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Thanks, everyone, for joining us. I'll call this meeting of the board of directors of the community television of Santa Cruz County to order. And it looks like it's 506 on, let's say February 22nd. And with the secretary call the order. Yeah, Chair Lanier. I'm here. Yes. Director Maziarz. Here. Director Hall. Here. Director Mannheim. Director O'Driscoll. Director Shaw. Director Gudger. Here. Director Granados. I hope I pronounced that right correctly. Costing up. It's Christina Granados. I'm here. Okay. Thank you. Director Warren. All right. Thanks, everyone, for joining us. Oral communications. If we have any from the public visiting any person may address the board for the oral communications period. I don't see anything. So we'll move on. Chair, do we have a, so if somebody from the public did want to comment, would they just raise their hand if they're on the public Zoom? Yeah. Okay. I did mention to a former board member who was a colleague of Dori Steinman that we were going to be honoring her today. So I kind of let her know kind of last minute. That raises a good question. Those folks would not be visible to us. Is that right, Becca, but they're visible to you? Yes, there is. I mean, there are none now, but if we wanted to make them visible, I could change them into a panelist if we want to. But, but they just can't join the meeting and appear here. Just so that we don't miss somebody who does want to visit or. Oh yeah, I can. So just so you know, they should show up as attendees. Yes. Participant panel. Yeah. Yeah. If you open up your participant panel, you can see attendees or zero. And if you click on that, you'll see the list. And then we can see their hands raised and we can answer them in order. And I just click them off once you're talking to them and they go to the bottom and they could ask questions. Okay. Terrific. Thanks. We learned something every time. Okay. Thank you. Moving on to number three, consideration of late additions to the agenda, additions and deletions to the consent agenda or regular agenda. Anybody? Seeing none. Let's move to the consent agenda. Number four, approve the board meetings of, well, let's, I don't need to go through everything. We have the board meetings of January 25th, approved executive committee meetings of January 29 and approved recommendation to finance committee to accept January 2021 financial reports. Any comments on any of those? Okay. I'll consider a motion, an intake motion. Yeah. I just had a quick question. I mean, a lot of times finance committee director, chair hall, make comments on the, you know, now they're no longer on the finance committee. I don't want to take up the full boards time too much by, you know, asking a million questions. But if he had any comments on, on the financial reports, I'd love to hear them. There actually there'll be ones on the next. Well, a couple of quick things. We put some additional funding or advertising costs went up because Becca reported that we weren't getting good responses to some of our ads for employees. So she had to pay for an advertisement. It'll also be there's be another report we got from her in terms of the agenda or the financial reports that'll be on her comments. And I'll leave it for that. Tom presented his normal report in terms of how we're doing and what's called facility equipment and use, which is one of our major budget items. We're still ahead. But what happened and the reason it went down and you may have seen it is the, we had three offices vacate. And so we've, Becca reported that there is one, one potential new one and also somebody is expressed interest in renting the studio. So that number should go up next time. Those are the major aspects of this. There's one other aspect of payments to satellite, which is another item on the agenda. So those are the highlights of it, unless you had any questions, I'm glad to answer them. No, that just about covers it. I mean, I've some curiosity about another thing, but I could ask back online if I'm that curious. So with that, I'll thank you and I will make a motion that we approve the items on the consent agenda as presented. Second, Joe Hall. All right, we have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda. All in favor, aye. We don't need a roll call, I don't think. Okay, that is approved. Consent agenda is approved and we'll move on to the regular agenda. This is a remembrance of the contributions of former board member Dory Steinman, who is our capitol represented for 11 years. We, this was called their attention by director Gudger and it seemed appropriate to, I wasn't aware of her or her contributions and so I wanted to just spend just a moment to learn about that. Anyone, either Keith or Joe, would you like to say anything? Well, Keith, why don't you go ahead and then I'll finish up, because you knew her through productions. I know we're through the board. So yes, I worked with Dory quite a while until she asked that we find a replacement and that's how we got Larry, which is great also. She was on the board through, as Joe will tell you, a very tumultuous period. We appreciated her being there. We appreciated that she had experienced a video production, whereas many board members at that time didn't have professional experience. I also worked with her, as Joe mentioned, on some productions you may have seen in her obituary. She mentioned the Toby production. That was a couple of shows that we did. I think I directed those for her. So it was interesting times. It was a different community television, that's for sure. And so I'll turn it over to Joe. And different is the pleasant way to say tumultuous. But what you didn't mention, and I didn't realize, is she produced like a hundred and some odd programs on the second half of life, as I think what it was, and she produced a book. But what I remember about her, she was very quiet. We'd have all these raging debates, and it would rage right over her. She raised her hand and everybody had to stop and listen, because she didn't yell out or she didn't make this emotional stand. And one of the times I should have listened to her pretty carefully, and I told Keith and some of the others about it, is the treasurer resigned for some reason. I can't remember what happened. And all of a sudden, I heard Doris say, well, I think we should nominate Joe Haaland. At that point, I was so exhausted from the meeting. I wasn't paying attention. Somebody else seconded and they voted on it. And I leaned over and asked her, what did you nominate me for? Because I thought it was some committee. She thought, you're a treasurer now. Didn't you hear me? And I said, no, because she talked pretty softly. And everybody else was exhausted from whatever the big deal was in the day. So that's how I became treasurer. It was full. But I used to walk her back to her car, because our meeting place was in a location that was not what I'd call it. It's good for any two people to walk back to car late at night. And the meetings didn't go. And I'll keep this short, because our meetings go into 10 and 11 o'clock sometimes. And we used to talk about all sorts of different things about life. She was a wonderful person. And I enjoyed my time working with her on the board. And she brought stability to a pretty unstable situation. So Dori, I'm going to miss you. Very nice. Thank you, Joe. And that was a good move to nominate you as treasurer. That was a very interesting number of parts. We're indebted to her for that. And as well as all the productions she did, I had no idea. It's pretty amazing. So yeah, long life well lived, the Renaissance woman, if there ever was one. Thank you. Let's move to number eight, Considered Finance Committee recommendation to approve satellite fee increase and repayment approval increase to $2,500 starting February 1st of this year. Joe, who speaks to this Joe? I think Becca would be the best and Tom and Keith have been the most in most closely involved with it. And I think Becca can probably sum it up. We talked about it once before at our special meeting, but Keith or Tom, why don't you, I don't know if you want to start up Rebecca, why don't you start and then they can add comments and I'll shut up. Okay. Well, our original contract with satellite included $1,500 a month as a management fee. And they over the and they were also supposed to receive 17 or a profit, a little bit of profit 25% of everything we made over $17,000 a month. And they calculated that to be enough for them to make it worthwhile for them to help us out. And we have never reached $17,000 a month. So we can, we just haven't yet. And we've gotten as high as $15,000. And I believe we'll go higher now that the things have changed for coworking, but be that as it may. Barbara wanted to raise the her rate of $1,500 to $25,000 in order to get the money that she thought she would have gotten through profit and imagine management fee. And so we are, we've entered into negotiations with the new contract with her because that our contract currently says $1,500. So in order to we would we would like to give it to her. And so we need your approval to do that. And we're only asking you to approve it until we finish the contract. And then we'll come back again with another request. I'll note that the finance committee talked about this on Friday and recommends approval of the, of the increase. Correct. Tom or Keith, you want to mention anything in addition? I don't really have anything to add. I know we have a sort of related discussion that we'll have in closed session on lease negotiations and and but I think Beck has covered up pretty well. Okay. Andrea? Question. So the way it's phrased is repayment. So is this is this just going forward or are we going back or is this retroactive? Is this retroactively active? Pardon me. Well, she wanted to raise it earlier. And we we started this, we started, she started, well, in, we wanted to go back to February. And she has requested we pay her four months previous to that. But I didn't think that we had put that on the agenda. I think that was I, I think the retroactive is just for February because we're in for it. It's too late. She's already been paid for February. So the retroactive is just for the month of February. Correct. Okay. Thanks for the clarification. Yeah, I wanted to say that what we're basically doing here is to smooth the negotiations, we would like to go on and start paying her this amount so that it works. We have a better footing for our negotiations. And that's why it's on the agenda now as opposed to when the contract is finalized. Larry? Yeah, I maybe I missed it in there. Is there any sort of a board resolution or anything like that that goes with this? Or is this a verbal approval? I think it would be a minute, an emotion would do it. Okay. I think a motion and we should vote, we should probably have a roll call vote on it. Anybody else otherwise entertain a motion to consider the approved the finance committee recommendation to approve this, to approve the satellite fee increase and retain it? I would move approval. We have a motion by director Mannheim. I'll second. Second by director Gudger. Let's have a roll call on this. Okay. Director O'Driscoll. Yes. Director Gudger. Yes. Director Warren. Yes. Director Maziarz. Yes. Director Mannheim. Yes. Director Hall. Yes. Director Granados. Yes. Director Laurent. Yes. Chair Lanien. Yes. Okay. Proved unanimously. Thank you all. This is a fun one. Number nine, authorized the purchase of up to 25 production kits not to exceed $43,000 funded by youth grant for student video production classes. Becca. Yeah. So we're very excited that the youth grant committee has been meeting for several months and we put together a new sort of pandemic program that addresses the challenges that students are facing because they're home alone. Well, not entirely alone, but they're not in school in a group. So we couldn't do our usual youth grant because it requires a classroom teacher with knowledge and television production. And our goal there was for kids to learn enough to go out to learn whether they like video or not, but also to go out and be job ready, be able to get a job in the business. So now, since that's not possible, we thought we might be able to reach a lot more kids if we took some of those parameters away. So what we've come up with is a temporary plan where kids, we give kids a kit to make video that's pretty intuitive. So we've made a selection of products that are just really easy to use that we think they can use on their own and create video. And our goal is we have several prongs to this. We want them to experiment and play and learn if they have an interest and an aptitude in video. So we can sort out or they can sort themselves out as who's interested in this as a career path and who's not. Because the facts are friendly. It'd be great if they find out they're not now before they spend a lot of money to figure out this is not a good thing. So we are going to provide a fun kit that I'll describe in a minute. We're going to give it to groups of kids who have some supervisor, either a teacher or a tutor or maybe the Boys and Girls Club or the Girl Scouts or things like that. And they will get these kits each their individual so they can use them on their own. They will make their videos and upload them to us and we will eventually put them on TV. So they get the equipment for a month and they have to make a two-minute video with it that we can use. And then they can also experiment and do whatever they want with the equipment and figure out what they like. So they might try claymation or animation or stop action or news reports or PSA styles or whatever they want. We just want them to play and get them to be interested in digital media and see if they have a knack for it. So we want to buy 25 kits because that would outfit a full classroom at one time or something like the Boys and Girls Club or 4-H, something really big. And then we might also outfit like just some homeschooling pods or smaller groups. Like we're working to save our shores to find a group of kids because they go and partner with organizations like with schools and teach a science class sort of like Sea Odyssey does and then kids are responsible to do a report after. Or they have to do a report or some kind of activity. They have to take action. And so what Save Our Shores is hoping is that they will take action with our kits and do some sort of report on whales or plankton or whatever they whatever they're studying at the time with Sea Odyssey and Save Our Shores. So those are all coming but right now we have a UCSC teacher who has a pod of homeschoolers who were Montessori school kids and she's got four of them. It's a great group because it's two elementary kids and two junior high kids. So we can outfit them and we can, this is our bait to test. So we can see how it works for them. And she's a very engaged newer teacher and she's willing to let us know the barriers that the different age groups face and what they like best and what doesn't work for them. And we can find out from parents what they think because it's a nice small group. We can have a lot of contact with them and get some really good information so we can fine-tune our program as we go ahead. And once we get excited students I want to be able to put the gear in their hands like pretty quickly. So I want to buy it all. I don't want to buy it all now but I'd like you to approve the full package and as we gain students we'll buy more gear. So we'll never have gear sitting on the shelf not being used but we will have it ready. We'll have the money approved and we'll be able to get it and I can usually get it in about a week. So even if we had a big classroom we could get them gear in a week or so and that would be good. I don't want them to like for the semester to end before we get them the gear. So that's why we're asking for the approval now and it's a fun easy thing. It's an iPad which is easy to use. We'll put it together so the microphone plugs in and they've got a nice microphone and iPad and a very nice tripod and it all comes in a backpack so they can't lose it and we've got a system for marking it and everything. In fact the iPads will be engraved with our name on them so we won't lose those and we've got documents for the parents to sign and that sort of thing and we hope to start with this simple beta test with giving it to the kids and letting them have some fun giving us some video to put on TV and then they get something on television which are very excited about and then we can expand it as we're going to we have ideas for the future like adding a community group online somewhere like a private one not where anybody else could get in but where kids can they can have some peer-to-peer interaction like coach each other answer questions ask questions and our idea is to get some of the university students to monitor to take on we'll get some interns to monitor the group and answer questions and you know watch out for you know bullies and that sort of thing and then we want to ultimately maybe add a contest so kids can kind of compete and we can give prizes for the best videos and different categories but it's like too much for us to flesh out now we wanted to just kind of get rolling and see from teachers once we get a few groups through we can then approach the the leaders of those groups and say would this would this inspire the kids would it be too much would they like to do it and we get more feedback from people who know what they're doing with kids so that's where we are and so i'm i'm hoping that you can approve this for me so i can order gear tomorrow for the four students we have online all right thank you very much um entertain that joke i i like this i mean having had two kids it's always kind of a uh you worry if you get something to somebody but we've had so much trouble engaging the other program you had getting the teacher and this and that this seems like a it fits more into kind of the age group we're trying to meet and i kind of like the idea and i'm glad you're giving it a try i'm i really think it's a great approach to doing something a little simpler that's than we've tried before and so go for it thank you director granados so this is really exciting it sounds awesome and i really love the passion and creativity i hear beckon and just putting this together um and i can certainly think of a bunch of ways that hopefully i could support in this but i'm just curious what is the age group that you're targeting i know this is a youth grant but are you thinking primarily because it sounds like you you're you're thinking about pretty broad range from elementary school all the way through college am i hearing that right well we're all the way through high school um we would certainly entertain college but we um and that's something that maybe david could help us on we know i notice that cabrillo there i haven't seen there's a lot of video education there um there is digital media though so maybe it's rolled into that and ucs he has an excellent film program so i don't think that they need our help i'd like to get them more involved in the mentoring aspect of it i know that um the watsonville center i can think of one professor that might be interested but i mean that's that's helpful so you're thinking pay for like elementary through 12th grade right now yeah but if you had it if you yeah but i would be happy to entertain older kids if you if you have a group i was just thinking ucs he's got they've got very nice studios and nice gear so i think we need to help them but if there's there are other groups that i don't know everything so if you know a group that could use it we've got the we have the funds to do this and that's something i wanted to mention to you all and it's in my report but we get money from the county every year for this reason it's the only thing we can use it for so we want to we want so if there are more kids and we can buy more gear dr warren yes uh you know i think this is an exciting idea um becker you're you're right uh video production is really rolled into digital media but i don't think that it holds a candle to ucs see for their involvement but um you know getting production equipment like this that's simple into into the hands of youth is is a marvelous idea and i think that there can be a lot come out of it thank you i'm dr mazias thank you chair so uh yeah i i'm glad you mentioned uh becker and highlighted that the fact for our newer board members that this is money that's earmarked and as as tom says you know we've had mixed we we have had three previous grantees and and um had some success that way but it hasn't been as as it's been a little bit harder to find um you know find groups that meet all of our criteria so i'm really excited by this this prospect and and i did want to you know you know in your introductory remarks you mentioned something about um that you know people looking to do this as a career but i think i'll just mention that you know in the world that we live in now even if i think just like like coding people see coding now as a kind of a general purpose skill even if you're not going to be a software developer having some skills in coding can it can be useful in a lot of different areas so i think it's the same thing with um digital video and that i think as we're in a much more media rich environment i think people in all sorts of different um fields social sciences or you know business um will be we'll find these sorts of skills useful so i'm hoping that we can get these equipment into hands especially you know and a lot of kids these days i've been amazed what my daughter can do with her iphone right so i think a lot of kids these days have devices so i'm hoping that we can also um get these into the hands of some low-income folks you know i edited uh the i've been doing involved with the um the teen fashion show and i know we had some some uh really amazing submissions last year because the pandemic everybody shot their own footage and uh there were some submissions from south county which i don't know what they were shooting on but they looked like they were you know not iphones they were very low quality and and they're wonderful pieces and such but they weren't well represented so i'm hoping that we can also uh get this equipment into the hands of people who may not have access to iphones and ipads um and even people who have those you know having a good tripod having a good microphone will certainly um allow them to do quality of production that's beyond what they could do with just their their stock devices well i think you're right and i think that storytelling is really a key skill these days no matter how you're doing it the ability to tell a story it will help you in business and life so it's a good it's a good thing to learn it also makes you collect your thoughts and put them down in an orderly way so and the other thing i want to mention for our um our new representative our new board member from watsonville we do have gear at digital nest and also watsonville high school so kids in south county do have access to really nice gear that we provide so and then now it'd be great if we could get it in the little in the little hands of the actual of more kids out there and that's that's why i'm hoping christina can help with tom did you have a question yeah i just wanted to add you you mentioned that we get this money from the county um every year and uh beca and i for the rest of the board i wanted them to know that we went and talked with um our county contact what talked this through with them and sent something to the to him to give to the board since this is something that they approve and got very positive feedback so they like this idea as well terrific um i'll entertain a motion to authorize the purchase of the i'll move approval of the purchase second and motioned by and rector maziars second by director driscoll all those in favor say aye i do we need i think on general we should do roll call okay thank you yeah okay sorry uh director driscoll yes director gudger yes director warren yes director maziars yes director granados yes director manheim yes director hall yes director rent yes cheerlead laudian yes all right approved unanimously and so ordered um now we'll have a discussion of committee assignments with new directors who can lead this i'm not as familiar with some of the committees but we each sit on different committees um at least one or two and some of the meetings are very infrequent um we can speak to what we have here well i'd like to mention that i've i've talked to david who's one of our new board members about the specific area and he has something he wants to discuss with us so i'd like to turn it over to him all right great director one um well i think we're all very aware of of how covid has um affected all organizations but especially the classroom and especially teaching and learning and i think that along with hard times like this there is there is opportunities and um most teachers that are working trying to do online teaching are having real struggles some of them are being very innovative and um parents are having enormous struggles my neighbor has five five kids they're all in school and they're all being um uh taught online and here is this amazing use of technology but there is much to spread around about it and educate others about it and i think that there's many different angles of approach here but keith and i've been talking about the possible need of a committee an education committee that's really um really investigating this and coming up with strategic strategies and so forth for addressing some of these needs and i would be willing to be on that committee and keith has volunteered and uh who who else might like to join us and is this appropriate um i think it's very appropriate sounds like a very very good idea any other directors wish to chime in or participate actually i i don't but i think it's a good idea and and when the pandemic started i had this idea look we have a couple tv channels that are here during the day and it was a great resource but how you connect that with the education system having been on a school board i tell you is so many steps it just thought wore me out but uh i can't see how it can't be a good idea to somehow get something on where the kids can go look at a tv set that has a exciting kindergarten teacher exciting second grade teacher for an hour or two to give the teachers a break and it just seems like a natural and how you interface it with the education system and how it's structured is a phenomenal challenge but i think it might work out i don't know how but uh i commend you for thinking about it and i think it's more important to work on that we have a lot of other little committees but they very rarely meet and this is something dealing with problems today and possibilities today i think we might want to tap elizabeth for this um because she's in that she's on the um she works for the office the county office of education so she would have some she would have some clout we could probably get some real information from from inside with her and she would have perspective that we don't have um david you have the perspective but another another uh another person in in um education at the primary level would be good as well and you know i don't want to volunteer somebody like i got volunteered by dory but i was gonna throw out the thought to christina because over the years i found that some of the education innovations we've had have been more readily adopted and used and and there was a higher interest level in the pahero district and there's been in the other districts like aptos has one of our grants for a uh video production program and there've been other classroom and so i don't know i just thought i'd throw out and see if you would like to to to kind of give a representation for the south county because i've just been impressed over the years including my time on the school board that the pahero district has bigger challenges but they actually seem to approach them in a positive way let's hear from christina sure i mean this is a committee that i would certainly love to be a part of i personally am more focused on higher education kind of work but i've certainly interfaced with the pahero valley um unified school district mostly through my census work but i definitely have folks that i could reach out to um some teachers that i know so i think that's really exciting exciting and i i would echo that i think that because sometimes the needs that are having to be addressed are a little more complex there's a lot more sort of creativity and a little bit more of a enthusiasm in terms of trying things that are new and different so um i would i would share in that observation um and i would certainly be happy to be a part of that committee great thank you and i apologize for volunteering you but it seemed to be a natural when i started thinking about what uh keith had started talking about with david sonia just a thought but i'm not going to volunteer anybody for anything else that's just one thought no apologies and i have to say i did hear you so i didn't actually just not hear you and then suddenly got volunteered so you are fair in letting me know that you are volunteering i wanted to point out that we don't have an action item on the agenda for this month so what we were talking about is we'll get the interested parties together and come up with a proposal to bring to the march board meeting okay terrific thank you should we move on to the or reported the executive director okay and that's in your backup too if you wish to follow along okay i'm gonna just okay so uh this report um for new board members i always report on the previous month so that i have all the numbers and uh so this month is for this uh reports for january the first month of 2021 so um we um we have applied for the california relief grant which i've reported to you before um our application was moved to round two so um we didn't have to do anything we're just in the round two part so we're just waiting um we're eligible for a grant of $15,000 and we are just in the we're just in the queue the edl edl is the same our status is still funding and we are in the queue uh for co-working oh i'm sorry i think i i did not say this is the financial part of my report um for co-working our um our break-even number in my report says 10,000 but it actually we lowered it for the pandemic budget to 8,000 and in january we only earned 65 um 100 um hundred dollars which is um because as joe mentioned a whole bunch of people left at the end of december so we are filling those offices now and um uh that is where we are i think we'll i think we are going to meet our goal uh for february though under paid services uh our government meeting service provided coverage for 15 government meetings in january and produced 10 webinars and we also did some webinars that were also telecast we are doing the public health conferences now which are um it's a great service and um it is uh we're happy to do it and it's great to get paid to do it as well um we're currently hosting those press conferences twice a week now under facilities and equipment we had a covid 19 exposure in um at the uh right at the end of december so in january we um had a customer who learned he had covid he didn't have symptoms and he was in the building by himself on a sunday a couple of people came in though and he talked to them so we had to contact everybody who was directly exposed we alerted all of our our whole membership including the ctv membership and the co-working membership we closed for a day and had a special team come in and uh clean the office and they used an antivirus fog thing to make sure they got everywhere and all the cracks and crevices and uh we had a lot of a lot of protective gear in place we have uvc lights in our air conditioning system or our hvac system and we also have air purifiers several of them on the floors and we use uvc lights in the offices after people leave and the good news is no one was sick no one became sick and the customer has recovered and is back at work and our um our staff report um our staff members um every year the california requires that people take a sexual harassment prevention training and we have completed that for this year we've hired two new video technicians and one of them is one of our previous interns from last year from ucsc so we're really happy that that has created a little bit of a pipeline for great employees and um i have a couple of staff notes uh this month uh our webinar service really took off and we have five new clients now who just just came in the last month or so and they've all come from recommendations from our other original clients and um that is thanks to ian berry our co-working manager he's taken over the management of the service he does all the orientations for new clients now in all the scheduling and he hosts actually the um the more difficult meetings he does the hosting and he also trains our government technicians to host meetings and um we are so busy now that ian it's training two two of our technicians as we speak and they'll be doing they'll be learning not only to do the government meeting service for video for the television but also to do the webinars as well so i just want to commend ian for this is not the job he signed up for but he took it on and he has done it so well that people are referring people to us so that that's a really a great testament to his good work and also uh this month we received or in january we received a hundred dollar donation from a couple who wrote me and said that they had a family member who was being honored by the board of supervisors and they had wanted to see that meeting and couldn't because one of them was in the hospital so they called victor and he uh went back and found the meeting and made a copy of it and sent it to them and they were so happy they sent me a nice note about victor and a donation for ctv so i just want to thank victor for his great work for the community he's always he's wonderful with the public he's just the best and so a little report on our youth grant which are very familiar with now we continue to work with save our shores we had we we had talked to one teacher but it didn't work out for her this semester so we'll talk to her again and save our shores is looking for other teachers and we did we are we have found another teacher through ucsc which i've already reported on and i've already talked to you about the youth grant equipment so i guess i don't need to talk to you about that either so that's my report for january all right let's see you're back um thank you very much for that i really have not nothing much to report my i wanted to give everybody can i make a comment on that yes please sorry i um Becca and everyone else i just want to let you know that in the legislature right now there's some potential legislation that may make the virtual meetings permanent even after we go to in person which we predicted like a month into this around here we're like the Pandora's box has been open it's not going away so you know that that's something to look for and you know we were kind of looking i mean from our environment is different but everyone's going to be you know it's going to be a big a big lift for folks when they have to go back and do the virtual meetings so you know i think it's a great opportunity for community television to kind of go in there and you know we're not using you now but we made the future for that but when i say we i mean me so just to let you know it's not it hasn't been passed yet but i there's a lot of a lot of traction for it so that's great to hear i kind of suspected that people would really enjoy this staying at home and doing the meetings and once it's all ironed out and you figured out how to do it and how to get a background and put people's names on things that it actually is really nice and it's recorded so there's you know there's documentation i think i'm happy that's great thank you for that and you know i actually participated in one of the webinars that ian did it was in the libel parking program there were two of them the last one had 119 people and i was thinking what that would be like in person it would be more interesting there but there everybody got a chance to talk nobody got a chance to grandstand and everybody got their opinion out and it went very well the only hitch wasn't anything to do with ctv is the supervisor who was running the meeting had a bad connection which was kind of interesting but everybody worked through it but i i was impressed at how much information came out from people and nobody was able to dominate it with the little ciber on so it's fascinating to watch and that's great well i i will um just reiterate my um thanks in admiration for ian's work and for victor too i mean that's really great to have those folks with us and just doing what they do so thanks for calling that out they've been really good to adapt to this weird way of working they've it's hard for them in many respects but they've really risen to the occasion that's great um really i have nothing much more to add i just wanted to include our calendar for the coming year so directors know sort of what's what's the meaning when the meetings are and then what sort of is the schedule i also hope to send out a calendar invites to everybody um in advance so that'll show up on your calendars and i have meant to do that for this meeting but i wanted to make sure that the calendar that we do have is accurate uh tom director manheim yeah um yeah just sorry just uh one note um i think if i remember correctly from the finance committee meeting that the county has asked to get our budget earlier this year so we'll be actually bringing that in march okay next month okay thanks for that i'll make a note okay let's see i scroll back to my agenda um any well that is appropriate right there staff request for word staff request for specific items so we'll have a budget item on the agenda next month um any announcements different announcements anybody well one thing real quickly i don't want to belabor it but keith and uh when you're when you're working on the committee i already talked to the county superintendent of education when the whole uh covid shutdown happened about ctv they were so overwhelmed he was i just dropped it but i think the county office would would be really interested in taking a lead so elizabeth could probably help you but i wouldn't be shy about talking to the superintendent they're looking for ideas and i think we're into it enough now that um they might be more receptive other than thinking of it it's just more work i did talk to the superintendent that this right after you alerted me to that you had mentioned it in that meeting i followed up with them but they were just overwhelmed like you say at the time so maybe it is a good to touch base again okay um this um um we will i guess adjourn this meeting temporarily and go to closed session is that right what's the protocol for doing that yes the protocol is exactly what you said gi we adjourn we will now adjourn this meeting go into closed session and then at the end of the closed session will actually i guess at the next meeting we'll have our report out is that correct no you report out what happened at the end of this meeting uh in terms of what happened so what you did you you close this meeting you open the closed session you close the closed session and then gi makes an announcement uh whatever is in terms of actions taken in a very general sense and then you adjourn the overall meeting okay is that right janice larry that sounds right to as i recall um how are we going to do this technically are we going to i don't think we got another link for a separate meeting um i know becca can tell if there's any attendees is there a way to lock out yes there is yeah yes they can't join the meeting unless i admit them well no no no you have to you you can actually lock the meeting just so you know we do this so if those if you go to participants go to those that little ellipsis down the lower right the three do you see that on the participant window that pops up yep you see the three dots does it save webinar yeah so i can just lock it yeah lock webinar cool and stop recording yes i'm going to stop recording as soon as you adjourn to closed session okay so um good we're in agreement we'll adjourn our regular session and uh return into a closed session okay did that correct larry yes just yeah just say no closed session was how no reportable action was taken okay we are closed we are now back in becca has to unlock it becca has to unlock it oh we are we're recording i'll unlock the meeting um just let in all those okay out there where no one's out there but we've unlocked it uh we are are back in our regular session we've completed a closed session no action was taken um on negotiations and uh with that i will entertain a motion to adjourn i move adjourn but director gudger and we have a second i'll second and tom the director manheim we have a motion and a second to adjourn all those in favor oh yeah thank you all very much um this was a long one that i think it's important background that we have as we move forward and thank you for your patience and we'll see you all in four weeks thank you thank you oh well everyone take care