 All right. Well, I will call to order the February 2022 meeting of community television of Santa Cruz County. 5pm, 5.02pm, I guess secretary called the roll. Yes, director Masiarz. Here. Director Granados. Here. Director Gudger. Here. Director Hall. Here. Director O'Driscoll. Here. Director Rand. Director Shaw. Here. Director Warren. Here. Chair Launay. I'm here. All right. Thank you. Number two 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. And I will note that that's any person. So that can be one of us as well. If. If there is somebody any. Oral communications. Seeing none. I'll move on to number three consideration of late additions to the agenda. Additions and deletions to the consent for. And regular agendas. And seeing none, we will move on. To the consent agenda. We have approved meeting agenda approved board meeting minutes of January 24, 2022 and approved the finance committee recommendation to accept the January 22. Financial reports. Any questions, comments, corrections, additions. I'll move the consent agenda. And after the second, I have a quick comment on item number six, the finance committee recommendation. We have a motion looking for a second. I'll second. And the, the only comment I have is you'll notice that the, we're not renting the space as fast as we thought in the satellite facility. We discussed that at the finance committee. Becca gave us a report as to what's going on. And I just wanted to assure you the finance committee is keeping an eye on that. We have a lot of things to talk about at this meeting. So I won't say anything more, but I just wanted to mention that. That's probably the only point on that report that I thought should be highlighted. And that's really my comment. Thank you. Great. Thank you, director hall. Well, we have a motion from director hall and a second from director. To approve. Can we just have a voice vote on this, I think. All those in favor. Hi. Any opposed. Seeing none that is approved. We'll move on to the regular agenda. We'll start out with the executive director's report Becca. Hi. Okay. Well, great to see you all. If this is my report for January. And. In January, we were searching for a new video technician. And I can, I will. Spoiler alert for the next report. We found one. And we're real happy with him. He seems to be catching on very quickly. And Victor is still training him, but he's really happy with him. So we've got our man. Revenue at the end of January CTV was through 58% of the year. And we had earned 54% of our budget. So we're about 4% under this year, but we believe we can make that up. And we've only spent 53% of our projected operating budget. So our expenses are below our revenue. We, we try to manage that as we go along. So we're really happy with that. The idea alone was approved and funded and received the funds in January mayor in our bank. Yay. I know. It's so fun. We underpaid services more revenue. We did 16 government meetings and webinars in January. And we produced a special webinar for the county health department. They only send our press conference on zoom. They only send the link to the press. And then we record it and then we put it on television. So everybody gets to see it. And we did one of those in January. And we have coming up a, it's a conference about salmon. And it's a conference that is, was they thought they wanted to do a student event, but even at our prices, it was too expensive for them. So we are covering a number of breakout sessions for them. We're packaging them and putting them on. So that's a nice. Sorry, there's some noise. Yes. Microphone. Oh, I know it's my paper. I usually read it on the computer about I, I'm sorry. That's a nice production for us. And that'll bring our, our production lineup. It usually doesn't go up until the end of the year. It always sits there and always looks like, oh, no, we're never going to make it, but we always do under facilities and equipment. We're installing the, all of our cable cast equipment to, to do our televising from our, from our. We've got a lot of equipment. We've got a lot of equipment. We've got a lot of equipment. We've got a lot of equipment going building. It's going in the server room. We just had the air conditioner fixed because it was getting pretty hot in there. And all, all of the gear is there and it's in a rack, but apparently it's the wrong rack. They sent us the wrong thing. But so we will be switching out. Before. You know, when it's, when we have all of the, our other ducks in a row, we'll switch that out. We'll be able to run all of our telecasts from. And it is, it's very exciting to see it all come together. Comcast has confirmed our, the fiber line. Between our building and, and the county building. But what we, they have to, they, it took a long time for them to do this thing is the survey for them to go out and see if it's really there. They know it's there, but they want to go out and take a look with their physical eyes. And they've done that. And the next thing they have to do is put together a transport plan. And they are working on that. And we kind of just have to wait until we finish it. Once they finish that, there'll be equipment we'll need to order to do the transportation and we, but we don't know what kind until they finish the plan. So we're kind of on hold there. And then we have the, the, in the studio we built a permanent 24 foot green screen with a co, which is very exciting. So now there's a, it's very nice. It's all lit and it's great for, for producers. It's all one long piece. So they don't have to deal with the breakups in the old panel system. And so we're very happy about that. And in the outreach column in January, we gave the County Office of Education to Padcaster kids and they, they have a seven phase plan for them. And right now they are figuring out how they work and creating a tutorial for teachers so they can understand how to use them. And then they will be creating some curriculum to be used in classrooms that will be open source. And so that's, it's public domain. Anyone can use that curriculum. And so that's really going to be helpful to us. Because a lot of times we have worked with different organizations and they really haven't known how to teach this. So that'll be helpful in the future. And, but. Can you hold on for just a sec? We're going to try to get Matilda on there. Well, I can't promote her, but I think. I don't know why. I don't know why. Oh, there she is. Okay. We will promote her. Yep. Matilda Rand will be rejoining as a panelist. Great. Okay. You promoted Matilda. Congratulations. There's a salary increase, right? Yeah. Double. Yes. Yes. So that's my report. And I'm looking for, I'm going to, well, Elizabeth is probably here somewhere. We'll be able to connect up with the county office this month and see if they've gotten the teachers involved yet. They had the first step was to recruit three teachers. So we'll, we'll know next month that they've been able to do that. Great. Thanks. Any comments or discussion from. Folks, Matrea. Just, just two things, Becca. Well, first thing is I'm impressed that the. It looks like a half rack that all the equipment fits. You can fit a TV, well, three TV stations and a half rack now. Kind of reminds me when I started at the county, the, the main frame was like the size of a full size refrigerator. And then it used to take up the whole room. And then, and then we went down to like a dorm room size refrigerator. So maybe the next studio will fit in like, you know, the cell phone size. Your pocket. Right. Exactly. That's, yeah, very exciting that the equipment's there. And then the other, I guess I could have mentioned it in the. During the consent agenda, but I was just curious, I'm always curious. Now that I'm not on the finance committee, the, the money for the capital, you know, the equipment facilities improvements, you know, was that for the air conditioning repair that. Last month or in January, just curious. No, that, that repair just happened. We bought, we've been buying equipment to go in that room. So that's probably what you saw. Okay. Great. Awesome. Thank you. Joe. You're muted. I heard all the scratching. I didn't want to be one of the. So I was just sad to see that our signs getting vandalized. I know we're having so much vandalism in the area. Could you keep us up to date if that happens? Cause we may need to have some kind of other sign there. If we keep spending money on a sign that somebody's vandalizing. Go ahead. Well, we just got fixed today. And, you know, I got that new security company, just basically as a test to see how well they would do. And it's just watching the, the, the backyard and the storage unit that we have back there. And they've been great. They've been perfect. They have, they have scared away many people. And I'm working with the landlord now to use this system all over. So we'd be placing cameras out front and we'll see the sign. And if anyone's there, they are just, it's a, it's a great system. They just help in a microphone and say, you and the black hat. We see you there. You can't be here. You need to move along. This is a private property and they go. Okay. Thank you. Any other comments, questions? Great. Thanks, Becca. We'll move on to number nine education committee report. David or and or Keith. Sure. Basically we're making progress in towards interviewing people for education spotlight. We also. We have a lot of questions for him. Regarding that, why Jason Morgan from county office of Ed. Is, has agreed to be interviewed, which we're really pleased with. He gives us a whole lot of head tech background and. We have many questions for him. Also. We've gotten. A journalism instructor. At Cabrillo and look forward to talking with her. She'd like to do it in the studio, but that may have to wait, I guess, until March, the middle of March or so. And also Rachel Goodman has agreed. And as well, I just got confirmation to this morning that. In the meeting we've had. Esadela. Nahr. Has agreed for an interview, too. And talking about. Equity and what's going on with students at Cabrillo. So. And Keith gave us a report on the library animation. Project. And moving to a new library. And Christina might be able to pipe in here and talk about the poetry journal. Anyway, we're preparing these to interview these people and Christina, why don't you jump in. Sure, I actually have a quick update and I have to give all credit to Keith because he's the genius that figured out how to potentially make this work. But journal X is something that Watsonville is really proud of it's a first Latinx sort of poetry journal and it's printed and the copies are available for the journal in the library in case you guys want any and around Watsonville library. But they're really lovely basically what happened with journal X is that Cabrillo students curate so they pick poets from all over actually the world and a few of them. Some of them are community local Watsonvillian poets but some of them are actually published authors and prominent in Latin America for example. And that said they're really curating they're not necessarily poets themselves they're in the production process and as part of that production process Keith. I couldn't quite come up with a way of squaring things with journal X leadership because they're just so overwhelmed, but Keith suggested that perhaps one thing that we could do would be once the students select select the poet. And maybe they could do an introduction and we could have the poets would read the poems out loud recording them and then Keith kindly offered to edit it to then make it a program. And I spoke today to the professor. She's going to talk to her students tomorrow and they have class to gauge interest and her hope is that they too will want to do this because she's in a fair in and then the idea would be that students would talk about their experience doing journal X and why they picked the poets, and then hopefully the poets would either. And this is the part that I'm sorry Keith I wanted to talk to probably should find that's good David and keep a little bit more about in the subcommittee and not overshare with you guys but we'll try to decide whether or not it makes sense to invite the poets to come to the studio once the studio is open because they're planning a live event on May 6 hopefully for barring any you know major approaches, or if we just don't want to have them recorded on their phone. I don't know that piece yet, but the professor is interested and that's a big step because she's been basically in tears every time it has to be like I can't handle anything more. So that's great, and then Keith thank you for your idea and hopefully we'll get a yes from the students tomorrow and I'll be able to talk this through with the subcommittee in the next meeting. Thank you Christina and finally, Brad Colla who is the journalism department chair has agreed to, or would like the loan of a padcaster system. And we need to work out an agreement with with him as to how it's being used and work with the grant committee around that. And that's all great. Any comments questions. I'm sorry I skipped the volunteer committee report and went straight to education so we will rewind back to item number eight, Keith. Briefly included in the packet as the email I sent to all the producers, just saying that we're going to wait to March 16 to decide we wanted to wait and see after dropping the mass mandate if there was another surge before we agreed to open the studio. And he included the documents that are required of the producer in the studio supervisor when they're using the studio. And then there's a picture in there of the finish screen screen back I had a nice picture of it when it was mudded and taped by the drywallers, I managed to sneak in there and get a picture after it was painted so I've been contacted by a couple producers they want to get back so great. That's the status. Excellent. Okay. Sorry, sir. I just had a brief comment. Yeah, on. Well, on the previous item, but I just, you know, I'm sure Keith has before I crewed on Jim Russo central coast poetry show a couple times and Jim passed I don't know if we announced it at a meeting but I think we did. He was away last year so I'm sure he would be thrilled that we are keeping poetry, reading on the air alive. So, and it's great that we're including youth, you know, he tended to have, you know, more mature, all ages but not so much youth poets so I'm really excited about the prospect of us getting some youth poetry on the air. Um, when Mr Russo did his show, he posted it on Facebook as well and he got tons of poets from around the world asking to be on a show. So I think for for, I don't know Christina will know better than me, whether today's youth likes Facebook, but they might be able to break up their, their poems and post them individually on social media and attract attention as well from poets. So two quick things first of all thank you for saying that Keith did share the legacy so that made my heart really happy. And just to clarify, so the students journal X is completely curated and led by students and students do all of this election and students would be talking about their experience doing that and why they selected the poets, but the poet themselves some of them are young youth but they're actually that some of them are more mature, and no longer being a youth that I'm actually not sure it's cool, I wouldn't be able to say authoritatively that they're not on Facebook but if my cousins are typically believed no, they are not there they barely consider Instagram cool anymore so unfortunately. Facebook is the land of old people now I think. I just saw in the news today that tick tock increased their limit to 10 minutes so that's enough for a pretty serious serious length poem, you know, yeah. Yeah, I would just like to point out that Matilda directed Jim show basically co produced a show. And Jim shows what inspired me to suggest this to Christina. Great. Thank you all. I have nothing to report board chair report move on to item number 11. Any board member or staff request for specific items to appear on next meeting agenda. And any announcements. So at this point, I guess I will announce that we will go into closed session let's say. Keith, didn't you already mentioned the library animation project is happening again right starting just Saturday, starting this Saturday. Elizabeth Elizabeth of the total and you and I can get together to see what's going on some after this week. Let's do it. Okay, so at this point, we will segue, say in this room but will segue into closed session. So I guess, Becca, you can stop the recording and