 Happy Holidays Welcome to the CCTV channel 17 holiday party. I'm here with mark perkel and we're so glad to welcome you here this evening to channel 17 Hello to all our friends out there, especially our friend David who I saw in the co-op today who said he loves channel 17 so much So I hope he's out there watching. How are you mark? I'm doing well. I really miss this Organization I served on the board for I think close to 10 years or something like that And I mentioned that when I left we had just decided to help this organization called Good the common good Vermont get started and it's like is it gonna do any good? What and now look at what it's done It's helped so many nonprofits that I'm familiar with that can't say I'll run into someone will go This is such a great organization So and I just love the work you do so I had to come by for a minute and just say hi for Old times besides we each have the same birth day September 27th That's right. We do so yeah common good Vermont is one of CCTV's projects along with channel 17 town meeting TV We've had a bit it's been a big year for us a lot of coverage of the BT issue in Burlington Yes, yes, and and we've got coming up in 2018. We have two elections. We have a town meeting election and a Actually a primary election and a general election, so we'll be covering those And we miss you so much. Thank you so much for being with us. You're so welcome. Okay. Thank you Thanks, everybody support this wonderful organization. We're gonna give out some awards. Thanks Mark We're gonna give out some awards I just wanted to say today December 14th is also an important day because the FCC just voted on a 3-2 vote to basically strike down net neutrality provisions of the FCC and forces and So I spent the morning making these awards and listening to the FCC And I have to say This will go to the court So of course the issue of communications policy basically goes from the FCC to the courts to Congress and back It's a constant cycle. So it's not a great day for For free speech and open networks, but the fight continues And so we're just gonna have some fun and I have Kim Vilmaire Kim Vilmaire is here and Kim Vilmaire is one of our star staff people here channel 17 Kim Thanks for coming tonight and thanks for all that you do to program channel 17 and keep us running in so many ways What's your favorite thing about what you do here? I like seeing all The people who come in that we can help I Really like a job that I can really get behind Philosophically and not feel like I'm helping to destroy the planet. It's more like I'm really helping people Try to make the world a better place Which is a really good place to be and there's a lot of like little things you can do that like I shared your video on VMX look who downloaded it out of state and it's like yes awesome and just like little things that help Well, you do a lot of little things which add up to some really great programming and you know The whole channel depends on the decisions that you make and you just are a wonderful Colleague and we're so glad to be working with you So we have a little free speech champion award for you this year and we're just really glad Let's have a look at that pretty little award. Isn't that nice? Yes, and we're just really grateful to be working with you So, thank you so much All right, go have some fun eat some shrimp All right, I just also would like to give a shout out to our friends Who are watching everyone who supports channel 17 town meeting television and of course our sister? Organizations v. Caminari TN that run the educational and public access channels And you know we have another award winner who's behind the camera, and that's Aiden white and Aiden Let me see if I can find your award here. It is come on come on back here and Thank you so much. You've been working with us for how for how long now About three Months, I think so and how and why do you like working at CCTV and channel 17? I think it's just an amazing organization that or That does nothing else like Any other station as in getting involved with the community as much as channel 17 does Just even starting to work here seeing all the people That just pass through and all the relationships That you see through here and just being able to involve local communities like we do Daily is a pretty amazing thing We're so glad you're here working with us So we've given you the jumping into the fray award because you really you just come and just gotten right into it And we couldn't be happier to be working with you. So thank you Good so you'll be seeing more of Aiden in the months and years ahead. Thank you so much He's also running the camera in addition to getting awards. There's Charlie Giannone. Charlie come on over. Oh Charlie Giannone How are you Lauren? You're so incorrigible. You do this every year Well, you are Enduring so you get an award almost every year and this year is the ear to the street award Because you've come up with some great programming that we might not have known about unless you were paying attention Yeah, well, I keep my eyes open and when I think it's something of interest I I bring it up and sometimes they say yes. Sometimes they say no Well, it's great And you know you were on the ground with the BT the BTab group for a couple years there Weren't you covering that? Yeah, whenever they had a meeting we showed up. Sometimes it was a 99% executive session which is occasionally what happens, but There were some very informative and constructive meetings early on in the early years So it was important to get those on tape. So, yeah, well, thank you for that And most recently you covered the progressive caucus. Is that right or you gave us the idea to cover the progressive caucus, right? No, I covered that one as well. Yeah I've probably covered the progressive caucus probably about eight out of the last 10 or 12 years plus the democratic caucus And even one or two republican ones. They they're not very communicative, but occasionally I will get a call back and say, hey You know, maybe we should get that recorded So it's always good to go to the caucuses to see how many people are there and what they're talking about and Get it on film and get it broadcast as we always do. So Well, thank you so much. Yeah, I hope that I remember a couple years their publicans had it in there Someone's living room. It was pretty small But maybe they're getting a little more robust and we'll have a public caucus this year back when that's what the progressives would do I remember going to some progressive caucuses back in the 90s And it would be like terry and bean and carina and mark and I Way back when and we'd vote on these little pieces of paper For nominating people for for something or another so That's how a lot of these things go in burlington, you know, you do it in people's homes So, well, thank you so much for having your ear to the street. I appreciate this. I'll put this on my mantle. Thank you Thank you so much charlie Yeah, we're really very happy to have such wonderful field producers here at channel 17 and of course it's beautiful fire It's beautiful fire. This is with this way now Alex is directing but he's also getting an award and I wanted to maybe we could just good He'll come right out here. Alex levine He um is our new Our new production coordinator or channel coordinator alex welcome. There you are. Hi Nice to see you. Am I on tv right now? I think you're on tv right now And we're giving you the taking up the gauntlet award the gauntlet the gauntlet. But wait a minute Aren't nonprofits doing great and everything's going to be fine from here on out, right? As long as we have free speech and as long as you're helping open the doors to local government, we're going to be fine You got it. So, thank you so much. Love you We're so grateful for all your work. Thanks. He's getting back to work. Okay Kathleen come on over here girlfriend You know, Kathleen swanson has been working with us in the development capacity, but all around Fantastic party planning years for nine years. Can you believe that that was fast? Yes, but fun But fun and we do all kinds of great work here and now more than ever With all the issues that are going on and we have so many great supporters who believe in our mission and the mission of making the community a better place by Free speech and access to information Information is power and we all Need that more than ever because there is no fake news at channel 17 That's true. And we um, we have a goal that raised $50,000 this year We do we do and we're getting there, but we would love um for people We can go to our website at channel 17 or cctv.org and push on the Donate now button and we'd be happy to Take your money and help with our cause. Yes. Well, thank you so much. All right, great So glad to have Kathleen Working with us to help bring the dollars in so some of the projects we're doing Is a pretty massive archiving project right now We have about 30 000 pieces of media in our stacks and we're in the process of digitizing the content from 1984 between 1984 and 1996 And we have hired a person actually we have some volunteer people that we may be able to hire to help us do this work So that's one of the big projects that we're working on. So we're so glad that um Kathleen's helping us raise the money. We've got two of our beautiful interns here. Come on over here Okay, I'm gonna find you We've got hope and we have Tara Wonderful. So thank you so much for all the work you've done helping out with common good vermont Thank you. It's been great working here. I've had a good time really enjoyed it Well, if it's been a pleasure, you're both incredibly capable and hope of course got a real job after being an intern here, didn't you? Oh, yes. Well, I'm serving for americor for a year. So I'm technically not allowed to say that I'm working, but yeah Well, I would call that a real job. Yeah, it's wonderful. This definitely was a good stepping stone for me to get there So and so it's with mobius. It's with mobius. Yeah Mobius is vermont's mentoring partnership So we provide resources and funding to one-to-one adult youth mentoring programs across the state Tara, what are you doing next semester? Um, I don't really have any plans. Yeah, I'm still taking classes I'm a junior. So still got a little bit of time left. But um, yeah, we'll just see I feel like I'll probably come in here a bit and volunteer and just hang out. So yeah, we'll see Yeah, nobody works the phone like you Pretty good. Thank you. I know it's a great skill. Hope. Thank you so much You both hope and Tara get the can did award for willingness to accept and meet all kinds of challenges So we're really grateful for your time and uh, so valuable and it's been just really delightful Thank you And here's beautiful morgan webster who will have come join us morgan runs common good vermont And she is the one that um cultivates and takes care of the intern Do a little bit of everything here at common good vermont and supporting cctv and channel 17 as well So what's coming up for 2018 and common good vermont? So we have a busy season coming up First off we have our work life balance series. This will be the second annual We'll be talking about quite a few topics related to work life balance Mostly, how do you build a culture of work life balance balance and wellness at your nonprofit organization? Which I think we all can relate to in terms of its importance And then after that we have our annual legislative day in montpelier Followed by our finance friday series in march And then we have the annual day of giving coming up in may so a very busy year It's going to be great. So the legislative day is the 20th of february Yes, it will be and we'll start up about eight o'clock in the morning We'll have a full day of activities and we're looking forward to a busy and full house Well, thank you for all the work that you've done to become a good vermont on the map. Thank you morgan Thank you lauren glenn Okay, morgan webster is the director of common good vermont and common good vermont helps nonprofits to be more effective It's one of the projects that cctv put together really in a way to build a statewide network And also to help organizations and activists to be more effective We figured it's great to put the means of media production into your hands But if you don't have a story to tell and you're not being as effective and efficient as you can be Well, then what is there to say? So that's why we started common good vermont and it's started in 2008 Supported by many many organizations and funders and we're just so grateful for that work too It's a big gratitude day for us here at channel 17 and cctv. So we have some other Some other Awards jason would be getting one of them jason pellet jay who is on our board I would like to say just a word about mike macnamara who has been the chair of the cctv board for many many years and a producer of Maybe more than a hundred programs at least a hundred programs if not more I I could um Come here And so we're just so glad mike could not be with us today But he has served on our board and we have been so appreciative of what he has done for cctv And we wish both he and ida the very very best emily Welcome. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. Tell us a little bit about the programs you've been producing here at channel 17 Well, there's two one is a little bit in dormant not dormancy latent quietness. Yeah, I guess it's in hibernation so um The the show that i'm doing most often are the sort of project is the bridging program students I coordinate a program for high school students with disabilities. It's run out of shampoos community services It has students from five area high schools in chitenden county And they go through they're all in high school, but a lot of their peers have moved on so the whole idea is That we assist them in getting out into the community in really meaningful ways So they're working through three different learning sessions and when they're working on community connections They come here learn about channel 17 and then come back and make a show And so the show generally sort of shares who they are what they're working on things. They've already done They often use an app called pigtello, which they've used to chronicle other places. They've been it often features A photograph that they've made with of themselves with um of their sort of group with dan higgins So it's this photoshopped funny cool photo So just is a great way for the kids to celebrate who they are be on on camera Be sort of separate from the usual support staff that work with them and be telling their story. So again and again This collaboration with manganore is just dynamite and i'm really excited about the most recent one because the kids wanted to do tricks And it has lots of tricks where people fly in people get snapped in people disappear Set pieces arrived so So that's that show and then the other thing is um mark udder Has a show called the uddering mind and he's a man who types to communicate So the the irony that mangan was like oh, he should have a talk show So he interviews people Um around a whole variety of issues. So we're Yeah, I love those shows and I love the shows with the students. It's really they're very moving and it's they just Light right up when they get here on the set. They do they do Exactly Yeah, so thank you. It's just such a wonderful thing And you also have a new project newish project. You have this beautiful little stand where you do fairy card readings. Is that right? Yeah, so I have a fledgling business called bluebird fairies Which is based on a drawing technique that I created using my other hand and drawing originally it was drawing my demons And thinking of antidotes for them and then it has evolved into new drawing fairies And they're very light-hearted and they're really But they're earnest the the tagline is earnest little drawings that help you do big things Because I they sort of help you connect in with yourself and then find ways to be sort of lighter So you can get up and change the world So maybe you could come into that with the staff here. That'd be so neat. I would love to do that Yeah, that'd be great. Yeah, all right. Thank you Emily so much for all your work in the community Thank you So will you bring carl over? He's right there. Yep So, um, once again, we're here at the cctv channel 17 party and we're here with carl jiggs carl How are you fine fine? Thank you. I have a little award for you I do It's the comeback kid award That's a fact It's uh, it was a long year It was but you're back and you're helping out just as never before. Oh great. Well, I hope so Tell us um, maybe tell the folks at home why you think the work we're all doing here is so important Especially today with trump and other people if I can use that word And with the end of net neutrality, I don't I don't even know where that's going to lead us So all these things combined seem to be a lot of pressure on on what we're trying to do Which is inform people of the truth and what's going on around them and have them be able to interact with their representatives and people in a in a positive and meaningful way That sums it up beautifully put so when you were on your little break. Were you watching channel 17? Yeah, occasionally. I wasn't watching much of anything most of the time I did some reading and uh, a lot of thinking but uh, yeah I was going to ask how did it look? Oh, it looked good Oh, it looked good. Yeah. Yeah, I've got a new high def tv So I want to see how we look now. Oh, well with our standard def with the standard def quality I was this upscale so it should should improve it. That'll be good. Yeah Well comcast actually doesn't really want to give us high def channels As you know, yeah, or put us on the interactive program guide as you know Yeah, I got my four page list of price increases from them the other day. Yes We get our internet through them and uh, everything's going up. Well, maybe that'll mean more money for public access Right It's just more money for their lawyers to fight us. Exactly. Well, you know, we spent $150,000 on that public service board case And now they're in federal court Fighting us which is another project we're working on in 2018. Really insane when you think of it It really is. Yeah, but they don't want anyone to tell them what to do as a company and you know in Goliath It is. Yeah, so hopefully the attorney generals Defending the case and They've hired a lawyer. Um, who's very Favorable to public access. So I think I think these issues have state support strong state support. I hope so Yeah, so we'll see. Thank you for my award. Thank you for everything Thanks. Okay. Thanks Carl Carl first started here with his son was volunteering. We were um, it was the 90s It was the mid 90s that Carl was here and uh, he's been here ever since with us steve. Welcome steve norman How are you? I'm fine. Thanks. You are um, you know, you're on the earliest mailing list of cc Yeah, I was at the organizational meeting in the winewski and uh, can I keep coming back? Well, you are a deep defender of free speech. There's no question In any language English, french Uh, yep. Yep bilingual burlington. That's one of the one of the things these days Actually, we're going to be doing a program here in 10 days two weeks, um Fabrice Jomon a uh an expert on bilingual immersion education in elementary grades is going to be here He's just published a book on the subject and he'll be here talking And we're trying to get a live audience in for the show and And uh, Megan said she would investigate live streaming on facebook while we do it. So, um, yeah, i'll be i'll be We'll get some cocktails and they'll all come Uh, I I said and I sent out the email today and I said refreshments would be served Fabulous. So what's your opinion on the vote in Montreal to go from bonjour high to just bonjour? and and The legis I'm just really curious about legislating language. It's so too interesting Well, they have a history with that and um, and it hasn't always been uh, pretty it's um I Seems pretty silly to me And if they want to say bonjour high in montreal and the rest of the you know, the the rest of the province Quebec city and frau revier and all the smaller towns Don't need to do it because they don't have the english-speaking clientele. Don't do it. Um But and I don't think anybody's really taking it that seriously in montreal But it certainly has a lot had a lot of publicity So it was in a kebek ruling or a it was a kebek ruling a provincial ruling. Yeah And really interesting. Well, it's much all could not be friendlier It really is a wonderful place to visit. Just was there for lunch the other day. I just loved it. Well There are more french native french speakers Within two hours of us right here than native english speakers by at least a million maybe two million More people. So I think we should uh Have more bilingual signage here in town. We have a little but it we've wasted a lot of opportunities and Seven years ago almost six and a half years ago the city council unanimously approved the resolution saying We should have more bilingual signage. We should encourage the private uh enterprise to Be as bilingual as possible and we should all uh teacher We should all our kids should learn some french at least In uh in the public schools Um So that's what the program next week is uh on the 27th is going to be about So we'll look forward we'll look forward to that and thank you for all your activism over these many years and support For the work that we do here. Thank you. Thanks lauren glenn See you later. Okay So we're here um at the cctv channel 17 holiday party. We're so glad that you could join us Um, we're not taking calls tonight because it's a little loud But we really are happy that you're watching and you're part of the channel 17 family And uh, we have we have a new we have a new guest here. Awesome. I think it's tina Oh, we've got a song. We've got five minutes and we've got a song. Hello Do we have a we have a little song today. It's a carol. It's a christmas carol my pulse my where which is against trump Yeah Trumpy the red face liar Love to give the millionaires go So he gave them a big tax break tax break and fell the people in the All the other Republicans Hated women queers and people of color Mcconnell ryan and rome More gold do anything for mine once now in christmas if the people came to say Trumpy with your life so bright you won't survive another night Then how the people rose up rose up as they shouted out with glee with glee Bye bye republican party Party party. We are here to restore democracy for being such an activist. Thank you Channel 17 we have all views and all comers And so we welcome you here with any opinion that you've got that you'd like to share with the community In word or in song we'd be just blessed to have you join us here because everyone is welcome So thank you so much for watching. Helen really Come on over. Helen really is on the channel 17 trustees. She also Is the president of the city council in south burlington. Welcome. Well, thank you for having me Beautiful and red. Well, yeah christmas. It used to be my mother. So it's Yeah, I sort of wear it at christmas time to help me remind Me of her. Yeah Yeah, it is sweet. So thank you so much for your help on the channel 17 trustees and representing south burlington Well, you're very welcome. You do a real service to the public So how's it been to have those meetings live is up and have you heard back from people? The south burlington city council meeting. Yeah, yeah, no, I think there's a lot of people that listen And we do get feedback and that's great. And I don't think it's stopped the um No, the the dialogue at all. It's almost as if I mean charlie's great. So it's almost as if he's not there. So I think Um democracy and conversations occur as they should and uh, you know You think about when you watch congressional hearings and there's the speeches and everything is and it's Very different when you get down to local Local politics and local democracy. So it's nice. Well, you're doing your work You still are doing your work. You just are alive now. You've opened the doors even farther to the city government That's fantastic. You deserve a lot of credit for supporting that. Well, thank you We probably should get the courts to open up too. That's I think they're trying it's been many years Yeah, yeah, and I think people were concerned that it would change how Things are presented, but I don't know it hasn't on this local level, but it certainly Does in congress Well, we've been glad as channel 17 to be able to go live with these city council and select board meetings this year That was one of our goals. It took us a year extra, but we got there. So yeah, well, thank you so much, Helen Well, you're so welcome. Thank you for all that you do. Thank you. It's a pleasure. Happy holidays. Happy holidays I want to thank everybody so much for watching. We um, we have a couple other awards I'll just tell you about jason pellet jay the guide by the side award. He's on the Cctv board. He's really helped bridge The relationships with the other channels and with the channel 17 trustees We have the mic mac namara devotion to the cause award mic. We miss you And we appreciate everything that you have all the gifts that you have brought to us here and then jeffrey tacky who has been covering the brilington city council meetings and uh, he Gets the trial by fire award for the bt coverage I don't think he expected that he would be covering six seven hour meetings when he signed on for this And then finally the board of keep bt local the berlington first award A group of citizens who really felt it was important to keep bt as open and public as possible and they worked very hard and I know they will continue to do so So thanks all of you for joining us have a blessed blessed holiday season And much love from all of us here at channel 17 town meeting television cctv and common good vermont. Good night