 And okay, I will call the meeting to order at 507 on Monday, September the 27th. And I will have the acting interim secretary call the roll. Okay, Chairperson Lanier. I'm here. Vice Chair Maziarz. Here. Member Hall. Member Hall, are you here? Joe, can you hear us? We need to, I mean, I see him here, but I will mark him here, but we need to let him know. Member Mannheim here. Member Laurent, absent. Member O'Driscoll, absent. No sound. No sounds, okay. Member Shaw. Here. Member Gudger. Here. Member Granados. Here. And Member Warren. Currently not here. Everybody go easy on me. I'm taking, I'm doing the minutes for the first time. So be very slow. You're a former reporter, aren't you, Tom? Aren't you, aren't you skilled at? Former being, former being the operative term here. So you're a better sailor now than you are a reporter? Yep. I'm, I'm, I'm here. I'm working with Joe. Okay. Oops. Hold on just one second. I wonder, Becca, you, although you think you promoted him to a panelist, if he's not a panelist, he might, that might be why, the way he came in, maybe the problem. He is a panelist. He's in my panelist list and he's not muted. Okay. Well, let me, if I can make him a co-host. I can. Well, I'll continue on with the top of the agenda here. Oral communications. Just doesn't have a microphone at all. Showing. Okay. Weird. Any person from the public may address the board during the 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 the jurisdiction of the board. Any comments? Hearing none, item three, consideration of late additions to the agenda, additions and deletions to the consent and regular agendas. Any additions? Seeing none, I will move on. We have the consent agenda to approve the board meeting minutes of June 28th, 2012. Approved board special meeting minutes of July 13th. Why don't you go ahead and I will see what I can do. We can hear you now, Joe. Oh, we hear you now, Joe. I got something from Keith that was earlier. Okay, we hear him. I think he can't hear us, but we can hear him. That's the problem. Yeah, he doesn't. Oh, okay, he must have. Oh. I sent him a text, but he was on the phone with Keith. Okay. And then number six, reproved finance committee recommendation to accept the June, July and August, 2021 financial reports. June is on there because it was set for our July regular meeting, which was canceled. We had a special meeting in July instead and we didn't consider those. So that's why there's three months of financial reports. Any comments on the financial reports or the financial committee, seeing none, I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. I'll approve approval. Okay. Motion by director Gudger to approve the consent agenda. Seeking a second. All second. All right. Director Mannheim, we have a motion and a second. In favor. Say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you. Was that an aye from Elizabeth and Christina both? Yes. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. And I'll be off the meeting. Thank you, Tom, for watching this carefully. We'll move to our regular agenda. We'll start off with the executive director's report. I'll turn it over to you, Becca. Okay. Well, this is my report combination report for July and August. First, under financial, we got our California relief grant. So that was $15,000. And that is a very good thing. We thank California. Our EDIL, our EIDL loan, I believe I reported to you, but I'll recap our funds were sent to the bank, but they didn't have a complete name. They just put community and left off television of Santa Cruz County. And the bank didn't know there are many accounts there with the name community in them. So they sent it back. And then they contacted us and asked for more information, actually duplicate information. So we sent the same information back to them. So they have all of our numbers and all of our bank information and everything. And they gave us a really short deadline, but we turned it around quickly and haven't heard back from them. They only gave us an email and no phone number or any other way to contact them and they don't respond to... Becca, can I interrupt just for a second? Joe has texted or chatted to let him in again. He's knocking on the door there. Oh, he went back to, he's an attendee again. Okay, let me put him in here. I'll promote him to panelists. He should be there. Joe Hall will be rejoining the webinars panelists. I have a message there. And there he is. Oh, and he's got a microphone this time. Okay, so that's better. He's muted, but... Joe, can you hear us, Joe? Yeah, it's a problem with him coming in this way. He needs to go find the link at 355. Yeah, I sent him that text. Keith, did you tell him that when you spoke with him? I spoke to David. Oh, we thought you were talking to Joe. Okay, well, let's see. I don't know, he hasn't answered my text. How can we... Let's see, I don't know if... Let me put something in the chat. Oh, let me in or I will go back to the telephone. Okay. But perhaps he should go back to the phone, I guess. Okay, hopefully that works. If he looked up, I couldn't. Can you signal him? I don't know. Of course, it's completely blurring this out because... I can call in also, I guess, but this seems bad. Okay, well, let's continue on. Okay, let's see. That's all right. Where was I? Oh, E-I-D-L. So we're in process with them. We don't know if that will... How long that will take to resolve, but we're working on it. In the staff category, we have a chance over July and August to train all of our TV technicians to be proficient at operating the Zoom meeting as well. So for a while, we had two people on every meeting, one doing Zoom and one doing the television part, but we now have a good system and they're well-trained and they're all able to do both. The only meeting we do two people on is the Board of Supervisors meeting, because that's kind of an intense meeting and it has to be perfect. So we have a second person on that one. And that's the only one though. All the other meetings are now manned by one technician. Co-working, our break-even number in the Co-working Center actually have the wrong number now. I put the last fiscal year. We changed fiscal years. Now it's really 10,000 all last year at 10,000. And finally in the end, changed it to 8333, but now it's really 10. And I will fix that next time. We earned something happened in my report there. We earned 9,141,000 in July and 9222 in August. So we came very close to being on the money and we'll make that up. That won't be a problem. We had a big client that moved and that was planned. And so it's not that they didn't like our service, but they were only there for remodeling and they went back to their original office. So that'll be okay, that'll all shake out. Underpaid services, we didn't do any government meetings in July because they just aren't any. And we did 11 of them in August. Not everybody was back. That's a lower number than we usually do. And we have a fiscal sponsorship program that we started a long while ago. So some of your newer board members won't know about it, but what it is is when a filmmaker wants to raise money, mostly they can't and they can't apply to the really big grants because they are individuals and those big grants go to companies and organizations. So they can work with a nonprofit and the nonprofit can be their umbrella organization and they raise money as a part of our organization. So they call it fiscal sponsorship. So we have a local producer who's working on a film and has come to us to act as their fiscal sponsor. And it looks like that's gonna happen into a small budget. It's only $10,000, but that's good. We wanna help new filmmakers. And so we're gonna get an opportunity to do that. Great. Yeah. And our new captioners were successfully installed in August. And I wanna thank Victor and Preya who also helped in getting this whole thing going. And it's working great now. It's really, it's perfect. So we're real happy with the new captioners. They're doing their job and Victor is so relieved. Now installation, we're planning our installation of our new broadcast equipment. And that's kind of a big process. And our plan is to do it off, kind of offline or in a sandbox as you IT people would think. We're gonna put it together somewhere else. And when it's all together, we're gonna take it to the county building and install it. And we're working on installing a little of it there as we have to and trying to be able to use remote access so that we don't have to go there so often. And so that takes a little extra planning and some extra apps and stuff. And so we're working on that. We should, we're meeting next week to kind of line out a calendar for that. And so I'll have more information for you next month on that. We're also going through, we're doing sort of a systematic review of all the equipment that we have for our members and that we rent. And we're looking through every single bag, making sure everything's in there, finding lost, broken, worn out pieces and replacing them. And we've been through, we have 20 camera kits. I didn't realize we had so many, but we have 20. And we've been through all of those and we've replaced a few things. And that's been, it's been a good process. And now we have a way of knowing when something's been inspected, how recently we've looked at it and making sure that we just have everything. So when things go out, when I was there for a while I rented some of the gear myself and I noticed that some of it had sticky things on it and they were like, some was messy and some was worn out. So we're just looking through it all to make sure it's all tip-top. When we rent things, we want people to be happy. They rent it from us and come back again. And we also have a big shipping container in the parking lot which we keep things in because we don't have a lot of storage in the building. And that has gotten kind of, it got real messy and it just had everything under the sun in it that we didn't know what to do with. So this year we've had summer cleaning instead of spring cleaning. We've been through the whole thing and we've reduced what's in there by quite a bit. And organized it. So now they're actual shelves with labels on the shelves and things on the shelves in order so that they can, they're useful. We can get to them. They're not way in the back and past and behind a bunch of other stuff. So that has been a good project. We're still working on it, but it is nice. And we're able to clean some things, move some things from the building, put them out there and then have more space in the building for things that we need use of immediately for more valuable things. So moving on to the youth grant, Watsonville Recreation received 25 Pancaster kits from us in mid June. And they have been using them. They used them through September. And that, well, mid September, well actually the end of August, like the first week of September they were scheduled to return. I'm gonna do a survey with the program leader who actually worked with the kids next week. But I have, you know, just comments from him in a phone call word that the kids were engaged and they really enjoyed the equipment. So we'll see what happens. They have not uploaded their video yet. So we don't have that online at this time, but they are working on that. So I believe they will do it. The youth grant committee also voted to approve a new grant. It's a new partnership with Friends of the Library thanks to Keith. And the Friends have developed a six week animation curriculum for kids seven to 12th grade. And it'll be delivered by qualified instructors at libraries all throughout the county. And we have branded the equipment for that program. So it's seven computers and headsets and microphones and real fun mice and it's all in a fun backpack. So it's perfect for kids. Easy for the librarians to check out. And kids will use it on site. They won't be taken at home. And then they can come back later after the class is over and check it out to use on site to work on their animations. And then Friends will move it from one site to another. So it should work its way through the county and we should keep an eye on that and see if we want to grant them another batch of equipment. So that moving through the county could go faster but we'll just let them get started and see how that goes. And they will make short animated features and they will upload them to our channels. So that is my report for July and August. Thank you. I have somebody with a blower next door. Let me close the window. Becca, I'm just curious about the cameras. Does that include video cameras and the DSLRs? Is that all the cameras? Okay. All the cameras, yeah. We've been through them all and we replaced in the DSLRs a battery tray that was missing in a couple little things. And nothing was terrible but they just have been out in the back a lot of times and we found some things. Sometimes they were just a bunch of cables with no cable ties and we just made it clean and more professional in those bags. So we hope people are happy when they open them. Excellent. Thank you. That's cool. Okay. Well, next on our agenda is the Education Committee meeting. I'm sorry. I need to interrupt. We don't have a quorum at this point. The two of you. Joe's gone. Joe's in attendee again. Let me... Oh, I think allowed to talk. Why don't I just let Joe talk to us from where he is? There he is. Well, we were getting audio from him before we were here. I heard him on his phone. He can't hear us. That's the problem is he can't hear us. He can't see the problem. Yeah. Okay, let me try one other thing. I'll try promoting him to panelists again, talking permitted this time and see what happens. But he talked before. Oh, he did? But we... But he couldn't hear us. He just has not heard us. We lost Christina, huh? It's okay. She needed to leave early. So that's not better than our issue. We knew about that. It's a quorum issue. Yeah, it could be that. Now we have a quorum issue, yeah. Here's Joe. Joe, can you hear us? He cannot hear us. I wonder if Joe has something plugged into his audio or something. He had sent a message. I wonder if his AirPods are sitting. He says no. I fixed it. I have no idea what it was. I just hit enough things and it finally worked. Hey. Can you hear us? Yeah. Can you? All right. Tom is very relieved, I will say. Me too. I'm going to start letting you take the notes since you're here now. Joe. I've been trying to get out of taking the minutes. So anyhow, I'm sorry to get lost all that time. All right. Well, we are, where are we? I'm sort of lost track. Hey, we just, did we just lose somebody? Christina. We lost Elizabeth. We lost Elizabeth. She just left. No, my goodness. She didn't even go. She must have, it must just be. She just left. She was in her car. I wonder if she drove into a place with no, so there she is. She's back. And I never got to zoom in by two, said at three, I looked at my spam too, Keith. It wasn't there. Yeah. Okay. All right. I'll look into that. You've got to work on this next meeting for sure. Okay. So we are just about ready here. I have a crazy idea. Chair Lanier. We could have an outdoor meeting in the, in the parking lot at community TV. Yeah. Social distance. One person per parking, parking space. Per parking space. Like a garden. Right. Oh yeah, in our cars. Okay. So let's move it on while we've still got a quorum here. Education committee report, our education chair has not been able to sign on the written report is part of the packet. And there was a late report for the September meeting. There's a little bit. I don't know if there's anything to add, but the reports are there. Keith, you're a member of the committee or do you wish to add anything? I think the report is fairly self-explanatory. Yes. I think the most exciting thing was finding out that Cabrillo has applied for a new journalism program for the fall of 2022. And so David has some connections there. So I think there's a chance that we could work closely with them as they prepare for that program. And that's, that seems to be the best way to get involved is with something new and starting up. And the other thing is David is probably gonna try and create a program with educators for televisions. Education spotlight is the working title. Sorry. But I'm working with him on that. He's a little reluctant to be host, but he's seeing you, Becca, do elected spotlight and he's seen Steve Plage do non-profit spotlights. So he knows what he's getting into. I think he'll be fine. It's just, it's not, yeah, it's just, it's easy. I can talk to him about that. We have Elizabeth coming in from 90 degrees there. There she is. Everything's back to normal. Thank you. All right, good. Well, thank you for that, Keith, for jumping in there. Let's move on to the board. Members, staff requests for specific items to appear on the next meeting agenda. Any hearing none? Move on to any announcements. I'd like to make a couple of announcements. I didn't make a volunteer advisory committee report, but I have had several community producers contact me about when the studio is gonna be open. They understand that as long as we're in the red, it wouldn't make sense. I mean, even if we were allowed in, they'd all have to wear masks on camera. So that doesn't seem to be good. But that's interesting that they are interested. One of them was specifically about high schools. There's some students at Cypress High School were interested in doing a program and learning about television production. Great. Becca already told you about the animation kits. Getting the software on them. I don't know, did the little audio booths get wet down, Becca? Yeah, Ian did them. So they should be ready. He did them over the weekend, I think. So they should be all ready to go. Okay. And we did another nonprofit spotlight. We did associated faith communities, homeless shelters. We did it before, but they have a new executive director. So we did our new manager. So we did them again and we were planning to do two or three more this year. So as long as we're still virtual, it's actually pretty easy to get people on. So we'll do more of that. That's it. All right, great. Thank you. All right. Any other announcements? Otherwise, I will entertain a motion to adjourn this fine meeting. Anyone? I'll move adjournment. I'll second. I'll let Matreya do it because I actually wasn't hearing from much of it. I'm going to have a motion by Director Gudger, a second by Director Maziaris. All in favor? Aye. Aye.