitment and legislation or the world simply won't survive. 2020 will be a pivotal year in what has become a fight for our lives. Please just stop for a second and tell me what you're looking for. Here it is. Whoa. A charging knoll, a flaming engine, a skilled battle master, a reanimated skeleton, a psychic illithin and many more. The only key you need is imagination. Dare to enter the world of infinite possibility. Welcome to the Audison Dungeon and Dragons Club. D&D Club meets in the media center every day before and after school. Missouri takes a shot wide, goes back again to Missouri. Missouri whistles good. A beautiful shot by John Missouri as he whistles, Anthony Missouri, excuse me, as he whistled a tough shelf. And I'll tell you right now, Nick Siguel, I didn't even have a chance there. It looked like I might have been at a screen. First goal of the season for Anthony Missouri, senior captain and the Arlington boys now have put the Melrose boys in the hole, two goals to nothing. Thank you, Kevin. I describe Kevin as a very busy man. I'm sure you guys can all tell for yourselves. So we are moving now to the next and let me promise you, I guess, that we are nearing the end now. And I'm gonna talk about news and public affairs and also a little bit about interns. I am however gonna keep it, what I would imagine at this point is blessedly short for people. I do want to acknowledge that in the fields of news and public affairs, which are areas that ACMI has invested a lot in and has had great ambition for, in those areas like in everything else that has been mentioned tonight, we have persevered and innovated and found ways to collaborate with different entities in and around town to make sure that we are continuing to deliver on our commitment to this community in every way that we know how and as well as we can. I will not go into great details about all the things that we covered. We do have a couple of very short reels, one from news and one from public affairs and I'll divide those up. I'll ask Katie, I'll talk briefly about news and ask Katie to run that and then briefly about public affairs and we'll do that. But you'll be able to see from there a lot of the people we were talking to and a lot of the events that we were following through this very, very eventful year. We all, obviously COVID is the biggest thing in all of our lives and biggest thing in this particular fiscal year for ACMI. But interestingly, I'd like to just emphasize the fact that on the news and public affairs side from what I have heard from others in town and hopefully those who are attending tonight will agree. ACMI is more appreciated, more recognized for what it is that we bring to the town than we were before. Our own efforts are not very different from what they've always been because I feel like our commitment has been full on all the time but people have turned to us much more, are depending on us much more and we are delivering and that is a message that is getting out into the community and I appreciate my own intersection with that when I hear from people and I certainly hope that my fellow staff members do the same and that you all, everybody on this call because you're all connected intimately connected to ACMI that we all feel proud of that fact. So as was already mentioned, the way that news works, JB or Jeff Bart as Norm mentioned came in and was tasked a couple of years ago with getting the news on once a week. Let's get a weekly newscast. We've been talking about it for a long time. Please do it. He did it and had a quite robust situation going on with community members as well as interns coming up, participating in the newscasts and with great enthusiasm, I have to say and then once COVID hit and we had to let our interns go at least those for the spring at that time, JB basically took everything on into one man operation for several months and did superbly well and that is both a testament to him but also to the fact that there is a spirit at ACMI which is just gonna figure out how to keep things going whatever the odds. As JB moved on, we have stayed virtual or we had to stay virtual for a little while until we could get back into the studio and we have over recent months been able to broadcast at least the anchor parts of each newscast or we've been able to tape those in the studio and I think everybody is still energized by the fact of getting back into the studio with real lighting, with an actual set that's quite lovely and the professionalism that that kind of confers on the proceedings. So we're proud of the news program. There's here is a short reel. It was a Jan-packed lines hearing room at a zoning board of appeals meeting this week at Issue, bringing a new sit down restaurant pub to the old Baylish building on Mass Ave. After years of planning and voter approval, Arlington's public high school is getting ready for its transformation. Site work will begin in just a few weeks and officials tell us if you wanna walk the lawn or take pictures before the work crews arrive, now is the time. The town is making preparations for the possible spread of coronavirus here in this area. All schools in Arlington have been closed. That's public schools as well as the two Catholic schools. This is to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease. Out of an abundance of caution, we are now doing our weekly broadcasts outside of our studios in remote locations simply because ACMI studios have been closed off to the public until further notice. Town leaders think that this crisis is going to go considerably longer than was first thought. Then of course, there was the tragic death of George Floyd who was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis while three other officers just stood around and watched. And what happened after that? To some, was absolutely shocking and stunning. To others, it was long overdue. This will be my last week with ACMI News. I'm gonna be moving on to other opportunities that hopefully will be just as rewarding. Hello and welcome to this week's edition of ACMI News. I'm Isabel Litterst, back here at the ACMI studio for the first time since March. Many locations have to change the traditional methods of voting due to the coronavirus. So how did Election Day look for Arlington in particular? Okay, so as you could see, that was a kind of very quick chronological view of the news events in Arlington. And it didn't even touch on some of the major things that we were a big part of presenting, already mentioned by others here, but the community conversations that took place in this town throughout the spring and summer with our collaboration were really important events if in the social and racial reckoning that needs to happen here in Arlington and is continuing to happen in the aftermath of Lieutenant Padrini's, what we all refer to as the Lieutenant Padrini incident at this point, which is now two plus years old, but we are gonna be in this battle as a community for a long time and ACMI is going to be part of the good fight there, I'm sure. Moving over to public affairs, there's a lot of overlap here. So I will just say that public affairs is basically was, we came up with this a couple of years ago as a new division within ACMI to accommodate for the fact that our public affairs producer, Sarah Alfaro-Franco, who is not here tonight and regrettably is not gonna be here at ACMI beyond the end of the year, she is going to be moving on to another full-time job. She's been trying to juggle ACMI and this other job for a long time now and it's just that's, them's the brakes, folks. We and I, maybe I in particular, because I work so much with Sarah, I'm really going to miss her, but nonetheless, we of course, wish her the absolute very best, she deserves that. Anyway, public affairs came about because Sarah has enjoyed as do I, taking deeper dives into a number of issues. We have produced a whole bunch of different series over the years, I won't go over them exhaustively, but we added to each one of those major, each one of the five or six major series that we have this year, we added seminal new episodes, especially once COVID hit, we wanted to concentrate on what's happening inside of two incarcerated populations on what's happening with food insecurity, what's on how the library and other institutions here would continue to provide their services. Those are the areas that we wanted to explore. We found the people who we should talk to and presented those conversations consistently throughout the dark months of the spring and into summer and really happy to do so. I'll mention just one series because it was one that we, that is new in this fiscal year and that is the ABCs of LGBTQ plus and that is a series that focuses on both the basics and then some of the naughtier details and issues for and within the world of our gay and lesbian, bisexual, non-binary, et cetera populations. So again, ACMI is always intent on exploring the situations of vulnerable populations of all sorts and trying to bring both light and action to those areas. And also we love to recognize people who are doing that kind of work. We have several series in which we did that as well. So public affairs has taken a bit of a hit with Sarah being busy and me having to move over to take the helm on the news operation over these last months. But I am hopeful that the year 2021 will see a return for us to a really vigorous schedule of public affairs programming as well. So again, one more short reel. I guess before we get into it though, let me mention that you, if we had shown different aspects of the newscasts that you just saw, you would have seen how intrinsic the work of our interns has been. Right now, our news team is basically me and a former intern and five current interns and they are continuing to produce stories each and every week. And they are getting a great experience. So great as far as they're concerned that literally every one of our current interns has asked to continue with us beyond this particular semester. So that's a pretty good indication that we are doing well within this internship program that we started about seven years ago now. And that taps into the youth energy on a number of our different college campuses here. But we have always committed ourselves to delivering a great hands-on experience to these guys. The word has spread organically and consistently over the years. We're getting great candidates in. They're having wonderful experiences. So this is a real bright spot for ACMI and one that looked briefly like it was going to be hard to continue under COVID. But we've kind of hunkered down the ACMI staff, figured out how we could continue to offer a good experience to production and news and public affairs interns, et cetera. And then had a great time with them and they had a great time over the summer, right into the fall. And as I mentioned, that's going to be moving forward from here. So thanks for listening. And here's the public affairs reel. And from that, we'll hit Katie one more time and then we'll wrap things up. Arlington Eats has a very long history with the community. It actually originally started back in 1991 as the Arlington Food Pantry. So we have six employees. We have our own cargo van. We work with well over 20 or 25 donor agencies under normal circumstances. This is always kind of a balancing act of both taking on new food donors and also taking on new recipient agencies. We really act to connect people with resources and have a big focus on better nutrition programs. COVID-19 has posed a lot of challenges for us as advocates in the field, as parents. And as you can imagine, there's both significant challenges for the children and the families that we advocate for. It is the challenge has been how do we do our traditional advocacy and are organizing in ways that have been wrong? There are a lot of busy people. I mean really, really busy people here in Massachusetts and people all around the country that are doing work to decarcerate people. Probably over 10,000 individuals go in and out of jails and prisons in our state every single day. I'm outraged by the way that law enforcement handled themselves on that day. That was, there was no reason for that conduct. One is the sex assigned at birth. The next is your gender identity and then gender expression, sexual orientation and romantic orientation. Even just creating kind of a social norm for things where, you know, gender neutral restrooms, the use of pronouns and by giving everyone to share this and use it, it becomes kind of a place. I think using people's pronouns is a really big thing. So if you're meeting someone for the first time and you're going to have a real conversation with them, you should introduce yourself with your name and your pronouns and ask them for their name and their pronouns. Like every other organization right now, we really have refocused, reprioritized. We are looking at anything, any legislation, any activity by the Senate that requires immediate attention. My clinical practice has predominantly been focused on supporting families and children. Right now, what we're focusing on is connecting people with virtual resources that help support social distancing. The purpose of which was to look at options like rank choice voting, voting by mail, more efficient use of our polling locations. We work with the town department of planning and community development and bring together what used to be several separate cultural entities. I'm the curator of public art and I work to develop public art projects in Arlington Temporary. They're all temporary projects that have a pretty strong community engagement aspect. Yeah, we do have some federal government money. We do have some parts of resources that we might be able to use or utilize or move around. And if we can do that, we really don't want to touch the savings. And I just wanted to add one last thing before going back to Katie for the last section. And that is that Norm had mentioned earlier, one of our staff members, Jared Sweet, our editor extraordinaire. He edited both of the reels he just watched and he did that within the last 48 hours when we made a pivot on the way that we were gonna present this format. That's the kind of thing that Jared does for us. So appreciate it, sir. And now over to Katie to talk about the website and a media update. We will then have a period for questions and answers if there are any. And then we will ask Mr. Leone to close the festivities down. Katie. All right, thank you, James. Yeah, so I will keep this brief. I will just be going over kind of our website or YouTube channels and social media. Let me share what I got. If you haven't seen it yet or what I'm saying is ACMI.tv. If you go to the homepage, you immediately get three kind of highlighted blog posts of like current events going on. So right now we have our special town meeting, a link to the Veterans Day video as well as what you're all here for is the AGM. So we try to keep those first three posts up to date. And if you keep scrolling down, you kind of have the top, I guess most recent three videos submitted to the public channel. If you keep scrolling down, there's three for the educational channel. And then finally the most recent three government videos. Kudos to Len Diggins actually, Len was working for us part-time and part of his job was to help me keep the website up to date. And then when he left to, or he was doing the select board and he's thankfully still volunteering to keep these videos updated for us. So Kudos to Len. I know he's not here. I hope he watches this, but his help does not go unnoticed, because thank you. And yeah, there's like a couple of pages, like resources, like our show list of series, both old and new. So if you know that you want to catch up on, you know, if it is the fiddle, you can go to the show list and kind of watch the whole season. There are resources, ways to submit your video and to also request equipment through the web form. Moving on to our YouTube channels. We have ACMI's YouTube channel. If you don't already subscribe, please do. The URL is youtube.com slash ACMI TV. And we just have it organized by these popular playlists. The top ones are usually youth videos and or I guess the government meeting coverage, the play, the government meetings are always high views. I also didn't mention for the website, the hits went up during COVID. So right in April through June, ACMI.tv saw like huge spikes because of, I assume because of the pandemic. We also have our ACMI news YouTube channel. So if you don't already, you can subscribe to that. It's just, if you're already familiar with YouTube, it's just the easy way to kind of receive notifications. If you're not, you can also sign up for the ACMI news newsletter. So every week on Fridays, you'll get a newsletter and email with a notification that the newscast is available on Friday evening. So that's an email. You can sign up for that at ACMI.tv slash news. We started our ACMI sports YouTube channel a year ago and with all the channels and all of our social media platforms, the number of subscribers and followers always go up from year to year or continue to go up. So here's our sports channel. It's kind of the hub for all the sports games right now. Some of the new, the first one that's highlighted is the nosebleeds podcast that some students started in the spring. They've been going strong, I think since the pandemic started. So if you're into sports, check it out, me not so much. Moving on, I wanted to pull up our Facebook page. So a lot of Arlington residents seem to be on Facebook. So we try our best to interact and post things on the Arlington Facebook lists, Arlington lists on Facebook as well as Arlington parents group. We interact with the town. The town shares their videos on their pages. Certain state and local candidates will tag us and share videos, especially this past year with all the elections. And more recently, because of COVID, we've had more sort of like live videos that player don't play or they get broadcast directly to Facebook. We also have our CMAN News Facebook page. It's still here. The name has been really great about keeping this up to date. So Kudos to Anim for his work with this. And finally, if you're into Instagram, we have both an ACMI, ACMI, ACMI News and actually I believe a sports page as well. Maybe I'm wrong about that, but so if you're more visual or if you're an Instagram person, we try to keep these kind of updated with fun pics just to keep you motivated and know and see what's going on. So I kind of like coming back to see what's been going on. So I think that kind of covers my section. I promise I'd keep it short. I think that moves on to our Q&A section. Yes. If anybody has any questions, do we want them to use the Q&A button? I would recommend... Oh, Charlotte Pierce has raised her hand. So maybe we can do it this way. All right, I'm gonna allow Charlotte to talk. Hello, Charlotte. I just wanted to jump in and say how rewarding it's been to get back involved with ACMI and just how astoundingly talented you all are in pivoting in the pandemic and making sure all the bases are covered like all the different stakeholders and the people who are interested in the studio and what it can do for them. So it's been a tremendous partner to me. I've gotten into podcasting and anytime I need a resource, I have a question, I can literally call y'all, you or Jeff and Katie, and that's just, it's so immensely valuable. So I just thanks. Well, I wanna say that others may wanna jump in here as well, but I wanna thank Charlotte and I also am glad that Charlotte kind of joined in here because those of you who have had a chance to look at your annual report already or I hope you will take the opportunity to do so in the future, we all know that the annual report is a lot of work. And it's a lot of work for everybody, but most of all, it's a lot of work for me and Katie. This is my seventh one, I can say without a doubt my favorite part of being able to do the annual report is features that we do extra features, which in this case this year was a profile of Charlotte Pierce and I got to have a lovely conversation with Charlotte to kind of get the full, a fuller picture of the fact that she has been around. I'm blushing, it's just, you did, you are such a masterful writer James and just like the whole interview was pleasurable and fun and just made me wanna get more involved with the studios. Anyway, I hope that you'll find that it's worth the read. It certainly is in terms of the breath and the depth of Charlotte's experience at ACMI and what she has to say about it. So got a paper that already here, but it really is, it was a total pleasure and please enjoy. Yeah, and just echo what Charlotte says, like definitely like working with a member, like working with members is so rewarding and so fun and so challenging. So I really appreciate you guys and you Charlotte. Yeah. I wanted to mention because it was in my notes to mention earlier and I forgot, but the joy of partnering with organizations this year, I know news has partnered with some of the groups to get continued information from them up to updates and things like that, but the partnerships that we've made with the library, the lecture series with Richard Duffy, another lecture with Richard Duffy for the old Schwann Mill, these are all things we did during COVID times and the planning was exceptional. Katie did a lot of this stuff over StreamYard and I just wanted to give like extra kudos to Katie for not only learning, Charlotte introduced us to StreamYard and it was one of these things where she said, it's fun, it's a studio in the cloud and she was using it for a podcast long before COVID and I'm grateful that we had that introduction when we did, but I'm also grateful that Katie found a way for us to put it into practice and you had mentioned all of the other groups, AEF, Arlington Community Education and so all of these other groups that we've partnered with, it's such a joy to now, before it was like pulling them in and saying, hey, you should come to ACMI and utilize the resources here and now they're calling us, they're like, those resources still available so I just, it's been really great that we've been able to partner up the way we have and I think that's something that I wanted to highlight this annual general meeting because it's something that's very spectacular and I'm very glad to be working with a lot of those organizations. I didn't even mention them all, those ones were the ones right at the top of my head. Back to you. All right, great. I do not see any other virtual or literal fans raised at the moment. If you are trying to, please make yourself known as best you can. I did want to just say that I took a glance at our attendees list and if Cyn and Margie, if you are in fact both here. Margie has a hand up. Oh, good. Margie does. Good. Come on in Margie. All right, Margie, give that a go. Thank you. I just want to say I think that what you have done ACMI has done this past year during COVID time has just been amazing. I wondered how you would survive and you've done, I think miraculously just keeping it going. And I'm just amazed at all the work you've done and I'm ready to jump in and help out as much as I can. And just want to be a part of, you know, doing something for the community and helping out ACMI because I've received so much support from them and want to give back as much as I can. So just thank you for all you've done. Thank you Margie. Love you. Absolutely. And, you know, as I mentioned earlier, those folks who are featured in the annual report are particularly both productive and, you know, I don't want to say everybody is dear to us, but people like Margie and Cyn and Charlotte who have joined us tonight have just really showed their own commitment to us ACMI as well as to the community as Margie just so eloquently put it. And they've also just gotten better and better at what they do. And so, you know, who could ask for more. And we got one more hand raised from Cyn. Okay, am I unmuted? Yes you are. Okay. Yeah, actually, I hate to say this, but COVID has actually been a blessing because it forced ACMI to do everything virtually, which means that I can still participate even though I'm out here in North Adams two and a half hours away. So yes, having studio nights, it's great that I've been able to continue to participate in that and keep in touch with all my friends back there. I also kind of realized that my last news broadcast before I moved here was the last newscast before you shut everything down. So, in a way, connection. Way I feel like I haven't left. So yeah, oh, and Katie, do you guys actually have my new address? Are you sending my annual report to my old address? That's a good question. I think we'll have to get your new address. I think you deserve an email. We'll send you an email. There you go. Okay. Hello, Gareth. All right. Yes, I'm here too, James. Excellent. Well, greetings from all of us to you both. Yes, our far Western. You know, branch of ACMI. Honorary members. Okay, anybody else want to ask a question or make a comment? I see nothing. How about you, Katie? Nothing for me. Okay. I think people might think that, oh, an hour and 50 minutes is enough. I'm going to bring a, maybe I'll bring John back. Norm. Yep. Norm. Yes. Unmute yourself, Norm, if you can. That's too technical for me. I'm not sure how to do that. I just want to last comment. I generally am pretty quiet after I give my two cents, but I've often said philosophy for me has been that when you have creative people, you give creative people their head. So I try not to interfere with that creativity. I think anybody watching this can see what this staff is really like tremendously creative, tremendously passionately involved in ACMI and what the commission is for ACMI in the station in the town. So again, I'd started by complimenting the staff. And I want to end by complimenting the staff. So on that note, I think we should go over to Mr. Leone. I lost my tie. Well, I want to thank you all. I want to thank the staff for everything you've done in the past year on these difficult COVID times. I really appreciate it. I really appreciate it. I like all your videos and everything that's been produced during the current year is just amazing. And that being said, thank you to Norm for running the good ship. And that's our annual meeting for the 14th time. And maybe we'll see you next year for a 15th on the better circumstances in the studio, I hope. Thanks everybody. We'll see you later. We'll see you next year. Bye everyone.