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the uh FCAT general manager uh about

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weekly representation on the FCAT board

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of directors. John please.

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>> Thank you very much for allowing me to

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come and speak to you be folks. So, I've

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been going through the bylaws at

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Frontier Community Access Television,

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which I believe you had a pardon

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writing. And one of the things in there

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is I have a select board member from

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each of the towns on our board.

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Currently, Deerfield is the only town

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that has a select board member on there.

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And I know for many years, as long as I

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can remember, I don't believe we had

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anybody, not even the select board

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member, even the resident from town of

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Wley serving on the committee. And

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I feel it's very important to have a

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select board member on there because

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it's not only part of the bylaws, but it

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will also help FCAT and steering the

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direction the organization goes. We're

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celebrating our 20th anniversary this

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year. The station was founded in 2006.

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Little bit of a time. Thank you very

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much. Give you a little bit of a

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history. When the station was founded,

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we didn't have technology like this.

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think we had high definition then.

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YouTube was just coming out. Wasn't even

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owned by Google. Google had their own

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video platform. And I believe Google

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20 years. We're not recording the

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meetings with cable now. We're using

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Zoom and streaming. And there's a lot of

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input we could use to help guide us with

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just a technology interest. And actually

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good example of this, I was looking to

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update the technology in Deerfield and I

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approached Brian Domina, the previous

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town administrator about doing something

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similar. And this was back in 2022 when

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I took over 2023 and he said, "No, we're

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technology we were looking to update it

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with was well over $10,000." This on the

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other hand, I believe Jessica told me

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she doesn't have an exact number.

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>> All right, I I'm not going to quote her,

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>> I will get you.

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>> It was a lot. It was nowhere near the

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$10,000

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>> price number for this. I don't need the

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number, but having this input from the

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towns would help me and FCAD in making

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sure we do stuff that's right for the

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community to make sure that we're

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proudly serving everybody. I know that

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automation especially with the meetings

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is probably the most important way to go

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because this way we can even divert

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staff to cover other community events

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like more the school functions as well

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as other presentations which is also a

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very important part of serving our

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community as well. So, I I hope that

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maybe you guys would consider if you

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could, whoever's interested in joining

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the board, it would definitely help us

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out. And there's three of you. You need

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a three-sided coin.

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initial board was um the select board

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chose a representative, the school

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committee chose a representative,

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some other person chose a representative

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for each town and then after that the

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board was to be self- sustaining and the

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weighty parted out after about 12

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yearsish. I to my knowledge I you know

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exception of Bob Armstrong we really

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haven't had any like board members but I

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think in general it just because the

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technologies always change I mean 20

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years from now we may not even be using

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that hasn't been

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>> dreamed up yet so and so I think it's

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important to have that representation

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representation there I was the last

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representative and I was termlimited

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>> This would definitely guarantee a spot.

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be a select board member necessarily. I

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think it would be good for a select

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board member to take a stint, which

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would be a three-year stint on Epcat's

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board every so often, but we we also

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have trouble

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getting people from the community

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involved. We had our 80some

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year old no she who passed away so she's

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not going to be available to be on the

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on get board. Um

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uh but it's I remember at the time

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really trying hard to get anybody

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interested. It was it's just hard to get

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anybody willing to you know come out and

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do something that in that straight. One

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thing I will add too, and I don't know

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how much you guys follow us, but there

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is a bill that they're trying to get

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into the office to get to expand to

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streaming services, too. So, it's not

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just limited cable. And I think that

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would probably help to get more interest

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in this because everybody my age I

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talked to, they don't have cable. They

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have uh Rokus.

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>> Yep. And I'm kind of hoping that might

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help stir up some interest from sort of

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the younger generations around my group

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from which towns because I know a lot of

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Frontier kids are are there. Are there

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any uh kids from Frontier

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who are also from Wley whose parents

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something else too that we could look

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h I think as far as I know, we haven't

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having a select board member do it is so

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that there's a guaranteed position too,

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>> which is why I bring it up. But again, I

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realize too, you guys are a volunteer

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committee and you only have so much

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time, too.

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>> How frequent are the meetings?

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was looking into doing them on Tuesday

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nights, maybe Thursday nights because

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select boards send a meeting on either

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somebody could be present.

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every other month.

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before the pandemic, but then they cut

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back because of just with everything

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going on, but I I found that the six

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meeting um thing works. Uh one meeting

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is the annual meeting and then another

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starting out, we really needed monthly

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look into ways to try to help improve

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the audio situation with recordings. I

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think the L's are great, but there's

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something I do notice that they are kind

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of a little muffled. Like, if unless

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well or close to it like you guys are,

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it's going to be hard. So, I am looking

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into a mixer or microphone system that

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might work. I'm still working on that,

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but hopefully in the coming months.

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>> Uh, if it's every other month, I'd be willing to do that.

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>> Well, I'd make a motion that we uh point

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Julie Wagner to the FCAT board of

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>> All right. We'll get back to you on

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their next meeting.

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>> Hold on. She's not voted in yet.

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>> All those in favor? I

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>> All right. Well, thank you very much. I

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appreciate your time. And on that note,

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though, unless you have any further

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questions for me, I will let you guys

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continue with your meeting tonight. So,

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>> All right. Well, thank you and thank

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you, Julie, for taking on the role.

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>> Oh, thank you. It's been a privilege to

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serve this town. So, I one of my

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favorite projects I've done was that 250

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at highlight reel. Oh,

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>> the 45 minute film I did, that was a fun

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film, too. So,

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>> thank you for all the opportunities you

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guys have provided me as well. So, thank

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you. Thanks,