 Okay, and I will call the October meeting of the community television to Santa Cruz to order. It's 501. Will the secretary call the roll. Yes, sir. I'm here. Director Masiar's present director hall here, director manhain here, director O'Driscoll here, director Shaw, director Godger here, director Granados. Director Warren here. Oh, okay. There she is. Okay. Note for the record that director Granados has joined us. Hi Christina. So move on to oral communications. Any person may address the board during its 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. Seeing none. We have consideration of late additions to the agenda additions and deletions to the consent and regular agenda. I'll just note, note that there's been a request for my Keith for some information it'll just come under announcements. We don't really need to put it on the agenda but we'll have it under announcements. So we'll move on to the consent agenda and I'll, I'll note that item number four we've added. This is kind of a procedural item, just under Robert's rules of order, really we should approve the meeting agenda as, as we move forward. I'll move the consent agenda and I'll say just two words on the finance committee report. So that's an item there and then we have approved board meetings of September 27, 2021, and approve the finance committee, just hot off the presses finance committee recommendation to accept September 2021 financial reports. So that's the consent agenda and I'll say just two words on the finance committee report to give everybody a little background. I'll second. Okay. We have a motion by director hall and a second by director, director, director hall. So far our finances are doing well the office space rentals are a little behind but other income is going up so so far this year we're, we're coming along pretty well so that was basically the sum total of a half hour discussion at the finance committee meeting today so I just wanted to give you a brief update and that and we have two fine other members plus our chair and they look at these reports in great detail and we have a great accountant so it's nice to be in a position to know we're we're being responsible and at this point we're being fiscally sound. Thank you. I just had a quick question and I probably could have asked Google but um, you know, I used to look at when I first joined the board I used to look at the finance reports a lot more closely and then I joined the finance committee and saw how closely the finance committee people were looking at the financial so then I realized I don't need to look at them so closely now that I'm not on the finance committee, but I was just looking over them today and there was a mention of a CDAR. I guess what a CDAR is. Becca can explain it but I could too but she's the one that does the CDARs. Joe is better than me he led me down the garden path to CDARs he and Keith. The insurance that you can get when you put money in the bank is only your money is only insured up to $250,000 so we have more than that. So what we do is we put them that money in in a vehicle or an instrument I guess they call it called a CDAR and that and that is it's a CD that's registered at a different bank. So the money doesn't have to. We don't have to have a bunch of bank accounts at different banks so that we have $250,000 in each bank. We just have it in CDARs that way we can control them at our current bank, and, and we do we watch the interest and try to get some. And so they, they mature pretty quickly because I'm always afraid to have them locked into some low amount and suddenly things get better. So we, we have a couple of them. That's where our savings is basically. And so they're then FDIC insured each as they don't exceed 200. Okay. Thank you so much. Okay. Great. So did we have, I guess we have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda. I guess we have a vote. We need to call the roll or can we just do a voice. I think for consent we can do voice. Okay. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All right. Approved unanimously. Okay, let's move to the regular agenda and we'll start out with the executive director's report, a copy of which is in your packet. Becca. Yeah, so I'm going to give you my report and I have added some things since I wrote it because more things came to mind than I thought you might like to know about so there's some additions here. And also there was a blank. I was waiting for information that didn't come. And I fired off my report with a question mark in it. So I'll get to that. Under administration in staff we are hiring a new video technician. So if you know of anybody, let them know we are looking for a new, a new person we had a staff member depart and so we're filling that spot. We are now it's great we're able to do all of our government meetings, including the board of supervisors with one operator for a while we were using to because the zoom part was so tricky. And once we start doing hybrid meetings which are sort of a zoom meeting within a live meeting now or it's like a Venn diagram of meetings. And that was really tricky but we've got it ironed out now and the county is doing a lot of their own zoom activity we still do the we still set the meetings up for them, and use our account for the recordings but they man them themselves so they're they've gotten really good at it so we don't have to have an operator back them up. And that's great for us that is a big move forward and under revenue. We just ended the first quarter of our fiscal year and I'm happy to say that we earned 26% of our annual budget so 1% over. So, we only spent 22% of our annual budget for expenses so a little bit under there so all even out in the end but it's good first quarter I want to let you know that because Joe mentioned that we're not doing as well as we like in the working center but we're making up for it with our captioning service and our, our meeting service and our other like not production but documentation service. So we're, we're, we're doing fine. Our, the co-working center in fiscal year 2020 2021 did pretty well and actually earned 112% of its projected budget. So that that is good. And hopefully that'll be the outcome of this year and next month we'll have full numbers for the whole organization for the fiscal year we just don't have the year and numbers put together quite yet. And the co-working center the break even number is $10,000 a month it's back up now, and in September we earned 91 so a little bit under but like I said we're making it up in other categories. Underpaid services we did 18 government meetings that's the surprise magic number that you didn't get. We did do a paid production. It was someone who wanted to, who did an event on their own about fire safety and got the fire department to come and talk and apparently it was a great event I've heard from friends who went to it. It was a great event and Victor and his team have it live streaming, and then later we put it on television so so it was a good event and it was good information to give to the community. And it was one of, we're able to do live streaming from outside the building now so that's a that's a really good thing that Victor and his team have done a really good job putting that together and making it work. And things in progress that we have going on our, we have a fiscal sponsorship that I've mentioned before we're getting closer on doing that we've got all the documents ready and we're about to sign off so that'll be a good first project for us it's not huge. And it's easy, it's within easy control for Mel, and you know this is a good beta test for us on this make sure we have all our ducks in a row under facilities and equipment. We are working on the installation for the new telecast equipment, most of it we have now, and we are doing me weekly meetings. And we expect to be done by the end of the year. And it's not there's a lot of exciting stuff happening now we're just planning one of the things they're working on is the trends. The migration they call it of all of the content we have now from one. platform from the Telview platform which is connect in the cloud to to the new thing that we'll be using and that's being coordinated now Victor's doing most of the work but we have other another engineer backing him up. And they I spoke to them about that this morning and they, they, they see no problems. In July we started inspecting all of our equipment that we rent and that members use, and we've been repairing and replacing things and now by now by this time and by September we got through all of the camera kits and all of the tripods. And we're now working on microphones. And we had 30 tripod so it's not it sounds like we haven't done much but we have a lot of equipment under building security we've had another break in of our storage container. The burglar took a bunch of cables probably thinking that there was copper in them sometimes that happens. The security company did not see it. And, although they recorded it, but the way the cameras work they only see a flash if somebody's moving and to them it didn't look like anything serious. So we've spoken with them and we're working on a new plan to make it to make our area more secure we're going to be moving around some cameras that are pointing at things that are not that important. And that's kind of an ongoing process we're also entertaining possibly a gate at the front or a fence around the place that would allow people to come in with their father that lets them in the door would open the gate they could come through at night during the day the gate would be open of course. And then, and there are some possible other ideas of maybe having a patrol for a short time at night just to get the word out that there's somebody there. There is another system where we could actually speak to people. But the company is hesitant to do that because there are apartments around us, and it's apparently is really loud. So we are going to continue to pursue ideas and I think we're going to talk to, I'd like to talk to a consultant and just get a really good look at our building the vulnerabilities, you know how and and what exactly is feasible what can we do because a fence you know some people think that people just hop over a fence. And my thought is, it's a deterrent people, people now I think are just free to walk into our building and look around and see what there is and if they then they find something and try to take it or try to harm it. And if they couldn't walk in, then they wouldn't know it would be worth hopping over that fence. And see Larry's hands up. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah. Was was the break in this inside the building or outside the building outside we have a big okay I just wanted I heard you say coming into the building and I was a little confused so have we have have all the break ins been outside in the storage container. It's yeah the break ins have been in the storage container we did have a trailer that was parked back there that was one of our employees had a grip truck that was parked back there and that was broken into but nothing inside everything's been outside. I've never been able to get in but they have caused plenty of damage outside not only that but they've broken into our fiber connection they broken into our electrical box they took the battery out of our generator, they turned off the water to the building, then they turned on water and just let it run all night so there's lots of mischief, in addition to that. And so we're, I'm going to continue to work on that and and I'll keep you apprised as we go forward, and you'll probably have to vote on some of the things. So, there are nothing's happening yet. You'll certainly be involved. We had more loss this month as we had a local nonprofit rented some equipment for an event and the event turned out to be a not a very safe place. And I guess traditionally it was but things changed as the homeless camps moved around and all the equipment she rented was taken. And so that that organ is that I've been working with them and they will pay for the equipment. And then we also one of our youth grants. Someone stole 12 of the 25 iPads that we lent them, and they will pay for those as well so will, we haven't lost anything but it just kind of sad that those things happened. And all that equipment has been replaced we went ahead and replaced it, and we'll be paid back for it soon. Director Laurent has a question again. Yeah, sorry. This happens to hit a little close to home here too. So, do we do you have anything on the iPads to any software to disable their use or because these are grant ones we don't do things we don't like to do. I think I've just investigated that with Apple with having something like that on them they have find my iPad on, but the real heavy duty like wipe them clean from a distance stuff is just way expensive and very intricate and takes almost another person to run it and I when I Yeah, very much so I just didn't know I mean I think if they if they what we have for internal things but I think with the grant stuff it could be a little difficult. But it is the one thing that we have that we did was the iTunes the iPads don't have anything on them. There's no, no cool stuff except for they have I movie on which is a free app, but to get anything else on you need to have the Apple ID. And they have an Apple ID and I just changed it so Apple knows they're owned by somebody else. So, but, you know, they're probably, they will, they were probably hacked. I could tell that they never came on because my iPad will tell me someone just turned on your iPad and Gilroy or whatever. And so I know so I think they quickly were spirited out of the county and somebody probably hacked them and cleaned them off. But, yeah, we don't have a lot of recourse there to track them down. Sadly, we have find my iPad but that's it. So the last thing on. Oh, I've got a couple of things there's the last thing on the, the report that you have from me is outreach and we did kind of a synopsis report to the county about our youth grant program because we've added a couple of parts to it. There are some new Board of Supervisors members some new supervisors that didn't know about the program so we put together a document to tell them what we're doing and how how it evolved. And then we also I met with digital nest, a couple of times because they are interested in a new grant, but our studio grant as it was doesn't seem to be relevant now. So I'm talking to them about what kinds of things they do with the equipment and what kinds of productions they're trying to do and maybe changing the things the pieces in that grant I'm going to talk to some other. I'm going to talk to Joel Domhoff and also Watsonville High School, there's a new teacher there and see how they're using it and what they could use because I think it's five years, you know stuff changes and we should just be reviewing that and make sure that the grant is really that the kids get jobs in the future. We don't want them to work with equipment that doesn't make sense. And the final thing I wanted to add in the area of grants is that we had the animation grant is going and it is at the library and I don't have information much information about it right now because this is a September report so everything that happens in October will you'll hear about next month but one thing that was interesting came up that Keith got a note from some from a senior who said that she was sad that the program was only for kids and could we do one for seniors. And that's something we might want to consider the diff the thing that we would need to do if that was something that we wanted to do be talk to the county because the money that we do have that we have money to do that grant but it's earmarked for students. And if the if the gears already at the library and the students have already used it for that week I don't know why we couldn't let seniors use it but I think we need to, we probably need to talk to the county and see what they think, and Keith has some thoughts about that as well. And that's the end of my report. All right, thank you. Yeah, I would like to get the board's feeling about this we have a specifically have a youth grant program equipment aimed at nonprofits serving you. The grant came in to serves youth at the library. And now there's a request that we serve adults at the library with the same equipment. The equipment will be used starting this month to December, probably January or February at a different branch, and then back at this branch maybe in March or April. So the question I just would like to know a few from the board is if it ends up being okay with our county overseers. How does this board feel about our youth grant being sandwiched in training adults to. So that's my question. Yeah. My feelings are that, you know, as long as the use is not going to take away from the use of the youth right if, if the equipment is available and it's being used as much as the organization can use it for the youth why not use it also for adults and especially, you know, seniors. That would be my feeling to Christina I recognize your hand. Yeah, I was well said I was going to do the same thing and also I think it would be interesting to at least. If that's the case to at least try just to get a feel for what the demand might be there might be other opportunities to expand the grant to provide those services more. I just agree with the last two speakers I think they said it well. You do agree. Yes. It sounds like you said you disagree. I just agree. I agree. Yeah, so one thing I mean I think I think it's great to see what you know for the youth and the young at heart for sure. And, but I do think it'd be interesting to see what kind of demand there is because you could do something at community television if that's the you know moving forward if that's the direction that you know that that might be kind of an entry point for some other people to kind of get more involved in the organization as well. The issue would that be and we might be able to overcome the issue but the library provides a teacher that they pay. Yeah, and we don't have that ability. I mean unless we can get our, we have people on the board who could do that work. But they do a lot of other work so I don't know if we could get board members to volunteer but one thing we don't have is money to pay teachers. Mr. Mannheim. I think it'd be worth talking to our county. Folks and see if they would, if given. We have. We've had the youth grant program now for I'm going to guess it's been four or five years, five years and, and the first two years we had applicants. It's only a limited number of organizations that can take on that role of both, you know, managing the equipment and providing the training that we, we could talk with them and see if they would, how they would feel about changing that grant to be both a, a, it's always been youth organizations or educational organizations and maybe add libraries into that as another sort of organizational institutions within the county that have the capability of both managing equipment and providing some training. And so that they become the library or systems become a part of the program, because there's a lot of money building up in that program right now. So you're saying we put them in the libraries and let anyone could use them, not just use. Yeah, I mean I, I, you know, there may be, leave it up to the libraries to prioritize times for use for kids for for youth versus for adults. But from our perspective leave, you know, have it be that a library system can be another organization that we add into the program. Richard Hall and then Director O'Driscoll. I just wanted to give a plug to the library instructors because they've been doing zoom classes all throughout pandemic and my wife and I have been on a lot of them. And I've learned a lot and there's maybe 20 people or so on each of the calls I don't think I've seen one in a while. But they do have the ability and their instructions are very good and they're very patient with people who are learning. Janice. I was just going to back up what everyone is saying the library has been doing this for a number of months. The people that are doing the training right now are skilled and actually public libraries think that they are educational institutions. It would be good to name them precisely, but yes. Yeah, great. Keith. Just to point out a small point here that the actual grant organization in this case is the friends of the Santa Cruz Public Library. And that this is being offered is what's called community sponsored programming through the library. And there's a little bit of confusion right now as to how the community is going to sponsor programming so this is sort of a test to see how the library likes us bringing in this kind of training. I think it's going to go well I mean I'm working hard to make sure that everybody involved knows what's going on. But if that's that's where the money to play an instructor would come from. I want to point out that one of our directors who's not here Elizabeth has volunteered to teach this first class and it's not being compensated. So I don't think it's what I mean I have to ask her but I don't feel it's fair to her in the long run to just keep piling more on to her. She's a very busy person. So I've already spoken with the president of the capital chapter of the friends of the library and they're also interested in possibly doing an adult class. So if we need an instructor for adults, I think we can get that covered that way. And then, as I mentioned before, I think it's going to the salva in the beginning of the year and if we need to pay an instructor they're also willing to pay an instructor. So this is a learning experience I hope it goes well it starts Saturday and I'm nervous. There's a lot of things that are new here. And we're going to hope that they all work because if they do then the library will be happy and we'll have more of these programs the friends will be happy and hopefully community TV will be happy. Just as another note, if you go to the class sign up on the library website the first thing it says this program is made possible by a grant from community television, and the friends of the Santa Cruz Public Library. Very, very nice. Good branding. Becca. Yeah, there's one thing that we, if we work with the libraries and I think that's a great idea because they can, they can check out equipment and they can. They can train. We in whenever we grant equipment to any place they have to give us back content. So it would have to be a program where the library was teaching and kids made things or adults made things and then we put them on television. So there were and they ought to be fabulous things, or even very long, but, but they need to be like, you know, a minute or something each, each student would turn out a minute a video that we would upload as a part of our program but the only way we can do the granting of equipment is by getting programming and exchange. That's fair. That's great. Yeah, I think that's a fair, fair trade. Any other comments on this subject good discussion. Thank you. Becca and we'll move on to the Education Committee report. I will recognize David Warren, I think, or Keith. Well, a lot happened during our meeting. Keith and I. Essentially, the more important thing I think is is that I spoke with Jason Borg and at the COE, he's the chief technology and innovation officer. And he was, he's very interested in partnering with community TV. And Elizabeth has made an appointment for us to speak on Friday. Get together. And it's, I think it's all very a positive thing. And he might like to apply for one of the future pieces so that he can learn, they can get people to train others on how to use it. I did some background research on community colleges across the country. And basically, with a few exceptions, most of those community colleges that were involved in open access TV also combined that with their digital media programs for film and video broadcasting. Some colleges were offering it through journalism. And we thought that that's our avenue with primarily getting a whole new program started is an enormous undertaking and takes a long time. But if we have access through journalism, I think that's a positive thing and we're going to pursue that. I did talk with the head of the journalism department and he is interested. So we'll have to see what works in that regard. And that's kind of it in the nutshell. We're looking forward to this meeting. Also, Nick Abara is their PR officer. He's for marketing at COE and he's interested in streaming from what would be essentially town halls and student vaccine initiatives. So if that's agreeable to everybody else, I will pursue that as well. That's good. That's that's basically it. Any questions or comments. I have a comment. It's just really heartening to sort of hear a focus on reaching out to the educational community and doing more in terms of connecting CTV and our mission with the educational community. I've been on the board for a long time and we've always been aware that it was an area that we could do more in but it's and now it's we're starting to see a focus on it and it's I really appreciate it. Alright, thank you. Moving on to the board chairs comments I will note that director manheim has been on the board for a long time and sadly is going to be leaving us in a couple of months due to term limits. I also would like to recognize them when we when we approve the minutes by a consent agenda those were authored by director manheim and I don't think there's any connection with the fact that he did that and that he's terming out that just happens to happen at the same time so I don't buy it. So, note, we do have an interested party in returning to the board after a year away and we're also have an open spot. So our next meeting will be confirming some new board members can re upping basically some board members and we bringing on a new board member and I think there is an open spot in that large position. So if anyone knows of somebody who might be a good fit and be interested that I guess me and Becca know and we can pursue that. That's the, the gist of my report. I need staff requests or board member requests for specific items to appear on the next meeting agenda. So we will be talking about board people next time. Announcements that Keith I believe you have an announcement. Yes, Becca, handle one of the announcements I had about the fact that adults were interested in the program which was great. One of the things I want to mention is that we did a nonprofit spotlight on the friends of the Santa Cruz Public Library, and our director Janice was the star of the show. And I'm able to report that the board of the friends is very happy with the results. In fact, the board member asked me to come back and excerpt the two minute section they could use for their capital campaign that's ongoing right now. Excellent. So I was happy to do that. We're hoping to get another organization for another nonprofit spotlight this week. And we're trying to schedule with Ferris Seba, an elected spotlight that we're going to kind of morph it's because going to run it as elected spotlight, but hopefully it'll sort of prime the pump for doing some other education related shows, maybe education spotlight maybe something else but I hope to get that done. We were supposed to do that Wednesday but he had to cancel so sometime next week. And that's, that's the announcements I have thanks. Great. Thank you much. Director Masiars. Yes, maybe I should have asked during Becca's report but so I'm just curious about the status of the studio in terms of members volunteers. In the report of the volunteer advisory committee and I know I think last time you mentioned that there was not a whole lot of interest or some interest in some producers of getting back into the studio. What's the current status on that if I may ask at this time. Are you asking Keith. Keith, aren't you the volunteer advisory committee chair, or if either wants to answer I'm just kind of curious. I mean, I, from what I understand is the state no longer has tears listed is that true, but the CDC does and I believe we're still in the orange tier for CDC. So we're going to use that as our requirement we got to be in yellow before the studio is open. And yes, Richard and Phil both want to come back. But hopefully they'll understand that we're not ready to do that just yet. Well, I thank you for keeping the lights on you and Becca with the in house programming the elected spotlight and glad those have continued to go to go on during this crucial time. Indeed. All right well thanks everybody. Any other final comments observations. Anything I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. Move. All right, director manheim. I'll second that. I think I've got my machine on second there. All right, all in favor. Hi. Hi. Thanks everyone. Good discussion. Bye. See you next month.