I'd like to call to order the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Television Commission for January 9th,

2025.

Madam clerk, please.

Director McCarthy Olmsted.

Present.

Director Hedges.

Present.

Director Sloan.

Present.

Director Lopez Taft.

Present.

Director Serna.

Sorry, I'm so sorry.

Director Pluckybaum, I practice that.

And chairs please.

All right, I'm present.

Thank you.

And so let's now do the Pledge of Allegiance.

And I'd like to pick on our one of our newest council member Pluckybaum or director Pluckybaum,

if you would please start.

Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for

which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you director Pluckybaum.

Okay, Madam clerk, would you please read the Metro Replay Statement and Meeting Announcement.

The commission fosters public engagement during the meeting and encourages public participation,

civility and the use of courteous language.

To make a comment in person, please fill out a speaker request form and hand it to the

clerk staff.

The chairperson will open public comments for each agenda off agenda item and direct

the clerk to call the name of each speaker.

When the clerk calls your name, please come to the podium and make your comment.

You may also send written comments by email to boardclerkatsatcounty.gov.

Your comment will be routed to the board and filed in the record.

Okay, thank you.

We will move to matters not on the posted agenda.

Madam clerk, do we have anyone signed up for matters not on the public agenda?

Chair Spies, we do not.

All right, thank you.

Then we'll then next move to consent matters.

And I think we need to ask for consent for, I guess you need to read out the items.

No.

It's just consent items numbers 2-3-4 and if there's anything that the directors would

like to pull and speak to.

Okay.

But first I'll ask for public comments.

I do not have any public comments for consent.

All right, do we have any comments or questions from directors?

If not, yes, please.

I just have one comment.

I am looking at it and I'm just concerned for January of next year.

We always have quorum issues in the beginning because people are still being appointed by

their city council.

There's movement.

If we want to push January 15th of 2026 to maybe February.

I don't have any specific problems relative to that, but Mr. Ayala, can you?

So there is a little bit of an issue in that when the elections occur or that the appointments

occur they were scrambling last minute to get some of the forms ready so that we can

get a quorum.

You're at quorum today, but just by one vote.

So it is a concern for all of us.

Okay.

So I don't have an issue with moving that date.

I think the challenge will be where it fits on the calendar with every other meeting.

So are you asking then for us to take a look at what that date would be or to try to find

a date today?

I would give staff the opportunity to see if there are a date maybe later in January

or beginning of February which we can move just that one meeting to.

So another recommendation would be that you approve it as it is today and then we come

back in March with an amendment and then we have a better opportunity to find a date on

the calendar that works for everybody.

I like that.

Okay, great.

Perfect.

I think that sounds good.

Are there any other comments related to the consent matters?

If no, could I get a motion?

I'll move.

All right.

We have a motion.

I'll second.

All right.

We have a motion and a second.

And we were going to use the voting buttons.

Ah, there we go.

We can vote please.

Motion passes.

I happen to, uh, Director Sloan.

We lost you.

Uh-oh.

Is there an undo button?

Let's try it again for you.

Okay.

There you go.

Just press the top button.

I'm assuming you're saying yes.

I shouldn't be presumptuous.

For director, not there we go.

Okay.

There we have it.

Perfect.

So the consent matters will pass.

And now we'll move to discussion matters.

And item number five is to receive and follow the audited financial statements and other

reports for the fiscal years ending June 30th, 2020 and June 30th, 2021.

Okay.

And I believe that's Mr. Ayala.

Are you presenting this?

I can't.

There is internal audits.

You have at least three different accountants.

A microphone.

I don't think.

Oh, sorry.

I thought it was on.

Sorry.

Anyone hear me?

All right.

So this is an audit that was done internally.

It speaks to quality assurance and transparency of commission administrative business.

The auditor found three items.

We've addressed those items.

For me as your executive director, there's no issue related to liability.

There's no personnel risk.

We're not getting involved in any litigation.

These are largely internal matters that we have since cleaned up.

Our responses are here.

One of them has to do with basically keeping a position on our books that was unfunded and

created some accounting issues around that.

One of them was around dates for evolving capital asset inventory.

And then the third issue was, I believe it's related to the minutes for these meetings

and the process for making sure that we file those in a timely manner.

All matters have been taken care of by the commission or by your commission staff and

our end process of being resolved at this time.

And QA issues, nothing that creates liability for us.

Perfect.

And nothing relatively, sorry, I should, were you finished?

I'm sorry.

I am done, sir.

Thank you.

Okay, you're done.

Okay.

Let me go to public comment first.

I think it's where I should go.

There is no public comment for item number five.

No public comment.

Okay.

So then let me come back to the directors.

Does anyone have any questions relative to that?

I have some insight that I want to say, but I don't want to get in front of anybody else.

Okay.

Nothing?

Okay.

I mean, these are internal issues.

This isn't about a fiduciary responsibility.

These are quality things that just simply need to happen.

We have had a bit of turmoil over the last year or so.

And so, you know, I appreciate that the auditor has found those.

I know they'll be corrected and I appreciate that.

I appreciate the transparency.

You're welcome.

Thank you very much.

Okay.

And then we will move on to, because that's a receiving file.

There's no action necessary.

Would request a motion to formally receive and file.

Oh, okay.

Fantastic.

Do I have a motion?

I'll move.

Second.

Second.

All right.

We have a motion and a second.

All those in favor?

We're all going to have the voting buttons here in a second.

Oh, and I'm sorry.

Is that request to speak still from, no, it just needs to be cleared?

All right.

Perfect.

Okay.

So we will move on to item number six.

Madam clerk.

Item number six is to adopt the resolution approving the fiscal year 2024, 25 Sacramento

Metropolitan Cable Television Commission, community grant program grant and scholarship

recipients approving the pro forma agreements and approving the retroactive extension of

number number first 2024 application deadline to November 15th, 2024.

Okay.

Thank you.

Mr. Ayala.

Yes, sir.

So there are three grants for consideration and discussion today.

I can flip to the next screen so we can see the names of those if we can.

Oh, is that my responsibility?

Hold on.

My dad, first meeting.

Okay.

Thank you.

I have some control here.

Thank you so much.

So the initial cohort of grants came in.

We did an evaluation on them and these are the three that are moving forward for commission

consideration and discussion today.

I do want to say that this is in no way an end of this process.

There are all the applicants are still in the running for potential funding and there

is still quite a bit of funding to be awarded.

This is the initial group.

Any grant applicant that submits their grant by February 1st and anybody that has previously

submitted a grant will be open to consideration for future funding and when we get a little

bit further into this presentation, I can discuss with that processes or I can move

forward with it now.

We can sort of discuss it as we're looking at these, whatever the commission would like.

Take your choice.

Thank you.

Okay.

So I'm going to jump to next steps then.

So there's probably about 20 grants still for consideration.

What I'm going to ask is if the commission has any staffers or any community members

that would like to be part of a board, a committee if you will, that is willing to sit down with

us and evaluate those grants and help us identify any that they would like us to work with,

to push forward to the ad hoc committee for future consideration and then future consideration

and discussion, including we voted on for potential funding from this commission.

With that many grants, I am asking you for some assistance in evaluating that and I think

there should be staffers or community members that would want to involve themselves in that

process and that would allow us to have a much more global community looking at this

process.

I'm sorry, I can also back up and talk about scholarships.

That's part of this conversation.

Okay.

On the scholarship recipients, there were a total of eight.

We are recommending seven of them for funding.

This is them.

The first cohort is from Folsom Court of the Unified School District.

One of these individuals is looking for some scholarship funding around photography, hardware,

software, and production of his media choice.

The other two are part of a video production class, an advanced video production class

at Folsom Court of the Unified, VISTA in particular.

If they're funded, their funding will go into a student government account with the student

government and the teacher who's in charge of video production three will use that money

to do a full production.

What they do is they take the class, they work on script writing, directing, acting,

finding locations to shoot, costuming.

It's a whole process.

The students learn how to create actual content and then that content is later shown and they

have what's like an award ceremony.

I don't want to call it an academy award of the Folsom Court of the Unified School District.

Let's call it a red carpet event.

They've extended invitations to the commission and my staff to attend that event.

Jumping to the next one unless there's questions about that one.

The next one is San Juan Unified School District.

They want to attend a national conference in April.

It's up in Washington.

Same thing.

I have my notes to make sure I don't leave anything out.

My notes are here.

Basically, they're going to learn how to produce content with other high school students and

they look at all issues related to publication, copyright laws, writing, editing, how to get

published.

They also look at the legal parameters around which you can publish First Amendment rights.

It's a total package.

I believe it's a two or three day conference.

This money would assist them in attending that conference to a couple travel fees and

to cover the expenses of attending the conference, including a per diem.

That's what we have for the commission today.

Okay.

And then if I back up, I can talk about the recipients on the grant funding.

We're working in concert with the PEG channels.

This cohort of individuals has, we've met with them.

They understand the parameters under which they can produce content.

They're working with the PEG channels to produce their content that somewhat keeps the costs

down.

It also assures us that in working with the PEG channels, there is a community standard

that is being met with all of the content that they produce.

Okay.

That's my presentation.

Thank you.

All right.

Thank you.

I see I have a director request to speak, but first let me go out and ask for a public

comment related to item six.

We have a public comment from Sean Kilcoin.

He's coming.

He's preparing.

Well, thank you.

Sorry, guys.

How you doing?

Thank you for being here.

My name is Sean Kilcoin.

This is a Skibbity Bill.

Say hi, Skibbity Bill.

Hey.

We are here to represent a few things.

I just want to talk to you guys and say thank you so much for offering this grant.

Go ahead, say it.

Thank you so much.

So he's got a little bit of laryngitis today.

He can't talk that much.

It's okay.

I'll do most of the talking.

It's okay, man.

So I am the former producer of Puppetville News.

And we started this project with Troy Lee and Shutter Films early last year after working

for a year doing Trout or Heart and Friends, which is also another show that I produce

and write and create on Access Sacramento.

So real fast, I just want to thank Access Sacramento.

I think they're awesome.

It's been a great place to learn.

I started there just last year and already have a show.

I want to show one more thing.

Nice enough.

We won an award.

So for Trout or Heart and Friends, I won an award for Best New Show.

And so I did put in my application.

I'm just wondering, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So the Best New Show, you want to hold it?

Okay, he's going to hold it.

What does it say here?

He can be silent.

It's all right.

It says Best New Show.

It's my name, Shawn Michael Kilcoin.

Like I said, I'm really glad that this thing's going on here.

We got an awesome grant.

And I did submit an application with an amendment.

I'm not sure if you guys got those.

Is there anybody here who actually saw my link or anything by chance?

Okay.

You can catch my link at Access Sacramento, Channel 17, On Demand.

If you type in the word, Chowder, you'll find all eight episodes that I produced last year.

It was an awesome pleasure.

And I'm just really hoping to continue to do it.

So with that said, I understand that there are parameters with this grant as far as just

supporting diversity and supporting, I'm sorry, marginalized voices.

And I believe that with my show, I've had the opportunity to do that.

We've had several different characters on the show.

We've had a queer character.

We've had a Muslim character.

We had a gay character.

These are things that we've made up and written into the show.

And I think they really do represent voices of people that don't get heard on cable TV.

So when I started the show, my target audience was people that were watching cable.

I was the people that are sitting at home, especially my parents.

They're 75 years old and they sit there and they watch TV all day.

They're not zooming.

They're not going to the internet.

They're watching cable.

This was my target audience.

And I think if you guys watch the show, Mr. Kilkwin, I can chowder on where I said to go.

I've got 16 seconds.

If I could just put you on hold for just one quick second.

I'm going to let you keep going.

Give me just a second.

Given as light as our agenda is, and he's the only speaker signed up, I'm going to ask,

can we give him another two minutes?

But if you could, please, sir.

For sure.

I'll wrap it up.

I know I wanted to introduce myself to everybody.

Thank you so much.

Yeah, no problem.

My goal today in talking to you guys was just, if you haven't heard about Chowder Heart and

Friends, I did fill out an application for the grant.

I think it was a fair asking request.

And I definitely think that given the parameters of the goals of the grant, that I can be a

representative to all those communities.

I'd like to have the hood chef on, you know, Jay Poo.

I'd love to have Kier and just cross things like that.

We started the whole thing doing holidays.

We've done Christmas.

We've done Chinese New Year.

We've done Halloween.

With that format, we can actually do every holiday of every culture, you know, and just

take that and how those voices heard.

And that's the median that I would love to go forward.

So I know there's another round coming up in February.

So I'd love if you would take a closer look at it and look at some of our content.

And you know, like I said, I would love to formulate something that's more inclusive,

you know, because you get what you get when you get, when you have no budget.

With a little bit of budget, we can have the people we want.

We can have the guests we want.

We can have the future of the whole community.

So thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Kilcoyne.

And I know that again, this is definitely not the last and I know we're going to do

another round soon.

And I know that Mr. Ayala had mentioned that he'll be reaching out.

So please continue conversation.

Okay.

So I did send an email to the clerk last night.

Did you guys happen to get that forwarded to you guys?

We did.

Yes.

Perfect.

Okay.

Thank you, sir.

Okay.

Thank you.

Do you want me to sign up?

Okay.

Fantastic.

All right.

So I see some speakers or some requests to speak.

Director Taff.

Thank you so much.

Just a question on the award recipients, the grant award recipients and the scholarship

recipients.

Would we ever have a chance as a body to hear or experience their information or get presentations

here at the board meeting?

Yes.

So we have done Zoom meetings with each of the potential recipients and we have let

them know that the board would very much like to have them come back and report out

on what they were able to do with any funding that they received and what their experiences

were.

And some of them want to show you at least a summary video or a summary presentation of

what they've done with the funding.

And all of them are open to that.

Both the grant and the scholarship applicants.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Okay.

And Director Hedges.

Thanks.

How were these advertised, the grants and the, what else were there, the scholarships?

So there's our website, the cable commission website.

And then additionally, the commission members had the ability to reach out to any of the

school districts.

We have a PSA today.

I think you're almost queuing me up for this.

So thank you for that.

We have a PSA that we'd like to show the commission today that we're going to push out on Metro

14 that very much speaks to this issue.

This issue.

So we're going to continue to advertise that these funds are available.

Wonderful.

That answers your question.

It does.

Thank you.

Great.

But in addition, I believe there was a news, not review, what do you call it, interview,

excuse me, that someone participated in.

Yes, sir.

So I believe it was my, one of my very first shifts here.

And I want to thank Julian for helping prep me for that.

CBS came out and did a story on us.

They talked to Access 14 who's here today.

They may want to speak to that issue.

They also interviewed me and they put together a very nice story.

So that story made it out onto CBS Evening News.

Additionally, I know that CAP Radio also put out a PSA on the program and that some of the

other stations subsequent to the CBS news story also talked about it.

And then I know that at least one of the board members included it in a media release also.

Thank you.

And Director Sloan.

Can you hear me now?

I wanted to thank Mr. Ayala when we met as an ad hoc committee and we were reviewing

the applications.

It was the first time at least that I'm aware of where we were having a discussion about

where we could increase the capacity of our applicants by encouraging them to partner

with Access Sacramento.

So to the extent we might have had redundancy where someone applied for something that Access

could provide, it returned more resources to actual programming.

And I think it saved us money while also creating a greater opportunity for growth amongst the

applicants.

So I just wanted to thank you for that.

And I hope that all of the applicants will maximize that opportunity with Access Sacramento.

You're welcome.

And I read all 20 grants word for word that were in the initial cohort.

And yes, there was some redundancy there.

And so we looked at ways to sort of help them streamline production so they could create

folks more telling the story and creating the content.

And that was working in collaboration and partnership with our big channels.

Yes.

Very good.

I see no one else requesting to speak.

So I would be happy to entertain a motion.

For more information on how to apply, visit sacmetrocable.tv.

Thank you.

I like it.

Good.

So now I get to more comments.

Anybody have any comments?

That was awesome.

I thought it was really very cool.

Anyone else?

I don't want to step on anyone.

Okay.

I just want to give credit to Gallant Swenson.

He's our multimedia technician and he's been working on this for us and it is our intent

to put this out on the Metro 14 channel.

Okay.

So this was done organically by staff?

It was done internally, yes, and we have some very skilled staff here and I appreciate

the time they put into producing this for us.

Oh, absolutely.

That was great.

Now we're going to have to see if we can get some local channels to play that for us,

right?

So, awesome.

All right.

So do I have a motion?

Nobody fight about it here?

How about Director Pluckabum?

Okay.

Motion from Director Pluckabum.

Anybody else?

Second.

Second from Director Taff.

All right.

Let's vote.

Perfect.

And motion carries.

Motion passes.

Okay.

So we will now move to separate matters and we'll go to the receive and file reports of

channel licensees.

Did you sign up or are we just doing it in order of on the, okay, in the past they've

signed up.

Access Sacramento, you're first.

Hey.

Hey.

Hi, everyone.

I'm Donna Drew.

I'm the executive director at Access Sacramento.

You're a much beloved community media center where everybody lifts their voices.

This is the place to be.

Your PSA, you keep talking about Metro 14.

I'm a little jealous.

Send it our way.

We have an e-newsletter and social media worth thousands.

Look at our posts.

We'd also put it, of course, on our two channels, Channel 17 and 18, which we also air.

A lot of people watch our channels through our website who can't afford cable television.

So there's that.

And we have KUBU.

96.5, low frequency FM channel.

So if you want to write a short script, all of our, we have 48 people who are independent

producers and we provide them with information that they will talk the PSA for you.

So we look forward to getting something like that.

So we, I just passed this to Sean.

It's a packet on your, it's a love letter there.

It is our annual audit.

Yay.

We, since I started four years ago, my whole goal was as a mature nonprofit, I was trying

to tighten our belt because with COVID and the insurance industry hardening and doubling

the costs of liability insurance and workers comp, et cetera, it's taken, it's been very

hard for us to have a balanced budget.

So we have systematically gone through every contract and figured out cheaper ways to execute

our mission.

And so what we receive is we receive grants from you, one of which is peg funding.

And we ask for specific items that are capital expenses.

And usually you give us a small budget also for general equipment that we're not sure

or maybe it breaks down, maybe we forgot to ask for something.

And so this year we can proudly say that we under spent on capital expenses by $50,000.

So we return that money to you each year.

We wait for our audit to happen.

Our audit is a little sluggish or your ends in June and we usually can't get the audit,

get our act together until the end of December.

So and we pass it off.

And that has traditionally been sort of the way.

And then I cut a check.

I prematurely cut a check last year for the Cable Commission and the auditor smacked my

hand and said wait till the end of the audit.

Okay.

So I do want to sort of give you a heads up.

We have a fleet of three vehicles.

One of them is a lovely high definition mobile TV studio, which actually some of Metro 14's

employees have cut their, you know, have been using as well.

And we have a retrofitted really old RV.

So when the truck goes out, the RV goes out and equipment's in it and when it's raining,

the crew shelters in there.

And then we have a van and we affectionately call the van Van Gogh because we're not sure

whether it's ever going to go.

It is 19 years old now.

That's great mileage, but 19 years old and it's gotten to a point where it's almost

impossible to get any parts.

And I have some employees who refuse to drive it because it's that janky.

So what we were doing is we were trying to under, we thought it would break down this

year.

And so I was squeezing the budget thinking we're going to have to buy a new van.

So I am hoping that instead of cutting a check back to the Cable Commission, I'm hoping to

bring forward an estimate to you and not in the next budget, but in this budget year,

see if we could use that $50,000 to apply towards the purchase of a van, which will most likely

cost about $90,000.

We're looking for something that has 10 to 15 people capacity.

So I just wanted to pose that to you.

I'm not quite sure if that's an acceptable thing.

I know it's above the limit for an executive director to make that decision.

So I thought I would just float that out there to you.

I would expect that the proper channel would be to have a conversation with Mr. Ayala and

then he can work that through the staffing process.

Yeah, I'd like to just meet with Josh at a later time about this, see if they can encumber

the money and then if not, I would imagine we can take into account next year's fiscal

situation and work with them on funding this project.

For consideration for funding the project, yes.

We would not need any additional funding from the...

That's where the encumbrance comes in, where they would potentially be encumbering money

from the money that they've already been given and if they want to encumber the money, are

they going to be expending it before the end of the fiscal year or is this project going

to take it past the fiscal year?

It's largely just an internal issue.

I guess for me, you're getting a tentative yes, we'll work with Access 14 to help them

meet the subject of the commission's approval.

I just didn't want to set up the expectation that the answer was yes.

Maybe I misheard it.

It's not a no by any stretch, but it's certainly a...

We got to work it through the staffing and legal process.

Absolutely.

I thought I would be able to have an estimate by now, but apparently Ford does not want

our business, so I'll have to...

I don't know how hard it is to get an estimate, but they're not used to working that way.

So we'll go ahead to another vendor and try to get estimates properly.

So I want to...

I have a question, excuse me, through the chair.

I'm sorry?

Mr. Aguilar, will this or Mr. Nelson, would this need to come back to the board for action?

It feels like we're talking about a non-agendized item at this time.

Yeah, it potentially could.

And so I think at this point, we do have direction and we'll work and then to the extent somebody

has come back to the board for action, we'll make sure that's on a future agenda.

Thank you.

That was my point, was that it had to go through staff.

Right.

High cost of it, I think it's above the approval.

Okay.

Because it's not on the agenda, it would have to come back, regardless.

It's not about the cost.

I would be careful talking about any individual automotive dealers until you have closed your

deal.

Maybe it'll inspire them to take my business.

I did want to point out that SackLifeTV, I had a meeting with Ron Herman this morning

and he apologizes for not being here.

He's going to be in a shoot this afternoon.

I did want to tell you guys two things.

This week, I received a couple of sort of sweet testimonials from a couple of young men,

which one of them I just received yesterday, I won a couple of days ago, so that you can

understand where your money is going.

So there's a young man called Will and his mother was in contact with me and he's been

taking all of our workshops and classes.

I think he's around 20 now, I'm not 100% sure.

And he was taking these workshops, but he was waiting for a heart transplant and now

he got his transplant and he's back taking workshops and he just took one for lighting

on a budget.

And so thoughts of we have, we satisfy a need for people who have handicaps because we have

physical classes and we have things like editing so that are non-physical and we're ADA compliant

in the community, in the Coloma Community Center.

So we're a good place for people to land when they want to take a short workshop or a long

class.

The other testimony I got was from a gentleman named Tyler who says I'm 22 years old and

just graduated from UCSC in June and I have my own basketball talk radio show with you

guys on KUBU 96.5 in Sacramento.

That has helped me to get a job with iHeart Radio and become a news producer with them

all across California.

I just got promoted and worked my first Kings game as a media member.

A real dream come true and it would not have happened without the opportunity I had at KUBU.

So we're that sort of grassroots organization that people need, they go to college and they

don't get enough hands-on training and then they come and work for us and or volunteer

and or take classes and workshops.

So your funding is helping with the foundational money for us to exist.

The education program is not really financed through the grants that you give us.

We do other work to try to make that happen.

So if you if you consider coming to our place called Sacramento Film Festival and buy some

tickets that helps fund the program.

And I just was wondering if you had any questions about our education program.

No.

No.

No.

No.

Okay.

We're not 14, we're access 17 and 18 by the way.

I just thought I'd share that with you.

Okay.

I stand corrected.

I should refer to them as Sacramento access.

My apologies.

No.

Accessac.

Accessac.

Accessac.

All right.

Thank you so much.

Well, thank you very much.

I appreciate it.

Next up would Capitol Public Radio.

I don't think we have public radio in the room.

KVIE.

Good afternoon.

Happy New Year.

David Lowe, President and General Manager with KVIE and put us down also for being able

to air that PSA.

We could put that on KVIE too, which is our peg channel.

Happy to put that online.

And then just a couple of quick updates about kids.

One is we were proud to have launched the national series Carl the Collector and it is

the first children's series with a primary character who has autism and it's actually

voiced by a 10 year old boy who has autism and we're getting a lot of great feedback

around the country, around the community on that.

And the second one is just an announcement that we're going to be having a Be My Neighbor

Day and it is an open house at KVIE.

It's going to be in April and it's designed to have kids and families come in and talk

about being caring neighbors.

We're going to have the fire department there with their touch of truck program.

The kids will have some crafts.

Daniel Tiger will be in attendance and the kids are going to write some cards to first

responders and the like.

So we're really excited about that and I'll have some more information about that soon.

And that's all I have for a quick update.

Great.

Well, I like the Mr. Rogers touch.

Won't you be my neighbor?

Exactly.

I'm assuming that's what it was, right?

I'm showing my age because everybody else in the room is younger than me.

We all know.

But it's also about Daniel Tiger.

You've got to assume that everybody else is younger.

I don't want to agree too loud.

All right.

Thank you.

Any comments from?

No?

Okay.

I'd like to just get some more information as soon as you had it on the timing for that

program.

For the Be My Neighbor Day?

Mm-hmm.

Fantastic.

Yeah, wonderful.

So it's April 4th.

It's from 10 to 4.

It'll be at KVIE and I'll get some more information to you soon.

We might know some other people who'd like to engage.

Fantastic.

Thank you.

I'll get some more information to some other nonprofit partners to be able to have.

We'll have some vendors and the like.

Wonderful.

It'll be a great day.

Awesome.

Thank you, sir.

And Sack Life TV is not able to be here today.

And so Sacramento Educational Cable Consortium.

Got it.

Hi, everybody.

Jessica Rhodes with SECC.

So great to see you all.

I don't want to be left out.

Send a test too.

We'll play it on the channels.

Right?

There we go.

Perfect.

Everybody else is doing it.

I like it.

We're going to be doing some big changes.

So a lot of the school districts have started to kind of have their own video teams in house.

So a lot of our previous production had been going out to kind of capture content in PSAs

for our school districts.

But as that work is being done, it gives us the opportunity to open our doors and find

new opportunities.

So we're still working with smaller districts.

You'll see a video in a little bit.

We did work with Robla.

They have a dual language immersion program that they are trying to highlight within their

community and share out.

So we help them with that video.

But we're also looking at learning opportunities that are happening at the school districts

and sharing those out.

So for example, San Juan just had a big convention at their school district for their families

about digital citizenship.

We all know how important that is.

So we went out, we captured the content, and we shared it on the channels and with other

school districts.

Just so everybody has that opportunity to kind of learn the same lessons, it is the same

across the county.

So that's really exciting for us.

Also, got to put it in there.

The CBO awards are coming up.

The deadline for just for you, Kevin, just for you, we did the invitation and had it

for today because I knew you were going to ask.

If you haven't been, you really need to put it on the calendar.

I'm not kidding.

Director Pluckybaum, you should go if you haven't had the opportunity to go in the past.

So we do have our entry PSA for you all to view.

And also we are always looking for judges.

You can judge in person or you can judge via Zoom.

If you go to our website there on the very home page is a sign up page.

So if you would like to watch some videos, they are adorable and would always love your

feedback.

So please feel free to check that out and sign up.

And we also will be doing our defining awards again this year.

So we'll reach out to some of you.

Hopefully you can help host a session with that also.

And then I think that's it.

Perfect.

We have a video.

Can we watch the video?

We can.

Absolutely.

Roll tape.

I was trying to stay away from it.

It's not a tape anymore.

Get them showing my age.

The DLI program is an opportunity for our students to learn in two languages.

In Robla it's English and Spanish.

Our goal is that they achieve proficiency for both reading, writing and speaking.

It really just helps fortify that Spanish base.

They learn a lot of academic in Spanish.

And as they get older it will be easier to pick up academics than English.

Research also shows that the best time to learn a second language is when you're young,

when their brains are really pliable and ready to take on that language and build the neural

pathways necessary to really be fluent, to be able to speak without an accent, to really

be able to grab that language.

Three, two, one.

I think this is a really amazing opportunity to give students and young people a chance

to compete, be a part of a team, be a part of a club.

That might not be open to them otherwise.

Just from experience at home I know that he tends to get upset when he loses.

But I think that Mr. McDowell is really working out with them to ensure that they learn that

sometimes they lose and it's okay.

In the beginning of the year we go over sportsmanship so it's not blaming people, thanking them

after a match, how to not be rude, how to learn to get better and then also how to teach

other people to get better.

If you want to join the eSports team then I'd say it'd be really good because you get

to learn new things in video games and you get to meet new people.

My name is Nicole Nadez.

I support teaching and learning with technology.

So I support our teachers and others with how to use technology in their classes.

So essentially as soon as your students start using any kind of device, phone, Chromebooks

like they have at school, they are now digital citizens.

A lot of aspects to digital citizenship.

But in general, it just means using online platforms and the tools that allow us to type

in those platforms or speak in those platforms or share and create content in those platforms,

using them responsibly and ethically and in ways that reflect how we would like to be

citizens in person.

The Student Educational Video Awards is the contest to showcase your educational video

We're going to be doing a giveaway.

You have our year end report.

There should be a copy for everybody.

That highlights the programs.

Everything we did over the year.

Committees in general.

Our financials are included in there.

Perfect.

Any questions?

No?

We're good?

Thank you.

All right.

We don't do public comment on these items.

We'll move on to the next report.

Are there any of the state franchisees?

I don't think so.

All right.

We move next to the executive director report.

Mr. Ayala.

A couple of internal items.

We have announced a promotional recruitment process for our ASO 3 that closes on January

17.

We are actively trying to fill a senior office assistant vacancy.

We are currently onboarding two new production assistants.

That's it.

Thank you.

Perfect.

Thank you much.

All right.

We'll move to board of director comments, reports, updates, questions.

Director Sloan.

Mr. Ayala, we'd like to take a moment to thank you for accepting the position and surviving your first meeting.

I feel well supported by all of you.

I really appreciate that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I think we'll share the employment opportunities with this case.

We might have avenues to push those out for you.

The which appointments?

The ones you, I'm sorry.

The promotional?

The job opportunities?

Are they just promotional?

You already have people in those.

I may have misheard you.

They're promotional.

The process has been announced.

I believe it's an internal announcement.

However, that will create opportunities, openings.

And that would be a good time for me to report back to you and have your, anyone that's interested in those positions apply.

Thank you.

Okay. I don't see anyone else signed up.

I guess Mr. Ayala.

Fantastic.

First one done, right?

I hope everybody had a great holiday season.

And we got another year in front of us.

I think we're moving in the right direction.

And again, I want to thank staff for doing a fantastic job over the last few years.

And really appreciate your help and support.

I know we're going to have a great 2025.

With that, we'll adjourn.