 Okay. Well, I'll call this meeting of the board of directors of community television of Santa Cruz County to order. It is November 28 2022 at 535 p.m. We don't have a secretary Keith would you mind calling the role here. I'm here. I'm here. Vice chair Maziarz here. I'm here. Joe hall here. The director of Driscoll here. Director Warren here. And it says that director Rand is on the phone with Karen trying to figure out how to get in. Okay, I'm going to send her the public link to back as sending her the public link. And then I can promote it. I can promote her like I did. Tom. I don't know why she didn't say how I looked. And I'll note for the record that director Shaw had informed us that she won't be able to attend tonight. And we have a visitor and hopefully soon to be. New board member Tom Mannheim in attendance. 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. I see no members of the public attending. No oral communications. Number three consideration of late additions to the agenda additions and deletions to the consent and regular agenda. Seeing none, I will move on to the consent agenda. We have item number four approved the meeting agenda. Number five approved board meeting minutes of October 24 2022. And number six, except the October 2022 financial reports. Any questions, comments, discussion on those. None I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. I move to consent agenda. All right. Moved by director O'Driscoll. I'll second. And vice chair Maziar second. I can just have a voice vote all in favor. I passed and so ordered. Okay, let's move on to the regular agenda we have item number seven election of board members and officers. We'll start with the board members we've got myself, director Shaw, director Hall, whose terms are up and are running again I presume. And we have a director or prospective director Mannheim previous director who is nominated for a position. Any other nominations or discussion there. Joe. I actually have a funny thing I didn't know till Keith pointed it out. I actually have it indeterminate term. So I don't need to be reelected. I just sit on the board until the city withdraws me or I resign. So, okay, no need to act on me. I know you all were thrilled to do that. But just for record and Larry was somewhat the same way, but he resigned. Right. And I haven't been able to get a hold of him to try to twist his arm to join us up again. Although I do have his direct contact information but I know I'm my term expires this time. Oh, yours, yours does as well. Yes. Okay. You want to keep going. I'm not exactly sure of the procedure here but it's sort of a slate of candidates of director Gadger myself. Tom Mannheim. Director Shaw, and then Joe has pointed out is an indeterminate term. Joe. I believe that these members that you nominated to be on the board be nominated for another term. Perfect. And I'll note that director ran has joined us. Greetings. Can I say something. Please do. This gets to be and I know it's recorded but this gets to be very annoying. I clicked on the link you sent for Google meet. I clicked on that. And it's not that's what you send me. No, no, you get. We get a link from zoom. Approximately an hour beforehand. Nope. I don't know why you're not getting that we others have. I got something from you click the Google meet and there I'm sitting for, for, for 10, 11 minutes. I was exactly on time. Hurry home. And I'm, you know, done, done, done with this. Now, the zoom link is above the Google meet link. Anyway, Becca, do you have a real or waiting for a second. Yeah. I'll be honored to second. Oh, sorry, did somebody beat me to it. I think director Warren director Warren, I'll take his second first. Okay, under discussion since Matilda raised this question. Becca, do you have a comment. Yes. Google is they're very aggressive marketer and they just include they always have a little thing on the side that says, would you like a Google meet and I've had that happen other people I send them an email with a link in it and they see this thing from Google and they click on it and go to some room, but it's not real. It's just Google saying, would you like to use it. They, so don't use the fancy Google link. Just go to the thing in the printed email. It happens a lot. Well, I did not get your zoom link. I'm really sorry. And, you know, something has to be done because I can't do this every month rush, rush, rush home and then sit here for 10 minutes before I get in. By the way, this came from chair chair at community TV.org. Did you get the agenda. Well, that was the day before the agenda has. Well, the agenda has the public link which I can promote you from. And I do that all the time for Joe. The other the other link should come from zoom it comes from no reply at zoom. No, I don't get it. I'm not. Let's do this. Yeah, I mean, I know you, you're, what are we voting on. I may as we can get up to date here. What's going on. Okay, let's let's solve one problem at a time. Becca, let, why don't you double check your list after we elect directors tonight we'll have a new list of emails of everyone that needs to get a zoom link. And just make sure that that email, that list of emails is the one that we're working off of for zoom and Matilda's email will be one of those. I checked on Matilda's email last time this happened and I actually erased her and put her back in again. I'm not sure what's going on. I don't know if it's her server or what, but unless I just have the wrong email address for Matilda could be that. Well, let's work that out. Right now on the floor we have a motion to elect director gudger myself. I'm going to go to Shaw, and Tom manheim to the board of directors for the term beginning now really. You know for four year terms, and we have a motion by director hall and a second by director Warren. Any discussion comments. Okay, I'll call the question. All those. Well, let's have a roll call Keith, do you mind doing that. I'm going to take notes and a roll call. It's going to be confusing. Okay, I can do the roll call if you like. I, yes, I vote for the slave the candidates as nominated. Co chair maziars and emphatic yes. Me yes, director hall. Yes, director address goal. Yes, director Warren. Absolutely. All right. Welcome Tom. Nice to have you back. Now I can raise my hand and buddy and whenever I want. Yes, you may. And, and when we let's chase down this zoom thing and we'll make sure that you're on the list now to get these. I don't know what to do with that when you went off a year ago if we were using this format or not, but director hall. Yeah, I just want Matilda to know it has nothing to do with her. It happens to me all the time. Yours it shouldn't I looked at your email address here with Gmail cruise. Oh, somehow. Never gets through zoom I never get it. So I just log in and the public one and get promoted up. I think she's sending it to my M ran that community TV, although that's a Gmail account too. And, and you always email, I think to random Santa Cruz at Gmail. Whatever it's nothing. It just happens to me all the time so I know what you're talking about but I don't even, I don't even think about it anymore I just know it'll go wrong. So what we'll do is on the agendas we always have that public link, and as an alternative pathway, you can go to the public link and then get promoted to a panelist rather than an audience member. Okay, so that was board members. So officers we have. I'd like to nominate Joe to continue as treasurer. I'm seeking a candidate for secretary. Nominate. Matreya to continue as vice chair and I'm hoping to continue as chair. I don't know if I can nominate myself or not but that's sort of the slate that we have here. Any motion. We still do need a secretary so I've got candidates of Janice or Keith or Matilda or possibly Elizabeth although I think it might be difficult for her because of her teaching that comes extends into the meeting but we do need to firm that up. We do have a motion. I don't have a second. Don't have a second. I'll second. Right. Motion by director ran second by director hall for the slate of officers. I don't think we need a roll call. All those in favor. I, I, I, okay. We have a secretary. We don't have a secretary. It's, it's still open. Do you want to rotate that or what, but we need, we do need a secretary. Keith has been kind enough to fill in for us. I'll do it, but Matilda told me I can't. Why did I say that. I said I'd volunteer to be secretary but you said don't do it. Again, that's somebody else do it. How about you Matilda. I am so, so busy with case with changing donor management. Signal expansion. You know, I'm on Mondays. I'm always at the station and I'm rushing back. So I, I'm going to pass for right now. I've done plenty. I've been vice chair, I've been this, I've been that and I'm still on the finance committee, but. So with your permission, I'm going to decline. Well, let's. The friends, I just, I'm not sure. I'm not sure I can also handle that. Okay. Right now. I'm sorry. For now, Keith, I'll thank you for filling in and doing that. And I'll. I'll try to recruit a secretary. Okay. What about maybe. If we're all in the same boat, maybe we should rotate it. Very a period of time. I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm. You know, in cement until the end of June. Okay. Well, the. The difficulty is that it's, you know, it's a matter of primarily it's a matter of, of taking the minutes, which. I mean, it's a matter of, it's a matter of, you know, you know, you know, I think there's some signing responsibilities, that sort of thing too. And responsibilities, but Keith. Yeah. The only other thing the secretary has to do is anything associated with the bank has to be signed by the secretary. Right. To be an elected secretary, but without a change in officers, you're not going to be changing the signatories at the bank. So we're probably okay for now. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's nice. But there's a certain amount of. Just. Practicing getting used to it and getting a, you know, a flow of handling the job. I think it's best to be done by one person rather than. I appreciate that. I'm just trying to. Solve the problem since we all see. At the moment. Okay. I'll keep doing it for the direction. All right. Thank you. Now. Let's see. Do we have. Do we still need to vote? I think. Did we vote on that? I think we did vote. Yeah, it was a, it was by acclamation. So the board members and officers are set. Now we go on to number eight appointments to committees. And I'm, I'm thinking that the committees are pretty much going to remain the same. Although I invite. If others want to join. If you want to join the committee. If you want to join the committee. If you want to join the committee. Say the finance committee or the governance committee. Welcome to do so. Any. Comments. Doesn't the committee still have to be less than a quorum though. So. If. Okay. Good point. So what's the quorum currently? Is it. The quorum, I think I have as just added a member. And we're missing one today. So. Yeah. So I think. Yeah. I mean, four, yes, that's four and not more and not five. Well, the quorum is five right now with a new member. No, we are, we are with two, four, six, eight, nine. So we have nine. So we can have more than four. No, but generally speaking with a, with a full, not today's quorum, but with a full board. So we can have more than four. So we can have more than four. So we can have more than four. With the, with the addition of. Tom on the board. Cause we'll have 10 members. Nine. Nine. Is that right? Okay. Yeah. Because not on our board. Oh, you're right. You're right. It's nine. Okay. So it's. I'm saying nine, but we can't have more than. Of the people. Right. Committee. So. Four or fewer. Four or fewer on a committee. Joe. So the one thing Tom has always been on the finance committee. We should. Yeah. So I don't know. How we do that because he's been coming anyhow. Coming as a guest. I have not voted on anything. Oh, I could, he consider. I wonder under Brown's activity just come as a guest. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I don't think so. No, no. He's a board member to not attend. No, no, no, he's a board member. But before, but we have. Keith. Joe. Tom. And me, which is for, and that should be fine. You're on it too. So. Get off. The chair is by definition on all standing. So then how about if I get off Thomas on there and then maybe I'll go in the governance committee or so. Okay. Yeah, that would be fine. And. Well, okay. I was going to say Matilda, you could attend it as a guest, but you can't because you're a member. So that's fine. A copy of the minutes each time. Okay. So let's let's just take the finance community right now. We have nominated myself. Joe. Keith and Tom. Yeah. If we get more members than Matilda, if she wants to come back on, can come on or continue. We can't have five people on the committee. Well, if we get more members, we would increase the. Yeah. Do we need to vote on this? Or is it, I think these. This is your appointment. Right. This is my appointments. Okay. So I'm. I'll just, for the record, a point. Finance committee. Chair. Joe Hall, myself. Tom Mannheim and Keith gutcher. Next committee. So what else do we have? We have governance. Education. Are there any changes for seeing in any of those? Otherwise I would. I'm governance right now. I think I am, but we haven't met. I, I was at some point, but. I don't know what's happened in the interim. According to the websites, my Tria, Joe, Tom, and Guy. Okay. Why don't I do this? Why don't I withdraw from that committee and Matilda can go on it. And just do it that way. That sounds good. Yeah. So. Okay. So as chair, I point. I'm on the standing committee. I'll point. Tom. Matilda and was it Keith? Matria. Matria. I beg your pardon. Okay. So that's the governor. Tom. Myself Matilda and Matria. Okay. Education committee, I believe is Keith, David and Elizabeth. Okay. And I would propose that that remains the same. Anybody else would like to join or. Withdraw. Sure. Invite anybody else who wants to be on it. Okay. And what else we have there, Keith, I'm, I'm not looking at equipment grant. All right. Thanks. The standing committee, the only understanding committee is personnel committee. Right now, we have my TRIA, and Larry Laran. Well, that's not going to happen. That's not going to happen. Okay. That's personnel. And as a standing committee. Am I a member of that? No. Yes. If you want me to. We only have a couple of employees so it's kind of a happy one. I'm willing to do that. Okay. So let's recap. Personnel would be myself, Janice, who else, Keith. Matilda and Matria. Matilda and Matria. Okay. For personnel. Somebody else. For us and Max. Okay. So, and then the youth grant. Yeah. Who's on that? Me, Janice, Elizabeth. Okay. Okay. And then Becca as staff. I would propose that we continue that. And what else? Then the others are more sort of ad hoc committees as. I don't think we need to memorialize those here. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Any comments, discussion, complaints. We're good there. Great. Thanks everybody for that. I have, let's move on to item number nine approval of the 2022 board calendar. I included a copy. A copy. I, I dummied up a copy. A calendar and included that with the agenda packet. Double check my dates. 23 calendar. 23 at bigger barn. The copy is correct on the calendar. Pretty much follows what we've done. I've, I checked the dates. But if anybody sees anything amiss. Let me know. Okay. That looks good to me at least. All right. And Keith, I'll try to get that posted. If we approve it, I'll try to get that posted up. I noticed we had the. An old one on the. On the website. I don't know if we had this year's or last year's, but. I could do that. I'm going to update the committees and the. Okay. Great. Thank you for that. Do we need a motion for that? I'll move to the calendar as presented in the packet. And seconded by. Post by. Director. Seconded by director. Man, hi. All in favor. Hi. Great. That's taken care of. Got a visitor. That's my visitor. Mine was here too. And then he took off. All right. Okay. Item number 10 executive director's report. You have the floor. Oh, thank you. This is my dog interrupts me. I'm on. The list. Okay. So here we go. Okay. So I want to, as usual, this is the report for October. So I'm going to start with revenue, like always. And in October. I'm sort of blinded by the light here. In October, the coworking center earned $10,808. And our target. Our monthly revenue target for the coworking center is 8,813. And so we exceeded it this month and we've exceeded that goal. For the past four months by at least $1,000. So that is a good thing. Overall, CTV is 2% ahead of its revenue projection for this point in time. And moving on to paid services. Government means we covered 19 live government meetings, including two remote meetings and one. Candidates forum. We also facilitated five government webinars. And we documented an event, the Santa Cruz County artist of the year awards at Cabrillo. Under the rebuild category. We, this is the rebuild of our television station. We are still. For our, our. Permit it was pushed back and was supposed to be here on the 11th of November. And now it has moved to December 2nd. So we're going to move on. We should know some. Soon. Under equipment, the youth grant Watsonville high school returned their granted gear and very good order with very few things missing and those things were small things. So they are very interested in another grant, the equipment grant committee schedule a meeting to discuss their request. This is an October report. So that happened in October. So we're going to give them another grant. The county office of education and the California state parks update that they, the project is on track. Teachers have given us a nice feedback on the equipment. They've asked for lighter tripods for the younger students as we kind of figured would happen. So in January, we're, we're issuing them 25 more extra kits and those will all have the lighter tripods. And they have different cases. So the, the teachers themselves can, can work out getting the lighter versions and they'll be easy to spot. The COE, the county office is going to come and do a teacher training in our studio next month. So that should be exciting. That's always really fun. And the animation grant is the, the friends of the library have new videos to share. And I'm going to play one for you now. Just a second. I have to do the share your screen. Can I give a little context first? You do. So we, we had a class for youth and Felton. We had seven students. So we had to start. We ended with zero. So we've got some new ideas I could talk about later. So what do you have here are three short videos. One is a student worked really, really hard, but then didn't finish it. So you just see the very beginning. We had a drop in student do the second one. It was a nine year old. So. It was a nine year old. It was a nine year old. You could have not lowering the age limit. And then the third one was a story, the class put together. And it was so much fun. I made an animation for it. So we'll see what you like. Note the. Note the. The transport equipment at the very end of the video. Take a look at it closely. Okay. Here we go. Make it full screen. Yeah, something is. Just a second. Something's funny happening here. You're up this very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very warm water park. This is so. So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so boring. I'm going to go check it out. Anything without the giant water park. All right. This is so fun. I don't know what I did with all those giants from water park. This is so. So, so, so, so. fun guy. And this is my water park. I hope you like it. It's gonna be really fun. Pete, was that the nine-year-old? Yeah. Once there was an enchanted wood with a flock of beaver birds, one day a bird found a golden crystal. When all the other birds saw the crystals, they all calmed down. They didn't know that the crystal was put there by aliens. Let's take these days home with us. Welcome to this edition of Nonprofit Spotlight, as you know. A Nonprofit Spotlight is a production of the volunteer advisory. Sorry, I can't escape. Oh, there we go. Okay. See you, Steve. Don't feel too bad about the dropouts because I remember years ago when I got off the school board, I went back to school at night and all sorts of digital media and computer classes. And there was one in Watsonville that started out with 25 students and ended up with three. Wow. And these were 18, 19, 20-year-olds. Hey, I once a grammar class because, you know, when I first got here, I figured I needed some more, you know, basic English stuff. And so I took a grammar class with a great guy, Fred. His name was Fred. I forgot his last name. He was absolutely fascinating. And so we started, indeed, with the class of like 25, 30 people, most of them, you know, young people. They had like three people left. It was me, a Russian and auto mechanic. And that was it. And everybody else disappeared. And I thought it was so fascinating. It was really good. But anyway, it depends on the teacher but also on the interest of. And I saw the value of it and learning all this, because I could use it. Go ahead, Keith. I'm just going to say, if you notice the flying saucer was actually a pie. I was looking at us. That's pretty good. Keith, can you, can you explain Keith? I mean, so somebody did a soundtrack and you did all the animation. No, he did the soundtrack too. It is his voice. Didn't you hear his voice? I thought it sounded like David sort of. Yeah. Very deep sonorous. So, so you did all of it. What was it? You were just doing that to play. I thought you were saying that somebody had done something. The kids wrote the story as a group. It was a lot of fun. And as you can tell, everywhere, you couldn't hear all of it, unfortunately, but everywhere a different kid added something you could tell. The first kid said, oh, it's in an enchanted forest. And the second kid said, filled with evil birds. So what, what we've, I've talked to Matilda. I had two teachers helping me teach this. I have a child development expert. I asked. They've all agreed that maybe we'll try a one shot class. And we'll provide the students with a lot of stuff to start with. So they'll need to come in with an idea for a story and then they'll just use as much canned stuff as we have. We won't. Last week allowed them to bring in props and people and I would, I would rig the people for them and rig the animals for them. We don't have time to do that in one session. So that's what we're going to try next, probably in January. And I know I should get permission of the education committee. I ran it by Becca. She thought it sounded okay. So. Good to me. Okay. Any other discussion of Becca's report or questions? Was that the whole report? Okay. Quick question about the lighter tripods. That sounds great for the kids. My only concern is, you know, I pads are kind of big and that's like a big sale. Any concern about the stability of the lighter tripods or are you pretty confident that they will be adequate to keep our equipment safe? Yeah, that'll be good. I tested them. They are a lighter tripod. They're a tripod that I had for years for doing voiceovers really, but they are, I tested a number of them and I bought them a lot and I returned them. A lot of the light ones had really skinny legs, but what we ended up with was a Kodak camera and it has a triangular leg that is big. So it's great. It's very sturdy. It's really easy to use. It just has flippers and you go up and flippers and you go down. It's nothing tricky and it does have, it does do some extra things, but the kids don't need to know about it. So yeah, I tested them. That was my, yeah, my fear too. The iPads are heavy and then they have a big frame on them. So this is a sturdy, sturdy, small, lighter tripod. The legs are hollow, but they're big. Okay, sounds good. Thank you. Any other comments, questions, discussion? All right, thanks Becca. Now we have, I'd like to, I don't know what the proper way to do, but I'd like to adjourn to a closed session so we can discuss some real estate negotiations. Yeah, I'll make a motion that we adjourn to closed session. All right. David, second. All right, all in favor. Hi. Turn off we are adjourning to a closed session at 611. I'm going to stop this. Okay, so we are returning now to the open session of our regularly scheduled meeting. And we have decided to make an ad hoc committee of directors Mannheim, Gudger and O'Driscoll to work with executive director Becca to negotiate on a lease of our facility, a new lease of our facility and expanding the space that is available to us. I don't know. Better way to put it. Is that right? Okay. Good. So we've already voted on it was approved unanimously. That's it. And that's it. Okay, great. Thank you. Where's my agenda. There we go. And item 13, the education committee report and a copy of written copy was included in your agenda. Anyone. Summarize your. Pretty quickly, but it was. Interesting, exciting meeting and we discussed all kinds of possibilities. But especially I think main item was how we can bring more. Teaching or. Learning opportunities for our viewers as well as our participants around such items as how do you tell a story to make a video from what is citizen journalism, how do you become digital citizens. But mainly we focused really on are there materials where we can put up for the community to see on how to create a simple video how to do it well. How to tell a story. Those kinds of opportunities and we thought of, well, are there existing things that we can license or get permission for for putting up on community TV. And really what I welcome any input from all of you regarding how we can have more of an impact in terms of of education around the things that we really love and that's media and how to make it happen across the ages. We talked about even an orientation video that's already been recorded and might put up any kind of instructional materials, especially around. Everybody in the world is using their smartphones to make videos and so forth, and much learning can happen regarding how to do it better. How to make it more personal or something that's important to families, even. So, there was that. There was discussion also came up about some preliminary very preliminary investigations we're doing because the community. County Office of Education is interested in starting a drone program and do we want to even get involved with that in terms of providing equipment. And it's all very preliminary. And I've reached out to Jason Morgan from the county just to get more details on what they have in mind and that's just very preliminary kind of explorations. And then you can read before you have any questions why we're here to answer them. All right, thank you. Questions comments. Did you. Joe, did you say drone program. Yeah. I think you might get some excitement then. Military drones. I see him flying all around our neighborhood and some people are excited others are bad, but there's a lot of interest. There is a lot of interest. Yeah, I think so too. I did communicate with the head of West Valley College is drone program, and they basically offering a program that licenses drone operators. You're talking about professional operators who can do some pretty interesting things with drones that are equipped with LiDAR and are doing all sorts of things, especially for fire control and monitoring of woodlands and so on. There's a program and Justin Cummings is involved with that, our new supervisor I don't know how that's going to change as he becomes supervisor but he's been working on a program that does a lot of those involved in a lot of those similar sort of fields. I guess UCSC is offering a program I wasn't familiar with. And there is I'm reaching out to the company in Capitola that you can hire their services, their drone services. So I looked to get some information on them about, well, who do they hire for operators and you know what what are they, what do the drones do and so forth and so on. I also have a question about insurance and I asked the West Valley director, you know, and he says we out that that's a real concern. Not only for what our students might crash into, but some of their drones they're using are expensive and what if they damage them so there's a rider that they put on the West Valley's insurance to cover those expenses and so forth. But if we got involved in any kind of way that we would want a similar rider to the County Office of Ed's insurance program. This is all very preliminary. All right, good. Thanks for pursuing that. Exciting. Yep. All right, thank you, David. Any other comments, questions. Well, Board chair report I'll just like to welcome time with men I'm back to our board, glad to have you with us again and your experience and background and we're going to put you to work. And, and the other people who have read up to you know thank you for Keith and Elizabeth in absentia, but I did talk with her and. The folks who are, you know, on the committees and the officers and everyone thank you for that. I'll note that we will next meet in January, I'm going to go in as through the chair email and cancel the December meeting which will show up as a calendar item with a Google link to Matilda but you can ignore that. I'll ignore it for sure. Thank you very much. I mean, just, just know who was it for Joe Joe just help me but I'm not going to just Google me. And I'm sitting there like, okay, it's spinning and spinning and spinning so I'm going to do what Joe said. All right. Thank you. Any board member staff request for specific items on January's agenda. Any announcements Keith did you have something you another announcement or something. Nope. Okay. And I'm until you're up. Item number seven. I'll make a motion to adjourn the meeting. And we have a second. David second. All those in favor say aye. Thank you very much everybody. Happy holiday. Bye bye. Right by now.