 I will call to order the June meeting of the community television of Santa Cruz County Board of Directors and 534 p.m. Monday, June 26 and the secretary call the roll. I'll call to order the June meeting of the community television of Santa Cruz County Board of Directors and 1 May. I will call to order the June meeting of the community television of Santa Cruz County Board of Directors and 534 p.m. Monday, June 27. Oral communications, any person may address the board during its oral communications period. 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. Sure. Yes, sir. I just wanted to note the passing of a long, well, I'm not sure when he stopped, but he was one of the original muscle and one of the original members of community TV that's Clay Butler. He was a local artist, surfer, photographer, entrepreneur, videographer. He and Peter McGatigan used to do book TV. I mean, he did a bunch of different things, studio shoots, staff shoots. So yeah, he had an ocular melanoma, super fit guy, he would surf at night, night surfing, running up and down the stairs. Amazing, amazing, you know, long exposure photography sunrise and sunsets, Milky Way and stuff like that. But yeah, lost his battle with cancer just a week or two ago. So, but so just such a good guy, really talented. Yeah, I did, did comics and I think I'm a good times and know the names. Never met him. Great. Twilight Ninja was his, his photographer handle. So definitely check out Twilight Ninja's photography and get a chance but keep him in mind and his family and 20 year old daughter and wife and definitely a good one. Thanks for letting us know. Consideration of late agents additions to the agenda additions and deletions to the consent for regular gender. Seeing none, we'll move on to the consent agenda. Three items approve the meeting agenda, approved board meeting minutes of May 22 2023 and accept the May 2023 financial reports. I moved to move the consent agenda. We have a direction director and and second director Monti areas. I just need to note that I will be abstaining on the minutes because I was not here. Okay. And we have one extension. I think we can do this by this acclimation. We have a motion and a second favor I and I know one extension director mankind. We have a regular agenda executive directors report. Okay. All right, well this is a report. This is the report for May. And in May, we achieved in the co-working center we exceeded our goal that we had budgeted for the for what the revenue the co-working center and bring it so that's great. And we are on mills at if you if you looked at mills of financials you'll see that we are 1.4% under budget or over budget rather. But today we got that there were two reasons for that one was there was an unbudgeted expense. When we paid off that EIBL loan, there was interest that they kind of implied wouldn't start until you started paying it back, but it was accruing all that time. And it was unbudgeted for that. And because we did the the income credit for for keeping your employees employed and during the pandemic and we filled out this forms long time ago but hadn't done any of the money but the money was in the budget. We expected it. And some of it came today. So, we're going to be, we're going to be under budget, I think, in the end. Yeah, I know it's very exciting. Let's see we, and in, in addition to that fun thing. We completed, we covered 22 government meetings in May. So that was because of budgets. So they do a lot of budgeting in May and June. And so we'll have a lot in June as well, but that'll be the end of our year. We also our team covered the artist of the year event in May, which is great. And we hired two new video technicians in May. Two young women, and Victor says they're, they're doing great. One of them is now doing meetings on her own. The other one is still shadowing, but we're excited to have a whole new group of technicians. Now, we've kind of turned over a bunch of them recently. So we have kind of a new group and Victor's very happy with the group for facilities and equipment. The construction was supposed to end in May, but continued into June. But now a secret June update, they finished, but there's a, we put new carpet in the conference room, which looks great. There's new carpet in the hallway and in the equipment room where it got really wet. And I was concerned that it would be moldy and, you know, I was afraid, even though it was just a equipment room, they may not want to put carpet in there, but they did. So nice carpet in there. And we'll be doing an improvement of our own by adding flooring in the kitchen. There's kind of old carpet in there. We'll take that out and we're going to put wood in instead. So that'll be pretty. And it, the, I guess it's not really wood, it's wood, but it lasts for 20 years in commercial spaces. So it's a great, it's a great choice. It'll last us forever. And I'm really happy about that. So that'll make things look nicer and fresher too. And kind of, you know, we've been doing a bit of an upgrade. We got new chairs for the conference room, because we had the beautiful table. And we, it came with chairs, but many of them were worn out. So we put all the good ones in the small conference room and we bought new ones very, very in there. And that's nice. It looks great in there. And let's see. All the bathrooms are finished, which is nice and the equipment rooms finished. So I'm told that we can move gear back in there and we want to. Thursday. Yeah, we're, I'm going to get Victor to help us. We've got shelves that we can move, but we need to put them on the little floor always to do it. Can I interrupt you for a second? Yeah, talking about shelves. I was at the office of education this afternoon, picking up a nice filing cabinet. And they were working on this room. And they have these, these stacks that we have. Not not the youth being metal one, but the other one where we had the lighting and all that. So they have a whole bunch of those. Do you want more shelfie? Probably. Yeah, let's talk. Let's let's look at the space we have. Yeah, we make it and they just give them away because they want to get rid of them. Yeah. Okay. And I also looked into one of the things that we have trouble with with the equipment is storing tripods because you know you can't stand them up all over. You can't put them on a high shelf because you kill yourself getting them down a low shelf. It's not fun either. And I, I Googled what other people do and I found that snowboard racks are perfect for tripod. Because you can you just screw them into the wall and you and they're like arms like this and you can just lay to try and they're, there's not an end to a shelf or anything you just reach in and grab the one you want real easily. So, I'm looking into that. And that might be a nice way to do tried odds. And then we have some more children. Okay, so that's part of the equipment and facilities report. Our need for show. We also have the equipment lease program that is where we lease equipment to nonprofits and the tray has been really working with the resource center for non violence to get one for them and he was very good and picked out all their equipment for them. And I ordered it and it's here and we're just finishing the paperwork for that. And they should, and we've got the cameras are came in already and today we got the audio board. So just a couple, I mean more time to label. Yeah, we got a label of interest stuff but yeah maybe that's what we should do on Thursday. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so, so that's it. What's happening and that that's a good thing for us that'll be nice for us next year and good for them and battle. That's one of the new content areas where we can get interesting content from is, they'll do a lot of interesting stuff. So, on the social media front this is a third month of our campaign so we've been in it for 90 days and we are getting steady growth. Facebook and Instagram are growing LinkedIn dropped off for some reason and the consultant is adjusting her strategy to see if she can make better because I think that's where we would actually get a lot of people from. So, we did reach a thousand people in last 90 days, which is good. And our followers on social media continue to grow. So, I think from the right track. And we'll just keep our eye on it and we're sending pictures off of we've sent pictures of the new carpeting going in pictures of the conference room being worked on and so there's a lot of, you know, kind of we're remodeling sort of fun people like to watch that. We're like the DIY show. I'm curious are we tracking whether any of the people watching to the door have learned about us. We ask people where they've learned about us and I haven't gotten a report from Olivia about that yet. It hasn't been included in her report so I don't know that anybody has come from from social media yet but the good thing is they could because anything's possible, but they most of our audience like 85% of the people who who talk with us and read our posts are in Santa Cruz County. So it's not like we're getting a lot of people from other countries or other counties. They are here so hopefully we will see some good coming. And the stories are really interesting. Yeah, I see the ones on Instagram. Yeah, they're really interesting. Yeah, Olivia's been doing a lot of good work she's been doing waffles and and we've got a fun little setup to keep them warm and have the butter melted and and so we do waffle Wednesday. So come in and get a waffle and we do bagels on Monday and on Friday we haven't started on Friday but we want to bring back our espresso Friday. So I'm not going to be either militant Olivia nor I know how to make espresso so that has been a bit of a hold up. We figure we can Google it eventually. And once we get the other two going and should it should work out great. And that's my report for for me. Things look great I was just cruising around the hallways and the other room back there. It's really good so nicely done. Thank you it's going to be, it's going to be really nice when we're all finished and we've had really nice the contractors have been great may been really they've helped us out with other things. We had other ceiling tiles and Victor did a lot of work in the hallway and the ceiling tiles got all chipped and then it's in part putting those in because I've tried to put a few in the last time we had a storm and they break off and they go in your eyes. It's horrible. And so they did them for a state fix the whole hallway and and did all the storm ones as well so they've been really great you've done everything we've asked and done it pretty nicely. Any other comments on director's report. All right. Let's move on to the Education Committee and we have a report and part of the packet. David, would you like to speak to this. Sure. With King cell, of course. Keith and I met and last week and we discussed the proposal of a seminar series with the library. And Keith can give more specifics on which library and how soon this might happen but I generated a list with the help of a I of what we might be involved in these panel discussions. And ran from AI education, healthcare, government virus or privacy ethics and the environment. You also I don't know if you saw the letter, which was a copy of an email sent by Doug Erickson, who's the director of Santa Cruz works to the board of supervisors basically encouraging them to show leadership in addressing these issues and how the community can be more informed about the impacts that AI is having on our community. So these discussions at at a library or multiple libraries might be helpful in that regard. Getting these conversations started within the community and I would be and Keith went and I would be delighted for your reactions. The board members reactions and suggestions for these this series. Keith, do you have anything else to add to that. No. You mentioned the timing. The library schedules things. Anything would be in the fall. One of the proposals I had is looking at deep fakes, which is definitely a video thing. So there's a direct and it's not like David and I are just going off looking at AI and society without a connection to community television. And as we mentioned last time, you agreed to moderate that. And of course, it's education committee. David's talking about AI education. And then of course and government because as David mentioned, there's a letter to the board supervisor, but the board supervisor also voted to set up as a working committee. As I would have called working group to investigate how to best use AI and government and what the risk and dangers are to government opportunities. What is it? SOT analysis, right? Yeah. SWAT. So that's, that's a, that's another thing that's directly connected to any television that our government needs. Yeah. So to engage with you. Cool. Any other comments? Well, I think the, I think in the report, it also talked about AI in creative life, whether you're a musician, visual artists or a writer. And I certainly hear a lot of people in those fields concerned about it. We have a very active community in Santa Cruz. It seems to me. Yeah. I think it would be helpful to have some, some half for that discussion. It would be important to the community. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. What's the artist's worth is being stolen. And plagiarized and. Yes. And that's. Yes. And that happens all the time on the internet. It's terrible, but this is like really wholesale. Yeah. And they don't try to hide it either. No. I think the general public is not aware. Hopefully we'll, we'll find, I mean, I'm kind of a skeptic, but hopefully we can find a balanced approach to it because. I mean, just recently. Somebody I've watched growing up who was a musician. You know, he's not a visual person. And so he was posting his music to YouTube with just like text. And then all of a sudden I noticed recently started putting images. And I was like, Hmm, these images look like they might be AI generate because he's not a digital artist. So here's, you know, you know, I guess he could hire an artist, you know, to do it. But like one was a, I was trying to imagine what the prompt to use to get it, but it was like a bunch of soldiers. Holding guitars, you know, battle the tees and I like, that's really cool. That's a cool image. And you probably just used a little prompt. And I was talking to a friend recently who's trying to do a one band production. He doesn't have millions of dollars of budget like avatar. And he's thinking he can use AI. Everything has a green screen. He can use AI to help generate background. So, you know, so it was definitely a positive too. I mean, there's definitely a lot of concern, legitimate concern by artists about their work being appropriated. But on the other hand, it's, it could potentially enable people, you know, without large budgets to do much more. To realize their artistic vision, you know, a lot more people believe that. Yeah. And I think there's a whole, there's that, that all falls into the ethics of AI. Yes. How you use it ethically, how you use it fairly, how you do not let it, you know, because it, yeah, I can do really nice things if I don't have that in your work. That's filled on. But then there's fair use, right? You know, parody or. Yeah, but fair use is when you're talking about what you're using. So you have to be talking about there already in your art. In order to use there. That's where we can kind of look into that. You can't see, I have my hand up. Yeah. Okay. Thanks for doing this. It's kind of interesting. I looked through it and I thought, my God, if you do all these, you're going to die of exhaustion. And it's pretty expansive. I think that one specific discussion item, I think as we've talked about here, I would define it a little more on how it's going to affect people's everyday life. Like healthcare is so massive. There's no way in the world. You know, you can get too much, but, you know, privacy, ethics, things of that nature are really where it's going to hit first. And those are just my simple suggestions because it, I think you're undertaking a needed. And then never, and I'm glad we're doing it. I just think you might want to focus it down. There may be three topics and then see where you go from there. Great. We'll certainly consider that. And there's just so many directions that we could go. One, you know, immediate kind of thing is, is that what's happening with, with video and how you can make a video. And then quickly using AI tools and a variety of applications. Get rid of the background, put a different background in. If you video yourself walking on the beach, you could remove your body and replace it with a. An antelope walking in the same style that you do on the beach. So it goes on and on and on. It's just an endless variety of creative openings. But again, you know, it's, it's, when is it art? When is it stolen? And the ethics of it certainly are great considerations, but it's a new day. I agree with when you say choose three or four topics, but you're doing the work. So I won't say anything else. We're not going to recruit you. Once our sewer pump works. I think this is a really interesting topic. And I'm speaking of who's going to do the work. This would probably be additional work, but if there's any way we can videotape these for content on our air. Yeah, I assumed if I was going to host it, it wouldn't be. But this is going to be out at the library. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll bring the remote. Yeah. So great. We're probably streaming. Yeah. Stream it at the time and then take captured. Yeah. I think that's important. That's good. I think we can speak to our team. Yeah, I would, I would also request that any of you have contact. In any of these areas, especially like healthcare or so forth, that can direct us to the people directly involved in dealing with it within that perspective. Whether it's hospitals or, or other places. My wife is a physician and already. I've been exploring with her how you can simply. I have these symptoms and you can use chat GPT and whatever to. Okay. What, what does this lead to what, and you get surprising answers and you have to be careful about. Looking over the results, but it's going to be more and more widely used and maybe. Accidents can happen. People take the wrong. They don't want to be in the hospital. They don't want to be in the hospital. They don't want to be in the hospital or whatever or. Or don't see their doctor quickly enough. But, you know, these are just all questions that society is facing. And I feel like we'd be remiss if somehow we didn't. Stick our toe in it and see what kind of literacy we can add to our community. Great. Thank you. Any other comments, questions. I think that we can contribute to the. This whole new world really in the community. So that's great. Is it a brave one? We hope. Okay. I think it's the board chairs report. That would be me. We have a lot of work coming up and I'll be in touch with many of you. We've got some. We've got a lot of work coming up. We've got a lot of work coming up. The LPTV auction November 1st, I believe. To the eight. So we need to get ready for that. I'll be in touch with those of you who are interested in that. And then we've got some records management work and then working towards a. Retreat and talk about strategic plan. Thank you everybody for participating in the doodle pool. I'm not sure if you're interested in that. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I believe that's the 28. I'll double check them. It's the women care. It was a year women care fundraiser. Okay. Well, let me read, look at those again, and I'll be in touch with, with everybody on that. I couldn't find anything else, but they always do it the last Saturday. Okay. Well, I'll be. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. And then I've had some just early. Brief talks with some people I know up at UCSC about. Trying to use some of their content and putting it on. Our channels. And we'll knuckle down on some of that and have, you know, some sort of more formal meeting, but just really discussions have been very positive. And Becca, one idea, we could have a UCSC, not channel necessarily, but a show for the standing thing that they can present. Yeah, something like that. So I think that was a really good idea and there's, there is interest there too. So is positive. Very positive. And what else. I guess that's it for me. Get back to our agenda. Okay. Any staff or board member request for specific items to be on our next meeting agenda that will be towards the end of July. And any announcements. Hearing none. We will move to item number 12. The proposal director Rand. So I then like to move that we adjourn this meeting. And all those in favor. Hi. Hi. Thank you, Joe and David for joining us remotely. This was, this worked out pretty good. I just signed on a little bit ago so I can see. Because I missed your hand there, Joe. That's okay. Our sewer pump gave us problems and. The plumber was late and that's kind of vital in our house. Yeah, I think so. It's working. My wife just told me, I turned the screen off for a minute. So just, we can, we can, I can celebrate as relieving. All right. All right, thanks everyone. Goodbye. Are we officially.