 Good evening. I'd like to call to order the Board of Directors regular meeting for community television of Santa Cruz County. It's February 24th, 2020 and with our secretary kindly call to roll. Karen Magyars. Here. Director Hall. Here. Director Rand. Here. Director Mannheim. Here. Director Griscoll. Here. Director Lanier. Here. Director Spenzen. Here. Director Gudger. Here. All right. Thank you very much. I have to commend our executive director for how quickly she stifled her laugh when she heard the countdown before. That shows a real professional. So, yeah. Moving along to item number two, oral communications. Do we have anybody member of the public would like to address us? Seeing none and seeing no camera people raising their hands. We can move on to item number three. Consideration of late additions. Additions or deletions. Do we have anything that we need to add or remove? All right. Seeing none, we can move right along to the consent agenda. Just items four, five and six. Item four is to approve the minutes of our last board meeting from January 22nd. Item five is to approve the recommendation of the finance committee to accept the January financial reports. And item six was to acknowledge a generous series of contributions yearly from member of the public, Kristalli. Did anybody want to ask any questions or comments on our consent agenda? I move to approve. All right. We have a motion to approve. Second. And we have a second. Motion from Vice-Chair Anne. Second from Representative O'Driscoll. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right. That carries unanimously. Great. So we can move right on to the regular agenda. Our secretary thankfully is up on the latest and greatest of regulatory requirements. And so this is one of those. We have to report publicly and verbally on regular agenda. The executive director's salary that we formally approved and that number is $100,940. I don't think any further action is required, so we can move right on. Item number eight, unless anybody's been talking to other board members or staff, might be something that seems quite interesting. That is to form an ad hoc committee to explore potential additional locations. I believe we have a staff report. I can kindly take it away. Okay. So control room, this is the, this is the power point. Okay. I had it. Okay. Is it on NEI? Yeah. Yeah, it's, yeah. Oh, I advanced it accidentally way forward somehow. Well, you're seeing all the good stuff. But I can't get to the front of it. That's not the beginning. I'm going to escape. I've never used Google before for this and not that it isn't a great software. I just am unfamiliar. So now it's not doing just a minute. I'm almost there. All right. All right. So, CTV South, that is, you know, as we say in the biz, a working title. But what we're, what we're imagining is possibly having a facility in South County, community TV and co-working to serve that part of the, of the area for them. It's a long ride in here from Watsonville, it's 11 miles or no, it's like 17 miles. And from Aptos, it's like almost nine miles. So it's a ways. And for Capitola, it's, you know, a few less like seven miles. So the idea is to go down that way and see if we can serve more people easier, make it easier for them. Okay. What is going on? Is this something that makes it go? All right. So, or wait a minute. I think I know. Wait. Okay. So these are the kind of services we would provide their class as classes. Equipment checkout, editing, and we'd have an RSVP studio. Okay. How about this? Would that work? All right. Okay. Just a second. I need to get out of this. Okay. I will note that, that our executive director is usually a Mac person, so. Sorry. Arrow up, arrow down. Okay. So which way is down? Down's next. Forward? Yeah. That was bad. So these are the services that we could, that we would provide. We wouldn't probably build a big studio because if you're going to do something like this, you know, come here. But we'll have an RSVP studio, which, or the viewing public, it's a small one person studio that you can run by yourself. So you can be on TV and record what you're doing and take it away on a flash drive. It's very cool. We could also have educational partnerships there. There are a number of schools in South County that, you know, those students probably don't have the time to come all the way up here for our help. And I think we could develop a better or more robust relationship probably with Cabrillo College as well. And then we'd also provide a co-working center just like we do here. And it would offer the same things we have here, private offices, cafe space, conference rooms, digital media. And so to make that work, there are some benchmarks that we would need to meet to make that work. And Barbara Springer, who is our co-working guru, tells us that we need a population of at least 50,000 people. And as you can see, these are just the self-employed people in that area. There's 23,000 of them. So, and now some of those guys are not for us. Some of them are Uber drivers. But there are a lot of service individuals there, like, you know, therapists and attorneys and accountants and real estate agents and financial planners and all those kind of people. We can dig deep into this. This is just really quick look at the demographics we could get without visiting a professional. So this is what I can pull from online. Yes? Is there anything significant underneath the smaller text? Yeah. Is that the source? Oh, I'm sorry. Is that the source? Yes. I will read that to you. So, Aptos Capital, Watsonville, contain a bunch of little places. And those places are Freedom, Larkin Valley, Interlochen, Watsonville, the city of Watsonville. And Watsonville has another designation of CCD, city people. Does anyone know what CCD is? Okay. And Seacliff, Capital of Twin Lakes, Pleasure Point, Soquel, all those. I found there are demographics for all those tiny places broken up. So I included them all because they're all within that demographic area. Thank you. Can you even call it your DMA? So, I thought you might be interested to know if we did that, what we might make from it, the co-working part. I think these are out of order. But anyway, we'll talk about this now. So of course, in order to do that and maintain it, we would need some revenue stream. And so we'd include co-working in our plan. And these are what we made. This is the net revenue we've made from this space in Santa Cruz. So in the first year, we made 66,000. After we paid, paid everything. All the expenses are subtracted. And then 84 the second year. In the third year, we made 92. So it's one of the things that we do. I mean, it's easily the thing we make the most money at. And we'd be investing some of our savings, capital savings, not our own earned money. But there is no financial instrument that I can find that would return this. So it's what I'm thinking. Something to think about. Down there, here, we have two competitors within a mile. And there, we would have none. And we also know more about what we're doing now. So that would take a little of the edge off, I think. Now, one of the things that we need to have in a good potential site would be coffee shops, restaurants, and drinks within walking distance. And so the place we've chosen, this is a potential site. This is one we like best so far. But we'll look at more. But right now, we found a really nice space in the Rancho Del Mar shopping center, which has just been renovated and looks fabulous. And they have spaces that are sizable for us and that they're unfinished. So we can make it how we want it. And in there, they have coffee and restaurants. And right across the street is Burger. And apparently, they have 23 beers on tap. Oh, boy. I can verify that. Which is your favorite? No, we can't. I'm not just making this stuff up. So here's the site. If any of you shopped in Aptos before, it was a place where you could buy ballet shoes and tap shoes and leg warmers. And then over in this side, they had really interesting clothing. So that's the old Aptos shoe. Yeah. And this is the whole space or a parcel? The whole space, I'll show you. It's about 4,800 square feet, I think. And I'll get to that. This is the inside now. And I took these pictures through the window so they're not fabulous pictures, but they wouldn't let me in. So that's that. And here, you can see these little spots right here. Those are doors to the back. And there's parking in the back. And we could have that parking. There's about 15 spaces. We can't see on the screen what you're doing on that screen. We're not seeing the pointer. All we can see is the... All right. But there are two doors. Oh, you don't even see the screen. But there are two doors back there. They're the things that don't look the same. Some of these things are not like ours. So my question to you is, who wants to join us on this adventure of exploring? Other or not, we should open a place in South County. Let me say a few words before we jump into that. Beck had brought this up to us at our meeting, last meeting in the meeting before, and we've been the finance committee. And we thought it was a good idea to explore, but we thought it's way beyond the scope of what we're supposed to do in that committee. And it should be something given to the whole board to look at and to decide what they think about it, how they want to proceed, and what to do next. So it didn't kind of just come out of the blue. It kind of came through a slow process of us kind of trying to look at pros and cons. And so we're at this point now. And I don't know, Tom, do you want to mention anything further? I think that's the most important thing. What we thought, and that's what the recommendation for this item is, is that it would make sense for some sub-component of the board to form up as an ad hoc committee to explore it more in depth. Yeah, that's kind of where we are. And did we have our first two volunteers? I actually have an idea for a chair. Well, my thought was, our committee's talked about it, so it would be good for some other person also to come on. And it's up to you. And there's no guarantee this will go anywhere or not go anywhere. And there's a lot of work and there'll be probably a fair amount of meetings initially, and then it'll probably taper off and the committee will disappear. My thought was, in terms of this, and I haven't even talked to Keith about this, so this is the first time this will be aired. No pressure. But Keith was involved when I believe Matilda, and you were in the group that kind of started the brainstorm, how this facility developed, and they really have a fair amount of background. And so I think whoever wants to become part of this, my suggestion would be that Keith kind of take the lead with you, because he's already been through this once. And that's about as far as I've gotten in terms of thinking about it, other than Tom and I and Keith and the finance committee and Matreus thought it was interesting enough for the whole board to become involved and think about it. And then in terms of Brown Act, it has to be less than a quorum of the board. Is that correct? Right. Okay. So at this point, it's five, so it could be up to four members. So do we have any volunteers? Okay, we have one, two, one, two, three. And then maybe one of you. Yeah. There was four, right? No. One, two, three. Did you want to be on this? Okay, so for the record, that's Director O'Driscoll, Director Spencer, and Director Grudger and Director Mannheim, with Director Grudger being the chair. Well, that's up to the committee to decide. That's just my recommendation. Okay, it might be up to Keith. No, he has no say. So any further discussion? I mean, in terms of the... I also like it, it has two guys and two girls. We don't want to do it to Keith that he has to sit there with three women, you know. I didn't even think of that. I was just seeing who was interested in defending the energy. I'm just joking. But I'm glad Tom is on there because he also has a lot of experience. I love it if Keith was going to... Yeah, Tom's been through this process before. Elizabeth probably knows a little more about that area than I do. And she was jumping up and down when you talk education. Yes, I was. She's calling me on it, she's calling me on it. Great. So do we have a motion? I make a motion. To form an ad hoc committee? We see, but the director and Grudger, we direct to Mannheim, we direct to Swenson and Director O'Driscoll. Second. All right, you have a motion and a second. Any further discussions on this particular item? The merits of... I mean, I had a question regarding the presentation, of course. Yeah. Yeah, Tom was jumping ahead. But first we have a motion. And a second. I'll withdraw it and he can go ahead and ask the question we can make. My only question was, do we have numbers of how many people from that area are actually coming here now? No, but we could get them. I think that would be important for the subcommittee to know to see, you know, if we're going to be... The burning our own guys? Exactly. I kind of think no. I think we mostly get people from the east side, but I can check. Yeah, we don't want to count our place. But there there's not competition. So there's so many. I mean, if there, I think people would, there's lots of people who I think don't come here because it's too far away that just don't have a place to go. When we went there to look at it, someone outside was very excited to learn that it might be a co-working space, which was, I don't know who she was, or maybe she was a plant. Great. Well, if there are no further questions or discussion, comments, I'll call the vote. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right. That motion carries unanimously. So we will continue to... If I want to end in one comment, this is really a much more refreshing process to enter into because when Keith and the others were working on this first studio, it was a matter of survival. This is a matter of the future, which is really much more positive. It's exciting. It's exciting. It's a great idea to use this location. When you're looking at your numbers, the largest number in the Aptos area, I mean, it's sort of centrally located without having to come up all the way to Santa Cruz. Yeah. It's all below 41st Avenue. Right. Yeah. So, yeah. No, that seems to be the line people don't run across. It's also the, how long are you going to sit in traffic that line? Because that's what I was thinking. I live in Live Oak and I was thinking there's a lot of people who would really track the line. Have the reverse commute, yeah. We have, yeah. It's the reverse commute for Live Oak. It's a little farther, we're closer to Live Oak than Aptos is. It's 2.8 miles and it's five miles, but without any traffic, it would be a better choice. Yeah. Depends on which coffee they like and which burger they like. That's true. And in her case, that beer. Are we going to apply for a liquor license? We won't need to. Yeah. Maybe some guardians to walk people back and forth. You just have to figure out how to cross the street basically. To be the dicey part. All right. Well, if there's nothing further on that item, we look forward to hearing reports from the ad hoc committee as that those explorations proceed. So we can move on to somewhat less exciting item. Item number nine is to approve mid-year budget adjustments and our finance committee chair, Dr. Hall, is kind of about to prepare a staff report for that item. Would you care to run over it pretty quickly? There are really two separate items here. The first one is the budget adjustments that are necessary to have a full-time executive director. And actually at your December 2nd meeting, you approved it. But in talking among ourselves in the finance committee, we thought that the action wasn't specific enough. It didn't show where the revenue came from, what's changing. And to kind of bring a little more details to what was done, we thought it was appropriate for the board to approve a budget adjustment, which laid out where the money was coming from, what was projected. And so that's the first one. So technically, you've approved it. But the approval was, I think, almost too general for, you know, more in concept concept. And then reality's the wrong word. But this is a more procedurally correct way. The second budget adjustment reflects some changes and increased needs for software in the operation of CTV. And I asked Beckett to explain a little bit of this so you get some background other than me just repeating what she said. So as you know, we don't have really staff members. So what we've done is we found ways for software to do the work of people or to make the work of the people we have more efficient. So we use a lot of software platforms. So software as a service is what that stands for, SWAS. And so one of the things, we do things on, we do payroll online, and we do all our accounting online. And we even do our time sheets now online. So everybody has a time sheet on their phone and they can check in when they're at work. It's mostly for the government, technicians, they're all over the county. And so we don't see them very often. So they check in from their phones and Victor can see if they're at work, which is really handy in this case. And so we have things like that. We also have a lot of Adobe licenses because we people edit here and do Photoshop here and that sort of thing. And we have like six laptops with licenses. Victor has a license. There's a license in the edit suite. And so those are really expensive, but they're well worth it. And we do a lot of marketing online. So we make all of our flyers and posters and everything like that. And then we distribute them through social media. And we have some social media tools that we pay for. And it all ends up, but it's less expensive than staff. So also, when the initial projection was made for this budget, it just underestimated how much it would cost. Yeah, we didn't. Well, the Adobe licenses went up and we didn't, we didn't know that would happen. And so that was a kind of we were short-sighted. So next time we'll figure that'll happen. We'll add that in. Budget doesn't change. It's just reallocating some of the funding from different categories to pay for this. So that's the second budget adjustment. And I also want to thank Mil Sweek who does the accounting for CTV for getting all this ready so fast because we had a meeting that day the report was written and it was sent to you so we could just take care of this issue. We've talked about it a couple of meetings and finally we said we need to do something. It's mid-year. That's when you normally do these adjustments. So that's the second budget adjustment. And that's really about it. There's really not a lot more I could add. So I won't, you know, take your time with it. But the recommendation is to prove both of them. And so I'm ready for any questions or if somebody wants to do a motion. Under 7065 equipment repair and acquisition, you say 5047 reallocate from operating. But I don't find it in operating, I think. It's 7065. 7065 and where, because the other two I can, you know, 7063 goes with 7530 and all that. But so where does that? They're relocated from the operating budget. So their numbers in the operating budget are not the same. This is where they're going. No, I understand that. But I can, this number goes with that number, that goes with that number. I don't see reallocate 20% to capital for that final line. I don't see it. So that's just my question. Are you asking me where the money is going or where it came from? Yeah, where it came from. It comes from, oh, I think, I'm pretty sure it came from 7056. Of equipment depreciation. Yeah. Okay. I see it. So that's broken up. Yeah, if you break it up, if you do the math, the 134916 minus 114869 is going to add up to all those. It's just above there. I'll go back to the next page. It's depreciation. Right there. Oh, it comes from the equipment depreciation. Yeah. So it's actually, it's not really coming out of operating. No, it's coming out of capital. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Reallocate from capital. Okay. And software services is in the capital budgets, not the operating right. Yeah. Okay. So that was just a copy and paste thing. I just want to make sure. No, that's why we're having here. Because we like clarity and transparency and thank you because it's very clear otherwise. I have no other questions. Okay. Any further questions or comments? Do we have a motion yet? I don't think we have a motion. I'll move. All right. We have a motion from and second from Director Hall. Any further comments, questions? Not a call to vote. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That carries unanimously. And thank you for catching that. Yeah. I mean, all clear. All right. So now we can move on to item number 10, which is the oral report of heart executive director. Are you going to do it from paper today? Yeah, because I can't have two of them. Really? That would be excessive. I'll be over the top. So I have the, so this is the report for January. And so for in-co-working, our, as Mike explained you last time, our break-even number is 10,000. And in January, we earned $13,000 and $15. And when I wrote this on the 19th, we were at $12,900 for February. We actually have exceeded that now. So this is good. And I just want to let you know the way I get these numbers is from the, what we actually have taken in, what people have handed us. Some of it's still in the till. So it isn't in the bank. So if you look at the official numbers, you may see that it didn't jive exactly right. Thank you. I appreciate that. This has actually been a little discussion that Beck and I have, because we, when we do our financials, we have a set number there. And so I was confused when I saw sort of that number and then heard her talk about a different number. And so she has more up-to-date numbers, but I appreciate it. And Mel doesn't, Mel hasn't, Mel doesn't want to attribute it to Estelle. She sees it post in the bank. So if we get $5,000 on Friday, I'm like, okay. I'm not so fast. I'd see if it posts. So she waits till it gets in the bank, but these are the numbers. And they think, I know because this is January that we're talking about, that they went into the bank. So no, no fake deposit. No one's writing a secret check. I'm going to deposit this really. So it's sort of a lagging figure in a way. I mean, there's still the accounts receivable until they come in. Well, they're received. We actually happen, but it takes a while for, so what happens is people, we get all the money on credit cards mostly. And then it takes a day or two for their bank to process it, for it to get into our bank. And so even though we've collected the money from them, it hasn't gotten into our bank accounts. But it's in between the accounts that you're counting. Yeah. When it's in the account is when the financials that the financial committee looks at every year. That's what that reflects. So I like to track what we actually bring in each month, because that helps me more than knowing exactly when things post. Sure. That's posted. Okay. So paid services. We did 15 government meetings in January, and we also did a SCCA wrestling championship. And on Friday, we're going to do the Calciano Lecture. So it always picks up and pick up the pace at the end of the year for the projects. We usually do about six projects a year. And then you'll see that in the budget around $6,000 or $8,000, depending on what happened a year before. And so for the first part of the year, nothing happens that everybody gets service, but it all happens at the end of the year. So here it comes. And we're doing another special meeting for Capitola, I think on Friday as well. Good. That's what's going to happen. Yeah, we're able to pull that together. We were out of guys, but we've got a guy from CMAP. So under equipment and facilities, the new signs have been approved. We're waiting for approval on the paint color. And so since last time, I've shown you the old logo and showing you the new logo. This time, that's satellite's new logo on the picture. And that's the side of the building. And last time, I think I showed you the front, but I just thought you might like to see one more of you. And in response to a suggestion from the board, we have a new equipment procedure. We now have one of our government technicians coming in once a week to look at all the gear that's been checked out the previous week, make sure that it's all there. Of course, when it's checked in, Ian makes sure it's all there. But then he goes through, make sure it all works, that the batteries are charged, and that things aren't worn or torn or need repair. And if something does need repair, we have a system where that Keith built, where you can report it, and then Keith fixes it. So it works great. So he did it, he reported some things that were broken, Keith saw the report, he fixed them, they're back in the system. And so it's really great. And when things come in, we added a new category. So they're sort of like in limbo. We've got them, but we're not running them out yet until we check them out. So that's working really well. And we'll see, I'll keep reporting on if we expand it or do anything more with it. But that was the something that came up at the board retreat. And so now we're doing that. Communications, publicity and events we did for Friday in January. And we also have been doing bagel Mondays and waffle Wednesdays. And so we have a fun, like vertical waffle maker. People can pour a waffle stuff in and a waffle comes out the side. Oh, people really like it. And then I have some, under marketing, I have some Google insights there for you that are kind of fun. We're looking at pieces of our marketing and try to make them a little more robust or investigate how much can we do for free. And this is our Google business page, which we actually have a whole page. And when people Google us, it pops up on the side of Google. And it's about this big and has a picture of us and says all the important things. And you can click there and go to our website or click to a page that Google built for us, which actually looks pretty nice. And you can see what we did was in January, we started to do things. We got some information on what we could do to make our page more apparent or more visible, more people. And one thing we found was pictures. So as you can see, we have lots of pictures. So and the public can put pictures too, but they're not all great photographers. So we thought we would load it up with really good shots. And so you can see that huge spike there is when we added a whole bunch of pictures. And then and then we're gaining traction with that. And we can see that here's a really nice little circley thing there that's just about 5050. But most people are searching us because they know our name, which is nice. Most of the searches are people know your name and 50% are people just looking for co-working. So that's kind of a good thing. I think we're we're coming up a lot for that. And then we know that people see us. And this is because of the little box that pops up mostly on maps. So when people search, they see the maps are really looking for directions to come here, which is really a good thing. They're trying to find their way to our place, which is great. So curiosity. Are these searched by name for satellite and or community television? And or co-working as well. Yeah, it can be our formal name or co-working. And we get 11,000 views on Google a quarter. That's not huge, but it's not terrible. So we'll work to build that up. But these are just like baseline metrics for you to see where we are now. And then we can tell you next quarter where we got to. So you'll have something to compare it to. And 179 customers took action, and that could be a phone call or get directions or any one of those things. Actions or can be anything. Most of our accidents were people coming to our website. What was that? How would they know if somebody came here? They got directions. Oh, so they get directly. Yeah, they get directly. We assume that they have those there. Tell me. Maybe not. They're just like truck shit collectors. But so someday I might want to go there. I should download this. So always be prepared. These are the voiceouts of our community. So for outreach, I didn't do a ton of outreach this month, but I did go meet the city clerk, the new assistant city manager and the administrative clerk of Santa Cruz. And that's our report for January. I have a similar question that Larry asked. So really, most of the searches have to do with the co-working aspect of the operation. Not people looking for a studio or to borrow or rent a apartment, that kind of thing. Well, that's what I showed you this time. We have a different page. We have a website that's different for the community TV. So it does different stuff. But this one I was just showing you the co-working. It was because I'm rather focused. But it's true. Mission is important, too. So I can bring you those numbers as well. Good point. That would be nice to see. Yeah, yeah. But that's great. I mean, that's a good one. Thanks. Very good. All right. Any further questions? All right. Well, thank you very much for that report. We can move on to item number 11 now, which is the oral report from the Volunteer Advisory Committee. Sure. Director Douglas, do you have anything? Yes, I actually have a report from Linda Janakis who's directing this program. She set up a public access producer director shot talk meeting. It was last Sunday. They went over the strategic plan that this board had put together and they looked at how it affected producers and directors. There were about a dozen people present. They had some really interesting feedback and ideas. Let's see what all she says here. They're looking at audio. They're looking at organizing high school and college involvement. They're looking at trying to get leaflets and posters out to libraries, the 10 branches, which of course not all open right now, but those that are open so that people who come to the library can find out more information about community television and producing programs here. David Goldman, who's doing audio tonight, is going to have a continue to have what they call open tricaster night. There's one coming up this Wednesday. People signed up to come in and learn more about the switching equipment that we use or practice or anything. They're looking at a mini film festival for people to present, give us a video and we'll review them and pick winners and so on. It's just the very beginning. CTV has done it before, but it's a lot of work. I think what we need to do is to try and focus it on what people are likely to be creating and wanting to submit as opposed to the video film festivals that I've been involved with as actors before. This is the theme you could form. One of them I was in, there were two of us. That was not huge. CTV has said it before, it had a 10 to a dozen entrance, but I think we need to look at what are young people specifically creating and what kind of content. And see if you can aim a festival at that to try and get young people more involved in what we're doing here. And another thing that came up was a suggestion that we move our orientations to First Friday. We already have a First Friday going on. We already have people coming in. Why don't we just have an orientation on at least one First Friday or quarter? I don't know when we'll do it this quarter because Matilda and I just had an orientation last Thursday. And we have changed the orientation and this was discussed in the meeting to where we try and meet the people who come where they are. Matilda is very good at talking to people saying what is it you want out of a community? Why are you here? What are you thinking you want to do at Community Television? And we more or less have three things. We discuss an orientation, we discuss how you can use the studio, how you can get trained and figure out how to do a program in the studio, how you can use field camera equipment that we have, how you can get out in the field and produce a video for CTV. And the third one is now the RSVP, how you can do it yourself. So those are the areas that we addressed and they would all be appropriate to discuss it on First Friday. So we don't have a plan for which First Friday. It's not going to be the one in March. But I'm looking at, we just had someone else ask us when's the orientation and I had to say well you just missed it. So I'm thinking maybe April, which would be the first quarter, first First Friday and the second quarter. They also suggested maybe we try and do something at First Friday that brings in the current producers. But I don't think we've moved forward on that. We're mostly looking at, can we also hold an orientation at the second time? And I think by discussing our orientation and something, whatever else. Shop talk meeting? Shop talk meeting. I think we've covered everything that we've done volunteer wise since the last. Board meeting. Great. Thank you. I was curious. So the little mini film festival, would that be geared more towards residents of Santa Cruz County? I mean, I think there's a Santa Cruz film festival, right? But that's, anybody can submit to that, right? So this would be local. Is that the idea? Yes. I mean a film festival curates it more because they want films that people want to see. Whereas I'd like us to be a little more inclusive and that we probably end up with a playlist with anything that's submitted is in the playlist. Just the way our channel, 27, is anything that's submitted is played on the channel that this film festival will also be that inclusive idea of what we do already. Wonderful. No, I look forward to hearing more about that. Yeah, maybe you could submit something. Or your kids. I'll have to dig through that. Yeah, my daughter was raving about how many views she got on one of her TikTok videos last night. I don't want to get a big head, but. So I know if there's like, maybe there can be a category for, you know, 15 second, under 30 second videos. Yes. Our new attention span. Great. Wonderful. Thank you very much. So I guess we can move on to item number 12, oral report of the board chair. I actually do have something to report this month. I'm aware of, through various activities, I'm aware of two local nonprofits that serve youth that are still actively fundraising for equipment that they need to purchase by the summer due to FCC regulations. So I reached out to them and they both seem interested. And I've said for further information, please talk to our executive director. And so Becca followed up with at least one of them and we'll see where that goes. Hopefully. For one of our grants. No, not for youth grant. This would be for the equipment lease program. Oh, okay. Yeah, so they're looking to purchase equipment that's expensive and hopefully they could provide some programming. One of them at least does original material. And the other one, I'm sure if you come up with something. So I talked to that the young little people's theater. And what was the other one? All about theater. Which one? All about theater. Okay, I guess I did. Lindsay Chester. Oh, yeah, I was responding both of those. Okay, good. I thought I missed one. So, yeah, so we'll see. Hopefully something will come out of that and I will continue to keep my ears open for other opportunities. Yes. I don't know if I should do an announcement or go back to something earlier. But you reminded me of something on those lines that I should just at least briefly mention. Of course. Is that I have been working with the Friends of the Library, especially the Capitola branch, to introduce a program where we try and bring youth into writing through animation. And I've talked to Becca about would it be possible to get a hardware grant that would cover that? And she has put together a first pass at a package to include on the youth grant website. Oh, wonderful. For animation. And the news, the most recent news is that the Library IT Department has approved that it's okay for us to purchase this equipment. And the Library would, you know, curate the equipment. We're moving along. That particular branch library won't be open until the fall. I'm looking at Larry. And so we have time to complete that. There's a curriculum that's been developed with some educators. There's equipment lists that Becca is working on right now. And the next step is to actually apply for the grant and then the CTG grant committee would have to build on that. That's great news. Yeah. I mean, that's one of the thoughts that I had is that we've had some good success with the equipment grant program, but then past that initial success, we've had a hard time finding people that fit with our particular idea. So maybe it was time to expand the concept. So I'm glad to see that that's happening. The barrier to entry is really low for this animation project because all you have to know is how to use the laptop. You don't have to know how to shoot cameras or how to work or how to use how to edit or anything that. Everything's in the software and they figure, I mean, they have to learn the software, but they don't have to move around. They don't have to be able to get anywhere else. They can just do it all. They don't have to have a crew or actors? They don't need a crew or actors or any talent or anything. Well, I hope for them. Well, the television talent is people's talent. Yeah. They need inspiration. They need inspiration. We're getting those talent. Great. Of course, it helps to have, well, no, it used to be when they'd hand you, you'd see all the names of the Korean artists who did all the tweening. Now I guess it's all just render farms, but great. Well, that's great. It interpolates them. Right. Any further comments, questions? All right. Seeing none, we can move on to board member staff requests. This is item 13 for specific items to appear on the next meeting agenda. I would just, the whole discussion we just have reminded me of the fact that we are now coming up on another period where we would hope people are applying for youth grants. Yeah. I wonder if at the next meeting, if there's, if we might just have a little presentation about that or something that just sort of helps to start getting the word out. Yeah. There's another youth organization here in town that's just started up in the last few months that I've been discussing the equipment grant program. I think they're a little unclear on what kind of equipment CTV might have that could help them. Right. It would take a little while to work with them on that. Okay. And I wanted to follow up with one of our, somebody who had previously expressed interest, but then I don't think ever submitted a proposal. Yeah, that's a lot. So I got one of those too. My daughter goes to one of the schools, so I was. Yeah. Sometimes people even came to our workshop. Yeah. Well, not very many, but some came and some we would have given grants to you that they didn't apply. Right. So yeah, I wanted to follow up and to see what, what, why they didn't apply. Yeah. And if there's anything we could do to accommodate We were nice enough. Staffing is often an issue. Right. And also, you know, where to place the equipment safely. Yeah. You have to have a teacher in the curriculum. So our grant is hard. You have to, but that one person qualified for sure. Oh, yeah. And then I don't mean it's outside the scope, but is the first grantee, is there's coming up this year or next year? This year. We're waiting for the final grant report from our first grantee now. And then we don't have it yet, but I've sent it out to them. I sent the report for them. And we assume they'll want to renew probably. I'm thinking we might extend the current one because if they like that equipment and they're using it, we should, we can extend as long as they're in good standing. We need to go and look at the equipment and make sure it's all there and all good. And then we could extend it if we want. But that's something we could do at the committee level. All right. Fantastic. Cool. All right. Okay. So no specific items beyond the report on the youth grant, which was just something to talk a little bit about it. So people are wearing them. One thing it's going to unfold so fast. We might want to just put on a standing report from the facilities committee. So the ad hoc committee. Okay. Yeah. Right. Okay. Because it could move relatively fast. We should if we looked at that particular space. Yeah. Okay. Great. So we have those two items. If there are nothing further, we can move on to announcements. Do any board members have any announcements that they can make? Yes. I do. I hope it's appropriate. The City of Capitola Art and Cultural Commission is going to be hosting its first team battle of the bands. March 21st at five o'clock at New Brighton Middle School. So there's going to be at least eight bands there. So like all like all band submissions, they all came in on the last two days. So we were worried there for a bit. But how many bands? There's going to be at least eight. At least eight. Yes. Is anybody going to videotape it and put it on screen? Well, so that would be your question. I was thinking about if we can get in contact with maybe one of the grantees possibly or something. We can. We can. Make them do that. Make them do things. Oh, no. I was going to ask. Oh, I was going to ask. You just let them know that it's happening. But we can talk about it. Like I said, a lot of it was waiting on whether or not we had enough to move forward with it. And so they are now. So it's March 21st. Well, I think now the winner is on one of the shows, I think. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. I wasn't going to tell them the show, was I? Okay. Were you the one to tell you else? No? Well, we can figure that out. I'll be sure. I think that's a wonderful announcement. Yeah. Thank you. And I might have to go attend with my daughter. Awesome. You're the one's great. Thank you for letting us know. If there are no further announcements, well, we do want to tell people to get out to vote, right? We can't endorse anybody. No, no, no, no. Vote. We have vote ads all over the, vote PSAs and where to vote and how to get about it and all that stuff running right now. I think Keith and Matilda have also been interviewing a lot of the candidates. No, we haven't been interviewed. Not interviewing. They had an opportunity to come and talk for two minutes and all the people that came got our fullest attention. And they have now YouTube videos that they can, you know, put links to, you know, and to put on their own lips. Let me have one long show there so that you can watch everybody. Oh, really? It's airing quite a bit. Actually, I saw it. Yeah. You did see it? Yeah. It was pretty good. You know, nothing, we should probably finish up. But what really impresses me is how much higher quality what we do now is. I kind of remember CTV looking there and kind of cleaning my glass. Now I don't have to do that anymore. It's really quite clear. This is good. Progress. Great. So I would like to take this opportunity to thank our all volunteer crew today that consists of Linda Genakis, David Goldman, Karen Scott, Frank Turner, Nick Kirkendall, and Richard Giselle. Thank you all very much for for being here today. I think that's it for announcements. We have a motion for adjournment and we have a second. All those in favor, please say aye. All right, we are adjourned. Thank you.