 Good evening. I'd like to call to order the meeting of the Board of Directors of Community Television January 28 2019 Would the Secretary please call the roll? Chairman Harris. Here. Director Hall. Here. Director Rand. Here. Director Mannheim. Here. Director Loren. Here. Director O'Driscoll. Here. Director Owen. Here. Thank you very much. We're all here. So we'll move on to oral communications. Is there anybody from the public who would like to address us today? Seeing none. We'll move on to item three which is consideration of late additions to the agenda or any additions or deletions. Are there any from members of the board or staff? Nope. Seeing none. We can move on to the consent agenda, which is items 4, 5, and 6 which are to approve the minutes of our last meeting from November of last year. Approve the November 2018 financial reports and to accept the December 2018 financial reports. Are there any comments about these items? Yes, on item 4 there's a correction that I need to make to item 13 on those minutes. Okay, so shall we pull that from the consent agenda and make it item 6.5 on the regular agenda? Thank you. Any discussion about the financial reports? Would the chair of the finance committee like to make any comments? Not really this time. Becca, I think we'll bring up some of the financial aspects in her reports rather than duplicate those. We'll just defer to her. But I'd like to make a motion. We approve the consent agenda item 5 and item 6. The two financial reports for November and December. We have a motion. Second. Second. Oh, that was a tie. The secretary gets the call. Okay, we have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Carries unanimously. Okay, so we can move on to item 6.5, which was item 4 to approve the minutes. What was the correction? On item 13, these naming of the members of the strategic planning committee, there was an error there. It's Director Owen twice, and I think one of those Director Owen should be Director Mannheim. I will correct that. Twice as much work for Director Owen. Although we are very glad to have Tom Mannheim on the committee. He's doing a wonderful job. Oh, great. And just a teaser, we'll hear about what the committee has been discussing later. So any further discussion about the minutes from our last meeting? I'm seeing none. I'll entertain a motion. Move approval. With those changes. Any second? Second. All right. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Carries unanimously. Unanimously. All right, so we can move on to item 7, which is the election of a board member to a seat expiring November 2022. It is a seat that is reserved for education. And it is to replace Adam Wade's, it's Adam Wade's seat that he recently vacated. And the County Office of Education has sent over a very qualified, in my opinion, applicant. Her name is Jennifer Isent-Venzales. And Jen is working at the County Office of Education as an educator. I had to look up what a TOSA is. It's a teacher on special assignment. That's her current position. And in that position, she's developing and implementing professional development. She is the accreditation, accreditation, did I say that right? Coordinator for 24 small alternative education schools throughout Santa Cruz County. She is the leadership team coordinator. She plans and facilitates leadership team meetings. And she is still keeping her fingers in the education, in the direct education game by acting as an independent studies teacher, meeting weekly with students who have challenges to keep them from being successful in a traditional school setting. And she's a data co-lead. She developed surveys for students, parents and staff. And formally, she worked for eight years as a teacher and as a mentor to UCSC psychology students interested in social work and education. She is a doctoral candidate at San Jose State University for an educational doctorate degree. She has numerous postgraduate trainings, including one in digital media. And if that isn't enough, she has two school-aged boys that take up most of the rest of her time, I'm sure. So, and I'm happy to pass this around if anybody likes to see more details. So, our motion, right? Yes, is there a motion to approve our... I'll move that we approve Jennifer Eisen Gonzalez as our newest board member. Do I have a second? Second. All right, we have a motion to second. All those in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. And in post. Crazy Natalie, please welcome, come on, welcome to the board. Keith has prepared, right here. Looks like it's spelled correctly. Welcome. Yes, and excellent, excellent pronunciation. That's my name too. Thank you. I wasn't sure if I should do the Castilian pronunciation. It's perfect. Well, welcome. I'm sure that your many qualities will be a great addition to our board. I'm excited to be here. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right, so we can move on with our business. Director Hall pointed out, item number eight is the amendment to the 2019 board calendar. Director Hall pointed out that May 27th is a holiday, and Director Rand suggested that we move the meeting up a week to the 20th. So, including the packet is the exact same calendar with that one change. Is that agreeable to the board? Does anybody have any conflicts with that date that they know of? Any suggestions? No? Seeing none, I will entertain a motion. We do want to just approve by affirmation. Shall we do that? We can do it by consensus. Okay, consensus? All right. So, I'll ask our IT director and chair emeritus Keith Gudger to update the calendar on the website to reflect that change. So, that's item eight. Moving on to item nine, which is the oral part of our executive director. Thanks very much. Okay, so for this is a report that covers January and December, since we don't make December. So, we start with financials, and we earn $13,600 in December in the co-working part of the operation, which is really good. And we expect to, we project we're going to be at $13,000 in January as well. We did government service, we did government meeting services. So, for the, during the holidays in December, we did only 10 meetings, because there's not a lot of meetings. And in January, we did 15 meetings. We have two new accounts that we'll be doing. We are going to record the Santa Cruz county department meetings, planning department meetings. And we are working with Scotts Valley to get their meetings on the channel. We have to do some transcoding to make that happen. But we're going to do the technical parts for them. And so, we'll be charging them for that. So, we have two, there's actually, and I think there's a third thing. Oh, the water department, San Lorenzo Valley Water District is adding another meeting. So, they do one a month now, and they're going to move to two. Yes? Quick question. Is that the Santa Cruz City Planning Commission or Santa Cruz County Planning Commission? City. Okay. Sorry. I used abbreviation. That's probably not very clear. So, yes, it's the city. So, that's great for us. That's new. More revenue. You know, we like that. Victor is, now, we've been doing some work for CMAP. And Victor had been doing all their running their government meetings and doing the programming of the channels. And now, we have a really competent and resourceful person in that role in Gilroy. So, Victor is transitioning out of the management of the government meetings. We're, CMAP's able to manage them on their own. And he is just developing the programming strategy for the channels. So, then he will finish that eventually. And CMAP will be all on its own. Let's see. Under staff, California has enacted a new law this year, where employers of more than five employees have to provide sexual harassment training. Up until now, it's been employers with more than 50 employees. So, that's a big difference. And so, we're doing that. Everybody should be trained by February 19th. For equipment and facilities, for the building, the internet process has begun to bring fiber to the building, but it seems to be taking longer than we expected. They used to send me this report with these little blocks. And we've done this, we've done this, we've done this, and we've been lingering at the end here. The last thing hasn't been done for a real long time. And it requires a permit. And I think that part of it is the holidays, but I'm not sure. So, I've asked for a report and we'll see. Of course, I hope that's like, we'll send it. So, I don't know what the meaning of this is, but Is that Kruzio? That's right. It's Comcast. Yeah, yeah. So, we'll hopefully, as soon as I find out something I'll let you all know. In the building, we did a little upgrade. We are coordinator for the Co-Working Center who's been doing First Fridays as a promotional effort. And so he, we installed a gallery system around the top of the room to hang art. So, it's very cool. You can't see it normally, but then these little hooky things kind of slide into a track and then you can hang hooks on them at any length. And so, we have the Mosaic Artists of Santa Cruz County, this upcoming, so it was in November or February, the first Friday of February. And we had somebody last, last month too. And so, that will be two in a row. And then we're also still, he's still also doing the Friday movie, the movie thing, so which is kind of fun. So, this will be a, we're really excited to have that because it's kind of kept us from having any art in the outside and now we'll be able to do that. We've also been working on a project and there's a committee for this, but I'm the only one on the committee that's here. So, I will just include this in my report. Most of the work has been done by Keith Gudger. We are copying something called the One Button Studio, which is, and we're playing around with a name called, that is RSVP, really simple video production. So, what it is is you're able to go into this room and push one button and record yourself. So, you can't, it's all lit. There's the microphones ready to go. You can have a teleprompter if you want that you can run with your foot. And there are several backgrounds to choose from. So, the room is almost done. The last thing we're doing is adding acoustic tiles to make the sound a little better. We've been waiting for our lights to be delivered and as we don't know what's happened we feel like the company has deserted us. So, we ordered new lights from another company and then I think those are the last, oh and then the backdrops are, and the backdrops are on a, it's like four Venetian, like four blinds that you'd roll down, like old-fashioned shades that roll down, but they're automatic. So, we have four different backgrounds and you just press a button and then the one that you want comes down and goes back up and the wall be green. So, we can do key things and we can do, we'll have a black one, a white one, one that's bricks and one that's wood. So, we have just about everything. So, we have a long list of ways you could use this, but someone mentioned to me recently that people are very interested in doing like video podcasts and it's perfect for that. So, it's very nice. It's all lit and light and everything. You don't have to do anything. You just go in, you press the one button. If you have a PowerPoint, you can run that with your foot or the prompter with your foot and you can stop and start it with your foot. Hopefully, tap dancers can apply. Footloose, huh? Yes, footloose. You're in there. So, under communications Ian's been doing the first Friday events and he's been doing this fun thing and he'll do it on the first Friday when we have the mosaic artist. Also, in the studio he does the Vive. So, that's our virtual reality set up and so people can put on this big goggly thing and they can be, you know, in all kinds of places and he has some fun new places for people to go. So, he presented me about four ideas. I'm not sure which one he'll choose, but they were all fun experiences. So, and we're also adding, we have a lot of the Google Goggle kind of things, the Google, what do they call it? Google Cardboard. So, we're setting those out and so, while people are waiting to use the Vive, they can play with the Google Cardboard and we have a list of fun places to go. So, you can just put your iPhone in it and it's really fun. You can ride a roller coaster or fly over the, over a city or there's all kinds of fun things you can do while you wait. Let's see. And that's it. That's my report for December and January. Thank you very much, Becca. You're so welcome. Oh, I do have, oh, sorry, I have two more things. Sorry, they're not on my report, but I want to let you know we're doing them. Breaking news. This just in. We are doing a new sign for the front. So, the big monument sign that's out there on the street. Unreadable. So, we are, we're fixing that. We've got a design. We just have to, we're just doing some extra things to it. So, what we want to do is the sign is square and our, our logo is rectangle. So, we're figuring out a way to cover to, to, well, what we've done is we've made a new design so that the bottom will feature CTV. So, we're going to paint it in different color and CTV's logo can be in there. We feel like it's, we're good to go on that. So, we're going to go ahead and start showcasing that. And we're going to do signs on the top of the building across and on this end. So, right now there are banners there, but we're going to do real signs. So, we're going to have them painted and do them the right way. And then we're going to paint the sign now. The big one has a black box around it and it's a white sign. And we're thinking of reversing the colors out so the sign is green and the letters are white. So, we think we can attract a lot more attention with that. So, those are our two, two building things. We're doing that or not in the report, but how do you know? Just one thing, Becca didn't point out that the, on the financing is we're past the break-even point. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's what's important. So, I thought you guys all knew. Break-even is 10,000 and we're at 13 and a half. So, we're doing what? We're 25% ahead of reprojected. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fantastic. Halfway through the year. Good call, Joe. I figure everybody knows the 10,000 number, but probably not. I have one idea. Maybe we can do as a virtual reality director, like we can do like a VR, like so you can be directing a show at community television. Oh, that'd be fun. With your Google goggles on. Yeah. Wow. Especially the board meetings. Way more interesting. Yeah. It's much more interesting in 3D. Right, definitely, definitely. And then, oh, are we going to, when we finish the one-button studio, are we planning any sort of like grand opening, maybe in conjunction with First Friday where people can go and try it out? Yeah, we're probably going to do, we're going to approach our nonprofit partners first because they can do their own little PSAs in it. And then we're going to put together a package for business so that most businesses have a website and videos are really, and there's like some great, it's really great statistics I don't have off the top of my head, but it's something like 68% of the people who watch a video on your website buy. And so it's a really valuable thing to have videos on your website. And we have a little presentation in there too, a table, so you can show a product if you want it and talk about it, or a process, or, you know, anything. And so, yeah, we have, we have plans. We haven't launched them yet. That's our idea. First things first. Thank you. That sounds great. Any other questions or comments? No? Okay, well let's move on to item number 10, which is the report from the ad hoc strategic planning committee, which just had their first meeting. And I understand Director O'Driscoll has a presentation from that. Yes, I've been meeting with the important people at the library who might be interested in working out, exploring a partnership with CTV. And so after talking to several people, I've settled on our marketing team, and our marketing team is the group that publicizes all of the things that we're doing, the services and the programs we're offering. And they have a tremendous need to document what the library is doing. And so they can see some potential in working with CTV. And then the other group that would like to be involved in a meeting is our training group. And the training group does a couple of things. They teach classes to both staff and the community on the use of various devices that anyone would use, including film and that sort of thing. We have a virtual reality project and they conduct workshops and things with that. So they are very interested in seeing what kind of a partnership. We can have one of one of our staff members actually ran a film project in a San Jose school, so he has some experience with that part. So now imagine all the people that we might be talking about, and I managed to find out that it's possible to meet on an early Monday afternoon. So now all I have to do is find the right Monday afternoon, which won't be so long. I'm very encouraged, but they're very interested. And so I hope to have something very exciting to report to you soon. So that was from the library's subcommittee from the board retreat. So that was on item 11. Did we have a report from the ad hoc? So we did meet last Friday, just a reminder for everybody. It's director Rand and myself and director Owen twice. As well as I was absent, my apologies. So my tray will be there next time. I will. That's right. And Nathan Benjamin, who's a former director as well as Keith Cutcher, former director now, and Becca as well. It was a really good meeting. We spent an hour, we did some visioning where we really talked about needing to create a clear vision for where we want to be as well as sort of what we can realistically accomplish. And we focused in on three areas, strengthening the organization and so that we're not only self-sustaining but growing. And we started diving down into what some of the pieces under that might be. Empowering technology used in the community and then strengthening community engagement. And we again dove down into some of the more specifics around that. Rather than trying to get into too much detail now, at some point we'll be coming back to the board with all the details. But we've set a fairly aggressive schedule of meeting. We're going to be meeting every two weeks through the end of April. So that hopefully by the end of April, perhaps at our May meeting, we'll be able to come back to you with a full report and a plan. Excellent. Thank you. All right. Do we have any other reports from the Board of Sheets subcommittees? Anything you want to say? Well, of course, there's one button. I was reporting on this. Maybe the venues. We had a very good meeting last year with the I don't know that we have followed up yet. Well, I think the holidays, we got exchanged a couple emails, but I think I followed up with them just the other day. I got an email back I saw today, but I didn't read it. So we're talking. All right. And we need to talk about who's going to actually come up with the proposal for them, which I kind of volunteered to do it, but I have not. Well, what we're doing first is their original proposal. So we've got time to do the other second one. Yeah. Yeah. And I ran into Jack from London Nelson just the other day and mentioned, you know, we had an informal meeting I mentioned, and he's like, I don't know where we left off. Well, last time we spoke, you had already submitted your budget for the year and you're going to talk next. Well, this year, I've got to cut 4% for my budget. So I don't think it's going to. So unless we know somebody further up in Parks and Rec, we can see the need for putting permanent video installation into the London Nelson. We may have to. But if he has to cut 4%, what we could do for them would we allow them to go forward while not spending all that, the money that they don't have? Right. Well, so maybe it's worth a follow up. Yeah. I think we could help them in that case. Right. Okay. Well, maybe we can follow up. And I still have ideas for other venues. I'm not sure if we want to focus on just a few to start with and then branch out to others. But we have our list and we can work our way down. Great. Okay. So we can move on to item 12 if there's nothing else, which is the oral report of the volunteer advisory committee or the VAC for Jen. And our committee chair is Matilda. So this month, I don't have a lot to report because you know the holidays, but based on we had an idea that based on that we're all doing a strategic plan that we would like to hear from our producers and the directors and people who are using, you know, the facilities to do, to do public access TV. And so we have set the VAC has set February 23rd at noon, a meeting with basically a hearing for all people who want to say something about what strategically would help to bring the community programs and better programs as well as getting more involvement. So and then we would then report back to the strategic planning committee and probably we'll get some direction from them about things to ask. And so we're planning that and we hope that the producers, directors and camera people and other people that are really, you know, really interested in moving us forward. And that's really what I have for this month because I think it's important. Excellent. Well, thank you. Any questions regarding that? She did leave out there is one other project she's been working on that's going to have a ribbon cutting. Why don't you give a little shout out to what you've been doing in your other life? Oh, okay. Well, that has nothing to do with except for its community, community radio, and we're going to have a ribbon cutting for KSQD, the community radio that where about 90 people volunteer programmers are putting on lots of shows and top programs. And, you know, we hope that people listen to 90.7 FM. There's a little music and little snippets of different programs and station IDs. And it's going to be really exciting. I mean, we're so swap, you know. When was that date? Well, it's not because it's going to be at the county office education. And they said they would have about 50 places. So I'll go ready full for the ribbon cutting. So it's not like I want to advertise because there wouldn't be space. But it is, thank you for bringing it out. And I know you've been a great supporter of it. And other people have asked me about it, too. So yeah, we're very excited. See, the reason it goes with this agenda for anybody that's worried about it is the word volunteer. Yes. Volunteer. Absolutely. Oh, for the community. No, I mean, it's nice. I hope at some point, you know, when when KSQD or the community radio is stronger and, you know, has has something under its belt that will strengthen and it fits our strategic plan, you know, have more community connection and partnerships with community or we've talked to them about that. And you've talked about it with us and, you know, we just have to get now feet on the ground. And then we can leap forward. All right, here's to some new beginnings. Fantastic. All right. So that consists of item 13, the oral report of the board chair, which would be me. I don't have much. I've been kind of learning the ropes. I must thank Keith Godger for helping me with my first agenda creation. He was very helpful. And thank you. And of course, our secretary. And I did. We got a request through the community TV contact page for somebody to cover the researchers anonymous meeting at the Museum of Art and History on February 9 from 11 to 1, which will be honoring Peter McGettigan, a long term, long time community television member and employee. And even though we don't really cover events, I volunteered to do that because he was a friend and mentor of mine. And they asked if somebody from community TV would be interested in saying something about his contributions. And Joe graciously accepted that. And so we'll be there February 9 from 11 to 1. If anybody would like to join Peter's sister, Martha, who is also a historian in our own right, we'll be speaking about Peter and the Vallejo chess. They're actually descended from the Vallejo family, which town is named after their historic California family. So even if you didn't know Peter, it might be an interesting event to attend. And I think that's about it for me, my oral report. So we can move on to item 14, which is board member or staff requests for specific items to appear on the next meeting agenda. Seeing none, we can move on to announcements. Thank you very much. Do any board members have any announcements besides? Okay, so I'd like to take this opportunity to thank our volunteer crew here today. And that would be a minute, Janakas. So you can stay tuned. Something always exciting happens. Right at the end. Is everybody okay? Yes, we're alive and well. This reminds anybody of a 60 minute interview with the gully-gully. No, no, no board members were harmed in the making of this program. I'd like to thank Linda Janakas, Keith Gudger, Sherry Ross, Phil Harmonic, Nick Kirkendall, and Gene Kratzer for producing this meeting. And with that, I will entertain a motion for a adjourn. All right. All those in favor? Okay. Thank you very much.