 All right, I'm gonna note the time is 5.04 and call this meeting of the community television of Santa Cruz County Board of Directors September 28th 2020 to order would our secretary kindly call the roll. Yes, it's your maziars here director Hall muted Director Rand here director Mannheim here director O'Driscoll Here director Launay here director Shaw here director gudger Thank you very much Larry. All right, so we have a full house a quorum I don't see any members of the public here, but we'll so item number two or all communications Does anybody want to address the board? I don't see anybody moving on any? Item number three any late additions to the agenda additions deletions from any board members or staff All right seeing none. We can move on to our consent agenda, which is items four five six and seven. We have Sorry, oh and a that's why it goes on to the next page. All right. Thank you very much So we have minutes from our June 22nd 2020 meeting is item number four minutes from our special board meeting of August 17 is item number five item number six are our June financial reports item seven is our July financial reports item eight is our August financial reports. Are there any Corrections to the minutes from any board members director gudger I'm sorry to do this, but the first minutes the one from June 22nd Under item nine Update on cares act. It seems some words got dropped and I'm sorry. I'm having trouble understanding what it said It needs to be edited and I I would trust the I saw that I wasn't gonna say anything. Well, which line I would trust It's the first line. Oh, yeah I I think what it should say is director Hall tank executive rector read for getting the application processed Thank you executive director read. I think that's correct That's exactly it Yeah, that would be the only correct. Anyhow, I wasn't gonna say anything but keeps an engineer He has that ability to watch things carefully. I'm sure it was in there in one of the revisions that I probably just I am too, but I guess I thought there was more than just that one line, but you're right. That's all I see now Yeah, all right. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for catching that. I have been lax. I must admit on closely approving vice chair Rand has been spoiling me by jumping in quickly and Responding to our secretaries minutes Most of the most of time, you know, they were fine and I you know So I don't know what happened to the June meetings because they were fine when when Larry and I communicate So it seems like a million years ago, too. It doesn't it so much just happens. I know June was a whole nother world Okay, so thank you for those corrections any further corrections on the minutes see none with our Chair of our finance committee like to comment on the finance Financial reports by any chance. Well, first we want to thank mail for doing a good job. We've been looking at the numbers very carefully One surprise happened In August and we had an increase in our lease revenue, which was very nicely welcomed So that was one thing you'll notice there that I think was a nice improvement Other than that, no, I mean there's going to be a bigger item talked about later Which is taking a lot of the finance committee's time But I'll defer to that but just thank mail for her work during this kind of strange period of keeping our books In line with what's been going on Great. Thank you director Hall. Um, did our treasurer hall would any of Other board members have any questions comments on the financial reports If not, I'll entertain a motion on the consent agenda I'll make a motion that we Approve the consent agenda as amended Do we have a second Okay, so we have a motion from vice chair ran second from Director gudger, would you kindly call the roll? Secretary Laurent Yes, director O'Driscoll Yes, chair me is yours. Yes Director l'anier. Yes director hall. Yes, director Shaw Yes, director Rand. Yes, director manhunt. I Director gudger Yes All right. Thank you very much. All right moving right along To our regular agenda we have item nine which is the oral report of our executive director I did I didn't check with you beforehand Becca, but I did include both the Report from June was it that I had emailed directly to our board members I figured it'd be good to get it into the public record and also the the Reports from the last two months that you just gave me last week. So kindly take it away. Okay. All right. I'm going to Cover July and August here today We're so So I can barely remember In under the Financial category we during July and August we were kind of we had been approved for the EIDL loan and We I did talk to somebody Recently in August I talked to someone and they had They said well on our dashboard It says funding approved funding and so I we didn't hear anything so I called them and They said, oh, yes, you're funding. You're not funded So we are just continuing to work on this so they sent a whole bunch of more documents I filled them out and we're still in the funding group I did speak to somebody yesterday. I think and Sort of a confusing call they called me and asked me to call them back and I called them back and they asked me They said well, what do we want from you now? So they're very nice and they are humans. I'm not talking to robots or just computers or anything people and they're like Well, let me we did call you well, let me get back to you on that We're in the process though. We're still in there. So Under co-working although, you know, our break-even number is 10,000. That's what we put in our budget to hit and Our projection for July it used to be 10,000 brother our projection for July was eight and in June We earned eighty nine hundred so better than eight and then in August. We earned twelve thousand nine hundred So is that supposed to be July because you had June yeah Yeah, I'm sorry. Oh, well make sure well now you know my secret and I just go with the old one and change So under paid services We did five regular meetings in July and 17 in August and July they're just they don't meet much That's kind of their downtime all all government meetings almost all of them stop completely Then we produced a couple of government webinars in July and five in August I have a fun pie chart for you just to spice things up Under facilities and equipment. We are installing a new captioner for the county and the new captioner and We we're still working on it. We've been installing it for a while There's some kind of cork that we can't out but we're also installing a new one for the city and we just got it and so Victor's gonna start working on it soon. He's trying to set up a time when we can go in and Under equipment and studio rental we did we earned about four hundred dollars in July and almost seven hundred dollars in August and Keith redid our System for renting and for tracking tracking the rentals and that meant that we could have a pie chart So we have this fun pie chart showing us and it's impossible to read because it's very tiny But what you do see is that we are running a variety of things and a lot of what we're running now because of COVID is Mike stands and boom poles so people can interview someone from a distance. So That's the big blue area here. I believe So is a sea stand a mic stand. Is that what that is? Well, we're not No, a sea stand could be a mic stand a sea stand is just a particular Configuration a very heavy-duty thing. It can hold a light or a microphone or or a scrim or all kinds of things It's just built to hold stuff. So and people do rent those but sea stands generally are what people rent with the With our lights with the quinoa flow lights because they're they're heavy-duty So there's a fun pie chart and I like the the variety of stuff that's being rented as good It's not like we just have one thing people are running If you enlarge it to 200% you can read the pie chart Very well done. All right, well, I didn't do it Ian made it for me Keith made it happen and Ian printed it out for me So I just copied it, but I just like that we can do that It's very it's nice to know we get a quick picture of of a date range of what we're doing in equipment So that's kind of nice to have and later We'll be able to kind of figure out if if things more will will obviously we'll know what things rent more often But we'll also know if there's certain times of year that more things are rented or more certain kinds of things are rented In some parts of the year or not others. We can just learn more From that nice that nice ability to be able to extract that those metrics and that's thanks to Keith And We have the ad hoc facilities committee met twice in July and three times in August We selected a building that we thought would be Kind of ticked all the boxes for what we're looking for in a co-working space As far as where it's located and what's located around it We're always looking for a place with restaurants around it a bank places to drink. I don't know why that's on the list and That that was a place that we liked we did Put out we did look at a lease from them they send us a lease and we had some deal points that we wanted and some of them we cannot get and I'm gonna turn this over to Tom now for a quick interlude on where we are on this process so basically we've been looking at sort of going back and forth with The potential tenants to see what we could get and we I think we've reached a point where we're not going to get any more from them so we as the We had the finance committee Which I'm on both committees at this point take a look at sort of okay with that That potential second lease what would that do to our finances and it It So the finance committee looked at that and they're now sending that back to the Ad hoc committee, which I will also be on so we're sort of a little bit of dual things But we need to look at it. There are some issues. We need to look at and really really Take a look at whether or not this will work for us. We're not sure financially whether the number is pencil out so the ad hoc committee is going to be getting together probably in the next week or so and Stay tuned Okay, thank you, Tom I'm moving on to mission programming which we it appears in the the In in my reports sporadically because we're not always able to do it But because of the state of our county we are doing we did a lot of it We did all of the fire press conferences the 6 a.m. And the 6 p.m We also did an election of sort of a DIY election special We had all the candidates record according to our instructions their own message their own statement and then we assembled it into a program We did a wear a mask PSA and we also have been running PSAs that we've been able to get about voting and We also just recently we were able to get The an organization on the west side did a candidate's forum by a zoom for city council And I think it's actually the neighbor. It's the neighborhood It's a it's a city-wide organization Okay, I couldn't tell I actually never got them to speak with me But today they emailed me a link to their forum so we can put it on TV So can I just get make a suggestion you might look carefully at that link because I got the same email and tried it Yeah, I'm not sure that link will work. It looked like it was actually a zoom meeting It was probably the original zoom meeting. Oh They sent you something different. They said it was a link to the recording and they sent me a password Did you get a pass? Yep? Oh, I got sounds like what I got to well. I forwarded to Victor So I'm sure I'll hear back from them So I'll try again I'll see if I all I Them and a couple of places and left them phone calls everywhere and they and they they did they did finally communicate with us So Becca if that doesn't work The Democratic Women's Club of Santa Cruz County did one now. It isn't everybody. It's just the Democrats, but There's a link to that So if you don't have the one that you and Tom were talking about let me know and I'll get you Yeah, that would be great Democratic Women's Club that one worked out really well. I watched it and it was very professionally done I like to have as many of those as we can because we can't go out and shoot them now And so that people are doing them on zoom is great for us and we can get them out to the whole county So everybody can see not that the whole day. I'll follow up on the DWC's one. All right, the DW Joe What about the the John Laird review? Yeah Yeah, okay Really tried to stay down the middle and say these people are for it these people are against it and Okay, it was very good. I mean, I've got I've decided I don't Yeah, it's actually on YouTube And it's on YouTube Okay, okay. Well, well, if you when you know you learn of these things, let me know and we'll try to get them on television Okay, okay, so So for social media, we did a lot with the fires We posted everything on all our social media platforms all of the press releases and all the the conferences that we taped So we had tons of stuff going out all the time until We've been posting once a day since 9-11 when it became like 99% contained so we're now we still post what they have to say But they don't have much to say anymore. You mean September 11th when you say 9-11. I thought the attack Well, not September 11th. Yeah, I'm sorry happened. Well, I'm sorry. It just happened to be that date. Yeah, I Don't mean yeah the event. Yeah, that's right. The event has sort of opted the date. Yeah, it just happened to happen then Did you guys do the recording for the or the taping for the The six o'clock AM and PM and the briefings and all that and then because I know the Cal Fire They put it up on their Twitter or on some other format too, but you guys did the taping I think there were a number of different We did them and I think one of the areas probably live streaming on a phone. I mean I ran into Lynn I was like too bad. We don't have the ability right now to go live because I know He was going home and we could get back to the studio editing and then trying to get them up within like an hour or two But that would have been something great to carry live if we had the time I want to live and so it was good work. I thought it was great having it there. Yeah, I still want to live too We have the ability to go live with our tricaster, but not outdoors A lot and sometimes they'd move the meeting it would be outdoors and it would start they go indoors So we couldn't do that this time, but I did think that we might like to outfit Auditorium where they do that which I think is where the city council meets for Scotts Valley with a system to do that. So we'll once later We'll talk to them about that. So we have a place to go live from there if this happens again Actually, you can't go live from the Scotts Valley city council. Oh, yeah, we can we can plug right in and do that Yeah, he's for the Scotts Valley area. I don't know if it's county-wide It goes to our channel Also, I think Lynn was talking about how I mean, I don't know they're probably super expensive But he said like the network folks had some fancy. I mean with the fires I know at the county that they were talking about Cows and you know or all these different, you know, it was like a light like sell-on light truck or something like that And but I'm sure for man I don't know if just like a Wi-Fi hotspot has bandwidth to go live If you've got like a camera hooked into some sort of encoder, you know connect, you know tethered to your phone or something like that but you know in terms of You know capital expenses on equipment might be good to have You know That we can go live with our portable tricaster that goes live, but you still need a You need to tether I mean to be connected to somebody's we need to be connected to somebody else's internet connection, right? Somebody fast. We don't bring our own, you know, but when 5g gets rolled out everywhere. We'll all have 15 fingers and toes and we can have lots of bandwidth Well, I think it's a good time to talk about how can we go live in these emergency Situations because we've had a lot of them and that would have been a handy thing to be able to do So it's certainly conversation. We should have I Looked into before there was a company selling a white space transmission system. Uh-huh Isn't that right? Yeah. Am I wrong about that? What's that? I thought that was radio that white space. Oh, no That's TV. It's in the white space between channels six and seven. Oh Where FM is But the problem was the reason besides it being maybe proprietary or expensive or whatever is that we can only do North County and Oh, and my tree I could tell us about that, you know, the county to get to South County goes up to the mountain and back down, right? But that's a point-to-point, right? That's not going over public internet, right? That you're talking about is is a direct site Whereas I don't know if the I guess those madden on if about high-end, you know broadcast I guess when they have those satellite trucks, they have a dish I mean you probably know more about it Becca. They're there. I guess they do have some sort of a direct link Well, you have a yeah You have a dish and you drive up as high as you can and you you can do a month You can do a microwave or a satellite dish depending on what kind of truck you have and you're aiming for I think freemont heat, but it's a little more creative Yeah, there's a there's an antenna there, but there's a there's another one down toward Watsonville So that might be outside of our our means. Oh, yes That would be we already did that Yeah, I would say the one down towards Watsonville used to be the KSPW and tenant I think they sold it It's also the KQED has one down there. They're on one is that's where KTH goes through there or now KQED plus I can't remember the name of it and there is a dip in there There's a place where you can't get a signal and people call all the time, but but yeah That's a microwave truck kind of thing which we probably wouldn't want to do But if we could find a way to do it over the internet, but then it would just be streaming wouldn't be on our channels But that's you know, we could we could pull the signal from the internet and put it on our channels We've done that before. Oh, we streamed a number of live concerts this summer a couple of them actually over cell phone To to both YouTube and Facebook simultaneously. It was pretty good. Yeah, you know, just it was definitely doable So, hey, cool. Well, we should get together and see what we can do for the next emergency Hopefully not right away You just have to have a couple cell providers available. That's it. You can't rely on one in this county You got it. You got it depending on where you are One works better than the other but that's just the nature of things depending on where you are. Yeah, absolutely Where were we Becca? Yeah, we are now at our corona response update We've done a bunch of stuff inside the building to make it safer We did a lot of it right right at the beginning. So we haven't done too many things left What we did was we made we made Individual and closed spaces around the desks. So They are we use pop-up canopies like five foot by five foot, which is the size of our desks And then the canopies have a like a velcro Edge on the inside. So we velcroed clear shower curtains to them and so you can be Out and you can kind you can you're not Boxed into a tiny five by five thing you can see out and the light comes in but you're safe from no air comes in well Are people using those? Yes, they are And so we're adding two more So that What it does is we've got nine desks So you're gonna have your tic-tac-toe skills here. So we have Three of them go to write down the center the center three and then the other three will go across the this the Mid section horizontally. So we've got vertical and horizontal So then the people on the corners are surrounded by the other ones that are contained So there's still a space for people to be outside, but they are pretty Pretty secluded as far as people, you know walk and buy them and and that sort of thing And we already have the path of travel and sanitation and all the other things But it just makes it just feel a little bit safer and people seem to like it and Let's see. Oh, I lost my place Are we recording question? Are we requiring folks to wear their masks when they're in there a little? No, they wear their masks when they're in the little cubicles But they do have to as they move around the place if they Front door to the bathroom after wear their masks. That's how it is at the county building. Yeah I'm grateful for that. Yeah, I feel sorry for the people working in You know whole foods after where they're masked for eight hours straight all day. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's tough Especially if they wear glasses. Yeah worse Yeah, so that's it. That's all I have to say I'm happy to entertain any questions if you have them, but that's our report for I actually have quick what keep The the big jump in August. What was that a treat? Do you have what that was attributed to it? Was it a do? We rented two offices to dignity health and it something happened and they kind of got behind So we got two payments at once So really the month before should have been a little higher in the month after should be higher So it would have spread out so that we would still have over we would be over our Over our projection in all those months. It just all landed in August Okay, I just didn't know if it was attributed to more people coming, you know as they kind of loosen things up Okay. Well, no, no, but but we are up. I mean we were at seven thousand So we've gotten up to over 10 now So we are getting more people coming in because it's a little bit looser. Okay. Thank you. It's a very good sign Any other questions from the board? All right, seeing none, thank you very much Becca for that report we can move on to item number 10 which is the oral report from the volunteer advisory committee chair Keith Gudger And and do I know I have we actually opened up the studio to members yet? No, not yet. Okay, and But there is a document that I attached which you'd given me for our last meeting that was canceled I don't know if you wanted to comment on that or I just yeah I'd like to count comments since the meeting was canceled that we the studio supervisors met and agreed to modified Modifications to how we run the studio and then we were supposedly open for the month of July But no one actually did it and then we closed down at the end of July Becca has said and I please correct me if I'm wrong that if if the county goes to yellow we will try and open Yeah, yeah right now. We're still in in the overwhelm zone So yeah, it doesn't seem like a good time to get together, but if we get to yellow I'd be happy to open so There's orange in between where we are now in yellow Okay, so anything else I think that's it I've Becca mentioned we redid the equipment rental system So she gets a pie chart now Part of the reason we did it is that our server is being held back security-wise With the old system and now that the old system's gone I can bring the server in compliance with some security measures and make it more secure and I was going to have to maintain the old I'm maintaining the old system anyway, which was really crippling to me because it took so much work So now we have a new system. That's easier to maintain And if we head up with another facility inside of County, we should be able to add that to the system because we have control over it And there's been a few issues with integration with satellite But I think we've worked those out Barbara seemed happy with it. So he ends giving me feedback on what he needs Think that's about it Fantastic questions for me. Have you heard? From the members are they clamoring to get back? I mean you said it was open in July But nobody jumped at it at the opportunity. Have you heard from? producers about being eager to get back in and We have producer we have one producer who definitely wants back in And then he did a show in the conference room and we're going to have to talk to about maybe improving this Restrictions a little bit more when he does a show That's I putted that one to Becca People are using the RSVP to and they're doing their own shows at home with zoom And uploading them to yeah our channel. So yeah, well, I'm on that A couple of us volunteers continue to do the nonprofit spotlight And since the pandemic started we've done at least a dozen shows using google meet And it's called the pandemic series. It's on our youtube channel And it's about nonprofits and how they're dealing with loss of funding not able to have fundraising events Completely changing their mission during this time. I mean We got Susan true from the community foundation on They've done huge things both during the pandemic and for the fires I mean most recently But we've done a lot we did second harvest we've done everybody we can get in there and thanks to Matilda She gave me a year for three shows and it turns out it's going to be one show October first so Yes, women care and survivors healing center are going to be on one show together That's the next one, but it's it's been really good. It's gone very easy The host Steve plage goes to the RSVP And we use google meet and then all I have to do is add lower thirds and I usually get them out the same day because it's pretty easy Wow Fantastic And does google meet do the same sort of thing that zoom does and a lot of the was just kind of automatically levels the audio for you So you don't have to do much Audio sweetening Yeah, it does a great job of the audio and it also puts the name down on the bottom So if I can get Even when I don't have a lower third up the people are ID'd Except for when they longer than the wrong email account. Okay But they're dogs email account and it says fluffy or something I had one show I had to go in and put a band across the bottom of the block Fantastic. Well, glad to hear that We're carrying on as best we can under these trying circumstances Any questions for our vac chair from other members of the board? All right seeing none. Thank you, Keith very much We can move on to item 11 Which will be very brief oral report of the board chair. I have nothing But I'm just very happy to see you all here and everybody looks very well and I hope we're all taking care of our mental and physical health as best as we can So item 12. Do we have any board member or staff requests for specific items to appear on our next meeting agenda? Seeing none. All right We can move right on to announcements Thank you to our wonderful staff. Thank you Becca for keeping the lights on and even ambitiously trying to forward forward with, uh, you know possible expansion and thank you for all the committee members and For for putting all the hours in and trying to see if uh, you know What what what we can make work and uh for all your board all the board members for your service And hopefully we I have also one other. Thank you To Becca, uh, and I didn't want to bring it up earlier because I didn't want to belabor the meeting But we have three minutes before everybody dies of hunger out of the blue about Two months ago a former employee. I won't give his name for his own confidentiality appeared in an email who had a 401k account with ctv That I'd never heard about and we closed them all down but evidently somewhere in the process he wasn't told and it was still active with the company And uh, Becca's helped me a little and I've done more research and I ever wanted again on 401k But it looks like we're about the end of the process and this former employee will be able to secure His ira funds and transfer him to another group that he wants to do so It's interesting ctv's been around so long people don't remember from 35 years ago what happened And here was one that showed up and luckily is, uh, ira is safe and it'll be transferred where he wants to and Thank you, Becca. We're gonna go friday and get a medallion seal on Becca's signature and off it goes to Step one. He said he'd worked on it for six months. So I think us taking two months isn't too bad And it was a reasonable amount of money and the ira account I was kind of shocked that he'd been sitting on it that long But it's it's saved and it'll go to where he wants it to go Oh, I would like to thank joe for all the work. He's done on this. I've done easy He has done really hard like horrible calls with these guys and know what we don't know anything And they pass them on to another guy and then they give wrong information and we get all the way to the bank And it's not what we need and so joe is the one he's got the patience of joe Yeah, well, whatever. I just thought you'd enjoy a little bit of past ctb history because it is a legacy story Yo, I always knew you were not a sloppy sloppy one Keith you had something to add Just for a little information when I first got the email asking about this He wanted to know if jeffrey dunn was still the executive Oh, wow Going way back Wow, that's a long time ago Um on a somber note, uh, I just wanted to mention, uh, I saw on phase. I haven't seen other confirmation, but that, uh former member, uh, sandra Sandra d was it spilly chilies bowler rocks? Um Sandra lee. Yeah, Sandra lee passed away, uh, recently and you know, I know we've had some difficulties with her at some points, but you know, she was a part of our family for a number of years produced a lot of Wonderful television. So, um, you know, to keep her and her family in our thoughts and do our best to, um continue on a community television's mission to Inform entertain and in many ways and live in our community here So, um, if there's no nothing else I will entertain, uh, item number four a motion for adjournment Make a motion to adjourn We have a motion from mr. Rand and we have a second from dr. Launay Uh, we need to do a roll call. How about just, uh, voice acclimation? All right Take care of yourselves. We'll see you in october. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Thank you. Bye