 30 seconds five four three two one good evening and welcome to the board of directors community television of Santa Cruz County Board of Directors regular meeting of September 24 with the secretary please call the roll sir Gutter here director Fisher director Hall director ran here director Wade here director manhunt here director Lorette here director maziars here director here and we may have a late arrival as I heard the doorbell is wanting to get it so thank you very much the second item on the agenda is oral communications any person may address the board during oral communications all oral communications must be directed to an item not listed on today's consent a regular agenda and must be within the jurisdiction of the board is anybody here to address the board on all communications okay seeing none we will welcome director Fisher as he makes his way to the table here all right welcome good to see you thank you do any of the directors have any late additions to the agenda all right we can move on to the consent agenda which includes approving the minutes of the board retreat on August 25 accepting the finance committee minutes of September 17 approving the recommendations of the finance committee to accept the June 2018 financial reports and the July 2018 financial reports does anybody have oh Tom since Joe is not here would you like to comment on the financial statements we were into the first month of the new fiscal year and I'm happy to report that in terms of our partnership with satellite I think we were like 33 percent ahead of our projector breathings so that's a good time yeah excellent okay great does anybody have any questions comments regarding the consent agenda or I will entertain a motion approval all right we have a motion and a second I had one spelling correction to make at the rigor my name is miss Bell the finance committee meeting minutes I forget which one is June or July besides that small looks like yes yeah that one so if the motion the maker in the motion am I want to make you're moving an amendment or suggesting an amendment and that is fine with me okay I'll go ahead and second that okay I am waiting to call the vote would all in favor please indicate for the consent agenda hi hi any opposed any abstention seeing none that is approved okay we'll move on to the regular agenda item 8 is to consider approving in addition to the CTV finance financial policies saying stating that the executive director on an annual basis may award a bonus of no more than seventy five dollars per year to each employee based on the employee meeting or exceeding work expectations that was something that I believe Joe brought to the finance committee would you like to comment on it Tom yeah it was it was so after we made that I read it and it was in my head and I was driving down the road and I thought wait a minute that it should be cash bonus because the whole thing was about cash I give people much better bonuses than seventy five dollars that's just money we might give them a Christmas or on their birthday okay so how would you amend this I would just add cash because I usually work in your check and it was because I gave I gave everybody movie cards to the movies and that apparently is cash and now became an issue an IRS thing so so the discussion of the finance committee had because we did put some money into the budget last year so in the end a year ago when we were doing the 1819 1718 fiscal year budget we added some money for cash bonuses and director Hall noted that we don't have a policy governing that so the main point of this is that we have a policy in our financial policy that there is something that addresses the ability for the executive director to give cash bonuses and we note that it is for meeting or exceeding work expectations which is what essentially I think there's a nonprofit IRS language that this one of the criteria yeah we've done it a couple of times when people like Victor worked really hard to get the captioning working and and so when they did that when they got it working at a certain level it was really hard to cross there was a bonus but they're just little bonuses throughout the year I've heard that there are other bonuses and they're different but these are the cash ones so so I would move that we pass item 8 has written with the addition of the word cash before the word bonus so we read the executive director on an annual basis may award a cash bonus of no more than $75 per year to each employee based on the employee meeting or exceeding work expectations all right well we have a motion in a second does anybody else have any comments or questions if that needs clarifying no all right then I will call it up all in favor please indicate any opposed abstention seeing none that passes unanimously all right moving on to the next page we have the report of the executive okay so this is um this is this will include a lot of stuff because we really haven't had a meeting since so there are these vector things in here we did have the retreat in you and I'm not going to talk about that here because you were all there and you already approved a minute for that but there are a couple other things that happen and that sort of thing that are in here so the co-working center is as Tom said is in profit for September and has been steadily in profit for the past seven months in a row and there's a lot more activity in the cafe area today I came in and there are a lot of people in there like you know eight or ten which we don't usually I haven't seen that many people at once before so that was very nice and we have added some standing desks and people seem to really like them and they're not they're not very expensive but you can you can just stand up and start working there and then push it back down and people really enjoy that so we're gonna maybe do a little more of that and we also added a fun thing so if you want to visit us visit on Friday morning we have an espresso machine and all kinds of things to make coffee with so he have a fun coffee bar Friday and you can put chocolate in your coffee and whatever you like to make it fun we have steam milk and all kinds of fun things and we play we play this coffee bar ambiance that over the speakers you can hear cops clinking so it's pretty and we've added rocking chairs to the front porch those we thought at first we wanted to put benches out there and we were gonna like bolt them down and we had gotten the kind of dividers in them so you can't like curl up and go to sleep but you could sit out there and then there was a lot of there were a lot of questions about maybe we should get cameras in case people sleep on them at night and so we decided let's just see if people even want to be outside in chairs so we got some plastic rocking chairs and put them on the porch and people are enjoying those they make phone calls from there which is really fun so in nice weather we put them out every day and we bring them in at night and so we can once we get through the end of the nice weather we can think about whether we want to install something permanent and whether it's worth adding cameras to protect it and that sort of thing but people seem to like the rocking chairs just like they are you know $35 at home so an inexpensive experiment on financials we have hired an account to do our compilations it's so exciting so we've been looking for someone we could afford for two years and we had I had an idea one day what if we went on elance and got someone who doesn't live in California but has a California license so they don't have those expensive you know home payments but have a license and I found two guys that live in one guy lives in Minnesota and has a California license so he's doing our compilations and he's like a CFO he's got a CPA in a couple of states and so very skilled and accomplished doing it for the price that we can afford and we should have them in 45 days so we'll have all great so much of a relief that is so and so Mel's got everything ready to go we're just giving him access to quick books the folders we want him to see and he can just go in there and do whatever do what he needs to do so we're on our way with that we completed our health insurance review in August and I every year the insurance guy pitches me Kaiser and I always say no because I didn't want our employees to have to drive over the hill but now in that time Kaiser has installed a lot of things here and it's actually they have very good care and I have friends who have it and I've talked to them about you know would you sign up for it if you were just able to sign up for what you want and they said yeah they would so this year I talked to the insurance agent about that we've had Anthem Blue Cross all this time and no no we haven't we've had help yeah help net so we're able to get the platinum Kaiser product for the same thing we're paying for like the silver health net thing so that this means that our employees get free preventative care prescriptions are covered with a $10 co-pay and their deductible went down $2,000 so you know those guys they're not gonna I mean it's unlikely that they are gonna get some terrible chronic disease but very likely that they'll fall off their bikes or something and get a real broken arm so that's a that's a they need that lower deductible because what'll happen to them sports injuries probably so I'm really happy with that and we're still working on we have a dental and a vision plan that I'm not happy with it's not what I thought I like the vision but the dental isn't very good so I'm still working on that but we have some we have some options and I'll let you know what happens with that and we have a really nice agent who actually if you call their office if you have trouble with the insurance company or you can't get what you want out of them they'll call and take care of it you're gonna have to do that you just call them and he came and explained to them how to use their insurance and how to get the most out of it and what kind of how to use it strategically and so that was great we only have a couple people that get that insurance but I like to know that they've been briefed studio rentals we had a great thing we had five-day professional shoot here in September and that was the puppet guy in case you don't know it says there's a guy who comes in with puppets and they're to teach kids early reading skills so he did that he was here for several days and that was it was really a nice it was a nice thing to have it challenged us a little bit but we got it all done and now I'm talking to another film producer who's making a movie and he would like to do for two weeks here so I'm working with him and this could open up to be a nice little profit center for us if we get the right people and we're able to promote it in the right ways and so I'm working with him on a couple ideas to move that idea forward and the cool thing is it's it's just like we planned so he wants to use the studio but also needs an office and he needs the conference room and he needs a place for them to change clothes and all kinds of things so he'll rent our equipment he's definitely going to rent our dolly and our our crane which is really fun and also he'll get an office he'll he'll need he's going to use the he wants to use the audio booth he wants to use an edit suite for dailies he wants to use the conference room to show dailies and put this use the big board in there for storyboard and so it's just you know it's just what I was thinking it's like a real film when you make a film you need all these things but you only need them for two three weeks maybe three months and you can't lease a place for that so it's hard so this is we're perfectly positioned for this so we're very excited they're excited about the kitchen and the bathroom and the shower so so it's what we plan it's taking a long time to get there but it's happening we I we've had a couple of weird things happen at CMAP we had a sexual harassment claim and here at CTV we had a customer harass another customer and so I've had to I've been working with attorneys and investigators and I've seen I've been shown some cracks in our system that we want to plug up and so we're gonna do a number of things we're gonna look at the employee handbook there's a couple of clauses in it we don't need to redo the whole thing but there are a couple of clauses we need to look at one is it just says in there that if you do something that the company doesn't like if you do something wrong then there will be discipline but what it really needs to say is progressive discipline and has to line that out it's supposed to say you get one letter or two letters three letters and then you have to go and we that's what we do because that's how I've been trained but I didn't know that had to be delineated that way and it does so we're gonna have that clause reconstructed we also are going to do a sexual sexual harassment training for the staffs we don't have to we have less than 50 employees but you know everybody should know this and and we're gonna do two things what is it and then what should you do if someone is harassing you you know how to handle it so I was looking to do a waste of that I always when I've done that it's always been at big companies and you know big attorneys come in and talk to you and show films and do role-playing and all kinds of things but that's very expensive and they won't do it for companies unless you have at least 20 people and we don't have that so even combining the two staffs we still don't have 20 people so what I'm opting for is a live webinar where it's like interactive that they can see you and you can see them and that the so the presenters are on a and they and then they show things like little films and pictures and that sort of thing and people can can react from the room so it's alive the person isn't in the room they may be in Milwaukee they are talking to them on our giant screen in the conference room so that's what I'm looking for now I've said I have a couple of companies who do that and I'm starting to talk to them about that sort of thing and we're also I'm working with the investigator that I use to investigate the issue at CMAP to come up with a criterion for us with customers so if a customer complains how what questions can we ask to see if it rises to the level of harassment or is it just like a rude person or you know where is that so we can have a little confidence in what we're doing what we did in this case was we discontinued this man's membership and we had him leave we were funded his money but you know it's now it's kind of uncomfortable so I want to I think we need some something that shows we have like a way of we're not just going to boot everybody out but we have this list and if you've done this this and this then three of these five things then sorry you have to go yes I'm just curious do we have liability we if it's between two customers you I thought you said it was one of these was between it was between two customers and we have we have a really broad liability but that's not spell out anywhere maybe I should I can look into that I think we have we have insurance for something happens to you when you're here I'm sorry I wasn't talking about insurance I was I was oh are we liable if somebody if two if one customer is harassing another customer what's our liability as the operators we would only be liable if we're a neglectful and so if we have a progressive you know in our in our progressive discipline but progress discipline in our handbook yeah but these are customers I know but we still need to have well what we're going to do is put a clause in our agreement right so we need to we'll have that written up so that it's if you're doing this and this is you know you're gonna have to go I honestly think that the only we'd be liable if we didn't do anything if they complained and we didn't do anything it would be good I if you're working with the attorney yeah I'll ask them if we are liable and what what we can take to do to protect ourselves Matilda is right having it written down as a policy is is a big step and then following up on the policy is the other and the other thing is you know for the new radio station we are getting liable the insurance for abuse which includes sexual yeah it's just been a year we just renewed our insurance so I don't remember I'm sure it is because it it's a thing that happens at businesses we have we have two kinds of business insurance so it's a general liability oh it's in the general so that's good and then you know you know yeah I mean you know you've got a few things like that but you know I assume this some of it will go to the personnel committee will be happy to review things yeah we yeah well once I get the legal thing hound up and I'll have it written up so that it means there's some criteria and you have to meet to make it a legal policy so so I'm doing that and then I'll bring it in and and you guys can take a peek so we're having a policy in the co-working terms of service that that addresses that and that's that's all about that a lot of who's been our co-working coordinator for a year who's gotten us past the $10,000 mark is leading and she's going to she was an arts major in Isabella Rina and she has an opportunity to work at an arts nonprofit in her hometown so she's gonna do that and we have hired her replacement and she is training him now so we are well they'll they'll work together for a week and then and then he'll be on his own sort of let's see we are also so it says in my report that we're reviewing we're interviewing people we actually found someone under paid services we invoice for captioning for the first time so exciting so we did that in for the August meetings so we're I'm just gonna take a picture of that check when it comes in we've got under building and facilities we Matilda has been working really hard with some volunteers to reorganize the equipment room what we found was it was organized but it was organized only if you knew what you were looking for I mean you kind of had to know some stuff to get in there and find a thing it was all in numbers but then when you looked at the big group of stuff so what what Matilda is doing now is everything has a number and it's going on the shelf in the order of the number so if you don't know anything you're just looking for 4512 you can pull it off the shelf so sometimes our coordinators know a lot about video and sometimes they don't so this way they aren't doing much and it's a big deal and they had to add new shelves and rearrange how everything fits and it's been it's been a big deal and Matilda has done all the things she's vacuumed all the dust from installing the shelves and filled all the divots in and painted them and he's done a great job of getting shut and keep made shelves for one a rack that we already had and so we haven't but you're are you still going to okay so yeah there were other volunteers and and Matilda that she didn't stop there she came in here and filled in all the divots in the studio and painted them because they were white big white spots here in there kind of terrible so she added all of that which was great so we've done a little bit on the building and in under communications and advertising we had we I think the last time we talked we had been approved for our Google ad words on our main community television website and then in order to direct people from there to our co-working site or a website for renting equipment we had to get additional approvals which we did do so during that time we got those approved and the advertising agency that we have because we're a nonprofit is offered to make some ads for us make video ads so we've given them some of our video and some of our photos and they've added they're doing some of the creative and they're also paying for they're adding they're they're matching my advertising money so that we can get a bigger push and let's see we're still working on the website I got distracted by a bunch of stuff that happened but it's it looks nice it just doesn't have any text that makes any sense I know it's just all that babble but it looks great and that's kind of that's where we are right now so that's my report for the summer wow thank you very much exciting times oh yes all right wow did anybody have any further we interspersed in questions did anybody have any further questions clarifications I know at the county we're very happy we're now feeding captions not only is it going out over the cable but we're feeding captions to our currently we're using two different encoders and two different platforms to get it to go to the to the other the closed circuit thing for our agenda management system yeah which got purchased by yeah got swallowed up by a bigger whale and we had issues performed anyways we're captioning two different places and it's a little da-da but it's like we need this one more weird thing we need one more weird thing and we've ordered I think four weird things but the catches certainly give you a sense of what's going on and it's very exciting and the building is people it sounds not up so that makes sense it's great absolutely so since nobody has any further questions I think we can move on to Becca mentioned the border treats so let's go into a little more detail about that the summaries from the subcommittees one of the subcommittees was the hot studio subcommittee and Adam did you have a little report from that committee yeah we're not talking about a hot yoga studio yeah so Keith and Becca and I met and we started by just generating brainstorming a list of possible uses for a hot studio here in the building and so this is not an exhaustive list so there's a space that is currently in editing Bay correct and so we are going to to transform that into a place where customers can come our clients can come and with a push of a button if you will be able to record something and so not have a lot of experience or background or skill with video production but be able to create something that's really nice and take it away on their little flash drive yeah press the button they talk pull it out I'd have to make dozens of phone calls to find a crew any questions about that yeah I understood that I just didn't know I needed to fill any anymore that's great so the the list of potential uses are in your report and but we thought that you know mainly it would be people giving presentations perhaps lectures but then also doing some marketing product intros explainers even maybe even down to a video resumes or video wills if you want to go there and video greeting cards oral history poetry performance art public service announcements and so there's some other ones there and video blogs and like kind of a story core kind of thing where they bring people in ask them a question and get responses that way so so we came up with a really good list and so from that then we were trying to identify okay what in the first phase of the hot studio when we really need and then maybe we can add other things later that would meet some other potential uses so the list we generated the features or the equipment that we need we need the ability to have somebody to be able to switch from the video of them to some stills in a PowerPoint slide or or images that are advancing through with a little remote control so make trying to make that very easy for them maybe using a switch that they fish from their foot to be able to go back and forth and then to have some kinds of background so we can obviously we can paint that wall but then also to have some some type of scenery in the background so we're thinking about kind of the photography shades that you can pull down and have some some variety for people and then a obviously a camera a USB camera with presets and so that they don't they're not having to zoom or pan or do any of that Becca had mentioned that if somebody's reading a teleprompter or something it would be nice for them to have their hands on something so that they're not doing weird things with their hands and so that was something that we talked about maybe coming out from the wall something I'll not be hurt if you've seen that that movie Talladega nights with little Farrell with his hands kind of creepy and then a good microphone a condenser mic correct Keith and some something that we have in the audio booth that's worked really nicely would would also be added and then two things that we are including in the package for the schools for the grant program one is a teleprompter and we would add a foot pedal to control the speed of that teleprompter and then the three-point lighting kit similar to what we've included in that package and bottom line as I think Becca said is that it has to be simple no training required no tech support required and recording straight to a flash drive and Keith I don't know if you wanted to just give some background on the Penn State one-button studio or there's an example from Penn State of something they call the one-button studio and they have a build list and they have a piece of software the problem is is the software they have is not open source it's free but it's not open source we can't change it and the equipment that they have specified no longer works with our software so and the equipment for doing that remote control of lighting and stuff has actually come quite a ways since they originally did it so it's much easier to do now so we have some examples of what to do my career told us about the both called OBS the open broadcast studio as well as the one button studio I believe that open broadcast studio can do everything that we would want to do and it's open source so I think we could just pull pieces we want from that the one thing that came up and talking to the tilde about this is we should really consider a way to do a marketing survey to see if there really is a need in this community for that and back I have some ideas as to how to address that but you want to sure I've done this kind of market survey before for CMAP when we were going to do a project we wanted to see if the community would really want to be involved because we needed them to donate money to it and to then make content for it and we didn't know if people would actually do that we sort of knew they wanted the bread we just didn't know if they wanted to bake it so what we did was we I hired a person from the place where I got our account and she did this market survey she used Facebook she built a Facebook page about it and then connected it to a big network of other things and so we could do that we could you know connect to a lot of other businesses or people that we think would use this we kind of help her figure out who the market is then she gets something to the market and what she we went through and I wrote down all the things we wanted to know and she really refined the questions more like a scientist would so we got the right answers and had enough repeats so in case you didn't get the question or we're trying to answer it in a different way you got it several times in different ways and then what we did was we had a drawing for I think Amazon gift cards so we had three of those and if you took the survey you were in a drawing and you would win you had a chance to win those and so a lot of people did the survey and then she sent me a PowerPoint presentation of all the all the information that she got from it and she showed different trends and whether you know what the overall feeling was and then she drilled down on different specific things and what we learned was that people did want to have it was a radio station we were talking about they didn't want a radio station but they didn't want to make content for it and they didn't want to give any money to it so they really just wanted to listen to music in their town basically so so that was really helpful to us though because there was a small voice difference group of people there that would come to all the meetings and talk about how much they wanted to do it but they they never really were able to make any progress and I felt like there probably there's no one else but you guys wants to do it so we did this study and it turned out that that was what was true but so we could do something like that here we can hire someone to figure out the market figure out some questions kind of put it somewhere where we think these people will be and see if we can get people to talk about whether they use a studio like this we might send it to everybody in the Chamber of Commerce maybe and and other production companies and see just who might use it I mean we just have to we've got our list of places that we think people might want things we think people might want to do with it so we can start there and see what people think we want to it's not very expensive and the good news I think is that at the end of that you also know who's interested yeah so it's for targeting adverts once we know this and they won't have a whole bunch of names of people we know where they are if they're if they're interested in this and we do it then we can keep the posted is there anywhere else in town that has this I don't think so there was the term hot studio comes from them I believe where it's aimed at producing content for a channel where a person can come in and push about then and they can record a program of themselves and I believe that the public access station in Palo Alto has been doing that for a long time and I know one producer from here who went there because they had they didn't want to have the trouble being crew anymore like you say so we also discussed this at the volunteer advisory committee because we thought we'd ask them our volunteers what they thought of this and it was a some initial reluctance but when explained that one feature is that it could increase the number of people who would provide content for our channels I felt that that really brought the volunteers on board and that is our mission so I mean we're yes we want to look at whether it's a financial viable it's vitally viable financially we also can consider the fact that if it increases the amount of content we get from the community and interaction of the community it is a part of our mission it's a great way to capture little things like like people talking about their memories of some like on somebody's birthday or some grandfather's birthday and all the things that they remember about him to make a little video and send it or or those little things that you can imagine it like a photo boot but it's a video boot all the different kinds of ways you might use that capital museum we've actually done something where we bring someone out to do this exact same thing it was we know we could do it a thing to where we invite people in to answer a question we could get the whole everybody's thoughts on something and that would be kind of fun just keep pushing the button record a big long thing it might be a good promotional you know when we have we have events here it might be a nice a fun thing yeah first Friday come in and get people in there to try it out and hopefully the marketing you know study sounds like a great idea but I think it's also like if you build it they will come sort of you know I think you know if we can get the word out that we have this assuming we go forward building it but I think we're all pretty excited it sounds like I think well people will have ideas that we have a thought of right ways to use it I'm one thing I was saying that was picture-in-picture also that's a nice ability that's one thing that OBS does very easily if we can figure out a way to make it easy for people to use we can geek out about that I have the remote actually there's a remote app you can use with OBS so we can just have a tablet there and people could have presets they could just hit on the on a tablet to bring up picture-in-picture it's pretty powerful so yeah we talked about the possibility of having green screen they do have that ability to right if they can do it at home yeah they can take it away and just key it which keying is easy now we can key things that I movie and that's a very simple program great well thank you for that wonderful report I am it's a hard act to follow because I'm chairing the venues equipment subcommittee and I think we have a spreadsheet that's all that's as far as we've gotten so far did you shall I go ahead and okay so we I just you know it's been a busy month for me in my defense but thankfully director who's not here right now and Owen gave me a little tickle today so I don't want to name any venues but we made a list we she has a personal connection with one of them I've talked to I think we mentioned before I've talked to somebody over at the London Nelson I was shooting an event and another one of the venues and mentioned it informally to one of the management people there so I think we're probably get together and come up with some sort of a presentation I was thinking some sort of marketing material might be nice even if it's just product sheets for say the tricaster or the tricaster mobile the cameras you know something we can show people maybe some sort of marketing material well you know we have systems in in government chambers now it's gonna be something somewhat similar so we could have a little something that we could show people this is what we have already and this is kind of what you'd be getting and hopefully we can get a number of venues in Santa Cruz County to to lease equipment from us and possibly produce content for the station yeah so yeah so it's we'll get together right sometimes soon and come up with a game plan and we'll work with you back at the figure out what we can actually offer people and see what we can really offer yeah right you don't want to promise people stuff that we can't give them yeah and we want to give them stuff we know right so because we are maintaining something exotic right so we have in it took really long time to get the list of stuff we do for schools now we've hung that down we've got a kind of a really good list now but every once in a while something goes away we have to figure out a new thing to go in there that thing anymore but yeah if we can keep it pretty similar to what we do for schools right that's helpful and that's an audio package that's different than what we do for schools because it's a sitting thing so they'll always be some little thing offshoot that customizes it but we want to customize that as well I think one of the selling points would be that you know we can train you or to use the equipment yourself or if you need somebody you know we there might be community TV people who are familiar with the equipment who would be willing to have we standardize it if we use what we use here then yeah we can send our own guys they can you know they have to pay him but we can send our I assume it would be probably more cost-effective for them since there's not a whole bunch of gear that has to be get brought there and set up so yeah absolutely so I'm excited about that and I'm hoping to get something moving with that you've covered it well all right thank you so then we had another subcommittee we formed the library program subcommittee and I believe Janice you are the chair of that would you like to comment yes very much what happened at the retreat was there was a proposal that we deepen the relationship between community TV and the public library in a very look at right now it's a very loose concept that needs to be made more specific but basically we're talking about the possibilities of the library leasing equipment of CTV offering people with expertise who might help us teach some classes we would offer venues and there may be several other things that we can develop when we sit down talk so the first thing that I needed to do is go back to the library and see what the interest would be talk to the people who would be involved so I started with the director of the library and just generally outlined the idea she's very enthusiastic very supportive of it so then I spoke to the people to library who would be using the equipment we're talking about organizing the classes that we're talking about and documenting some things that we need to document because one of the immediate things that happened as soon as I talked to that staff was they immediately started all the ideas that they could carry out if there's something like this happen so they are very excited I do want to explain a little bit that in the public library if two kinds of things going on simultaneously of a need to train our staff and technical issues and dealing with public who have questions about technology and we have the need to train the public and offer opportunities to the public so the staff that I talked to have both we're both hats so sometimes they were designing classes for the public and sometimes they're designing classes for the staff so once I got that interest then the next step would be to call a meeting but I've been unable to do that because our director is out of state and on a family emergency that has become more prolonged and predicted and she's not back in California yet so I really don't want to have the first meeting without her she's very enthusiastic but and she knows you know how far we will be able to go and what we can talk about but the idea is at that point to get people from the subcommittee from community TV together with Susan the director of the library with me and the people who would do the actual work in the library and then we could talk about what we would like to do CTV can tell us what we might be able to do and what equipment we might be able to use and I am very sure we can find a program to agree on so right now I'm really just waiting for the director be able to get her feet on the ground again and we will go forward but there's great enthusiasm you're very excited about the offer thank you very much Janice wonderful report I'm looking forward to hearing how things progressed so I think we had one other subcommittee I don't know if it had a formal name but it involved a meeting with a local umbrella foundation did okay okay anything to report from that or really okay we went we went we went with the ED even the community foundation and there there was nothing we it was just sort of a get to know you here we are this is what we do what do you do can we fit in and she named a bunch of different things that they're doing none of them hopped off the page as things that really meshed with us I think what the things that I heard that might work I think we have to partner with another organization to do and so it's we got information and and we did but one thing we were a successful is that they would like to come they still have the old CTV that they remember and they're probably totally surprised so you know we left it we were very courteous and listened and gave some ideas about what we thought could be done and then we invited them to come in so they said they would and that sounds like a good thank you since you have the talking stick would you like to give the oral report from the volunteer advisory committee the back sure I'll keep it brief we had a meeting recently the group is very excited about what you have been telling Keith and me also is about the CTV stories and we've had that on our plan for a while that there would be more on TV about what people are doing here and why they're doing it so that the public gets to see you know what is CTV they may not know then you know to actually lower the threshold a little bit for people and that brings me then to the next part is that Keith and back and I have been working on getting a new class schedule and so our first orientation is on November he'll look it up and so we'll do kind of an orientation once in two months so we're gonna have a back I said you know we're going to be more successful if we have regularly scheduled classes so we're going to do once in the two months orientation then soon thereafter like this one is Wednesday November 14th and then that Saturday we have the camera class and so we would kind of combine those every two months and then Keith is going to do an audio class once in the three months December 6th right and then Becca's going to let us know when her husband can do another field camera class we probably would that do that also four times a year and we already set some dates November March and August but we don't know yet what would be his schedule so we would like to do continue that and based on what has been going on in the volunteer advisory committee we really would like to help more or support more organizations in the community with getting some shadowing of field camera things because you know in the past when we had money to spend in operations people could hire for a low-weight and then we would go out and shoot in the community that is no longer possible but the members of the the VAC still feel that's very valid and good outreach to the community you know based on our mission so we have said that if we get some people in the field camera class that want to continue and then some of the older more experienced camera people will go out with them you know with a little group that specifically if those are camera people from the organizations themselves because that's what really needs to happen is that people from the organizations themselves need to come and take the classes so then we can then shorten the step of not us doing everything as volunteers but train you help you and then let you go and then you can do your own which both would be good for the content on CTV but also for the organizations themselves so we've been talking about that the other thing I want to notice is that some of the programs you know I've mentioned the the poetry show before and I heard today from Jim that he's going to submit one of his poetry shows which is seen in 128 countries on YouTube he's gonna submit it to the way I know you've asked you know I don't have any time to submit anything that I have because I've been in the cave and I also had I've also helped produce another person Nancy Guargrina who did future we need and how to get it and she actually has some people she knows in Ohio who were very interested in it and they didn't spoke so some people at the Dayton Peace Center and now all the sudden they're in communication about that maybe some money can come and will do you know because of course you all you know I mean she was totally beginner and we helped her and all that but we didn't know exactly you know we all grew together and it came out that at the end we knew exactly what we wanted to do and so apparently the Dayton Peace Center might be interested in you know and some of it will be taped here and then I don't know they were talking international stuff and I said fine TV is TV you know good programming let's make it the best we can so and I know that some of our other producers you know I really intend to increase their their the quality of their programs and one of our members in a genocchus is going to do another green screen class and I saw you come and another director so we try to improve our skills and at the same time do more out of each community thank you very much Matilda does anybody have any questions about the report I'll just add that I think that's a great idea the idea of the mentoring the shadowing in the field you know the classes go over the basics of how to use the equipment techniques but really it's about practice and it's about getting out there right and you know at least there used to be some kind of like entry level studio shows that that would take anybody who want to come and get some some practice in the studio but in terms of getting out there in the field being out there with somebody who's more experienced I mean I know in my development as a videographer that was priceless you know being there with more experienced videographers so I think that's a great idea I'm excited to see that develop that's great thank you and so I don't know if anybody's watching noticed that they saw me they thought maybe Keith this is what he looks like with many shades but no I'm I'm still the vice chair at the moment and we have a very dedicated still chair Keith Gudger and would you please if you would give us your all report well those I think we've pretty much covered most everything we have one new piece of equipment here in the studio which you know about the in-ear monitors which was so we have a wireless way to communicate back to a host or a band when they're performing no one's actually used it yet but it's up and running and for Skype Skype phone calls the final link and making Skype work that's pretty much it did you ever get those light bulbs changed how many how many board chairs does it take that's the dedication of this gentleman except he might want to re-engineer the the technology might see some improvements that could be made great well thank you very much yeah I appreciate Keith allowing me to to get a little practice here with a safety net in case I stumble so does anybody move on to item 13 that was item 12 does any board member or member of the staff have a request for specific items to appear on our next meeting agenda I would like to see the sub committee's report again accountability yeah so I we have to get something done now we treat and everyone I thought was really energized about the projects we came up with I'd like to just see it keep going I think all of us went to that's good that's all I would that's good well since I think you're gonna be preparing that agenda so still but yeah absolutely absolutely I think this a cent for that so if there's no other further business I would like to make some announcements first let's thank our crew today which is Karen Scott Jean Kratzer Sherry Ross and Jim Russo we appreciate our members facilitating this meeting and its accessibility to the public if there are no other announcement that board members would like to make I'll entertain a motion for adjournment all right we have a motion and a second all in favor I'm opposed all right thank you very much have a good evening