 All right. Welcome, everyone. I would like to call to order the regular meeting of the Board of Directors of Community Television of Santa Cruz County for March 27, 2023. And I'll have the Interim Acting Deputy Secretary called the order called the role. Chair Lanier. I'm here. Director Maziarz. Here. Me, I'm here. Director Hall. Here. Director O'Driscoll. Here. Director Mannheim. Yo. Director Rand. Director Warren. Here. And Director Shaw. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. For the record, anticipate her attendance. Okay. I declare we have a quorum. Yes. All right. My agenda here. Okay. Item number two, oral communications. Any person may address the board during its oral communications period. All oral communications must be directed to an item not listed on today's consent or regular agenda and must be within this agenda. Any oral communications. We have no visitor seeing none. I will have number three consideration of late additions to the agenda, additions and deletions. To the consent and regular. Seeing none, we will move on to the consent agenda. We have three items approved meeting agenda, approve the board meeting minutes of February the 27th, 2023. Any comments, questions, discussion on either of those. None. Seeing none. I'll entertain them. Yes. All right. We have a motion by. Director Manheim. Second by a director. We'll do a just a. Voice vote here. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Okay. Past and so ordered. Moving on to the regular agenda. Executive director's reports. Becca, you have the floor. Okay. Thanks. Thank you all for coming. And. It's so exciting to see you all for the last. Meeting on zoom. So. The last for now. Yeah. Well, yeah. Further. Time being so. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. We're going to start as usual with revenue. So the co-working center met its goal. Of. Eight. Eight. It's eight. Sorry. I thought about something else for a second. 8,813 dollars. Actually it met 8,800. So we're $13 short last month. But the thing that, the thing to notice that you probably saw was that was under, we've been at 10,000 for many months in a row. And suddenly we went down to eight and we did lose one office. And that is what I think the reason is. And, but we are now back up to 10 as of today for March. So we're at 10,400 today. So we're, we're exceeding 10 and exceeding our goal. And overall we continue to be about $5,000 ahead of our product, projected revenue goal at this point in time. So we're doing okay. In paid services. We did 18 government meetings in January, which is a pretty good number. And coming up. Our government service. Our government meetings. Our government meetings. Our government service has brought back two clients. We had a couple of clients that went away during the pandemic. And they're coming back. So that's going to be great for us. And we are also making the transition to hybrid meetings. So we were. Victor was kind of hoping that everybody would just go back to the old way, but no, they all want to include people, the public to be able to call in on zoom and things. So they've worked really hard. To figure out how to make that happen. And still only use one technician. And. Victor had the genius to ask one of our. Government technicians, Melissa Potter off. If she could think of a way to make that happen. And she did. And so it's a great system for us. We can run these meetings from our building. And they can happen in these smaller rooms. Where some, some people like SLB. WD San Lorenzo water valley, valley water district has its own little office where they like to meet in a real small conference room. And so we're able to run that meeting from our office. And that's great. And others like it. We'll be able to do that in a number of places. So it's really good for us. It's good for our people. They don't have to be in a group of others. And they can run it from our office. And then they're always on the same equipment every day. So it's great. We're going to use the same equipment to do our meetings. That's what we're going to do next month. And we'll, we'll be using this system to actually to record the meeting and we won't have staff. I'll do it from my computer. So it should be, it's, it'll be great. We'll, we'll be able to control it ourselves. We won't require volunteers. We can keep down the number of people in the room. And that's what we're going to do next month. And we'll be able to do that. We'll be able to do that in a few weeks. And then in a few years, we can keep down the number of people in the room. And that'll be, that'll be great. And also upcoming for the TV department is. Artist of the year event that's coming in May. Under facilities and equipment. This I always make this projection. I've been making it for a year now, but this time, I think it's going to really happen. most of it, the key equipment out of the county and into our building and be able to run our TV station from there by the first couple weeks in June. And that'll be fun and easier for Victor and he'll be able to, in the past, Victor has had to drive to the county building and get someone to let him in so he can see if our signal is working right. Then he drives back. And if he can't, he can't tell. So we're having, and this will help all of the volunteers who make programming in our, in our control room. There's, I've never seen anything like this, but the control room doesn't have a monitor showing you what's on the air. So, you press the button and go just on faith. So now you'll be able to see that there's a program and you kind of we kind of have a program and and a preview, but you don't really know. What's on the air. So, this way, we'll be assured that we are on the air and we can also run all those meetings from the control room and many other things so we're looking into one more thing we had. We have had periodically every every year two or three people networks will call us and ask if we can do a live shot from our building. But in the beginning we couldn't because we didn't have a satellite dish, but, but now we can stream, but the but the recently we talked to the network I think it was CBS and they require a certain encoder for us to stream from our building and that's all we need. So Victor has investigated this encoder there's a couple of them. And we're going to get the encoder so that we can stream live to the network from our building. And we worked very hard with another company to try to put this very situation into our building, because Zach friend came to us and said you don't have to drive over the hill all the time I have to go to Melpitas to do live shots and I would love to do them here and I worked with that company for months and then they moved across the country and you never heard from them again. But now technology has changed, and we'll be able to do it ourselves so we're really excited about that. Yes, Tom. Just a question is this is the encoder specific to CBS or will it work for all the networks. It's just all the networks it's specific to how networks like their streams. So it is, it's not very expensive, I think it's $2,500, and we'll be able to to stream to any network. It's very exciting. That's great. That's great. I think it's an opportunity for more business and I think I've mentioned here. Yeah, other meeting university university has all kinds of people who I think our shop up there likes to get them on TV and TV likes to get them so somehow. Yeah, that's great to have. I saw your hand. I just wanted to thank you. This has gone on for ages. I might suggest you call up Zach friend just for a little PR and tell him I will do it. Yeah, as soon as we get it going, I'm going to let him know. Yeah, because I think he'll spread the word to and we'll certainly get Zach in there so I think up until now the gear has been real expensive and it hasn't we haven't had an opportunity to there wasn't a way for us to do it but now something has changed it just takes an encoder and Victor also works with the Warriors and they have it that's how he figured out what was best to use he went there and asked them what they use because they they send to the network. So, it's going to be great and we and he talked to the network to we when they wanted to do the live shop from our place I didn't, I knew it was possible but I didn't know what equipment we had so I had them talk to Victor and that's how we discovered what we were lacking. We're moving forward with that it's very exciting. Following up on Tom's question. Do we know if that's consistent across all the networks, including CNN and PBS and those guys they use the same encoder or same technology. Well CNN is cable so networks are broadcast and that's a little different. I'll ask Victor what he thinks he told me there were two that the Warriors use so maybe one is for cable. So I'll ask him about that. That's a good question. Yeah, I hadn't thought about it but now. Another question you, you, we've got two new, or two clients back who are those. Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. They're in my notes. One is Power O Valley School District, and the other is. It's Soquel Creek water district. Oh great. Well those are significant. Yeah, entities. Yeah. Yeah, you'll see them in the budget. We got to add to to and Soquel Creek is about a $9000 deal every year so that was a nice chunk of money to get back. Yeah, we're really happy about that. And so it's due to Victor's good work he keeps in touch with those people and they trust him and he, he makes sure they get what they need so thanks to Victor that these guys came back. And then we had someone vandalized our sign our monument sign in the front of the building they broke the plexiglass and they've done it before it's real annoying. So we're in the process of getting that fixed. And it's been hard to do actually. We could upgrade the quality of the sign while we're fixing it. I went out and looked up it up close and it really needs to be replaced but I think that'll be real expensive. It's all the joints are like and they're like gaps and and satellite when we first started they insisted that we use gray lettering and so it just looks like our sign is faded. And there's a lot we could do to make the sign better. So, I called a sign company. Also, there's still an armada sign on the front of the building and I want to take that off and put a CTV sign where it goes and so I've been trying to get this. Satellite recommended a sign company to me and I'm going to try to talk to them but we also have our own sign company that have done has done the sign on the top of the building. So I might talk to them as well, but sometimes they're different that the sign that we have there's like a physical sign and the other signage guys painted it on the building so they might not both do the same kind of work, but we've got a couple leads so we're looking into that. So under equipment grants, thanks to director. Maze ours we have a connection to the resource center for non violence, and we are going to we're trying to find a time when we're both free in April to meet, but it looks like they would like to get some equipment so they can do like three camera shoots in there they have a lot of presentations and events and cool things. And a lot of which are probably things we can telecast. So it's a good thing for us and a good thing for them and we're anxious to make that happen. Yeah, that's going to be fun I think I have to thank Keith who actually referred them to me so started with started with Keith and then I followed up. This is the best thing this is that we have a good board. Thank you all for thinking of these things and passing them on and making these connections because that's really, you know, when I was at KQED when anyone wanted to they wanted to look for people on the board they're always looking for capacity. And by that they meant money. And so I'm always looking for people are connected. They have capacity for friends and connections and places where you know we, you know, we all have connections in different places and that works out because we're we have a nice big network that way so I'm always happy when these things come about and it's I really appreciate you're not just thinking of us on board meeting day but actually be thinking of us when you're out and about. So I have a little March update for you because there's exciting things I wanted you to know. One is we've taken over the space that we leased last time we were you came in at the last minute signed everything off so that he and I could sign the lease on time. And that all worked out. And now we just today had all the new locks put on the doors. We had to order them you know we have fancy locks where you open it with a little doodad instead of a key. So those are programs so people can come in and out 24 hours a day. And so those went on today and that's really cool. They're working on the Wi Fi today in that area of the building we brought switch thing that we needed. I don't know what it does but I bought it and it goes in the closet and they're working on that today and the new conference room we've got two new conference rooms a little one is good we had the table refinished it looks beautiful Victor was great his mom loaned us her truck and he transported the thing around and we've got it back today and it looks wonderful. And we were able to get enough enough of the old chairs from the old conference room, there were like 12 chairs or something six of them are actually okay. And we put those so the new conference room the little ones pretty much ready to go I think it needs to be painted for that awful apartment page. But we'll take care of that and in the meantime it could still be rented until we need to paint it so that's happening and we the other conference room still has a lot of work to be done. It seems to be going kind of slowly I'm going to get in touch with the landlord and sort of nudge him to get that going I you know it's it's an insurance claim and you know so but that happened in December and it's March so it's almost April so we that's a long time for nothing to happen. I'll be bugging him a little bit and and that's it so well we'll probably open the new conference room this week sometime we'll get it into the inventory and it'll be ready to go hi Elizabeth. And, and that's my report for for February and my update for things happening in March. Great. Thank you any discussion comments questions. All right thanks back up very much and welcome Elizabeth thanks for joining us this afternoon. Thank you. Nice to see you. Let's go to where are we item number eight. Oh, item number eight will take a look at a draft budget for 2023 2024 discuss and hopefully approve it Becca do you want to set this up we should have all received copies with comparisons the previous year. Yeah, so you all have your budgets in hand or do you need to put this on the screen. Put it on the screen. Okay, just a second. I'm sorry. I said I just printed it out. Oh, okay. Now you've wasted six pages good paper. Five pages. Oh you are. Wow. I'm good. The screen I turned mine 90 degrees to the left and I can read it now. I'm sorry about that I had the worst time with. And then it printed green. I don't know why. I've been double-sided so it's only three sheets. Well done. Okay, I think this is the one. Yeah, okay. Let me then do the screen sharing thing. Share screen. It's me. I'm sharing my screen. Yeah, there we go. Oh, finally things are working. Here we go. It's a terrible time with the budget today that I finally look. I couldn't even email it right. I checked to see if Mercury is in retrograde. It is not. It's only me, but it's coming. Gonna happen in April. Okay, so this is the operating budget. And. You can, let me see. I want to. I want to scooch this around. So you are. Okay. Let me just correctly. Let me interject. I wasn't clear on our agenda. Why we're doing this at this time. We need to hopefully have an approved budget that Becca can then take. To the county. Is that right for their. Yeah. Even though it's only. March, we need to have this ready for them so that they can include it in their. Budget hearings, basically, I guess, right? Yeah, they don't, they do theirs. And they do something in May that requires them to look at our budget. I mean, they don't. Our contract originally read September and we'll go back to that next year because then our books will close. I'll have actuals for the last few years. They've asked to have it early. And that means we kind of guess about the last quarter. I mean, we can surmise. It's a good hypothesis, but it's not perfect. I don't know. I don't know. I need to, there's a place where. Once we get settled down, let me say a few words about the finance committee and what they did. And then. Yeah. We can go through it, but I don't want to interrupt for chain of thought of what's going on. Yeah, thank you. Floated off screen. I should, you still see the budget, right? Yeah. Okay. So if you have questions, I'll be able to answer them. And I'm not seeing it anywhere. Maybe it's down here. Yeah, that's probably, nope, that doesn't have notes. Well, while Becca is hunting. The finance committee looked at this last Monday and we went over it. Literally line by line. And there were some corrections made some additions made. And a couple of other things that Becca may highlight, but the probably the most significant thing was the issue of salary increases for the employees. And the budget has built in money for that. And G is going to meet with Becca on that issue in terms of her contract. And this will all be reported back to the board. And we recommended and. We'll have the funds in there for a 4% cost of living for our few employees. So those are really the significant things. And I'll ask Tom or Keith, if they have anything else they want to add, and then I would recommend we kind of go through it item by item. We don't have to spend much time in any of, but that way you can just scroll down and see what's happening. And Becca can highlight the few changes there were and why you may see a change between one column and another. Okay. Okay. Tom or Keith, do you have anything else to add? Nope. Nope. Okay. Go ahead, Becca. Okay. All right. Well, I think I can remember my notes. This is a, this is the, the top part here is the revenue that we bring in. I think most of you have seen one of these before. I don't think there's anybody that new. But at the top is. The. Board of supervisors. So in the green stripe, that's the draft budget. That's the budget we're working on now. And went over to the left is the amended budget that we did last year. So that's our last year's budget. And so you can compare. And then, so it just gives you a reference of what it was last year and what it's, what is this year. And this year you can see the board of supervisors is a lot less. More than 12,000. And, you know, it has been in the, like 20, 22 to 26,000 for years. And all of a sudden it isn't, and I went back and actually looked at each meeting, Victor documents them. And I was able to go back and add up. The difference between that last year and this year. And it is like half the meetings. They're having half the meetings and they're half as long. So they're less, they're just meeting for less hours, about half as many. So we don't know why I'm guessing that we had three years of pandemic and that might have been a big surge up for them to do all the things they needed to do to deal with that. And there may have been other things also, but. One, one chunk Becca, if I could jump in is I think the budget hearings have been streamlined quite a bit. There used to be like a whole week. A lot of budget hearings and now they've put a lot of the budget hearings on consent, I think. So there's actually a lot less budget hearings. And that's, that wouldn't be all of it, but that'd be part of it for sure. Yeah. Well, it's fewer meetings than some of those are the budget meetings. They're not meeting as often. Like one time last year, they met like three times in one week. And, and we noticed that then like we have to bring in more people to cover those days because it's different days than we usually do. And sometimes they come back in the evening and do a little, a little bit in South County. So we had lots more meetings. So, so that means less meetings and they're also a captioning client. So less captioning. So that's that. The city of Capitola is doing a little more than usual. They're up. So I raised them up. The, let's see. Santa Cruz Metro. They're up a little bit. They're ahead of budget now. So I went ahead and raised them. Yeah, I was just going to comment. One of the things that would be helpful to people as you're looking at this to know. Is that you went through, if I'm correct, looked at our revenues and this literally next year's budget proposed budget just reflects exactly what's happening this year. Isn't that correct? Yes. Yes. And I can't, I, I go through and I, I have nine months of this year. So I know that and the next three months I project, but I use the exact percentage that they are ahead or behind to adjust. So with the city and the county, I actually went through and added up a number of every meeting so that I would know exactly how much captioning they would need. And exactly where they are. And that's why I was able to discount the, well, I sadly had to discount the number on the board of supervisors, but you'll see the city of Santa Cruz is way ahead of their budget. They're at 85% now. So they were at 85% halfway through the year. So we raised them up a lot. And, but that's, it's totally accurate. I've calculated the numbers for every one of these meetings. You can see SCC RTC is a little ahead this year. So we raised them up a bit. I left the facility use the same because it is about the same, but I project it will be higher this year. But I just rather go low now and over deliver. SLVWD is down a little bit. Because they just are, I think that they had a lot of problems with their water system broke and they were doing a ton of meetings for a while. And now they're kind of back on an even keel. PVUSD is a little bit ahead. So we added a little bit for them. So, Kel Creek water district is, we know what they used to do. So we're putting them in where they used to be. And they're, they haven't, they weren't with us last year. So that's a zero, but that's where they are now. Donations are about $1,000. Because we usually get a few donations during the year. And we still have some donated guitars we can, we'll sell. Miscellaneous interest and income. That is our, that is our, our investment in treasury bills, which right now that it's working away. We have got money in treasury bills and we are making money on that money. Production services. That last year we did 4500. We didn't, we didn't have a lot of money. We used to do six and we went down to four during the pandemic. And it is rising up a little bit, but you never know. So I just put it in at four. Close captioning. That's exactly the number. We figured out exactly how many meetings we had last year, how long, and we filtered out. You know, we, we only captioned the parts where they're talking. And so, you know, we don't count the setup where we, we go. And set up and we go and tear down and we do things and they take breaks. And we have just exactly. Victor. Tracks just the captioning time. Versus, because he gets the meetings and he knows the times. So this is exactly what we'll spend in captioning for both the, what we'll earn in captioning from the city and the county. And the equipment lease program is stable. We haven't leased any more equipment, but if we do lease some equipment to an agency, this will go up and I imagine that'll happen this year, but we aren't sure. So I didn't want to put anything. We really weren't sure of in here. Advertising it will be $8,000. And these are, these are, you know, and I know that because I've actually hired a person to do it for us. So that's what it's going to be. The bank charges are about $2,000. And that's one of those funny ones where. If we make more money, those will go up. So hopefully we will, and you'll see a rise over here, but it will mean that we're going to be able to make more money. We're going to be able to make more money. We're going to be able to go up. So hopefully we will, and you'll see a rise over here, but it will mean that we've made more money than we projected. This takes care of what we expect to earn. Do's and subscriptions about $1,000. And that's for, you know, we, we pay dues to different organizations like the organization for community media. And office supplies, those seem to be right on the money right now. Production expense is, is. I think that's what we spend. We spent more this year actually in postage and freight, but that was because we sold some things. And those people did pay for the postage, but it just comes in as a sale, like, and not, not broken up into postage and something. So that looks a little bit different, but we are confident in this number. Printing is the same as it always is facility plot supplies. That's about what we use. According to our last year's numbers, we used to buy a business license and that's what it costs. This is the telephone in the system. And that's, that's an accurate number. That's exactly what we really spend. This is every year we have to do an audit. We actually don't do an audit. We do a compilation. The county has okay that it still says audit in the budget, but it's a compilation. The, we have legal fees. And, oh, oh, I see what happened. I'm sorry. There's a mistake here. That should be 35, not 3000, but I can go back and fix that. Okay. That's for legal equipment, technicians. That is kind of help for Victor in this lap. If things happen that he needs help with, he knows a lot, but he doesn't know everything and every once in a while, we have to bring Nick in or somebody to solve a problem. So that's there for them. That's the cost to caption. When we caption. When we caption things, we have to pay a company to help us. And that is the cost that it is to caption, but we make more than that. So that works out as a benefit. In the end. This, with this year, we have a little more money and training and conferences. Cause I'd like Victor to be able to go somewhere and, and meet his peers and, and learn some new things. And I haven't convinced him to go ever, but I'm, I still try. This is a travel and meals and special events. We haven't done anything like that because of the pandemic. We used to go to Thanksgiving lunch. I used to take everyone to lunch for Thanksgiving. And then we also used to have a Christmas. Meal with the board. And we haven't done that either. But this year if we should be able to, I think, if everything goes well. So that's part of that staff development number. These are our salaries. And right now they are the same. But there is money built into another line here where we will. That's down below a little bit. Where we have money for raises. They're just not approved yet. This is the, these are, and these are not full salaries. 20% of everybody's salary or of these three salaries. Well, yeah. Is inside the capital budget. And we have permission to do that. So. Oh, actually there's four of them. These four salaries have money somewhere else as well. These are the government technicians. Who actually run our meetings. And this line is where we put extra money for, for raises for everybody. This year. And instead we usually give a 3% raise, but we're going to give a 4% raise because the cost of living has gone up. And we probably should have done this a year ago. But it was the pandemic and things were dicey. Now we have the money to do it. This is our payroll tax number. It went up a little bit. We factored a little more in there because if we do raises, they'll be, they'll be higher. This is our workers comp number. Our dental went up this, not our dental, but our health. And we, we give full health coverage and dental and vision. And it went up this year. And vacation payouts are the same. Victor and I try really hard to use up our vacation time. So we don't build up a lot of money in there. And these are, that's the total for benefits and package are operating. Is. 3008. And we actually. Have. Probably we'll earn more money than that. We'll probably earn more money than that. We'll probably earn more money than that. We'll have 13,000 left over even after we give raises. So that's our, our projection. I'm going to move on to the capital budget. I don't know why this is crooked. I don't know why, but there it is. So. These are the, this is our revenue that we get from the county at $600,000. And it comes in quarterly. At least hold improvements. We put $12,000 in there because we'll probably have to do some things like we'll have to fix the sign and other things like that that happen. Insurance will go up this year. I talked to our agent to find out how much, two reasons because insurance just goes up, but also because we have more to ensure. We have that an extra, I don't know, 1,500 square feet. Now, I'm going to move on to the capital budget. I'm going to move on to the capital budget. I'm going to move on to the capital budget. I'm going to move on to the capital budget. I'm going to move on to the capital budget. Because we have more to ensure we have that an extra, I don't know, 1,500 square feet now. So we'll have to pay for that. And she figured this was a good. This was probably pretty close to accurate. We'll see what actually happens. Facility equipment rental. Sometimes we have to rent something. And so we put a little money in the budget in case we do a generator or something like that. And so we have to pay for that. And so we have to pay for that. This is the lease now that we've added the extra. Space. We have a little, we don't repair much equipment. We usually just replace it, but we do keep $1,000. Because Victor's very good with computers. And he often will just fix one for us instead of replacing it. If it's young enough. And so we have a little money in there for that. And we will buy that can be depreciated. That'd be like things over $1,000. This is what we'll buy that's under $1,000. This is like cables and small things. The telephone is, oh, this is our grant program. That's the $100,000. The county gives us to run our equipment grant program. And that's the equipment that we buy and give to schools and the government and the school of education. And we, that's what we buy our padcasters with and so on. Telephone communications and internet. That's the internet that we put in the building so we can get our signal to the county building where it will go to the head end. This is our copy machine. It's a little more than it was last year because our lease expired and we hated that copter. So we got one that's better. And this one, it's so exciting. It's so exciting. It's so exciting. It won't help you very much, but we'll be able to print by just using our little fobs. We won't have to type in a number every time because none of us can remember that number. And software with the service is a little lower this year because two things. Now we're using cable cast equipment and the tight rope equipment you might remember from the past. And we don't have to pay for help. We don't have to pay for all the services. We don't have to pay the services. We don't have to pay the dollars for help. So we've subtracted that out. And we also have a pretty big zoom account because we've been doing all the zoom meetings for all of the organizations that they use our zoom account. So we won't need that this year. They'll all have their own accounts. And so that made that a nice, that was a nice difference there. That saved us some money. This is our music license so that we can use music without having to pay for it. And that's what we're doing here. This peg related labor. That's the 20% I mentioned. That's part of my salary, part of victors, part of mills and part of Ian's. Go in here. And that once again, that is with permission of the county. That's okay. By the county executive. So that's it. All right. Um, comments, questions. Anyone. Yeah, I was, uh, that was my main concern. Uh, was the. Cost of living adjustment. So I was very, uh, and I calculated it and that's what 5,882. $4%. So I definitely think our staff deserves that. With, uh, With, uh, inflation and being what it is. Um, yeah, I think it's, uh, well, well. Well, not, not just deserved, but, uh, necessary. So I'm glad to see that that's included in the budget. Um, sorry to see that the county meetings are going down. Hopefully, uh, Maybe it'll take a turn for the better. So, uh, I know on the one hand you like to see your county be efficient. On the other, you kind of were saving a little for your. Right. And I guess the question with that. So that, I mean, it's under county board of supervisors meetings, but we were doing planning commission meetings. Oh, we still do those. Oh yeah. Yeah. And that's all, that's all under county board of supervisors. Oh no, they're in here. Okay. We don't, we, we do, we were doing the county planning, but they stopped. So that was, that was a count that went away. We do do the city planning. I think that is under the city of Santa Cruz, but the rest of these, all of these over here are different different organizations that we do, the water districts, the, um, we do the, um, the reservation law for this year. The SCT MD, the Santa Cruz Metro transit and, um, also, oh gosh, the regional transit authority. Also, yeah, there's a whole bunch of them and they're all in that big long list. Okay. Great. Peace are good as key. Yeah. So. The question is you said that you were going to raise. The legal fees in this budget. Yeah. fees increase. Does that mean something else will decrease? No, because we have extra money in the budget. See the bottom line, 13,000. So I'll just take $500 out of there. All right, well, I would move approval with the change of the legal fees. I did it. I just accidentally did it in the wrong side. I put it in the last year's budget. Okay, we have a motion on the floor to approve the 2023-2024 budget with the addition to the legal fees. They hear second. Second. All right, we have a second from Janice. Any discussion? Further comments? Well, great, let's have a voice. I mean, a roll call vote on this, please. Okay. Chair Lanye. Yes. Director Maziarz. Yes. Director Gadger. Yes. Director Hall. Yes. Director O'Driscoll. Yes. Director Manheim. Yes. Director Rand. Yes. Director Warren. Yes. Director Shaw. Yes. Yay. All right. That's an unanimously approved. Thank you, Rebecca, very much. And thanks to Mel for combing through all this and putting it together and making the corrections and to the finance committee for meeting last week and going through this very carefully. It's good to have this done and in order as we, you know, early really, as we pass it on to the county. So well done. Good presentation. Okay, let's move on. We can discuss low power television opportunities and appoint an ad hoc committee to prepare for an eventual LPTV license auction. So by way of background, I'll do a little bit and then, Becca, you can chime in too. We contracted with a consultant basically to do a search for LPTV opportunities and have found that there, I guess, is an opening. We don't know when the auction is. And the question is whether we can get prepared in order to act swiftly when we have the opportunity. Becca, do you want to add to that? That's pretty much it. They have sent us a report. They did give us the report. And it's some text and a lot of maps. And Keith has figured out which antenna has the one station on it. And it's the one at UCSC. So we do need to kind of, they, they just send you the report, and it's up to you to ask questions. So we kind of need to review the report, see, you know, put together the questions that we have for them, and then they will answer them for us. That's what they say. They say the part one is making the report and part two is telling you what you need to know about it. But they want to have us ask questions. So I think if we can have a few people would be willing to read the report and think of the questions, then we can talk to them about, you know, what are the next steps we need to take to be ready? Because what happens is these options, they're not on a schedule. They occur when the FCC decides to do one. And so we want to be ready with whatever we have to submit. And this report is a lot of what we have to submit. But we want to make sure we have everything, all our ducks in a row, so we can act fast when it happens. Because if we don't, someone else will probably get the station. Right. And our contract with the consultant, does that include their help when we apply for the, when we submit to the auction or put in a bid? Or would that be extra? No, they will answer all our questions and tell us what to do. But they won't do it for us. They are basically engineers. And a lot of this report is engineering. And that's what the FCC wants to know. And they've given us like three options of, I think it's three, isn't it Keith? Like three places on the antenna we could be and who we would reach if we did that. And like we could reach billions of people, but we would be all over the Monterey Bay really. So we'll be reaching sailboats. So where do we want to be? And where can we be? We want to do some research. We'd need to talk to the owner of that tower and see what it would cost to be on there and stuff like that. Or if there's room, can we be on there? So there's a bunch of stuff. And I think if we can, if we can get some questions together that basic in our minds, what, what do we need to know? I think they can fill in the blanks and more questions will arise and they're happy to answer all the questions. Okay, great. Because I've looked at the report and a lot of it was way over my head. I need to dive into that again. And Keith, I think, has looked at it closely. Thank you, Keith, for that. Any other questions? Anyone like to join us on this? I think I'd like to participate. Tom, yes, great. Do we have a, and Keith, I have, and David, is there any prohibitions against a quorum on an ad hoc committee? Do we have? Yes. Okay. Yeah, you need to keep it below that number. Okay, so it'd be four or fewer. So let me put down Keith, Tom, David, you expressed interest. Were there anyone else? I said I would. So that's four there. So I guess we're okay if any, anybody else dying to be on this? I'm interested, but I'm gonna bite my tongue. Okay. Because I've already got enough going on. Okay, I really look forward to hearing what you all. Okay, so we'll get together, go through this, come up with some questions, try to push it forward and then keep in contact with the board and let folks know, you know, how this is progressing. We could have a, you know, an update in a month or two. Becca. Would it be okay if Mattrea wants if we send him the report and he can review it and think about it as leisure and not have to participate but maybe give us. Absolutely. Any board member I think is welcome to this report. There's no, no reason why you shouldn't be able to look at it. Yeah, I think you might find it interesting. I definitely would love to see it. Thank you. Thank you for considering that. Oh yeah, send him that. Okay, any, I can send it to anyone. Does anyone else want to see it? I'll see it. Why did you just send it to all of us? Yeah. Okay, yeah, and you can just ignore it if you don't want to see it. If we don't have time, we don't read it, then if we have time, they'd find us a good bet I'm reading. Oh no. Because then, yeah, I mean, we'll just be discussing this. You're great at timing. And you may want to know a little more what's going on. A lot of it is pretty technical, as I say, but it's interesting, yeah. Okay. I might suggest next time, Keith or somebody from the committee, spend 10 minutes and explain what we get to us. And I don't think we need any more because it probably be beyond, well, I know more than I let on, but I don't want to commit more energy than I have. But I'd be curious. Okay, no, that's a good, I'll we'll have a discussion item next meeting and we can. I was wondering, who was the leader of this committee's? Well, who would like to be the leader of this committee? I nominate Keith. So do we need a motion for this ad hot committee? I don't know. Any parliamentarians here wish to? Well, I think the chair can appoint any ad hoc committee he wants to. Okay. So I will just for the record, I will appoint an ad hoc committee to look into low power television opportunities and report back to the board with director Gudger, director Mannheim, director Warren and myself. And we will appoint director Gudger as the chair of that committee. Sorry, Keith, but I'll I'll co-chair it with you. But you're, I think, the most up to date on it and the most savvy with this stuff. So you deserve it. We deserve you to be there. Okay. So that was my my order. I don't know that we really need a motion. So that's done. Any other discussion comments? Thank you, everyone. Education committee report. I don't have a written report, but do we have an oral report? Director Warren or Gudger? Yeah, I was gone for 10 days. So I pondered off on Keith. Everything goes to Keith. Yeah. Well, then Keith had a little bit of a disaster in his family. So if he did one, that's pretty good. Yeah, we didn't meet. But based on Becca's availability, we decided not to do the April, what do you call it, art walk? What's it called? Open studio? Oh, no, no. Is it open studio? No, is that open? So if the executive director is available in April, we will attempt to do something in May. Okay. And did I? Oh, until the disappeared. I wondered what that was. That's your chair. Okay. I think that's your throne. It looks like you are. Any questions, comments, discussion on education? All right. Well, thank you. Number 11 is the board chairs report. I really have nothing to report other than, I guess, just discuss this. Our meeting situation. Tom and I are going to look into a little more details on the Brown Act regarding our committee and whether we're subject to it. We made kind of an accept. I thought we were going to meet more in person this time. We made an exception under sort of disaster circumstances and to be more convenient with zoom. So we're going to look into that. And we will keep you informed. I think the hybrid meeting may be the fact that we're learning more about that. And Becca was talking about that earlier, maybe where we end up, where some folks can participate remotely, occasionally, and others not. So we are looking into that. And I'll keep you informed. Any comments, discussion there? Okay. Any board member or staff request for specific items to appear on next meeting? Announcements? Any announcements? Janice? I don't, it's not really an announcement. I just wanted to say that after the last meeting, I started following us on Instagram. And I don't know who's doing the post, but they're fabulous. They're really good. Great visuals, succinct, understandable. I have nothing but praise. I don't know who's putting it together, but they're doing a fabulous job. Well, thank you, Janice. That's so nice to hear the one that was so crazy when we had the wallpaper guys in to do the mural. She was texting me like, can we get live video of it? I was like, well, okay, we got a guy on a ladder. So she has like great, she just seems to know the milieu. So she does all the templates and puts together all the wording and it's really good. It's really good. Thank you. This is this is who's sort of our advertising social media consultant that you've brought in. Great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She knows all the lingo and how we have to do reels and stories and send her video clips when things happen and photos of we did some St. Patrick's Day stuff and we did women's and the International Women's Month and we did a daylight savings time and whatever's happening. That's great. We have something to say. Well, thanks for bringing that up, Janice. I appreciate that because I wasn't sure. I will Keith, you're on mute there, buddy. There we go. We had another one day animation class at the library. It went really well. We had eight students for seven computers. But that worked out okay, we had two on one machine and they had fun. It was kind of interesting. The librarian said this hadn't happened to her before, but it certainly happened to me at the library. We had about three students show up who didn't register and about two students who registered not show up. So that's why we that's why we ended up with eight. The reel is playing on community TV already. Just a second. I'll tell you when Tuesdays at 6 p.m. and Saturdays at 6 30 p.m. Victor already has it scheduled. Is there anything on that or like after it that says, you know, if you're interested in the animation class where to go? No, but I could put that. I mean, it's always on the library calendar. We're looking at maybe the next one being May 27th. Yeah, I think it'll be fun if you it's great promotion like this. You can learn to do this. You know, May 21st, 21st you're right. I pay attention. I made your emails. I didn't pay attention to my email. Well, if you could put it out, be great. Yeah. Okay. That's it for my. All right. Thank you. Any other announcements? We'll move to item number 14 and I learned something earlier, which is a motion to adjourn does not need a second Matilda. I moved. I'm so moved. All right. We have a motion on the floor to adjourn. All in favor say aye. All right. Thanks everyone. Bye everybody. Take care. Stay dry tonight.