[0:15] All

[0:18] right, we do a roll call, adjourned, various excused, David Hayward, here.

[0:26] Leana Han.

[0:27] Yeah.

[0:28] Feel free to hear.

[0:30] Wrap.

[0:31] Namilets is excused.

[0:33] Steven Hyer.

[0:34] Here.

[0:35] We have flowers, excused.

[0:37] John L.K.

[0:38] Here.

[0:39] All right.

[0:39] So we have a quorum.

[0:41] Very good.

[0:41] Thank you, sir.

[0:43] First item on our agenda is approved.

[0:45] The agenda.

[0:45] Can I have a motion to approve the agenda, please?

[0:47] I'm motion to approve it.

[0:49] Second.

[0:49] So any questions in discussion?

[0:51] All of us are very pleased to say aye.

[0:53] Anybody opposed? Motion carries. The agenda is approved. We have no carry over items tonight, and our regular business

[1:00] The first item is to approve the minutes from our February 26 meeting. Have a motion, please

[1:06] I move to approve the video center administrative board minutes from February 26, 2025 as presented

[1:13] I second that. There are any questions or discussion on the minutes

[1:18] All is a favor, please say aye. All right, anybody opposed?

[1:22] And motion carries, the minutes are approved.

[1:25] The next item in the agenda is the 2526 ITV budget.

[1:32] I will entertain a motion to approve, and then I'll ask Mr. Elquito,

[1:36] walk us through what he's provided to us.

[1:42] Move to approve the 2025-2026 video center budget proposal,

[1:48] A as presented and instruct the station manager to adopt option B if the budget of the budget of the language is changed in the intergovernmental agreement that changes the amount of funding

[2:00] Independence television receives annually.

[2:09] The motion is second.

[2:11] All right, very good.

[2:12] Mr. Oki, do you walk us through the next year's budget please?

[2:16] Yes, so typically I've put together a presentation kind of walking through the budget of what we have this year.

[2:21] to do it a little differently, as there has been some discussion between the

[2:25] township and the schools that change the language between the intergovernmental

[2:28] agreement to change the amount that we receive in peg fees as I've discussed

[2:34] multiple times at our meetings, peg fees, our decreasing annually. You'll kind of

[2:39] see in the budget packet I kind of presented a spreadsheet where peg fees have

[2:46] been going the last number of years.

[2:50] The starting at 2013 when we started this intergovernmental agreement to 2024, those numbers

[2:55] are final.

[2:56] So franchise fees, AMP fees, or just including them both.

[2:59] So you can kind of see them from 187-500 and 23 down to 168-656-24.

[3:05] This is caused a drain on the fun balance on the side of the township to kind of cover

[3:12] the 200,000 that they send over that is agreed upon, that was agreed upon. So one thing that

[3:19] we discussed a while ago was just changing the language to instead saying we're going to

[3:24] be receiving $200,000 annually to we'll be receiving 100% of the peg fees received by the

[3:29] township. So whatever that is, we wouldn't be dipping into the fund balance and the township

[3:33] side to cover the deficit that we have annually. Now, these discussions haven't been finalized yet,

[3:40] but that's why I presented two budgets team today.

[3:43] One is a requested budget of the 280 team.

[3:47] That's what we get normally from the township side.

[3:49] 200,000 from independent township,

[3:51] and then 18,000 from Springfield township.

[3:54] This is some of them we've been getting for,

[3:56] you know, since the beginning of this creation,

[4:00] it says that language has not been changed

[4:02] in our intergovernmental agreement.

[4:04] At this point, this is what I'm going to be presenting

[4:06] as our budget since this is what we have in April.

[4:09] So that's what we have option A. The first budget you see there is a requested budget of 218,000.

[4:15] The reason why I have constructed option B, you'll see that on page 3 of the budget packet or the budget presentation,

[4:24] these are following the projections of peg fees that we have gotten from budget analyst Ricky Ager over the township.

[4:31] And so, if that language is adopted by the Township and the schools and changed for the video center,

[4:39] which we'd have to bring to the board anyways, if there is such a change,

[4:42] but say if it comes to us in September, right before the Townships,

[4:46] you know, doing their budget and everything like that,

[4:49] we would need to kind of pivot to whatever is given to us.

[4:53] Now, there also could be a language of time given in everything like that

[4:58] that we could discuss, but I wanted to be prepared.

[5:00] Just in case there is a big change to our budget that we could pick, you know, change to whatever it is based on the projection.

[5:09] So that's why I kind of presented the option A and option B.

[5:13] Just see this a little bit more flexibility.

[5:15] Also, I don't think that would cause us to require a special meeting if there was a large change to our budget to adopt a new budget by this board.

[5:25] I've notified Clarkson Community Schools, the potential change and everything like that, the

[5:31] townships of where the potential change.

[5:34] So right now I think it's just waiting on language from the attorneys to present the change.

[5:40] But as I kind of stated, I just wanted to make sure that us over at Independence Television

[5:46] were prepared if there were to be a change in 2526 that we can kind of move with that change

[5:52] rather than kind of be blindsided or have a massive uptick in our budget.

[6:01] So that's the large issue with the large piece of this budget is going to be the option A option B.

[6:09] I'll open to any suggestions or changes to the motion or anything like that.

[6:14] You'll also see in the notes, some of the big changes, some of the things that I want to hit on,

[6:19] is we're proposing an 8.3% salary increase to our production coordinator, Matt Legato this year.

[6:26] Matt is going to be entering your three or four.

[6:29] I think four as a full-time production coordinator with us come June.

[6:35] And this was actually Matt Blow's idea that he's one of the longest tenure production coordinators

[6:41] that we've had here in Defense Television, so we wanted to make sure that we were awarded him

[6:45] not only hard work that he's been doing, but just to reward him for being a piece of our staff

[6:53] for as long as he has and a consistent piece, the knowledge that he has, the skill said that

[6:57] he has would be really, really difficult to replace on such a short notice, not that we'd ever

[7:03] want to replace him. He's in my opinion, one of the reasons that we've been so successful these

[7:09] last few years, and we wanted to make sure that we rewarded him and we wanted to reward our staffers

[7:15] and trying to keep them as long as possible.

[7:18] So Matt and I discussed this kind of work

[7:21] through the numbers and everything like that

[7:22] to present this change in the salary.

[7:25] Typically, we've been doing a 3% increase

[7:27] of salary for our production coordinator annually.

[7:30] Just as a cost of living race, there should be a little bit higher than what we have been doing, but both Matt and I felt that it was necessary to reward an employee that has been so loyal to us and stayed with us for a long time. We hope to keep him longer.

[7:45] So, as you can kind of see the rest of the nodes are similar to each and every year, we've

[7:53] changed some things in our CIP as well. Moving forward, our biggest change in the CIP this year.

[8:07] I do and it's printed very small, so I apologize. This upcoming year we wanted to purchase a new

[8:13] trycaster for the studio. This is not a necessity at this point, but it's more cautionary I guess

[8:20] you could say. And to be honest, looking at how the peg fees are going at this rate,

[8:24] we want to make sure we can move some of our larger CIP projects up further when we have the funds

[8:31] to take advantage of these. Now, not saying that we couldn't later, we have a very healthy fund balance,

[8:35] so if anything does happen or did happen to a larger piece of equipment, we would have the funds

[8:40] to dip in and do so, but we're talking to the staff and everything like that, we thought

[8:45] it wasn't being a good opportunity to look at our equipment in the studio, update the

[8:51] tricaster, but also we had our replay system die this year, we had another stream box die as

[9:00] well this year.

[9:01] So there's certainly need for some updated equipment in the studio.

[9:04] We're piecing it together at this point, but I can replay where it's a nice feature for our

[9:10] for its programming, it's not an necessity.

[9:12] But if we get something similar that we can train our students

[9:15] on and just make that a nice focal point of our productions,

[9:20] we'd love to.

[9:22] So that's what we kind of moved our CIP project

[9:26] of this year.

[9:27] You'll kind of see it's listed at $50,000.

[9:29] This is Dr. Soft Research of what a new tricaster would cost

[9:34] to replace.

[9:35] Now, the tricaster that we have in the studio,

[9:38] we would, again, put to use.

[9:39] is we would swap that out with our current road unit that we have.

[9:43] The road unit is a little bit older, it's still working great.

[9:48] But obviously if we had the opportunity to upgrade that with something that we already

[9:52] have in-house, I'd love to do that too.

[9:54] So we'd probably weigh that option by either replacing that road unit with the studio tricaster

[10:00] or seeing if we get a traded option that would be significantly helpful in percine

[10:06] tricaster.

[10:07] So that is what I have as far as the budget goes.

[10:11] I'd love to feel any questions regarding the capital improvement

[10:16] projects, the budgets that I presented, our peg fees that we have.

[10:22] I know it's a lot of information, a lot of numbers thrown at you from a board

[10:27] standpoint, but I'd love to walk through them with you if you have any specific

[10:30] questions in regards to our budget.

[10:32] So just from a timing standpoint, this is July 1st. Correct. Yep. This kicks in. And so for

[10:43] an agreement

[10:45] Amendment that would first come to our board

[10:47] before it goes to the Township Board in the school board. And so that wouldn't happen before July 1st at this point. No, I don't see that happening before July 1st.

[10:58] I could be mistaken, like, it could, but I would have to pretty quickly

[11:02] just feel like.

[11:02] So in that case, I mean, I feel like we have to go with the budget that exists,

[11:09] given what we know now, sure, being that fiscal year starts in two months, because

[11:16] how would we change the budget in the middle of the year?

[11:18] It would have to be, I think, if there was a new budget that was adopted, we have to bring

[11:23] to a school board to get approved, do so after if there were any changes, I could be mistaken

[11:29] on that in fact, but I think that's the process we have to go through.

[11:33] So I think just in terms of our procedure and our motion, I think we're adopting option A because

[11:39] that is reality, which will be reality the beginning of June when the school board approves

[11:46] the budget and whenever the township approves, whatever they need to approve on that sense.

[11:50] And then if we go through the process of improving amendments, it's probably the capital lease that would get changed more so than the

[12:00] Intergovernment Agreement, although there might be language in there, but I think there's a small language in there that might have to be revisited by your correct.

[12:06] So that that whenever that happens we'd have to amend if it was in the middle of the year or if it's an effect for next year or whatever happens to be

[12:16] I would think we cross that bridge when we get to it.

[12:19] It'd be really hard to do kind of any event in the middle of the year,

[12:23] just given all the interdependencies I would think.

[12:27] And I don't want to get us to trouble, right?

[12:29] Because the last thing we want is to miss our budget.

[12:31] Yes, yeah.

[12:33] In that process, through no fault of our own.

[12:37] So I would suggest and offer a friendly amendment if it's OK,

[12:41] that we change our motion to option A and put a period at that point.

[12:50] If you're okay with that.

[12:51] Yeah.

[12:51] Motion.

[12:52] I agree.

[12:53] Yeah.

[12:54] Okay.

[12:55] I'll just read it too.

[12:56] So I'll just move to approve the 2025 2026 video center budget proposal A as presented.

[13:04] Perfect.

[13:04] That's good with you.

[13:05] Yes.

[13:06] Okay.

[13:06] So friendly amendment is adopted.

[13:08] So we're looking at option A.

[13:11] And Mr. Reed, do you have a question?

[13:15] So just to summarize that different, for me,

[13:18] the difference between option A and option B is option A

[13:21] is if we were to have gotten the $218,000 versus $163,500,

[13:28] which we already have received,

[13:31] we're just not likely to get the $218.

[13:34] And then option B shows reductions in operating costs

[13:39] and capital cars to compensate for the reduction in peg fees, right, is that right?

[13:47] Kind of, so if you're looking at the 163-5, that's activity as of right now for 24 or 25.

[13:54] So the 163-5 is what we've received at this point, that's three quarters of peg fees.

[14:00] So there's still one more quarter peg fees that we'll be receiving to fill out the budget at 2018.

[14:05] So this year's fine, we'll be hitting our marks, everything like that.

[14:08] The requested budget of 2018 for 25, 26 would be just as as you kind of see from 22, 23, 24,

[14:16] the same that we've got in each year.

[14:17] So, are you going to be at this point, that is the plan.

[14:23] As I said, this question has been to change the language, so we would be only receiving 100% of the peg fees rather than,

[14:33] Because right now we got in 24, 168 total impact fees, so we've been pulling from the fund balance to get to 200,000 each year.

[14:45] So the fund balance on the township side is dwindling to cover that loss at this time.

[14:50] So the township has expressed concern that they'd like to make that change.

[14:56] So the fund balance doesn't dwindle down to zero and we would just operate.

[15:00] With whatever is given to us, which is something that we eventually will have to do, you know.

[15:08] But the last budget meeting in November from the township side, they expressed a strong want to change that language met with the current supervisor.

[15:19] They're aware of the change, the budget analyst is aware that needs to be changed, so it's on their radar.

[15:23] But like I said, the balls in their core right now, from a lawyer's standpoint, to draft that language and make that change if they want to.

[15:30] Now, granted, their budget cycle is a little different from the school, so it's probably not even on their radar at this point being April or May.

[15:37] How are we like to look at it? So, but it has been a rush of their attention, so they are aware that that is coming.

[15:43] That's why I constructed this how I did, because I kind of feel like later in the year this conversation is going to get brought back up again.

[15:52] I'm a treasure of a couple of organizations and their approaches and not to change the budget once it's approved.

[16:00] In other words, even if the performance, you know, funds don't match what was really budget.

[16:06] We don't adjust the budget to match the new reality of funds.

[16:11] We just acknowledge at the end of the year that we didn't meet the budget and with an explanation,

[16:17] but not to move the budget, you know, in the middle of those with public funds there are a variety of state requirements of how close you come to your budget, which typically a municipality or school district will amend the budget close to the end of the year to try to make it as accurate as possible.

[16:38] with everything you know at that point, because if there's large variances,

[16:44] there's a state oversight that comes into play at that point.

[16:49] And so the financial aspect of this along with the audit and

[16:53] everything else is extremely legally prescribed.

[16:57] So we should amend if there are large variances.

[17:01] If we don't spend what we're going to spend, that's fine.

[17:06] But from a fiduciary responsibility, like, and it'll be interesting, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it, but how do you budget for a hundred percent of peg fees?

[17:15] It's hard, yes.

[17:16] You have to guess, and it's something that a lot of community media stations have been doing that are in the same boat as us, so it's something that is being done.

[17:26] It's just extremely difficult to try and budget out your ear as far as what you can do.

[17:32] so it's certainly going to change how we operate from a standpoint of particularly our capital

[17:38] improvement projects, the larger big purchases and everything like that, not saying that we won't

[17:43] continue to do them, but we're just going to have to kind of play it a little closer to year rather

[17:48] than going into a year and starting them in July right away. So, oh we know we have all these funds coming

[17:52] and we'll be fine. We might have to just wait a little bit closer to January or February before the

[18:00] financial year starts and on the school side that we might have to start doing it in that.

[18:04] So small adjustments that were kind of prepared to make as a staff and we've been talking about it for a long time,

[18:10] as far as what this looks like.

[18:13] You know, maybe as prepared as possible before you get there.

[18:16] So I'm not going to say there's not going to be hiccups whenever we do cross that bridge.

[18:20] And I kind of hate playing the game of what ifs and stuff like that.

[18:24] So there's one other gadget in the mix right of the percentage that the township collects.

[18:31] The township collects 1.6% of peg fees from the cable companies.

[18:37] And that's listed here on the peg fee sheet that I presented you and kind of see a 2014

[18:43] is when we decrease from 2% to 1.6%.

[18:48] That was also discussed a while ago of going back up to 2%, that would be, I think, a smarter idea when

[18:57] there are open negotiations between the cable companies and the township, which a lot of communities are having right now with these companies,

[19:06] and they're able to renegotiate for this percentage.

[19:09] That's a conversation we'd have to have as far as getting back up to 2% with kind of toyed with the idea,

[19:15] but the cost of lawyers and everything like that was determined not valuable enough to regain

[19:23] 4% of this dwindling fund.

[19:26] How long is the franchise agreement run?

[19:29] I don't know.

[19:30] I'd have to look on the township side to see when those contracts were signed between each

[19:34] cable company and that'd be a Comcast and AT&T.

[19:39] So I don't know if I have those files in the back, but I could look into, to see when those

[19:44] I guess it's spire or it would be up for negotiation.

[19:49] And you're giving us kind of calendar year, peg fees.

[19:52] And so it's kind of difficult because it's not broken out by quarters to say half of this is half of each year is in one of our budget years.

[20:03] Yeah, so this is annually.

[20:05] So it really depends like obviously fluctuates a lot as well from quarter to quarter is what you're going to get.

[20:11] but that's why we kind of rick or the township has been doing,

[20:16] I think a pretty darn good job of trying to project that out

[20:19] for the next few years is based on the decreases that we have had.

[20:24] Just looking at that and looking at the trends of what we would be looking

[20:27] at the next few years.

[20:29] So he's been pretty aggressive in the projections,

[20:32] which is good rather be aggressive than not,

[20:35] and then be surprised by it later on.

[20:37] But as Matt always says, this is next to me.

[20:42] One of these days, he's going to be right.

[20:44] And like that day is pretty darn close.

[20:47] So, and it's not just, like I said,

[20:49] this is not an independent issue.

[20:51] This is a statewide issue.

[20:53] And that's something that I'll be covering a little bit more

[20:55] of in our quarterly update.

[20:57] But it is something that's being seen not only in Michigan,

[21:01] but also nationally as well.

[21:03] So there's a, we're at a big fork in the road

[21:06] from a history standpoint as far as what this looks like

[21:10] from our funding standpoint.

[21:14] So that's a difficult pill to swallow,

[21:16] but also with us being as conservative as we have then the last few years,

[21:20] we built up a very healthy fund balance.

[21:22] Not only on the school side, but on the township side

[21:24] to get us through these dark ages.

[21:26] So it's something that has a staff

[21:28] we've been very cognizant of the last few years.

[21:33] So.

[21:33] Yeah.

[21:34] Yeah.

[21:34] The 2627 budget, you're forecasting 1.38 versus the 2.8 team we have in an option A.

[21:44] Yeah.

[21:45] So the 1.38 and the 1.35 are projections from Rick.

[21:48] I can firm those numbers with him.

[21:50] These were presented at the township's budget presentation in November.

[21:56] So these are just projections at this point.

[21:58] the 168, the 138, the 135 are simply projections,

[22:03] as far as what we'd be getting.

[22:05] Could it be more?

[22:06] Yeah, I had probably could, maybe the first few years,

[22:08] could it be less?

[22:09] Yeah, it very much could be.

[22:12] But that's why we're going to go with these aggressive projections.

[22:15] So especially from my standpoint, when you're

[22:17] budgeting and always be great to budget more than less,

[22:20] and kind of fix that need.

[22:23] So that's why I went very aggressive on the drop-off,

[22:25] as you can kind of see a big loss.

[22:28] in the next three years or so.

[22:30] So, I think part of the conversation that we need to have over the next year and not tonight is, you know, what, as a overseeing board here, what do we want our philosophy to be, you know, are we spending down fun equity, is it for specific purposes, because I mean, we would need to give some direction to the staff to say, hey, do we want to, you know, we want to tighten expenses first, what do we absolutely have to have, you know, do we want to use the capital piece as a,

[23:00] a shock absorber, you know, what are those parameters that we want to go forward with and

[23:04] how we want to kind of absorb these potential changes, you know, in the future.

[23:09] I mean, this is pretty simple budget as far as budgets go.

[23:12] You know, there are things we could certainly say, hey, we're not going to do this or we need

[23:16] to do without.

[23:17] There are some things on here that to exist, we have to do.

[23:20] You know, we have to have certain staff pieces and things that make a whole system work.

[23:26] So those are conversations I think we could have over the next year, you know, probably early

[23:32] 26 I would think would be a good time, you know, in our meeting before we get into the budget, our February meeting next year.

[23:40] I think makes it a great sense to maybe we'll plan some extra time and dive into that a little more.

[23:48] Any other questions on the budget looking at option A here for adoption this year?

[23:58] Okay. Thanks for all your work on this and I know it's really fun crunching numbers in the world.

[24:07] Yes. Yes.

[24:08] Better to be prepared.

[24:10] Flatfooted, so thanks for your efforts there.

[24:13] If there are other questions, we'll go ahead and vote all of those in favor. Please say aye.

[24:16] Aye.

[24:17] Anybody opposed?

[24:19] The budget carries and is adopted.

[24:22] And we come to item three, our quarterly production update, the highlight of our meeting.

[24:29] whenever you're ready.

[24:31] Sure, thank you very much.

[24:33] Board, I appreciate this time.

[24:34] Last meeting, as I kind of said,

[24:36] I got to present with you an annual presentation for

[24:41] Independence Television's production for 2024.

[24:44] Really enjoyed doing that.

[24:45] We did it at the Township Board meeting in April as well as kind of just

[24:50] recap for the trustees in a way to reintroduce ourselves or at least

[24:55] be front of mind for the trustees and kind of like I said with the board doing these presentations.

[25:02] Not everybody gets to see all the fun stuff that I see from the day-to-day stuff.

[25:05] So I like to bring that to the attention of everyone.

[25:08] Matt below actually who is not here tonight is going to be presenting the same presentation.

[25:12] Not the same one, but annual review to the school district board come May.

[25:17] So I'm going to look out for moving forward.

[25:20] But thank you very much for your time.

[25:21] This is a quarterly report. This is going to cover the beginning of 2025 so far as what we've had.

[25:27] So from the cable side, I'm going to start off with the outages that we've had.

[25:32] We had a lot of outages that have caused a lot of problems in our back room.

[25:37] I know I talked to you about the T1 lines and replacing those and we've done so.

[25:41] And we had everything set to transition over but then we had that encoder that I chose not to buy,

[25:46] because of cost, it died due to a lightning storm, essentially,

[25:53] and it got fried.

[25:54] So we worked with our IT director over at the Township, David Cannon,

[25:57] who came over to try to reboot the system.

[26:00] It was a really old Windows that it's operating on.

[26:03] So it took a long time to find an operating disk

[26:06] that he could convert to USB to plug in and then try to reboot it

[26:11] that way.

[26:12] It did not work.

[26:13] So we tried a few different things,

[26:15] But unfortunately, the community channel on AT&T

[26:18] has been down for a little bit of time

[26:19] because the encoder is dead.

[26:21] So we did shift some funds around for our last purchase

[26:24] of this calendar year to buy that new encoder.

[26:28] So when that new encode, it was purchase.

[26:30] I did get noticed that from our supplier

[26:33] that he did receive it, but he received it damage.

[26:35] So we have to wait for a new one now.

[26:38] So once that is received, he's going to come over

[26:40] and that whole project will be done no later than July,

[26:43] once everything's done.

[26:46] So as I talked about earlier, we've had a lot of equipment kind of,

[26:52] and it's, you know, reach its end, its life, the last couple of months.

[26:57] So it's been a little bit of a challenge to kind of work around some of the stuff as we've talked about our backgrounds not completely updated.

[27:05] So trying to find things that fit perfectly with how we have everything instructed can be somewhat difficult.

[27:10] but Great Lakes Media, who we've worked with for a long time, John Stilton, has done a really

[27:16] good job of working with us in providing some appropriate solutions for our studio, and he

[27:21] works with a lot of different community media stations, so it's really nice to work with someone

[27:27] like that. So just move along on that at this time. From the live standpoint, as I've talked about,

[27:34] we had our streaming computer in the studio and replayed, you know, not work anymore.

[27:42] So we've swapped over to a laptop system to take from our stream box.

[27:47] It's really cut down a lot of that we've been having a lot of buffering issues in our studio

[27:51] for our live events.

[27:53] We had them here at the district offices back at the studio so we were kind of really baffled

[28:00] as far as what was going on.

[28:01] So it took a long time for us to kind of find a solution, but now that we've found a solution

[28:07] and upgraded some things, we're kind of back to normal on our live CM point and broadcasting

[28:12] live.

[28:13] So as they always say, live production doesn't come without grum lens and we had some for a while,

[28:18] but I think we're in the right track now.

[28:21] Online Hannah Gray has officially finished the redesign of independence at television.com.

[28:25] So it's looking really nice to be able to get a chance to check it out.

[28:29] We've had a lot of uptick on our website as well because of the launch of the summer camp registration.

[28:36] It says in April we had 19 campers right 20 right now which is really great.

[28:43] So that's an increase of five campers that we had last year and that was open maybe a week before we hit capacity.

[28:50] So we really didn't have to do any advertising on this.

[28:52] a lot of returning campers from two years ago last year and new ones as well.

[28:57] So we're skewing at a higher age this year, so probably 11, 12, 13, 14 year old kids that

[29:04] will become into camp.

[29:05] There's some younger ones as well, which we'll have plenty to kind of work with, but our website

[29:09] is kind of seen uptake of audience with the recent registration of summer camp.

[29:15] So I'll go into our production update for the year so far from the public side.

[29:20] We got some broadcasts outlive, the Clarks area youth assistant award ceremony on the 24th.

[29:27] And production coordinator Matt Legato created a three-part series celebrating the 50 years

[29:31] of scam, which is featured on their website right now in our YouTube page as well.

[29:36] The series was released in sections on Mondays from February to March, and culminated with

[29:41] the scam director coming in as a guest for one of our public shows at Connecting Clarkson,

[29:45] where they actually talked about the video series and everything like that.

[29:48] So it's kind of a really nice, big project that Matt had been working on since I believe

[29:54] last July, and that was just strictly filming B-roll and stuff like that doing interviews

[29:58] in the studio, and make-

[30:00] I'm sure everything was ready to release January 1, for their 50th year anniversary. As you can see at the bottom

[30:06] as well we also had three public shows that came in during Spring Break and we had three new episodes

[30:11] of Conversations to build, connecting Clarkston and goodness me, insight independence. Sorry about that.

[30:19] You see in the right corner some other events that we did to the North Oakland concert band performance. That was a team

[30:25] that we did with Orient Neighborhood Television on Lake Orient, they, this band that they typically

[30:31] cover and record was coming in and perform at Clarkson at the high school. So they asked

[30:35] if we would record it, they would edit it and then share the program with us. So we were able

[30:39] to kind of team up for this production. Genean Ben were the ones that did the recording.

[30:44] We sent off the footage, the Orient team edited it together and sent us back a program that

[30:49] we had to play on our channels and everything like that. So a good community media team up that

[30:54] we got to do earlier in the year.

[30:56] Some other events that we got to do as well,

[30:59] I'll kind of touch on one that we did today

[31:00] is we're at the Meyer Independence Market

[31:03] grand opening.

[31:04] We put together a highlight reel

[31:06] that will be premiering at six,

[31:08] so just like two minutes ago,

[31:10] and then also recording of the full ceremony

[31:13] that took place.

[31:14] That was a team up between Matt and I

[31:17] that we kind of covered the event in a unique way

[31:19] but it turned out really well.

[31:21] So just a lot of different public events

[31:23] that we've got to do to start the year.

[31:26] I'll take this, the education side since Matt's

[31:29] not with us, because he's currently broadcasting

[31:31] out an educational program, started two minutes ago.

[31:35] And I hope he's doing good.

[31:37] But they're doing the senior awards tonight

[31:38] with the PM TV production class.

[31:41] As you can kind of see here, they've done two basketball games,

[31:44] well, the soccer game, two LaPros games.

[31:46] They also ran all the equipment for the state

[31:48] of the community event at the high school in March,

[31:50] which was, they did a fantastic job.

[31:52] and then also the Youth Assistance Awards last week.

[31:55] So they've been extremely busy with a lot of live events

[31:57] and putting a lot of programs together

[32:00] from the class side.

[32:03] We were kind of talking about it.

[32:04] It seemed like we did more of the spring season

[32:06] than we have in years past.

[32:09] So that's kind of great to see from our students and everything.

[32:14] But they're starting to ramp up and prepare for the end of the year

[32:17] as we've got graduations coming up and everything like that.

[32:19] senior's last days or his May 15th so in like two weeks I want to say so they're really kind

[32:25] of finishing their last few projects in their showcase film. They're all working together I believe

[32:31] on one. So you can kind of see some of the other events to college one a one night enrollment

[32:36] interviews and technical education teacher interviews military wall dedication ceremony and then

[32:42] elementary school history program. And as I said further that's not here with us tonight

[32:47] but the May 15th school districts meeting he will be there presenting and our students for the

[32:54] PMTV production class will actually be running the equipment as like a pseudo presentation

[32:58] on the media program while he does his presentation and Matt is also going to be receiving 10

[33:03] year from the district that same night so a really big night for us here at PMT or independent

[33:08] television to celebrate Matt and everything that he's been able to do and accomplish. So if you're

[33:13] available and I want to join as parents in the front row come celebrate mat at the school

[33:18] district meeting on May 15th. So it's Monday at 7 o'clock.

[33:22] I'll be there.

[33:23] There you go.

[33:25] From the government side, as I kind of stated before we had helped with the PMT production

[33:30] class and we did the state of the community ceremony in March, we created three videos that

[33:35] were played during that presentation for Clark's Community Schools, the City of the Village

[33:39] of Clarkson and Independence Township, we're currently finishing the latest episode of the

[33:46] Township featuring DPW that actually got sent off for review today, so hopefully that

[33:51] will be publishing in the next week or so if everything goes well, which is great and as

[33:56] you can kind of see down there, we'll also be partnering up with them more additionally this

[33:59] year to help create some PSAs for their well-head protection grant program that they received.

[34:04] And independence television will be given the funds associated with video production with this grant to purchase some new equipment and everything like that.

[34:13] So, don't want to count our chickens before they hatch, but it would be a fun program to do a DPW to create some PSAs, but also, you know, get some funds associated with it too.

[34:22] So, a nice program that we get to partner up with them.

[34:24] As you can kind of see some additional projects that we've done on the government side, a lot with parks as always.

[34:30] we did a public engagement session for their Clintonwood Park expansion.

[34:34] Senior Center is proving to be a big hit for us, as far as programming goes.

[34:40] They do a lot of great programming presentations.

[34:43] Jeannie McWain, our production assistant, has been kind of the lead on these productions

[34:47] of going there, just recording these presentations.

[34:51] As I kind of said at our last meeting, the Stro's brewery one that she did was very well attended,

[34:57] but it was so well-attended that people weren't able to watch it.

[35:00] So when they found out it was recorded, they had a watch party of her video at the senior

[35:04] center, of the presentation that was at the senior center.

[35:07] So it's kind of neat to kind of see these programs, find a fun audience and a good life.

[35:12] And she puts a lot of work into them, so Kudos for her, for providing this service to the

[35:17] community in this way.

[35:20] We also were able to help out on the township side by providing updated employee headshots

[35:26] that were published across the Township's website.

[35:28] So that was a four-day process.

[35:30] We were out of the Township's set up a little studio

[35:32] in the back of the boardroom office

[35:35] and just took some nice photos.

[35:38] Set up some nice music at a good time.

[35:40] So it was really good.

[35:42] From the social media standpoint,

[35:44] with the help of any of the Township parks

[35:45] rights and seniors, we posted a poll for our Facebook

[35:48] on Facebook asking people to vote for our dive in movie.

[35:51] That's at the end of our summer camp.

[35:53] So I believe the leader right now is Moana too.

[35:56] So if you're a big fan of Moana 2 at the beach, check us out for the end of camp, I think that's going to be the choice.

[36:04] We're also going to be doing a movie night with the school in the next few weeks for the seniors that will be set up on the football field as well.

[36:10] So we get to kind of utilize our movie set up a little bit more.

[36:14] You can kind of see from the statistics as far as Facebook and Instagram goes.

[36:19] We've had some higher viewed posts over the last little bit.

[36:24] A lot of, as I said before, videos are great and everything like that, but Hannah is

[36:28] done a great job of utilizing behind the scenes photos and photos of events to promote the videos

[36:34] on YouTube and stuff like that.

[36:36] So we've been trying to do that a little bit more with on Facebook to promote our longer videos

[36:42] that you're not going to post, you know, the full thing of on Facebook.

[36:45] Same with Instagram, we've been doing a little bit more collaborative

[36:48] reels with different organizations, just to reach a different audience

[36:52] that we might not typically see through our traditional social pages.

[36:56] And on the YouTube side, you can see we gained 101 subscribers on ITV's page.

[37:01] That was from January to April.

[37:03] And Michigan moment, again, is, you know, proving to be one of the

[37:12] the top 10 videos viewed so far this year. It's a big one for commenters as well. They

[37:18] have found like this weird little audience that loves these videos, but it's a program that

[37:23] is grown immensely and that's what all credit goes to Matt Legato with that together each month.

[37:30] With our wonderful host, Michael Rosengrenz, who is graduating May 9th from CMU. So congrats to Michael, as he continues his career in broadcasting.

[37:39] So I know this was kind of quick, but this is what we got coming up next. We have women in business on May 7th, Matt and I will be going there to record that ceremony.

[37:47] We have the Clarkson Community Awards ceremony. I'm May 14th. We've been working on putting together all of the videos for this. We're going to live stream the ceremony like we typically do.

[37:57] So that'll be a great event to kind of kick off

[38:01] our busy season for when it comes to live broadcasting.

[38:04] And then as I said, before we've got graduation season

[38:06] right around the corner with Rhino Sands on 29th,

[38:09] and then Clarkson, June 2nd, the following Monday.

[38:13] So that is, we're going to be quite busy in the next few weeks

[38:16] as far as everything's going with live production.

[38:19] So with that, I would have to feel any questions

[38:21] from a production standpoint from January until now.

[38:25] Is that all you've done?

[38:28] That's all.

[38:29] Yeah.

[38:30] I don't know how every time you do one of these updates for us, there's

[38:33] it seems like you're doing more.

[38:35] And we have the same staff, and I know everybody's experienced, and we're

[38:39] working together, and we have students that help us, but it's amazing how much

[38:42] that you cover, and I think the community kind of takes it for granted at

[38:47] this point that these things are live streamed and accessible, and you can

[38:50] watch it after the fact, and I think that's a great thing for our community.

[38:54] And I'm trying to find more work for you too.

[38:56] What's that?

[38:57] I said, and I'm trying to find more work for you too.

[38:59] Oh, yeah.

[38:59] Every time I talk to him, I'm like, I got an idea.

[39:02] Yeah.

[39:03] We try to reevaluate everything that we do each year as far as event coverage goes and everything

[39:08] and the standard ones that we have, but also just trying to find new things that we can do

[39:14] with some of these things.

[39:15] And maybe the community is taking notice a little bit because we've been contacted a lot

[39:19] for a lot of different events and everything, which is great.

[39:22] And we have the staff right now to accommodate a lot of these requests and we have a very hungry

[39:28] part-time staff that really wants to get out there and do a lot of things.

[39:32] So we've been able to kind of do, you know, something like the River Dog, the Clarks River Dog

[39:36] term, which we haven't done before, we have to do it this weekend.

[39:39] And the events at the senior center, you know, it's great that we have a genie part-timer who

[39:46] is available in the afternoon on weekdays to do these events.

[39:49] you know the full-time staff sometimes is but not always so it's great that we have this wonderful

[39:54] flexibility from staff to cover a lot of weekend stuff but also the you know we day mid-day

[40:00] stuff that might get lost otherwise so happy that the staff is able to kind of accommodate a lot of

[40:08] these requests and is wants to do them that's the big thing they want to go out and go to these events

[40:15] and do these videos and kind of make them their own a little bit, that you can't teach that

[40:20] you can't find, desire the want to. And we have it right now. So, we're just going to

[40:26] ride this wave as long as we can.

[40:29] Very good. Thank you for the update and all the efforts we appreciate it. I'm the half of the

[40:34] community. Public comment is the next item on our agenda. Do we have any members of the public

[40:39] would like to address the board. Seeing no members of the public, we move on to board

[40:46] member comments, any board member comments.

[40:51] Seeing none of those, the last item

[40:52] we're on agenda is adjournment, can I motion to adjourn, please? Motion to adjourn.

[40:58] Is that correct? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye.

[41:01] Aye. Anybody opposed? The meeting is adjourned. Thank you everyone.

Video Center Administrative Board- April 30, 2025

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