Regular Board Meeting February 6, 2007 – 9:05 AM
Studio COS LRC 2 800 College Avenue Weed, CA 96094 530.938.5910 mctv15.org
The mission of MCTV 15 is to encourage and support the use of media for sharing events, thoughts, and opinions by and for the people of Siskiyou County
Minutes of Board Meeting Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
9:05 AM, Studio COS LRC 2, 800 College Avenue, Weed, CA
Call to order
Roll Call:
Audra Gibson, Judith Conrad, Todd Cory, Steve Crow, Rick Satchell
Kathy Blevins, John Cumming, Marian Shaw, John Arno, Saha Dave (Bill), Shirley Hammond, Rex Golston
Minutes of January 2nd, 2006 regular meeting were approved as written.
Public Comment:
None
Operation Managers Report:
Steve Crow offered to set up an account allowing MCTV to purchase office supplies through COS at significant discounts.
Financial Report:
The yearly budget was discussed and unanimously approved.
Programming Report:
John Cumming rewrote the media server software because a new version of the FLASH player rendered the old version inoperable. He spent around 40 hours on this project!
There is now audio playing under the EBB. There was some preliminary discussion about how to decide what music should be played and the possibility of offering a specific audio-only talk program during the Noon to 1 PM daily scheduled EBB.
John Cumming wants to resign from the programming duties. All the board members felt this should be a paid position and over the next few months we will look at modifying the current operations manager position to include programming duties. A transition committee to accomplish this is being formed.
Tech Report:
Steve Crow reported the COS purchase of additional equipment (including a new character generator) will happen in the next day or two.
Reports and Possible Action:
none
Policies and Procedures:
none
Liaison Reports:
Public (Judith Conrad): ongoing
Education (Marian Murphy-Shaw): Discussed after school programs, also the “reach” program integrating public school with college.
Government (Audra Gibson): none
Volunteer (Brendon Butler): The monthly meeting is no longer happening.
YCTV (John Cumming): Collaboration efforts pending due to disorganization at YCTV.
Old Business:
Mt. Shasta Legacy Fund Grant updates:
John Cumming met with Bonny Kubowitz. JEDI program progressing nicely, script forming, shoot next.
Todd & Shirley met with April Gray of Shasta Energy Group. She indicated an interest in doing a project and will be getting back with us after her ideas of what kind of program to do is firmer. We will follow up with a call.
New Business:
JEDI requested the use of MCTV/COS Studio for an awards ceremony/open house to celebrate their 10-year anniversary:
Audra will co-produce a recording of the event to be held in the MCTV/COS studio. Steve Crow indicated the liability for this event will be on the MCTV insurance and will check and relate the maximum capacity of the studio space. JEDI will be charged $150.00 for their yearly non-profit producer access fee. A board motion to approve this was unanimously approved.
Discussion of committee appointments:
A community Media Center Consortium Committee: (as detailed in our MOU) will consist of two or more board members - Audra Gibson, Rick Satchell and John Cumming and two COS staff members - Steve Crow and John Arno.
Tech Committee: John Cumming , Steve Crow, Todd Cory
Other committee appointments to be selected at our next retreat.
Discussion of scheduling our next retreat.
Discussion of forming a group to form and discuss creating an “executive director group” that will meet regularly to have ongoing discussions of MCTV operations.
Board/Staff Comments:
No new comments
Adjourn at 11:00 AM to next regular meeting:
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007 at 9:00 AM.
Studio COS LRC 2 800 College Avenue Weed, CA 96094 530.938.5910 mctv15.org
The mission of MCTV 15 is to encourage and support the use of media for sharing events, thoughts, and opinions by and for the people of Siskiyou County
Minutes of Board Meeting Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
9:05 AM, Studio COS LRC 2, 800 College Avenue, Weed, CA
Call to order
Roll Call:
Audra Gibson, Judith Conrad, Todd Cory, Steve Crow, Rick Satchell
Kathy Blevins, John Cumming, Marian Shaw, John Arno, Saha Dave (Bill), Shirley Hammond, Rex Golston
Minutes of January 2nd, 2006 regular meeting were approved as written.
Public Comment:
None
Operation Managers Report:
Steve Crow offered to set up an account allowing MCTV to purchase office supplies through COS at significant discounts.
Financial Report:
The yearly budget was discussed and unanimously approved.
Programming Report:
John Cumming rewrote the media server software because a new version of the FLASH player rendered the old version inoperable. He spent around 40 hours on this project!
There is now audio playing under the EBB. There was some preliminary discussion about how to decide what music should be played and the possibility of offering a specific audio-only talk program during the Noon to 1 PM daily scheduled EBB.
John Cumming wants to resign from the programming duties. All the board members felt this should be a paid position and over the next few months we will look at modifying the current operations manager position to include programming duties. A transition committee to accomplish this is being formed.
Tech Report:
Steve Crow reported the COS purchase of additional equipment (including a new character generator) will happen in the next day or two.
Reports and Possible Action:
none
Policies and Procedures:
none
Liaison Reports:
Public (Judith Conrad): ongoing
Education (Marian Murphy-Shaw): Discussed after school programs, also the “reach” program integrating public school with college.
Government (Audra Gibson): none
Volunteer (Brendon Butler): The monthly meeting is no longer happening.
YCTV (John Cumming): Collaboration efforts pending due to disorganization at YCTV.
Old Business:
Mt. Shasta Legacy Fund Grant updates:
John Cumming met with Bonny Kubowitz. JEDI program progressing nicely, script forming, shoot next.
Todd & Shirley met with April Gray of Shasta Energy Group. She indicated an interest in doing a project and will be getting back with us after her ideas of what kind of program to do is firmer. We will follow up with a call.
New Business:
JEDI requested the use of MCTV/COS Studio for an awards ceremony/open house to celebrate their 10-year anniversary:
Audra will co-produce a recording of the event to be held in the MCTV/COS studio. Steve Crow indicated the liability for this event will be on the MCTV insurance and will check and relate the maximum capacity of the studio space. JEDI will be charged $150.00 for their yearly non-profit producer access fee. A board motion to approve this was unanimously approved.
Discussion of committee appointments:
A community Media Center Consortium Committee: (as detailed in our MOU) will consist of two or more board members - Audra Gibson, Rick Satchell and John Cumming and two COS staff members - Steve Crow and John Arno.
Tech Committee: John Cumming , Steve Crow, Todd Cory
Other committee appointments to be selected at our next retreat.
Discussion of scheduling our next retreat.
Discussion of forming a group to form and discuss creating an “executive director group” that will meet regularly to have ongoing discussions of MCTV operations.
Board/Staff Comments:
No new comments
Adjourn at 11:00 AM to next regular meeting:
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007 at 9:00 AM.