 Good evening. I'd like to call, we have a little echo in here, I'd like to call to order the meeting of the Board of Directors of Community Television of Santa Cruz County of March 25th, 2019. Our secretary is absent today so Vice Chair Rand has gracefully agreed to be the secretary of this meeting. Would you kindly call the roll? Yes. Director Mays-Yours. Here. Director Hall. Here. Director Rand. Here. Director Mannheim. Here. Director Loran. Here. Director O'Driscoll. Here. Director Owen. Here. And Director Isen Gonzalez. Here. Thank you very much. All right. I believe we have a quorum and we can move on to item number two which is oral communications. Would anybody here like to address the Board on any item that's not on our agenda? Seeing none, we can move on to item three which is consideration of late additions to the agenda. Are there any late additions that anybody would like to add? All right, seeing none, we can move right along to our consent agenda which is items four and five. Item four is to approve the minutes from our last meeting on February 25th. Item five is to approve the recommendation of the Finance Committee to accept the February 2019 financial reports. Are there any questions or comments on those items that the Chair of our Finance Committee would like to address? Well I'd like to make a motion and unless there's any amendments to either of them that we approve item four which is approve the minutes of February 25th and improve the Finance Committee report of February 19th and I'll reserve any comments I have in terms of the finances until we get to the budget and talk about it at that place. So anyhow, that's my motion approve the minutes and approve the financial report. All right, we have a motion by Director Hall. Is there a second to that motion? Second. Okay, any further second by Director O'Driscoll? Do we have any further questions or discussion? All right, seeing none I'll call the vote. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Any opposed or abstentions? Seeing none, that passes unanimously. All right, so we move on to our regular agenda and our agenda is a bit of a doozy this month so we'll jump right in. Item number six is the election of a board member to a seat expiring November 2022. Hopefully that is correct and last month we built some suspense and rumors have been flying. The social media is all flutter and we can confirm indeed that the rumors are true and the nominee for our open seat on the board, one of the two open seats is none other than Mr. Guilinier. Guilinier has lived by way of introduction, has lived in Santa Cruz County since 1975, arriving to attend UC Santa Cruz, though earlier he lived in Brookdale for four years, attending kindergarten in Boulder Creek and first grade in Felton so he's well familiar with the area. After a career at local newspapers including the Santa Cruz Independent, Phoenix, Register Pajaronian, San Jose Business Journal, Sentinel and Mercury News, he joined UCSC in 2005 as a speechwriter and later worked as a writer, editor and public information officer retiring in December 2016. He produced listener commentaries for KUSP radio in Santa Cruz from 2003 to 2016 and served on the public station's board of directors from 2009 to 2015 including five years as board secretary so to me sounds like a very eminently qualified person. Would anybody like to move? I'd love to. I've known Guy for over 40 years and I think he's going to be a great addition to the board so I would move approval of the recommendation that he added to our board. We have a motion by Director Mannheimus and we have a second from Director Hull. Any questions for our candidate or comments? All right, seeing none I'll call the vote. All those in favor please say aye. Any opposed? Abstentions? Seeing none. Carries unanimously. Guy please come and join us and welcome to the board. Thank you very much. Pleasure to be here. All right. We're gonna need a larger table if you find anybody else. All right so now we can move on to item number seven which is to approve the draft 2019-2020 budget as proposed by our executive director. Would you like to make any comments on it Becca or does anybody have any questions? I think Becca should go first. Yes. Well this is a budget based on our actual expenses so there's not not much guess work here and and our projected income as as we've seen it increase over the year so I know I have a good sense of what it would be next year so it's there's nothing unusual in there it's basically the same thing we usually do. All right we're staying the course. We have a question from Director Hull. Well actually I'd like to just first of all thank the members of the finance committee. Hi. Who spent quite a bit of time going over this at our last finance committee meeting and we went literally almost item by item not all of them and Becca's correct this is based on basically current actions of what's going on now. There are really two parts to it. First the operating budget and second the capital budget. In the operating budget just for the audience the total budget is two hundred and fifty nine thousand dollars which I consider a sign of success that means our revenues through all the work of the volunteers the community the board members has actually reached a reasonable operating level it would be better if it was a little more and we could do more but considering where we could have been and where we are now I think it's really quite remarkable and I think everybody should be thanked for that. There wasn't really too much in terms of the operating budget we went through a lot of details that I won't go through but the committee spent a lot of time going through it. The capital budget is not all that much different but there's a few things I wanted to point out in it. First of all under the rules we operate under I won't get into all the details we're able to fund our capital improvements at a reasonable level and we have what's called a community youth program where we're working with high schools to put the equipment in high schools in another community location so that we can kind of start the live stream more of Santa Cruz in a positive way and so when you go to the capital budget you'll see the top part and you'll see how that goes. The other way we're able to work well is through the co-working studio here and how we work on our lease for that and and the revenue from that is one of our major revenue streams and that's doing very well this year thanks to the work of Becca and the folks that helped run it and the tenants there so there really isn't a lot more I could add other than it's a really nice situation we're in it could be better but it's a lot better than where we could have been a few years ago so I was quite happy with it but Tom from a trade you want to add anything before we turn it back to the chair? I think you said it all the one thing that hit me it's not just where we could have been last but where we were oh yeah where we were four or five years ago versus now it's really a world of difference I did want to point out one thing I know that there was a very short turnaround between our finance committee and when this had to be posted but on the capital budget item 4106 you'll see county peg fees and then you'll see another line this is county peg fees I think we're going to amend that to say county peg fees dash youth grants that's the difference between those two categories so I would I just wanted to add about the captioning I think that we reduced the captioning amount to reflect what we are currently actually receiving though we are hoping that there will be more clients for our captioning service as time progresses whether it will happen this fiscal year or not remains to be seen and that's offset by expenses last year that we projected a lot more captioning and a lot more expense to do it so it didn't really affect us in a big way great um that's all ahead I would move approval of the budget unless I don't know are there other question act anyone have any other questions about the budget believe me we spent a lot of time on it I'd move approval all right we have a motion a second or a motion and a second all those in favor please say aye all right any opposed all right that passes unanimously we have a budget which now I guess goes on to the county all right and I'd also like to mention I did in my mail suite who does all our accounting work has really done a good job of bringing this up so if she happens to see this her daughter should come up and give her a big pat on the back thank you now for all your hard work wonderful all right we can move on to item eight which is the old report of our executive director and I was going to start calling you executive director king reid but you're back up so uh we don't stand on formalities here no no please take it away it's such a small group so um this is this is very exciting this month because um this is the end of March and on the first of April is when we opened the co-working center that was our brainstorm idea to fund uh this is our main our big revenue fund for the operating budget and I just thought it would be fun for you to see if you were able to print out your your my report in color um you can see that um well let me tell you first this month we're in profit of course again this month and six new companies joined in March which is good for us and um and now we are three um we're um April 1st it's our big birthday so here is our report from April 2016 um and that big circle is mostly purple if you looked at it in color and that's a negative number that is that we projected that we would make $17,000 a month here and we will we're not doing it yet really we're doing it then that's mostly most of the circle is deficit we made $314 our first month that we were open and uh this month we made um the same month we made 10,600 so then a really good good job of you know it's thanks to the board for being willing to step out of the box for a real weird idea and um and supporting it all this time there's a number of board members really put a lot of work into this and um it's been great and I think the board for the support on that and it's only going to get better um paid services this month we did um 17 government meetings and the meetings seem to be going really long which is good for us maybe and um usually when it gets to budget time we can do up to 24 meetings in a month so we're going to start to pick up speed now on our documentation service we have recorded series that we do every year for Dominican Hospital so that was a that's a good thing and it's a recurring meeting that they trust us with every year and um we are doing some um Victor is still doing the programming for C Math right now but um I have a new guy who's going to take it over so it'll be off Victor's plate soon and um and he can I don't he can do something with that three times um we have a professional production coming in probably in April we're saving days on the calendar for them to do this production and and so um we'll have some uh paid production coming out of the studio in April and um we have uh under equipment leases we started a program where we can lease non-profit uh non-profit companies equipment so that they could create content for us and for their own their own organizations and we have a lease in the works with uh Coomba and that that um we're really excited about that and um we should by next month have like probably have it done unless there's something weird that we have to adjust but we expect it'll be complete and we'll be off and running on our equipment lease program and uh under staff Victor is training two new government technicians and um we like them very much they're they're very young and they've been doing production on their own and we're excited to have them join the team and uh our our youth grant committee is holding a workshop in March on the 30th at 1 p.m. so if you um so anyone who would you know is it with a non-profit organization or a school who would like to apply for a grant to get video equipment should come and uh do the workshop and we basically walk you through the application and give you all the tips that you need to be successful in applying where is it just so here here three two five SoCal app exactly right yes so right in our conference room and um you can go to our website community tv.org and register and you need to register so go there and it's on right on the front page scroll down a little you'll see it and then you can register there's a green button it's free but um but we need to know we want to be prepared for everyone who comes so we'd like to know how many people are coming so that's the only reason to register um under equipment facilities um once again I must report we do not have fiber and um it is the same reason we're still waiting for a permit to happen and I've just gotten an update from them and from Comcast and they'll they say they'll update us again when they know more so so far nothing to report but on an exciting um note the um inside the building we've built something called the really simple video place which is a tiny studio that can be operated by one person so you can come in and record yourself and we have a little um uh video of it and we're gonna show it off right now I think excellent you need video we can help introducing the really simple video place need a marketing plan for your website a public service announcement a PowerPoint presentation a new product introduction video blog video resume musical performance and the RSVP you could do it yourself we have good sound equipment great lighting and five different backdrops and no distractions your phone video just won't do it come on down to the satellite facility and check it out our helpful community coordinator Ian will be glad to help you call us at 831-531-2300 or email us at RSVP at community tv.org for more information it's really simple this video was made in our RSVP you can do it too all right now I'll go so thank you Keith Gudder for making that video and for building the RSVP he did a lot of work in there to make it fun and to make it really easy it's finished yeah yeah it's perfect now you can just go in put your flash drive in hit a couple of clicks on the computer and you're in business so it's really wonderful this was kind of one of the few times I've been to one of those strategic planning meetings where an idea comes up and I don't remember Judy if you remember us talking about it and then to see it actually happen usually you see an idea come up and there's another report and another report pretty soon the idea disappears so anyhow thanks to Keith and Judy I think it was one of the things that you thought about at the time I know I didn't maybe you and Keith together with that I encouraged it so anyhow it's kind of fun to see that idea come alive and I can tell you I did a little video today with Keith's help and I think with a little bit of more thinking about it without him there it's actually really pretty easy what's frightening about it though is everything you say you have to look back at again that was pretty simple there are a list of instructions there and I've done it I did it without knowing anything I went in with the instruction list and went through it and it worked for me it was it's very easy it's really really simple and we're very excited to premiere it people can test it out on uh first Friday we're going to have it open on first Friday and we'll also um we'll have of course uh art too but but you can take it take a spin in the really simple video place if you like um in under uh communications and publicity ian berry who is our community coordinator held a first Friday event last month or this month in march and had a great turnout there are lots of new faces and we featured the art of um janice sarilla who has a um great she paints really fun animal pictures and she has a we have a lot of her cards and a bunch of pillows with animals all over them and they're really really fun and they'll be up until the end of the month if you haven't seen it yet and then on um april fifth we'll have a new a new exhibit and we'll have the uh we'll have the rsvp going and also the vibe in the in the studio so you can try out virtual reality so there's all sorts of things you can do with cameras here on on first Friday and let's see is that i think that might be it oh our april artist is megan and cow i can't i'm gne kow i think is in cow and um she does a very interesting art that it's very scientific portrayals of um animals and insects and flowers and things it's beautiful so we're looking forward to having her here and that's my report for march great becker thank you very much it's uh some good news and uh making a lot of progress and happy birthday to community tv coming up um so thank you um so uh shall move on to item number nine unless there are any questions or comments uh no all right moving on to item number nine which is a report from the ad hoc strategic planning committee uh is there anything further to report uh from the committee i i i know you're looking at me because i've reported in the past but um since i didn't make the last meeting i'm going to well to tell you the truth tom be too without everything 180 degrees actually actually tom you'll be very pleased to know that we went into some more details and came up with some great ideas so but i don't think anything to report yet to the the rest of the board uh because of course we want to hear first what you say we wouldn't dare to pass anything to the board just in terms of the schedule how many more meetings are planned does it i think i think it was through the end of april so that will be two more in april great then we can expect to hear the the grand uh finale excellent excellent we'll look forward to um oh fantastic oh inverse we can make a video yes with rsvp right report um great okay well we can uh move unless there's anything else on that we can move on to item number 10 which is the summaries from the border-treat subcommittees i understand that we do have a report back from our library subcommittee director of driscoll i'm very pleased to tell you that um we're moving along very well on the partnership between ctv and the public library earlier in the month um director hall director rand and i met with three members of and i will get to her and i'm with three members of the uh of the library staff marketing and uh people who are doing technical uh instruction for both the staff and the public and we were joined by becker and uh we just talked about what might be possible what kinds of cooperative things we could do together it um went very well the staff was very excited about it and becker invited them to come here to get a little tour they did that last week they came back very excited and they said which we do next and i said well let's keep going so they've already called another meeting that will include the library director and we're going to get down to nitty gritty and details i'm very excited they were very impressed with you and very pleased with the tour you gave them and what you told them oh well they had the tour was actually given by ian berry our coordinator as i was booked the day they wanted to come but he knows all about it so yeah he had a good he he gives a good tour i'm glad they enjoyed it great yes they did so we're moving right along excellent that's great news all right well thank you um so we heard about the uh our first equipment lease which was in the works and here the report on that yeah finally i mean i know there's been progress progress progress can you update this well they picked out their equipment and um we put together a lease and then um uh bobby has been out of town so we have to get back together and look at it together but we've um the we've got the lease in the woods oh my god and what total sum do you think they think about 18 000 dollars it's a good start yeah absolutely so um i'm eager to i attended an event at the resource center for non-violence this past month and and there's some people running around with little cameras you know i think they're with the you know the people running the event but i i couldn't help but looking around at those walls and think wow these would look great with some cameras up there they have a nice sound system they have a great facility so i'd love to um once we get this first one under our belt start um moving on and talking to some of the other venues and Santa Cruz about um what we can do to help them um great and then um we heard about the rsvp which was another one of the committees so that is gonna looks like maybe our first um big success from that last uh board retreat um does anybody else have anything else on item number 10 all right seeing none and we can move on to item 11 which is the oral report from the voluntary advisory committee committee chair reports good um i don't have very much to report this month a because you keep me so busy but uh we will have our next um volunteer advisory committee and next Saturday not this coming but the one after that and we'll review what the committee uh the called the new producer committee is suggesting and then we will take that to the board after that um and other than that we keep doing our programs and and are excited with you know first Friday i mean it's so exciting to see on the first Friday Ian in here and setting things up for the virtual reality thing but i'm very excited that he's going to do the rsvp so i assume we're not doing virtual reality this time but anyway so not too much reported except for we keep moving along excellent excellent well thank you appreciate that and i'm gonna have to ditto you uh because uh the next time is not item 12 the oral report of the board chair and um i actually brought my family here uh my extended family our melded family to the first Friday event we kind of caught the tail end of it and um admired the beautiful artwork out there and got to meet the artist and Ian was very kind to uh we had some six nine and 11 year old with us so um you know virtual reality with cords and things yeah he was very patient uh we didn't break anything thankfully and um i think we might have a virtual reality birthday party in the works uh Ian of course mentioned that the equipment is available for rental so um you're like wow this would make a great uh a great birthday yeah everyone go easy right right then have a birthday cake right after work so um i'm very happy we're doing the first Friday events i'll mention one other one other thing um that uh a letter was set to community tv addressed to me by our representative Anna Eshoo i guess i guess we're not actually in her district oh we are scott's valley oh scott's valley is okay well my street address was not um but um uh anyway so she uh was writing to let us know that she had um written to the FCC chairman and the and the rest of the commission opposing um they had some distressing uh things in the works uh had to do with uh the way we get our funds and cable companies being able to deduct uh the fair value of the um stations so we are definitely hoping that does not go through and i sent a message thanking um representative Eshoo for trying to stand up for us and um voicing her displeasure with that um proposal did you contact uh Carson Panetta's office too in this process i have not i believe you wrote letters yeah and then Keith uh i sent letters earlier and so did the board of supervisors but we still have time to send more letters i got a thing today from the organization that does sort of the trade organization for community television station i sent all the board members oh except for judy you just got it today i didn't send yours but i'll send you one there is a letter already written up that you can sign and they'll identify your um congress member by your zip code and it's really important to do it because they they gave us a list of all the congress people who've been been approached and Eshoo is the only one from california so we need to get from camila heros and uh and we can also get to jimmy panetta also with that same letter so the letter's there all you have to do is a couple of clicks put in your zip code and off it goes and if you want to you can actually send a physical letter but you can do an email real easily so it'd be great if you would all do that and hopefully our members will test the board or also people anybody watching anyone can do it i sent that i i sent an email off to keith and karen who have our membership list so hopefully they can send it out in our in our email list and how big is our email list i don't know it is pretty big yeah i know there are a whole bunch of nonprofits on it yes well one one thing mr chair uh is it too late if we put it on our agenda next time and have the board take action yeah it might be um yeah that's okay i just the letter was from uh 26th of february and it referenced the second reading so uh i'm not sure exactly what the time on okay that's fine i just did you send that on behalf of the board or the ctv okay that's fine i was kind of her to send a letter back to us yeah yeah that was very if somebody wanted to learn more about what the issue is and then send a letter yeah the issue is there the cable companies are trying to rewrite the laws about how we receive franchise fees so they can basically stop giving them to us so so it's really dire so it's important i can i don't have off the top of my head where to contact but i can there a bill anything we could well i could probably figure it out i i sent you a scan of that uh earlier earlier today i scanned the letter and i guess i could have sent it to the whole board but um yeah sorry to bring such a downer to the otherwise a very upbeat meeting but um how is it the fcc or the house of representatives that has to bill well it's i don't think it's an actual bill i think it's and it well i read it's an interpretation of existing law and it's how that how the commission so the fcc is interpreting it so it's um yeah it's a proposal by them though i must admit i'm not a lawyer okay and there are seven thousand letters have gone to congress disapproving uh the proposed rule changes and that's not very many is that is that in the link you sent us in it is yeah okay now all that is in there so i'm not sure how to get this information they're not a bill number here there was a bill number on the thing we sent earlier the in here this i think is a little bit different in any case um regardless of the outcome of that uh hopefully we will find a way to carry on as we have so far in the past and uh but yeah as as many members of the public members of the board members of tv can make the voice heard the better would there one other thing would there be any chance to put a link to that in our website in case people wanted to look it up i can yeah i can ask if i do that i have all sorts of ideas and it doesn't work or do they do it every year no it's they did the last time they did it was in the 80s but there's now a new thing not like an ongoing they've tried before this is a yeah they try different this is a different angle all the time kind of a kind of an ongoing battle unfortunately that's all i have uh for that but um um we can move on to item number 13 which is more happy news so this was uh to approve the actual verbiage of the equipment lease agreements and um the expenditure of funds um i believe it's anything over $10,000 um our executive director must come to the board and seek approval for under $10,000 she can do it at her own discussion so um so hopefully everyone has had a chance to review that because at least i know uh the director to my left has um um were there any questions or comments uh yeah um i um i'm my understanding first off i just want to confirm you we're going to have our attorney look it over yeah okay um it's just going to be a long time before i meet with you again so right and i know we're trying to keep this moving um so uh i i have some sort of minor non substantive things that i don't need to go into but i'm just going to pass those on to becca um and so that when she meets with the attorney she can just look at that and but it would not be changing substantially anything in the lease i guess i'll point out one specific thing which is in 10 which is the lessers indemnification there's a line that i think needs to be clear where it says just going from one page to the next where it says lisi shall assume the setting settling of and the defense of suits or other legal proceedings i think it needs to say defense of any such suit so it's clear that it's referring to the ones in this paragraph with that i'd move approval i have a i do have a question um just it mentions the equipment that um listed in attachment one or something their schedule one how's this was wondering what the equipment was i'm not sure what it is so it's actually it's speakers and it's particular kinds and sizes of speakers i think they're a monitor from the meeting i believe they're monitor speakers they have a really nice front of house sound system um but the monitor speakers that the artists actually hear themselves using are getting older and and some disrepair so i think that's what they wanted to i have the actual model numbers and that sort of thing i haven't listed them here because we haven't okay that's i was just curious if there was video equipment or sound or what and then the the final thing is that under 15 the purchase agreement i wasn't sure exactly if i got what that was i mean i guess they're making their paying lease payments and then at the end of the lease they essentially own it and there's a turnover of a a dollar or something okay yes one thing we talked about and the finance committee as i understand it what's exciting about this is there'll be some new programming we receive from this too yes if you want to mention that yeah yeah well um whenever we do this we need to receive programming back it's part of the way our company works and so uh they have a series of masterclasses in music that they recorded and they're going to give those to us for programming and then um as as they go along and when it's possible they'll record artists for you know as long as the artist will let them and uh uh so a lot of musical artists won't allow themselves to be recorded for television but sometimes they'll let you do two songs or something like that so they have the camera equipment already they do have a camera so they have one camera one camera they have one and a really good sound system and really good audio recordings they get multi-channel audio recordings or anything so yeah so it's nice programming about music that we don't have now and hopefully over the um five years they have it we'll be able to develop some other kinds of programming any equipment that they're leasing from us does enhance yes yeah it enhances the experience for the artist so that they can hear better what they're doing i did not realize that the kawamba had masterclasses in music yeah and the interesting thing is we've been looking for a venue to do when this artist Daryl Sturmer is coming because he's going to be playing at the kawamba but he's restricted from from doing anything commercial outside and so Keith and I have been racking our brains for how we can get more benefit we could get him to do a kawamba masterclass and give it to you we're thinking how can you do it here in our studio we don't have but he can actually do one for kawamba there and we can help bring some of our trainees to it and then it can come back as one of our yeah content so you have just solved the problem Keith and I have been raking art excellent excellent cool great it's all teamwork yeah um are there any further any further comments or questions from members of the board there was emotion right was there emotion right i i i moved okay and was there a second it was very moving but did i hear a second i'm doing this now i second oh okay director izan kanzala seconds okay i'll call the question all those in favor please indicate indicate by saying i hi any opposed all right carries you not honestly great that is wonderful news all right um so uh do we have any announcements from members of the board and we've got first friday coming up um oh sorry and i thank you secretary uh well that's my job to make sure you do number i was checking them off before but i i was like i know you did number 13 now we have number 14 i think 14 is unlucky so i just want to do any board members or members of the staff any requests for specific items to appear on the next meeting agenda um i don't see any all right so now we can move on to item 15 absolutely which is announcements um if the board doesn't have anything further i will take this opportunity to thank our all volunteer crew who make this possible um today they are richard dussell philharmonic nick kirkendall linda jenakis keith gudger and karen scott so thank you all very much for coming here today um and do we have another announcement no i just like to make a move to adjourn this meeting oh i didn't i didn't call the item yet item number 16 is adjournment is there a motion for we have a motion is there a second second are we have a motion and a second um all those in favor please say hi hi any opposed all right we are adjourned thank you very much