 All right. Good evening. I'd like to call to order the organizing meeting of the Board of Directors of Community Television of Santa Cruz County of December 2nd. Would the Secretary kindly call the roll? Yes. Chair Mazers. Here. Director Hall. Here. Director Rand. Here. Director Mannheim. Here. Director Laurent. Here. Director O'Driscoll. Here. Director Owen. Here. Director Lanier. Here. All right. We have a full house. Thank you all for coming. So we can move on to oral communications. Item number two. Is there anybody here who would like to address the Board on an item not listed on the agenda? Seeing none. We can move on to late additions to the agenda. Additions and deletions. I found some corrections after I sent out the agenda. That's not listed under that, so. I will remember to put Elizabeth on the Executive Committee roll call. I added you to the template already. And does anybody else have anything that needs to be added or they want to remove from the agenda? All right. Seeing none, we can move on to the consent agenda, which is items four and five to approve the minutes from our last regular meeting of September 23rd. We will approve the recommendation of the Finance Committee to accept the June, July, August, September, and October financial reports. Did you all enjoy reading those? I skipped to the end. Well, I can assure you the Finance Committee went over them with the fine tooth comb, found mistakes. Is that fine tooth so now? I'll make a motion and then explain what happened. Yes. We will move that we approve items four and five and the consent agenda. And I'd like to comment after there's a second. Is there a second? I'll second. All right, we have a motion and a second. And what had happened, there weren't mistakes as much as columns of items that should be maybe in one spot or another. There is nothing really irregular. It's just trying to make these as smooth as possible in terms of how the accounting and your financial representation is made. I wanted to thank Mel for working with us. It took a lot of patience. And they're now all in proper order and they really weren't out of proper order. They just, we thought needed some adjustments. And so they've all been adjusted and here they are for your action tonight. All right. And I think Tom, did you want to go over the general trends of? I'd be happy to. Yeah, I was just thankfully I have it with me. I was just looking. Yeah. So we have, we've had a little bit of a dip in revenue for the satellite services for, let me see, August, July, August and September. But it came back up in October. So cumulatively, we are about 10% behind where we hope to be in October based on a proposed budget. But we are still in the black if I'm not mistaken in terms of our costs, expenses versus revenue. So we're making more than we're spending, but not as much as we'd hoped we'd made, but it's going the right direction. Thank you very much. Yeah. And I will note that it wasn't the uptick partially due to the power outages. The public safety power shutoffs led some folks to come over here. I think that's what. Some extra people came because they couldn't work at home and they couldn't work to different places. So we had power. So unfortunately, fire season's over now. Yeah, but storms do. So we've never been here before. So we got a lot of good places in. It actually was very nice. It felt like a real community. I know. So we may have people canoeing down the San Lorenzo to come in to work here. As if the storms continue. Great. So we have a motion by director Hall and we had a second by director Mannheim. Any further comment or questions on those? All right. Seeing none. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right. That carries unanimously. Thank you. All right. So we can move on to our action packed regular agenda now. We have an election item number six is an election of a board member at large seat, expiring November 2023. Following the previous agendas, I did not put a name there, but our chair emeritus Keith Gudger has expressed willingness to rejoin us on the board. So if that is the pleasure of the board, can we have a motion and a second? I'd like to make the motion to state Keith Gudger as our board member. Second. Second. All right. Motion and motion and a second. I think everybody here knows Keith, maybe not Elizabeth so much, but he was on the board for eight years prior to this. I first heard about him as the community television volunteer of the year recipient award, you know, winner way back when and he's continued to, you know, dedicate countless hours of blood, sweat and tears to this organization. So and I think one thing and Tom next is Keith Karen and all the volunteers were actually the people who led the work to keep community TV on the air. And we'll talk about that a little later, but I want to give them credit. I mean, it's amazing how much work was done. When I would just sign the bills, I'd look at how much effort it took to come over here. So I'm very happy to second his motion to be back on the board. Great. All right. So any further comments or questions? Add to that. I was going to say something similar, but in addition to that, he was chair of the board through that entire transition period, which was really critical for us to getting back on our feet. So. All right. So we had a motion. I'm trying to do the last thing. I'm trying to be a little formal here. It smells fine. And then who was the second? To my left. Director Hall. Okay. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That carries unanimously. Thank you. Keith, is there a chair? Yay. Can we squeeze you in here? Getting his own chair. That carries the truth. I don't have to get it done. Get his old sign out. All right. Keith, you could come sit here. Yeah, we have room over here, Keith. You could come sit over here. If you're not afraid of it. He saved money by using the old one. Very good. All right. Welcome back. Welcome back. So good to have you here. Awesome. So we can move on. Unfortunately I have to take an item off the agenda. To put him in? No, no. Director Owen informed me that she won't be able to continue on our board. So I was hoping to re-elect her. But I guess it's not on the agenda to thank her. So I can do that during announcements. But I'm so glad you're here today. I wanted to be here just to say keep on going and do invite me to some strategic events. I just can't do the board meeting. We understand. We understand. We appreciate everything that you've done. I'll say it some more later. So item number seven is the re-election of a board member, which is the County of Santa Cruz appointed seat, which would be me. Expiring November 20th. I will make a motion. We have a motion by Director Rand. Is there a second? All right. We have a motion and a second. Any further comments? Sure. Who is the second? I miss you. Oh, sorry. I just wanted to say that it was, you know, enjoying very much sitting next to you, you being the chair and me being the vice chair. And I've seen you grow and I want you to continue growing and being chair. Well, but we haven't gone there yet. This is just to keep me on board. I'm just setting you up here. Okay. Thank you. I'll call the vote. All those in favor? All right. Any opposed? All right. I guess I'm staying for now. So thank you. We can move on to item number eight, which is the election of officers. There is a including the packet slate. I assume everyone's willing to continue our treasurer, our secretary and our vice chair. I was ready to hand the chair back to Keith, if he's okay with that. I was told I'm doing okay. No, no, no, I didn't say okay. I said it was a pleasure. Oh, yeah. Okay. It's not doing okay. I will say my one qualifications. I know not to wear pinstripes on air. You know, or polka dots. All right. Can I just, I think actually the slate did not get put in here. So maybe we should walk through who it is. Okay. Yes. So, this is my treasurer, my vice chair, Larry as secretary and Joe as treasurer. And I'd be happy to make that nomination. There you go. Since you've all been, if you're all willing because you've been doing a great job. And I'll second that. All right. Well, yeah, I've been told that I'm doing okay. So I'm willing to stay on his chair. If you're all willing to continue to give me good guide, good advice and share all of your wisdom and enthusiasm. Deal. All right. Let's call the vote. All those in favor, please say hi. All right. Any opposed? Okay. It carries unanimously. Great. So now we can move on to appointment to committees. And that, okay. That is included. Yes. So I did notice yesterday that there was a slight discrepancy between what's on the website and what was on the agenda last year in terms of the committees. And with Judy not continuing, there's an open spot on the fund development committee. Do we still have a fund development committee? Do we still want to have a fund development committee? I would say let's, let's review that, you know, based on the next item on the agenda. I think we don't want to have things, you know, going parallel. And so, no, no, what I mean, no, no, no, what I mean is that, you know, depending on what the next agenda item, there is a bigger plan. Yes. I get what you're saying. I don't think we should do at this point, the fund development committee that we had. Okay. So I would say let's not, Let's dissolve that for, I think just put that one on hold. Yes. And see how you want to reformulate it in the future. Yeah. Great question. Do we, do we need, does the vote, does the board need to establish any committees and we can do it at any time? Does it can then only happen during our organizing meeting or can that happen at any time that we see a need for? I think it can happen anytime, but also Elizabeth and Guy are not on any of them. Right. So I didn't get to talk to you ahead of time. Guy did say that, that you'd be willing to serve on any committee. Are there any that particularly strike your fancy? We cannot have a quorum though, right? On the committees of the board. So which is current, now that we have a, well, no, we don't have a full board, but it's, was it four or five members? So four members is okay. Five members is not. Okay. So I guess, yeah. So four people can be on the committee. The finance committee is full. Personal committee doesn't meet very often. I don't know any. Well, one person could be on the governance committee. The governance committee? Let me, since we can have the, we can add committees at any time. I would imagine we can also change the membership as needed. As needed. I would recommend approving these as they are. Okay. Giving you an opportunity to talk to the new members directly and see if there are any that they're particularly interested in them. And then in January, when we come back for our next meeting, you could have a new slate for any changes. Great. Thank you. That sounds good. One thing I will point out, that is a change is the voluntary advisory committee chair. Matilda is passing the reins to Keith. As her other commitments require. And we thank you very much for your service with the, the vac as we call it. And for giving us reports back all this time. Okay. Okay. So I will entertain, pardon. Entertain a motion. Entertain a motion. Do we have a motion? Yes, sir. There are only three on the finance committee, correct? There could be four. I would, I would like to be on that committee if it would cause any trouble for anyone else. You're always welcome. Since he's been attending as a visitor, not causing too much problem. And Guy, if you would like to be on the governance committee, unless it does. Be worried it hasn't met in a long time. That's one for me, yeah. Get all credit and, and none of the responsibility. There are four on it. Oh, there's four. No, but that means that, that I would withdraw. Oh, okay. Because I'm on so many committees. Okay. All right. Does that mean he'll be the new chair? Oh, okay, sorry. Yeah, that sounds fine to me. I'm happy to be on that. Okay. And, and maybe Elizabeth, I think this would be, since it's education, if you want to be on the youth grants committee, that's actually what I was interested in. Great. Then, then I'll be, I'll be withdrawn from that. Okay. To make space for you. So you have a committee that you really would like. Yes. And I know Guy is very good with government stuff. So he's done things like that before. Fantastic. And now that I want to be off of all of this. I mean, I still. You can certainly consult. I'm still on two committees. So, but I, you know, I want to make sure that you feel like you're someplace where you really want to be, like Keith really wants to be at financing. So that works. Then I like people make happy. It's a season. Yes. The youth grant committee. We got to do some field trips to it. Excellent. So if I'm visiting some schools, I'm sure you visited schools before. Once or twice. All right. So do we have a motion to approve the amended committee roster? I will move to approve the committee roster amended to, on the governance committee, replace Matilda with Guy and on the youth grant committee, replace Matilda with Elizabeth. And then put the fund development committee on hold. And put the fund development committee on hold. And put Keith on finance. Can we have a fund development? And move Keith on finance. Oh, that's right. And put Keith, add Keith to the finance committee. I'll second that one. All right. So we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right. We have committees. We are committed. All right. So moving right along, I give up a calendar. I love centered documents, Keith, but I decided to make a bold stylistic change to the calendar this year. I hope you approve. And I think I look to see if any of these are on holidays. I don't know if anybody double checked me. Memorial Day. No, I did Memorial Day again. See, I double checked. I imported the county holidays. The county celebrating Memorial Day on a different holiday. No, I went to import it again, and it said you already have imported it. And okay, I guess it must have them. That's what we had last time. We can change it right now. Yes. No, Memorial Day will be on the 25th. That's correct. That's the first thing I put on my calendars. The holidays. Do you want to change it to a week before? Does that work for everybody? Yeah, that would make more sense than Apple. I made the calendar. What will we do with that? Okay, I'm trying to find the calendar in here, because we know our people secretary. Okay, does that sound good to everybody? Yeah. Okay. All right. Then, unless there's any further discussion, is there a motion? A motion that the calendar be approved. Okay. A second. All right. We have a motion, and a second motion by Director Rand, second by Director O'Driscoll. All those in favor? Aye. And opposed? All right. We have a calendar. I'm going to move the shoe. Item 11 is a doozy. A very exciting one. I hope you all agree. It is to approve the actions necessary to hire a full-time executive director. As four parts, approve the personnel committee recommendations for executive director job description and salary range. B is to approve the finance committee recommendations for mid-year budget adjustment to fund full-time executive director. And C is to approve a new contract with CMAP, because we, our existing contract requires 30 days notice be given. And to approve the 30-day notice of contract termination. Now, MD is to actually hire the full-time executive director. And the wonderful report, which Larry was admiring earlier, was written up by Director Hall. And would you care to give us? Why don't you start first with the personnel committee and what they did? And then I'll go to finance. Right, right. We'll go down the kind of the sequence without going into great detail, but try to give you a little bit of an overview on it. Sure. Absolutely. So the personnel committee met and we had a, as a starting document, basically a slightly modified version of the, the previous executive director job description. And we made a few little tweaks. One, you know, to... And you're pointing at this three of us because we are on a committee. These are the personnel committee right here. Our goal was to actually include public access in the language, which it was alluded to before, previously. And I felt that, you know, while 10 years of experience in television is certainly a very desirable trait in executive director, in the future, executive director may be hard to find that. So I asked that we move that to the, you know, desired traits, desired experience. But other than that, we came up with a salary range of $80,000 to $120,000 base salary plus benefits, which seemed like reasonable, especially since Larry has much experience in that department of salary ranges and such. It seemed like a reasonable amount. It did, based on everything. Yes. Can I ask a question? You may have mentioned this when you introduced it, but I missed it. These are edits to the job description for the previous executive director, or... Well, but Beck actually has, she's been a contract employee. The old one. That's what I assume. Well, it's a job description that basically, I mean, the job carried over, even though it's contracted through CMAP. The duties are the same. Exactly the same. We had a thorough discussion. I was very pleased with and we kept in mind our strategic plan and making sure that would connect and that's why we added a few things. Right. So it was a very fruitful conversation. Unless there are any questions, I'll go on to the finance committee. And just so you know, Tom, I, Matreya, and Keith as a guest, we're on it. And first of all, I think we're at kind of a point, I don't want to over belabor it of a miracle. Because a few years ago, CTV was on the verge of just disappearing. Where we are now is we survived and hiring executive directors a way to start moving forward. You did a wonderful strategic plan. Rebecca put it out and I wasn't fully aware of this, that you had one day a week in real time here. Yeah, to move things forward. And that really isn't going to move much forward. But a couple of things happened that really kind of brought us to this point and I'll highlight those. We have a budget adjustment here to do this, but I'll just run over those first of all why we're here now as opposed to budget time or some other time. And then a few other little things and then if you have any questions, we'll go from there. First of all, we're at the point of our contract with CMAX. So we had to decide whether to move forward or to renew it or whatever. So that was one thing that kind of brought this forward. The incumbent part-time executive director expressed an interest in going full-time. That was good. It's always good to have interest. But C, most importantly the SEC has changed some rules and where we started out when we had to make some big cuts at community TV is we receive a certain degree of the fees from cable TV but they get past times used to run the whole station and buy equipment. Well there were some changes in the law with getting into the details. You can buy all the equipment but you have to figure out how to hire and maintain it and operate it. And that's how we became involved in satellite and using sub-lease space to create revenue. It's quite a complex formula and how it was pulled off, I'll mention again was just a combination of our executive director's work, our volunteer's work, the board's work and so to speak it worked. So what happened then and I'll ask Tom to do this because he rewrote my version of it into a more articulate and correct version is that the SEC has changed some rules which allow us now to use and take over from there. What they did is they clarified there's been sort of a dispute all along where cable companies did not want us to use capital dollars for certain things that many many PEG operations had used them for and have long believed that they should be used for and this was part of a much larger rule change but as a result of that rule change they sort of clarified what PEG fees can be used for things like cameras and all the things that we've always assumed they could be. And in at the same time what it allows us to do is look at what's the appropriate use of operating of labor for capital expenditures. So we'll be working consistent with GAP generally accepted accounting principles which have rules about where you can actually charge labor appropriately to capital and that allows us then to take some of the dollars from all of the employees here at CTV who do work on the capital the different capital projects work on that equipment to charge some of that to the capital budget. So going forward we'll be doing that as if this is all approved and it's a significant change for us. And adding to that we're going to use a little bit of our carryover revenue from last year and there's some other finances we found. And so by switching money from the capital to the operating we freed up enough money to make a start with a full-time executive director and there is an assumption in here and I think we all should understand it is that having a full-time executive director will not only be able to service the community the volunteers and the board better but also hopefully increase some of the revenue so we have enough money going forward to continue this we'll never know unless we try and this is an attempt to do it. And I think because of the information Tom covered we're in a much better position to do it before we were just sitting there spinning our wheels hoping and now we can. So without going into it we brought along a budget adjustment. If you have questions I'll be glad to go over it all with you but we went over it all into exhaustion and I think we're pretty much we've figured it out at this point to be appropriately done. If I can just add one clarification that would be important for us to have I'll ask that it be included in the motion. On the proposed operating budget changes there are three pages there of the budget. There's one line for the executive director which lists it's page two Larry for your notes there. The executive director the amount of change there where we're saying that the executive director for the next six months the 45,423 that is correct but the note simply says salary and that is actually salary less 10% because 10% of that salary is coming out of the capital budget. So the number would be higher if we weren't doing that. And it's just a clarification on the note really it should just say salary less 10% of capital. I got you. Is there a separate line item that includes the capital? If you go back to the capital budget you'll see other numbers there. Now you can see how it takes a while for us to do our monthly financial report. Okay Matrae do you want to go on with number C there? Oh yes. So the contract is pretty much the same contract that we've had ongoing for the last five years with CMAP with just the numbers changed a little bit to include a cost of living adjustment. I found one typo I fixed that and then I added just a little bit of our don't remember exactly which item it is but there's something one of the responsibilities of the Executive Director is to ensure that we meet our audit requirements with the county and I just added something to that that now we do comp, well audit or compilation reports because that's what the county is now requiring of us. Other than that it's the same contract that we've had all this time and it requires 30 days notice to CMAP to cancel the contract we need to approve it first and then we can So in essence the contract ended two days ago we're extending it so the contract reads for a full year and then as soon as the new contract takes effect we're giving CMAP 30 days notice that we're actually terminating so tie up all the loose strings we couldn't just give 30 days now without approving it what we could but it would be immediate right because we have no contract well it would sort of leave them hanging we all need to have a contract to last through December otherwise we literally don't have any of Becca's time without a contract so we continue the contract until we have a full time Executive Director and they're aware of this that it's going to terminate so they are in the know they've been notified thank you for stating that the reason we're coming at this point is like I said there were three or four things that were going on and they kind of coalesced and it was either take it now or wait a year we thought of the three of us it was time to move forward so there's item D now so you want a motion on so that everything or each item because we'll do it all at once but I just wanted us to cover each of the three or four recommendations what is the salary that we are approving because it's probably stated that's what we're going to talk about in number D the salary should be an Executive Session that's not an open we have the salary range all of our numbers are open but the numbers are open but the discussion about exact salary we need to discuss it first and then it's open okay so it hasn't been determined well it has to be approved in a open session the number it has to be approved and it doesn't have to be discussed in a open session it's in the budget it's in the contract with CMAP that we're approving because that was all part of we've gone through this each year where there's a discussion with CMAP about potential raises and so I'm looking for it I know it's in here somewhere and then I'll ask in our finance committee meeting we've mentioned whether CTV needs to have a contract with Becca and I guess I think we said that eventually that would be a good thing to have but it's not required at the outset so we can talk to you can talk about that during your closed session how you want to structure that but in the meantime Tom has well I have so we have a third of her time so give me a second and I'll tell you what her a third of her time is $36,407 and 20 cents under contract so you can do the math from that in terms of what an annual salary would be that is the burdened amount the burden why don't you explain what you're talking about cost of benefits and everything else fully loaded and that salary is what we actually gave you the plan on I thought a six month salary wouldn't be worth going to all the trouble of this for six months so we planned for a one year existence of this anyhow and that number was $138,000 $33,000 excuse me he just gave you a bonus everything so that's the number that if you looked at the report on this it's in the very top if you looked at this report and you see there's this table at the bottom of it the total amount is $131,400 so that and what that $131,400 is the fully loaded salary for a year is that confusing enough haha okay and the trace if you want to sum up or oh boy alright well so that's it that's what we have we think not everybody was able to attend the board retreat in October but we had a wonderful discussion strategic plan that the committee you know slaved over for months and yeah it became obvious to us that it's great to have goals and objectives but without somebody to you know carry those out carry those forth that they're just going to remain goals and objectives and not reality so as this opportunity has arisen and since the numbers seem like they're going to work I believe that we have a great opportunity here to move our organization forward and and do some great things so I'm hoping that the board will approve this this plan anybody looking for a motion? do we have a motion? you wrote it so you should it was a team effort everybody had a little piece I would move all of the actions related to item 11 on the agenda with the addition of the minor change to the notes in the budget second we have a motion by Director Mannheim and second by Director Hall any further questions or discussions? I would just like to say that I'm very much in favor of this my concern was not only paying for it this year but in years hence and I like that it's structured and the fact that the rules have changed a little bit and that frees up some of those funds that we can use that's kind of the key deal that's what's hamstrung us before I'm very much in favor of this and if I can just add on that point one of the things we did discuss I mean we all believe this will be successful on an ongoing basis we'll be able to afford this we had that conversation and the Executive Director aware that you know she has a burden to bring in new revenues with the additional time and if that doesn't happen we'll have to revisit it but we're going forward believing it's going to happen successfully yes absolutely well thank you all any further questions comments discussion alright let's call the vote all those in favor please say aye aye any opposed we have a new Executive Director not a good January 2nd that's my closed session closed session okay well we have a position we have a position we have a we're moving forward alright well that's a perfect segue to item number 12 which is the oral report of the Executive Director we didn't get it in writing this month because as you can tell a lot of things are going on but okay okay so this report for October because we're in December but really we should have been in November and I always report on the thing frequently so it seems like it's already behind so under financial and co-working October was great month we our break even number is 10,000 and we earned 10,647 so it's a great thing and what it really shows is that we can do it and so we just need more more people to be aware of us and many new people came and worked here and really enjoyed it so that was a good thing for us, sad for others we always do government meetings we did approximately 19 meetings in October that was kind of the usual month for us under staffing Victor is training one of our government technicians to learn how to program the channels Victor is the only guy who knows what he does so we're trying to cross train other people so that he might one day go on vacation so we're teaching one of, we've got a couple of really new great young technicians and they are very excited to learn more so we're doing that and we're also going to be training two of them to learn to run the studio as well because the idea going forward is we're getting a lot more people want to run it and so our equipment is very good but not every producer knows how to run it so we want to have some people who know how they can then pay for our staff to help them so we're going to train a couple of people to run the studio and under equipment and facilities our new fiber connection has finally been installed really? now we're on it, it's in here it was in here and I was like nothing's happening there's just a big wire hanging in the room so there's a whole other process to connect it to things so now it's connected and working and so it's so exciting very speedy and we also you might have noticed a new parking lot it's all been refurbished, it's all nice and black and has brand new stripey things on it so that's nice, directional signs will come soon there is a good way to enter and exit and we need the signs to tell people because it's real dangerous to head out on this side of the parking lot because you can't see anything beyond our sign and the elemental that you approved the purchase of a few months ago that was the $25,000 piece of equipment, Victor installed it and it is working great and he did a wonderful job he took a long time, about a month, tweaking it and getting it all ready and doing it all the programming here and when he went and installed it, it was just he plugged the old one in and he plugged the new one in, he unplugged the old one and it was, we were probably down for five minutes he really did an excellent job took a lot of care and thought it went into it to make it all happen and it worked like a charm so that's great and now we've shipped the old one back that was part of our deal and we're all done we've got a really advanced piece of equipment and we're good for another few years there under communications we're doing, still doing First Friday we're having a really fun time with that Ian's really great he's a really good host and he has a good time and we do not only the, we have the art and the artists but we also do things in the studio so people can try out virtual reality and fun stuff like that and we also worked on our earthquake history project in October we collected 15 stories which was good not all of them got edited when we looked at them they weren't all great stories they were more like interesting moments and so our idea is now to combine a bunch of moments on the same topic so that we can collect impressions from a lot of people about one thing and so we're working on that so the wonderful thing about this is that every year we have October 17 so we will put more on every year we'll have new stories so we're still working on that on outreach we had a I have a typo luckily you can't see this so Dan, he wants to see it he's missed the typo we held a lunch for local professional producers so we had a lunch in a tour of the studio so people could come in and see what we have and one thing I wanted to reassure local producers was that we're not in the producing business and we're not going to take your jobs away we really just want to be a resource for you and support you and what you're doing and get the finest equipment that we can that you can use you can rent and you don't have to be in the equipment business to stay current and to be able to compete and so we had our crane setup and our dolly setup and a lot of our cooler our big F7 camera and so they got to try things out and it was fun and out of that came TAM communications was here and they brought some of their newer staff so they could see what we were doing and they offered to work with us on a meetup where we can bring a bunch of producers in and to get some content and have a tour and see some new things here so that's very exciting we had a conversation with the video link people so I've been working with them for a long time to try to get them to put a satellite uplink in our building and I think I finally have gotten the person who could actually move it forward so hopefully that'll happen soon and then we can have people come here like Zach Friend does like four or five a month of those and he could do them here instead of driving off the mountain view so I think that and he's just one guy so there's I think there's a lot of business out there for a week it calls all the time we've gotten calls from PBS and ESPN and all kinds of people so I think it's a good business model for us and we can really work on that and that is my report for October I have a quick question have you gotten any feedback on the new high speed from any of the our clients here no one has mentioned anything but no one's complained either and the staff is very happy because we're doing another thing too we're separating out we have two we have some we have some switching things that we need to separate out so we can have the co-working separate from the CDB we're working on that but they're very happy they don't get bumped off all the time now they used to be trying to upload these big files that we have and they would get almost there and it would die out and we'd have to start again so that's stopped and that's making them very happy greater efficiency then oh gosh yeah that was one of the big reasons the reasons we did this was mostly for them but we do have producers who come here and when they're editing they have the same problems that our staff does so this will make it much better for when we have editors in here trying to upload their files or for approval or a lot of times you upload stuff to render farms or you upload stuff to other countries where animation takes place and that takes a lot of bandwidth so now we have it fantastic that's great any further questions on that item alright fantastic moving right along would you like to give us one last report sure as the chair of the volunteer advisory committee well I had a great conversation with Keith director Kutcher as you like to call him because my activities with the radio station and other social involvement things we're just at such a point that I couldn't do it all and I want to do it well so I really enjoyed being the volunteer advisory committee chair I think the group has brought some interesting items to the board but I think Keith will bring in some new energy and will make some communication especially with the fact that we're have finalized the director's extended time we've already planned together the three of us that there will be a lot more direct interaction with producers and and directors and specifically what we were interested in and we've discussed that more skills development and I actually was fortunate to have a conversation with with executive director Reid and director Kutcher about how to start up a program and so I learned that sometimes what you do is you just start with a statement and so that afternoon I did it I had two programs and I did it so it was kind of an interesting experience for all of us because it's different with the director and the person on first camera and all that on camera one so I'm looking forward to a lot more as a participant but I definitely will continue to be on the VAC as a member so I want to thank all the members of the VAC Steve Plage Linda Genakos Keith Kutcher Karen Scott David Goldman and I'm thinking of and and me I've been working with all of them Michael Parks see I knew those Michael Parks I think all of them it was a pleasure working with them and I'm sure Keith will help us to find even more creative ways to use our facilities our equipment and our community to help reach out to our community so that's my final word and I'll stick to it. Thank you very much director and I just want to express appreciation not just to the VAC but to you for your leadership of the VAC through this entire transition I mean it's a lot of burden fell on all of you and did a great job. Thank you. We'll share that with them I will share that with them the work will continue and we will continue to do inventory you know equipment all that stuff all that work still be there all the tapes were catalogued and indexed already ooh that was a lot of work we'll only have to do it once though right hopefully well it was up to Becca we would have more information and so that might be our projects I'd like to know what's on it not just the titles and who's in it but really we need librarians for that AI, how about AI? Automation let's be somewhere around here let's be quiet around fantastic well thank you very much any other comments, questions regarding that item number 13 alright we can move on to item 14 or report to the board chair I think you've heard enough from me so I will maybe use this opportunity to thank again Judy you know it's been wonderful this past year plus to have you here and you've made some the word enthusiasm you've been so enthusiastic coming up with so many wonderful ideas and we actually had our first equipment lease thanks to your efforts proving that that program is possible and we've actually budgeted we were counting on doing more of them so thank you so much for helping make that happen and for participating and thank you also for being willing to be a friend of Community TV and a friend of the board somebody that we can turn to as we need to I actually when we did our strategic plan and a lot of those you go to and you scratch your head and you write out all sorts of wonderful ideas and there was one that came up that you came up with which has now actually happened and that's the RSVP studio remember you said and of course right next to her was Keith who actually did it but I thought that was a pretty good combination of ideas and action so you're leaving with a legacy and you guys have been a lot of fun to work with and I still want to continue doing that I might become more of a volunteer and join some of the actual activities so I'm hoping that I just transition to a slightly different role fantastic thank you all thank you so much and wish you all the rest and your continued involvement in different ways and I will say I had an action item from the board retreat I'm a procrastinator so I probably should have done it the next day but now I'm just kind of waiting for the right time so I haven't forgotten but I will be contacting somebody at the county regarding one of the ideas that we have probably between now and Christmas might be a good time stay tuned for what the idea was when I remember it was a good idea and anyways so that's enough of me we can move on to item number 15 the board member staff request for specific items does anybody have anything they want to bring to our next agenda nope, alright seeing none we can move on to item 16 we're going to do we still have more after this but I think we're probably going to end the TV broadcast before we report out of closed session because I don't think we'll have much to report so I would like to take this opportunity to thank our all volunteer crew today which consists of Minda Janakis Karen Scott Sherry Ross, Nick Perkendall and David Goldman and of course Keith Godra was here helping to set up before thank you all for making this accessible to the rest of the county so I think at this point we can should we make do we need to move to adjourn the closed session do we have a motion I'll make a motion that we close the open session and go into closed session alright we have a motion by director vanheim second alright we have a second by director vanheim all those in favor alright so we are going into closed session thank you very much