 Okay. We're recording. Okay, so we're on the record. I'd like to call to order. I have no PDF. I brought my email up. I'd like to call to order the Board of Directors of Community Television of Santa Cruz County regular meeting of October 26, 2020. It's 505 p.m. Mr. Secretary, would you kindly call the roll. Yes, it's here Macy ours here, director hall. Here, director Rand. Here, director Mannheim. Here, director O'Driscoll. Here, director Launay. Here, director Shaw. So I see we have not here ran Shaw and gudger is that correct. Keith just joined. I don't see him. You need to let him in. But he disappeared when I let him in. All right, director is present. All right, so we all know that we do have a quorum. Thank you very much. So we can move on to item number two or all communications. Any member of the public like to address us on any item, not listed on today's agenda, but under the jurisdiction of the board. I can move on to item number three consideration of late additions to the agenda. Any additions or deletions to the consent. And regular agendas. Is there anything that anybody would like to add or pull from the agenda. Okay, seeing none, let's move on to the consent agenda, which is items four and five item four is to approve the minutes of our last board meeting of September 28, 2020. And five is to approve recommendation of the finance committee to accept the September 2020 financial reports. Do any board members have any questions or comments on these items. I have a comment. Dr. Hall on the finance report, just to call your attention. We have some new tenants and dignity health. And you'll see the lease payments for rent payments are getting have stabilized, which was really good news. But I also kind of wanted to thank the members of the committee we spent quite a bit of time and Janice and the mid County committee going over numbers for the aptos location and I don't know if we really talked about it too much last time. But it was a great idea, except when we looked at the terms and the numbers and the financing that was available for it. It just didn't pencil out. So it's no, no longer under consideration. There are other things that the mid County committee will be looking at, but I just wanted to thank the finance committee for the time they put into it it was a team efforts the wrong word to put it was team strengths that came into it and it all worked out. Maybe not for a successful outcome in terms of the center, but it was a success successful outcome that we didn't pursue something that didn't make economic sense. Yeah, that's good. Anyhow with that I'll make a motion to approve items four and five. Second. All right, so we have a motion from director hall a second from director of Driscoll Mr secretary to kindly call roll call vote. Okay. I call the roll call. Yes, director landfill. Yes, director, Gugger. Yes, director manhine. Yes. director hall. Joe. Did he say anything. No. Can you hear us Joe. Yes. Yeah, yes, yes. Yes. that passes unanimously. All right, so we can move right along to our very slim regular agenda. And item number six is the oral report of our executive director. Beko kindly take it away. Okay. This is the report for September. And so under financial, we have first the, I like to look at all the federal funding options that we have out there. And we did on the EIDL, I did get a chance to speak to our, we have a person in charge of us, a human, which is great. And I spoke to him. He called me at six a.m. in the morning. And then I returned the call and he didn't really know why I was calling him. So I'm not sure if he called me, incidentally, or what, but we're still in the pipeline. I was able to get that much out of them. So that's good. We're just, it just takes a long time. I have imagined it's just a really big pipeline. I think a lot of people are in it. And with our SBA loan, we are now able to do the procedure we'll go through to get the loan forgiven. They've opened it up to report now. So Mel's gathering the information we need, which isn't much, all we used it for was payroll. And so we just have to get a document from, we have to print a couple of documents out from QuickBooks and something from Edd. And then we'll be good on that. So we'll take care of that this month. We have a long time to do it, but we're going to do it right away. In coworking, our break-even number for coworking is usually $10,000. And we did adjust that because of COVID. And for the shelter and placements, which seems to be going on and on. But our projection at the time we did this for September was $9,000. And we earned $10,799. So yeah, so we did pretty well. And we enrolled four new members in the month of September. And now we have about 187, which is kind of where we usually are. We're around 180, 80, 80 to 90. So we haven't lost a whole bunch of business or anything. Under paid services, we did 14 government meetings in September, and we did four government webinars. And under facilities and equipment, we are having a really hard time getting our captioner working in the county. We bought the lower-end model because we needed certain outputs for the county. They like to have a closed-circuit captioned feed. And the new or more fancy version that you did approve has an encoder built into it. So with the lesser one, the encoder was an outboard thing. And Victor's been working on it for six months and he can't get it to work. And we've been working with the company and they can't get it to work. So we are sending it back and we're going to get the upgraded version that will have the captioner included because through all of their testing, they determined that the encoder was the problem. So that's probably more information than you want to know. But we're working on that. And we just had the new captioner for the city arrive and it won't boot up. So we're sending that back. They've got it to work at CTV, but when they take it to the county, it doesn't work. So we're pushing through. It's not a big deal. It's just taking us longer than we wanted. But we've had really good. Victor and Lynn have been working on it and they have tapped Matreya for expertise as well. And it's been a real team effort. And so far, we haven't had a happy ending, but we're learning more and more. So moving on to mission programming, we did the do it yourself candidates statements video. Usually every election year, we let candidates come into the studio and we record them. And then we edit all of their statements into one program. And we put that on the air several times. And we also create individual YouTube videos for them. And they can use them in their own promotion. And this year they had to record themselves. So we had given them a lot of YouTube, a lot of Zoom advice. We sent information out to them on how to do the videos with the camera and how to do them on Zoom. And then we received them back in in time. They were on time. A couple of them weren't on time, but most of them were on time. And we were able to, Lynn Dutton assembled the program. It was about 40 minutes long. And it was, it was, it looked good. It was a great effort. Some of them even went and had professional videos done. So we got a lot of our local candidates on television and we put that on our website and on Facebook and on YouTube and all over. So lots of information out there for people who are getting ready to vote. In the social media area, we've been, we continue to post all the press releases. This is during September for the fire status reports and social media accounts throughout the day until September 11th when we reduced that to once a day. And we posted all the FEMA and other recovery information and we still continue to do that when it comes. There's not as much of it as there used to be, but we put it on Facebook and we put it on Twitter and we put it on our own, our webpage. Then for the election, we did a show called How to Vote in a Pandemic and we interviewed Gail Pellerin and it was a nice interview with her a little over 30 minutes and she explained all the many, many, many ways to vote. Boy, they have been having their thinking caps on. They have figured out everything that might be an obstacle and have come up with something to help. So this was a really good and informative and interview. It wasn't the usual. They'd come up with a lot of new ideas like you can, you can check your polling, you can, there are 18 polling places. You can go to any of them. You can check online to see which one is busy and which ones are not and go to the ones that are not busy. And then when you go there, you still don't have to stand in line. They just text you and it's your turn. So it's a really, there's some really nice developments. So I was glad we were able to do this information and do this and get it all out, information out for people who are still, you know, who are not rushing to the polls. And let's see. The Canada Sposas of the pandemic and we continue to share all of her voting messages on all our social platforms as we get closer and closer to the election. And we're also still sharing any information from public health about the coronavirus that we get. We haven't done an interview with them for a while. So it's probably time for us to do that. And we have done some outreach this year. For the first time, I was able to get interns. I got two interns from UCSC and two from San Jose State. And so we are doing a pandemic production model. And we're making a program that they are the associate producers for. So we're, we've set up, we have booked three shows, which they will put together and edit. They found their own guests and they are really good guests. They did a great job. I'm really excited for them. They have one person who will be a great producer. She tracked down. Oh, let's see. Curtis Reiford, who is the guy who drives around the really big truck raising money for the Native Americans. Yeah. Yeah. Well, he's not easy. He's not very, he says, well, you know, I'm not very tech savvy, so I hardly check my phone. So she had gone downtown and on the West side and walked around looking for him because she knows she's seen him down there. And she took a couple of weeks of calling him every day and sending notes to his post office box. And she finally got him. And he met with her at his giant truck and they sat on top of the truck and did the pre-interview. So he has great stories to tell. He's a really interesting guy. And he's very, very cogent and excited and has a lot to say. So we're happy to get him. And also Jodi Frankiani, who is a noted wildlife photographer, one of the few women who do that. And she's award winning. She's got some amazing pictures. And she not only takes pictures on land, but she dives and takes some amazing pictures of whales. And some have been used in studies because she has gotten shots of things that hadn't been seen before by scientists, scientists rather. So she'll be a great interview. And then also Rachel Kippen, who is she, you probably know her. She's the ED for Sea Odyssey. But she also is an activist in her own right. She does the Sea Odyssey. But on the side, she does a lot of these other things to protect the seas. And whenever she does one, she also works with tattoo artists to develop a tattoo to commemorate it. So I think that she has like woven her art in with her purpose. And she's woven that into her job. So it's a very interesting combo there. And so we're really excited to have all those three of those Santa Cruzans on TV. And that's our report for September. Let me ask a question. In terms of the captioning company, are they the only ones, is this the only captioning system that would work for us? Yeah, they're the only ones that do this. They ordinarily are great. And they have been really good helping us. They've gotten tech guys working on it. And they've spent hours with us working on it. And I think the first thing was that it was the, turned out to be the outboard piece of equipment wasn't talking. The encoder. Yeah, it was the encoder. And then this time, I think something, both Victor and Lynn think it's a hardware problem. It probably was damaged in transit. But they're doing everything they can to make sure they're checking every possibility to see if they get it to boot up and it goes through this whole string of things it does. But it has to apparently start a lot of other programs or robots or something on top of the machine to do other jobs. And when that happens, that's when something bogs down. So Can I interrupt you for a second? I just got a text from Joe who needs you to let him back in. Oh, I'm sorry. I have my report over that thing where it says admit. So he's back. Hey, now you report again, Becca. I take it you read the print version of Becca's report. It was you're still muted, Joe. But I followed along. Did you have your questions show since we didn't? No, no, I think you covered everything. Okay. Any other questions? I just have one other comment. I really want to thank you, Becca, for following up on all the financial opportunities to keep us afloat during the pandemic. So you're welcome. It's the least I can do. I hope we come up with some more some more fun ideas. I am thinking about it all the time. Right. Fantastic. All right. Well, yes. Thank you very much, Becca, for the report of sounds like a lot of wonderful things going on. I will mention as a county employee who's I mean, yeah, you gave me credit for helping them with it. But pretty much all I do is let him in the door to the data center and then sit there with my laptop. But you know, if they need any help, I'm always happy to help as I answered questions on things that, you know, that take a lot of heads to figure those crazy things out. There's well, and I'm kind of looking at this as a mixed blessing. Like one of the things that we've been, we're kind of living between two worlds here that as we have, you know, I'm sure Larry's intimately familiar with the assorted history, but, you know, IQM two, which is, you know, we use their minute track for our agenda management, they got purchased by Excel, which got and then they got sold to Granicus and and so we're actually running two media servers right now we're running the Granicus media manager and the IQM two encoder and, you know, we're supporting both of them and it's more work for us. So there is a migration path to move to just the Granicus, which was the one that, yeah, the greatest media manager, which works better. It's high def the IQM two is standard def. So it's something that we need to do anyways. And this will be a good, oh yeah, motivation for us to go ahead and do that. That'll be an easier interface. But this newer machine has, yeah, has the, yeah, so we'll have to, yeah, we know we have to figure out some way to get to get the, we still have to figure out where we get the closed circuit thing, but Victor has some ideas. So I think you'll be able to pull it off. Sounds good. And I haven't heard any complaints, which is a good thing. I haven't heard any lawsuits being filed yet. And so any further questions or comments from the board before we move on? Okay, seeing none. Thank you very much, Becca, for that report. I'm glad to hear about all the wonderful activities. So we can move on to item number seven, which is the oil report from the volunteer advisory committee chair, which is Mr. Guzher. Director Guzher, Keith, do you have any comments, news to report from the back? Just that a couple of producers have been bugging Ian about when the studio is going to open. And Ian told them the same thing that I told them that when we get into the yellow zone is the answer. Okay. Well, I know schools are, Santa Cruz High School is opening up back up January fourth or something like that. And Santa Cruz, Waldorf schools opening up on Wednesday. So hopefully those are good omens for what's to come, though. I've seen some scary numbers on cases and deaths in other places. So let's hope that doesn't send our numbers the opposite direction. Right. So anyways, thank you very much, Keith, anything to add to that? No, you muted yourself. So anyways, yes, all in good time, you know, safety first, right, before hopefully people will be raring to come back and have so many ideas and a lot of inspiration from all these months of, you know, staying at home. All right. So we can move on to item number eight, which is the oil report of the board chair. I don't really have much to add except my personal thanks, Becca, for, you know, as a Santa Cruz City voter, you know, we've got seven. I didn't even register at first that they're all the candidates are women, you know, and I was watching one of the candidate forums on community TV's YouTube channel, and it was not, it was, I forget, it was like a neighborhood. Oh, yeah, so yeah, the neighborhood one, yeah. Right. So and it was great to see all the different candidates and, you know, it doesn't make it that much easier because they're all super bright, articulate candidates. It seems like all of them would be, you know, worthy of voting for. So I still have some work cut out for me before Tuesday, but I really appreciated being able to tune in and see that. And it sounds like I might want to check out the 40 minute version, which is slightly shorter than that other version, which I didn't get all the way through. But yeah, I'm glad that we're serving our community in that way. And I hope we can continue. I miss, I miss the election night coverage that we used to do. So hopefully, by the next major election, you know, we'll be in a position to be able to do that again. Have on the local luminaries of the political scene, stop by the studio and share their wisdom with us. So that's all I have. So we can move on unless anybody has any questions for me. Oh, actually, you know, I was going to throw something out here. Since we're here. Last year, I think we did a board retreat in October. Previous, I think we've done it in August or September. So I just wanted to, you know, since we're all here polled to see if anybody has the bandwidth or the inclination to try to do some sort of a virtual board retreat. Or if we should just, you know, continue hanging on by our fingernails until things get back to normal. Director Hall, you had, I think it's perfect that Director Hall uses fingernail. It's clean. We're just going to see all your faces. I didn't there's some connectivity problems here. So I figured let's turn it off the video. Yeah. Does anybody have any guidance in terms of trying to schedule a board retreat? I'll just give you my personal instinct, given what we're going through right now. I don't think another Zoom meeting for something like that would be all that valuable. Okay. Correct. Hey, great. Sounds reasonable. Okay, good. Then I will write that off for this year. Sure. Begin in 2021. It's all going to be great. Oh, yes, of course. It was as soon as the calendar changes that all be good. Yeah. We can all take a deep breath and a sigh of relief and go on with living our dreams and continue on quarantining through half of next year probably as well. Yeah. All right. Great. Okay. Well, thank you for the honest feedback and let's move on to item number 10 announcements. Do any, I don't have anything else to add to any board members have any upcoming events of interest to the board or members of the community? All right. It doesn't really quite fall into that category, but do we know what day we're meeting in November? Are we meeting the Monday right before Thanksgiving, which would be our normal day? That's when the fourth Monday would be, I think. Let's see. I can try to bring up. We have either 23rd and that would be the fourth Monday. Yeah. Like three days before Thanksgiving. All right. Is that going to be? I just, that actually does work for me. My concern is if we get pushed up a week earlier, I would not be available. Okay. Good to know. Well, good for me. Okay. Okay. For me. Sounds good. We could all bring some mashed potatoes and eat an icon for Turkey. Yeah. Pumpkin pie. Everybody likes pumpkin pie, right? Great. So I guess no pumpkin pie. I've got some baked squash. Bring some pecan pie for you. Pecan, yes. Grubarb. Okay. With that, I guess I'll just enjoy everybody to go out and vote. Please vote. But only once. All right. Very good. Yeah. Already voted. All right. Then go out and find somebody else who's eligible and get them. Oh, Matreya, one thing before we all go, an announcement. Becca, do you want to mention what we heard about Kevin Bowling? So all the rest of the folks know who he is and what's happening. Has he announced, is that a public announcement? I don't think he's announced a date yet. If it isn't a public announcement, then we'll just skip it until we. I don't like public. He just talked to me. So I don't know. Yeah, it's coming down the pike, but I don't think there's a specific date yet that's been said. He hasn't announced it to the department. I think he's in the future somewhere. Yeah. Well, that's fine. We'll leave it in the future. I'll be retiring in the future as well. I'll be retiring if I survive that long right now. So Matilda's here just in time to move that we adjourn. I finally found it. I couldn't find it. And then I finally said, oh, I have to look on the Becca. She sent us her thing and I couldn't find it. It's on the agenda. It's on the agenda. Found the agenda. Oh, shoot, and I hit the agenda open. And I said, I'm ready. Yeah, I got cut out of the half the meeting because of a connection problem. My tray of the agenda was not on the website. What? Did I not actually post it? It's not there. Oh, maybe I went to post it and then I, gosh, I'm sorry. Talk to you in the middle. That's what happens to me. And I have a thing on my desktop at the end of the day. I never sent. Okay. Well, I think Ian did post it physically in the window at Community TV. Yeah. All right. Okay. Well, thanks, Keith, and my apologies. All right. Well, sorry. I missed all a thing. It was fairly routine. Becca's report was the most exciting thing, I think. Are you going to have this on TV now with me saying sorry I couldn't find it? Yes, sadly, yes. Oh, boy. We had a quarrel. There might be one other person in the universe that knows that, so don't worry. All right, then I'll move to a June meeting. Okay. Do we need a roll call or should we just do it by acclimation? Always your high hand. All right. Thank you all. With my fingernail. Bye. Take care. Thank you, everybody. Have a good election. Thank you. Bye.