 So welcome to the Community Television of Santa Cruz County board meeting. It's a regular meeting on March 27th, 2014. I'd like to take the roll call. I'm here. Nathan Benjamin is not. James Fisher? Here. Tessa Fitzgerald is not. Joe Hall? Here. Karen Machado? Here. Matilda Rad? Here. Doris Steinman? No. Lou Tuasso? Adam Wade? Tom Manow? Here. This is a period for oral communications. Any person may address the board during our oral communication period on the item not listed on the agenda. I don't see anyone in the audience, so I will go on to number three, consideration of late additions to the agenda, additions, and deletions. Are there any from the board members? Seeing none, I will go to the consent agenda. The consent agenda, we have approved the minutes from the last meeting. The finance committee did meet today and did approve, excuse me, the financials. Excuse me. James Fisher is resigning as Secretary of the Organization. I want to take this moment to thank James for his service. And Tess has agreed that she's a professional. Hopefully she will be able to do this. She's not here tonight. To be the new Secretary of the Organization. And we are approving the appointment of Tom Mannheim to the finance committee. That's the consent agenda. Any requests to remove anything? No. I move that we approve the consent agenda. Second. Any other discussion? Seeing none, I'd like to ask all those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? None. Anonymous. And the next item on the agenda is the oral report of the Executive Director, which the written report is in your packet. And Cathy will also speak to that now. Hello. Thank you so much for being here this evening. As you can imagine, we're fairly busy. We have a lot on our plate right now. We are very excited about the relaunch event that we have right here. And our Director of Content and Production made this lovely flyer for us. And as I see, that's April 15. April 15, 5 to 7 PM. And we're hoping to do a ribbon cutting at 5.30. We've asked the Downtown Association to do that for us. We have a former State Assembly member and current text collector, Fred Keely, coming to talk about how important community and television and community media is in our community. So we're very excited to have him. And we will also be recognizing some of the folks on our team this last year who've really made this possible, this transition, including the board, the county staff that have been really hopeful, and also key staff members here at CDB and members. We also want to acknowledge the 40-person volunteer group that has gone through the first ever certified volunteer three-month training here at CDB. So we'll be acknowledging them. So we have a lot of people to acknowledge. We'll also be showing three videos on what's been happening at CDB. We have a one-minute video overall. I think you guys have seen it in the past. We have a video that Romney Dunbar is creating for us on the channel relaunch of the three new channels and the rebranding for the channels and the new content for those channels. And then we'll have, I think, a third video as well to be announced. And that's what's happening. We'll have food. We'll have music. We'll be touring a facility. Nick Brand, our IT director, will be talking about some of the technical changes that have happened and infrastructure that we've built. And I'll be saying a few words as well. And that's pretty much what we have in store. We did send up press releases out. Rachel Goodman's been helping us a little bit with some of the press work, which has been helpful. We sent an invite out personally. I sent an invite out to folks today. We put it on Facebook, social media sites, things like that. So hopefully, we'll get some traction. And we also got a really great story in the newspaper last week, which I emailed out. Thank you. Thank you. And that was based on the presentation I did on Tuesday along with Kevin Bowling. We actually sat at the county staff desk together, which was really exciting. I got to go through the little gate to be on that side. And it was really great just to really, I think, it demonstrated the collaboration that's really been important for us to be working with the county really closely on this transition. So it was a good presentation, I think, by Kevin and I. And the Sentinel article certainly reflected that and the transition that we've been going through. We are going to also, one of the things is sort of a legacy thing that we've done for the last 12 years is we have been working with the Real Works Film Festival. And so we are honoring that commitment that we have with them. And maybe then in the future, we may not have the staff resources to do that. So we are doing all their bookkeeping. And it's a little bit of a difficult time for us because we don't have a full-time bookkeeper anymore. As you know, we have five hours a week where we used to have 32. So we are sending them weekly updates and working with the folks at the festival. So they'll also be here on the opening. And we'll also be promoting the festival here, too, by any means. The only other things I really want to mention is our station director interviews are going well. And if you are on that committee, and I want to thank actually Keith, and Miss Hilda, and Tom for being involved in that, and also McBrant, our IT director. We have had five more interviews this week, a few more on Friday. And then we will probably come to some sort of intimidation next week or early the week after. And we have quite a few policies and some manuals that we'll be bringing to you in April. If April, you may have a new employee handbook. I've been working. One of the benefits of this collaboration between Team Out and CTV is that we shared the cost of rewriting our employee handbook. So instead of one organization having to pay a full amount, we were able to get kind of two for the price of life. So I've passed that on to Keith to take a look at. He had some great suggestions. Thank you very much to the HR consultant. Thank you for your comments. It's helpful to her. And then we'll be going to my board at CMAP in April as well, and hope to bring that to you in April. Also, for your approval, it's just been updated that both of our meetings were fairly outdated at this point. And then we also are putting together finance policies. We have a rough draft that will bring that finance next month at both boards. We'll be using the same financial policies at both organizations. Any questions? I guess the only thing that might not be in my ED report is that we also just rebuilt the facilities at Capitola. And so the kudos to our team of IT folks, Victor, Kerman and Nick Fran, who have been over there pretty much all week, making sure that that build has gone well. And we're hoping all the upgrades happen for them so we can have an improved quality of their picture. And also easier access and use of the facilities as well. And also, our IT crew here, our production coordinator, director of private production, rather, has also been very, very busy working on many, many productions to be for his volunteer effort. And Matilda, we have quite a few guys here to help us out. But I suspect that after it goes on, we'll have quite a few more. We'll continue with the paid production work that we're getting here at CTB. As I mentioned last month, we are rebuilding a lot of those relationships, and that's going very well. Jeremy's done a great job there, actually. Great. All right, thank you very much. I think it's all rolling along. Good. That's a good news. OK. The next item is a discussion of proposed policies and procedures. The Governor's Committee agreed to some changes that were made by Enric and Kathy. Those have been incorporated in the document that you got in your packet. It is still in committee, and the committee will have to take one more time to make the final changes and approvals. Unless there's anything specific, I would ask that you let the committee know if any ideas you have about things, the body of the picture would be different. You don't believe it at this meeting. So basically, we're not discussing it tonight. We just, any discussion will take place at the committee. At the committee. Yeah, yeah. Somebody had feedback. Is there a deadline by which we should get that to you? Let's see. Do you remember the next board meeting and date? Let me see next. It's the 24th of April. I would sit in next two weeks because we have to meet after that. So again, so by the end of the second meeting, we have to meet for that meeting. First week of April. Next week is the first week of April. Next week is the first week of April. By the middle of the second meeting. And I want to thank Matilda, who has meticulously gone through this page-by-page sentence. Well, all of us. Well, though, I was going to say meticulous Matilda, but I won't. You said it. So the actual working document is online in a Google Drive. I took that one and made the changes that are shown on that document to create this one. But we're still working from the one in Drive, not the one you actually saw in here. And if you want to add comments to that document, that would be the best way for us to know about it. And I can send you a link that will allow you to make that comment right now. Good. Good. So I need to do that. I need to send that back to the rest of the board. I mean, I noticed that. Yes. All right. I'd like to ask. Okay. And just because I haven't used that, there's a way for us to, I mean, you've obviously got edits that everybody's agreed on. Is there a way to just sort of make suggestions? Yes. There's a thing and they're called comments. You can either right-click and add comment or go under, I believe it's insert, comment, and you could just put the comments to this. And that's the way we've been doing it. It's just by putting comments on there. And then I went back and struck out the stuff that had been asked to be struck out. So you could see what was there before the last round. Great. Thank you. And then to move on to my report, I would like to report on a couple of things. First, that you saw in the packet the governor's committee met. There was a resolution for the appeal of the member suspension. So that's in your packet. And as I just discussed, we also went over the policies and procedures and deferred the final agreement to the next meeting. Everything I'd like to ask the board is, Kathy, did you send that request for help on the grand reopening to all the board? I sent an invitation to the whole board. About two weeks ago, you had a list of things that needed to get done for the grand reopening. Probably not to the whole board. No. We are still looking for food donations. First of all, what it asks is, what do we need for the board? I can just really quickly. I actually talked to Joseph Schultz from IndiaJose today. We're actually going to, he, for a really, really, really low cost, is going to give us kind of a base amount of food. But we could have anywhere from 100 to 200 people here. So with this sort of public event and people coming in and out, we probably need double the amount of food that he can provide. So if folks have food donations that they want to bring, let me know, we will probably go to and get some large trays of food as well, fruits, vegetables, things like that. We definitely need beverages. We'll have to purchase so if folks want to integrate in that way. Scott, Paine's, our AmeriCorps is in charge of ambience. So if you have any items for ambience that you would like to help with, you know, he's going to be... And what kind of ambience would you like? He's going to be decorating. The way that we're going to have it set up, and just to kind of give you a really quick rundown of the event, we'll have the studio set up. We're actually going to shoot it as a show. Not live, not live live, but we will do it live for Tate. So we'll have myself, Jeremy, Nick, Romney, and then probably also Jefferson Medberg from RealWorks. I'll do little short presentations. And Fred will be sort of the main thing. And then Keith, if you want to speak as well, we should probably have you say a few words also, or at least introduce you. And then during my presentation, we'll do an interruption of all of the folks who have contributed to the transition, all of the technicians to do the knowledge. And then we will have Nick kind of do a little mini tour, and then we'll go on and go through the building and talk about the use and the purposes of each room and how we're going to do that. So that's sort of the evening. So we will have the podium set up here, not the podium, but the risers here, so that we can be videotaping it. We also are looking for someone to do some music. So if anyone has ideas of sort of kind of nice, sophisticated background music, that would be great. We certainly would film them. How's David Winters? David Winters, would you actually ask him? I could ask him. I could also ask someone else. That would be great. He would be wonderful. I don't have his phone number yet. I know him. He would be great. Would he buddies with Utah Phillips by any chance? I'm sure he does. He's kind of folksy, social justice. But he also does jazz. He does some coast jazz. Oh, that's great. I know I've seen him at house concerts before. Well, he plays at Emily's every morning. Oh, okay. Oh, that would be wonderful. He's really, it's really smooth. It's so nice to have to hear him in the background. That's great. It would only need to be, you know, like a half an hour. Because I think we'll have a half, probably 45 minutes of live content that we'll be shooting. So maybe half an hour before the room and cutting. So we'll start at five. We'll do hopefully a room and cutting at 5.30. And then we'll do all of our presentations from 5.30 to 6.30. And then people can kind of walk around. And we will be doing the food in the conference room as well. And if folks want to come, you know, before the event to kind of just help out, it'd be great to have your name tags saved where we're on it so we can make sure we have tags that you can fill out. So people know to talk to you. I think that would be great. We are making chocolate too. I don't know if any of you are ready to party. When we had our party, we made all that chocolate. So we're going to make some chocolate for the relaunch. Sweet. That's sweet. That's sweet. Okay, that's the only thing I have to report. Are there any board members or staff requests for specific items to appear on the next meeting to do that? I think next announcement. Just how we have recap and celebration of our wonderful opening because it's going to be great. I just have a quick announcement. Nick and I are going to be out of town for the National Association of Broadcasting Conference. I will be there mostly to sign checks. And actually need to probably talk to the finance team about how we could do that. We have limitations on our credit cards for capital purchases. And so sometimes we can get really great show meals actually on the floor. And there's equipment that we have that we still need to purchase. So most of the equipment I think we need, we have been able to purchase that probably lower than any of the rates. But we will be looking at some other equipment. We've been doing that also for CMAP. I don't know if you know. We got news a couple weeks ago that CMAP received an FCC license for our application for the Santa Anita County, specifically the City of Hollister. So we had our board meeting last night and we had the radio folks show up, which was really exciting. And it was a really great meeting where the community said, you tell us what the seed money is and we'll match you. We're really excited about this radio station. So one of the other purposes for both Nick and I is to learn everything we can about radio now because we're about to build with the community. And I think the community will really build the radio station. So we'll be there from the 7th through the 10th. We'll actually leave on Sunday the 6th and we'll be back on the 10th. And I will be with Jeremy. We are presenting the community colleges, public relations professionals are hosting a conference and we've been asked to speak and to do media training for them on that Friday. So I'll be almost a week. I will be here on the afternoon on Friday the 11th. I just want to write you in. Okay. I make a motion to adjourn. Second. Assuming the chair was inviting them. Yes, I was. I saw you looking. I thought he wants you. Okay. Should I have everybody in favor? All right. We'll see you all on the 15th.