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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSBCCF Min 1995-03-20 . SEAL BEACH CABLE COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING MINUTES FOR MARCH 20, 1995 The Board of Directors for the Seal Beach Cable Communications Foundation met March 20, 1995 at 7:00 p.m. at the Comcast facility in Seal Beach, California. Mr. Palmer called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. ROLL CALL Mr. Palmer, Mr. Clow, Mr. Rowland, Mrs. Dahlin. Mr. Mueller was absent. Robin Fort-Lincke from Comcast was present. CONSENT CALENDAR REVIEW OF MINUTES FROM FEBRUARY 20, 1995 Following discussion, Mrs. Dahlin motioned that the minutes be accepted and placed on file. Mr. Clow seconded the motion. AYES: Mrs. Dahlin, Mr. Clow, Mr. Rowland, Mr. Palmer NAYS: -0- . MOTION PASSED: 4-0 FINANCIAL REPORT The Board is still solvent. It was an inexpensive month. Mrs. Dahlin motioned that the Financial Report be received and filed. Mr. Rowland seconded the motion. AYES: Mrs. Dahlin, Mr. Rowland, Mr. Clow, Mr. Palmer NAYS: -0- MOTION PASSED: 4-0 CHECK REQUEST . Mr. Palmer stated that he had a check request from Peter Anninos for an additional 13th show. Mr. Clow stated that it would be easier to keep track of the expenses on a monthly basis and have receipts for food rather than approve expenses a year at a time. Mr. Palmer also asked Ms. Fort-Lincke to clarify how the expenses were approved for Terri Quinlan's shows. Ms. Fort-Lincke stated that Ms. Quinlan's six shows last year had been approved ahead of time. Ms. Fort-Lincke further clarified that once the expenses were approved the funds went to Comcast. Ms. Fort-Lincke clarified that Mr. Anninos had done one show to date and the Board had approved funding for a year's worth of shows (12 ShOWS). Mrs. Dahlin suggested that Mr. Anninos fill out a request for another authorization when he was approaching the time for the 13th show. The Board agreed to table Mr. Anninos' request and stated that he " . . . PG2 SBCCF minutes 3/20/95 could resubmit it after he had completed his 11th show. The Board agreed there was a difference between approving funding for a scheduled program, such as Mr. Anninos' program "City Watch Live," and approving funding for programs that were one-time programs. The Board discussed Ms. Quinlan's request. Mrs. Dahlin questioned what "community interest" meant for Ms. Quinlan's programs and wanted more definition about what that implied. Mr. Clow stated that he was in favor of approving the programs a month at a time. Mrs. Dahlin motioned that Mr. Anninos be asked to resubmit his check request when the 13th show became imminent and that Ms. Quinlan'S request be approved to fund one show and one meal now and that her other shows be considered for payment approval on a per show basis. Mr. Clow seconded the motion. AYES: NAYS: MOTION Dahlin, Mr. Clow, Mr. Rowland, Mr. Palmer Mrs. -0- PASSED: 4-0 Ms. Fort-Lincke stated that she would inform Ms. Quinlan of the Board's action. Mr. Clow questioned the telephone bill. Ms. Fort-Lincke stated that the bill was for two months; February was $32.64 and March was $33.30. Mrs. Dahlin motioned that the check request to pay the two-month telephone bill be approved. Mr. Rowland seconded the motion. AYES: Mrs. Dahlin, Mr. Rowland, Mr. Palmer NAYS: -0- ABSTAINS: Mr. Clow MOTION PASSED: 3-1 Mr. Clow asked for clarification of the request from Mr. Anninos for $35 for the food expense for the 3/2/95 show. It was clarified that the request was just for food and that the Board had asked that requests for reimbursements for food be done after the expense was incurred. Mrs. Dahlin motioned that Mr. Anninos be reimbursed for the $35 food expense for the 3/2/95 show. Mr. Rowland seconded the motion. AYES: Mrs. Dahlin, Mr. Rowland, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Clow NAYS: -0- MOTION PASSED: 4-0 OLD BUSINESS AWARDS Ms. Fort-Lincke stated that there was a meeting a couple of weeks ago of some of the Access Producers at this studio to put together a list of possible award categories. Ms. Fort-Lincke stated that . . . PG 3 SBCCF minutes 3/20/95 she wanted feedback on whether these categories would be all right and if these categories would work for Leisure World Access Producers or whether separate categories would be needed. Mr. Clow suggested that Ms. Fort-Lincke discuss this with Leisure World Access Producers and get their ideas too. Ms. Fort-Lincke stated that she had not gotten any response from the Leisure World Access Producers at this point but she felt they were interested. Ms. Fort-Lincke stated that it was suggested that everyone who was active be notified to see who wanted to participate in it and then decide how many people would be on a panel and have someone such as Ms. Fort-Lincke or Ms. Fort-Lincke and Mr. Palmer pick names out of a hat of those interested people to participate on a panel. At this point, only potential categories had been discussed with the Access Producers. One possible category was the show which best exemplified the mission of public access in conjunction with our guidelines. Mr. Clow asked for clarification on "who is a producer". Ms. Fort- Lincke stated that it was anyone who had completed the training program, either the port-a-pac or the studio class (each class also required completion of the editing class). Once a person was certified, they became a producer. Many of the producers do not produce a program and are crew members on other people's shows. They have to be a producer in order to be qualified to use the equipment. The Board mentioned that they did not want to narrow the number of Access Producers who could participate in the awards any further and said they agreed to limit it to active participants who had been involved in the last year. Mr. Palmer stated that there were several people who were very reliable as crew people and he thought that there should be more than one award for this category. Ms. Fort-Lincke stated that these categories could be changed. Mrs. Dahlin stated that an Access Producer could be skilled at different crew positions. Mr. Palmer suggested that the awards be limited to one award per individual. Mr. Rowland suggested an award for creativity in coming up with different kinds of programs because he would like to stimulate diversity of programming. Ms. Fort-Lincke also stated that she would like to recognize Rob Roy who has been active in the public access program for over ten years. Mr. Clow stated that Mr. Roy was the originator of the precursor to "City Watch Live". Mr. Palmer stated that there could be a Senior Producer Award. It could be a one-time award. . . . PG 4 SBCCF minutes 3/20/95 Mr. Palmer asked if we wanted to have a separate award system in Leisure World. Mrs. Dahlin asked Ms. Fort-Lincke to ask the Leisure World Access Producers if they wanted a separate award system. Mr. Palmer suggested having a separate award system devised by the people of Leisure World for Leisure World but would not mean that Leisure World would not be in the overall event. Ms. Fort-Lincke stated that Leisure World would be meeting this week. The matter was tabled until input is received from Leisure World. AUDIENCE COMMUNICATION There was no audience communication. NEW BUSINESS MEETING LOCATION Mr. Clow motioned that the regular Board meeting location be moved to Comcast. Mrs. Dahlin seconded the motion. AYES: NAYS: MOTION Mrs. Dahlin, Mr. Rowland, Mr. Palmer Mr. Clow, -0- PASSED: 4-0 Mrs. Dahlin requested that Ms. Fort-Lincke notify the City Clerk that the Board was relinquishing its meeting space in the library. REPORTS PUBLIC ACCESS Ms. Fort-Lincke stated that Mr. Palmer did a really nice job on presenting the fifth anniversary show awards to Mr. Peter Anninos and Mr. Rick Paap on City Watch Live. The Board stated that Ms. Fort-Lincke did a good job and everything went well. Ms. Fort- Lincke also stated that she had contacted Chief Stern and that he was there and also spoke and that was very nice. The local paper had an article in it. The Register did a very nice article on it and they are very interested in public access television news and would be expanding their community activities focus and would be publishing our public access schedule when they were ready with their expanded format. One of the access producers, Ms. Renee Hoffman, has been preparing the minutes over the last few months and Ms. Fort-Lincke said that it has worked out very well for her. Mr. Clow wanted a report on the cost of preparing the minutes. Ms. Fort-Lincke stated that Ms. Hoffman was being paid $7.40 per hour and the cost varied with the length of the meeting. Mr. Rowland asked that Ms. Fort-Lincke come back with an average cost of preparing the minutes. Mr. Palmer asked her to do that at the next meeting. . . . PG 5 SBCCF minutes 3/20/95 LOCAL ORIGINATION/LOS ALAMITOS Mr. Palmer and Mr. Clow stated that they liked what was happening on Tuesday nights having the Los Alamitos dance/music programs. Ms. Fort-Lincke stated that Los Alamitos was now airing City Watch Live programs as well. Ms. Fort-Lincke stated that we would also be getting baseball games from Los Alamitos in the future. CORRESPONDENCE Mr. Palmer stated that Ms. correspondence. Fort-Lincke had shown them BOARD COMMUNICATIONS Mr. Rowland asked if a method was developed for delivery of tapes. Mr. Rowland stated that he had been here to deliver a master tape on a Friday and all the doors were locked. He asked about whether that master tape "Did Orange County Go Broke?" had been scheduled. Ms. Fort-Lincke stated that the program had been scheduled and had been aired and would be on two or three times. Ms. Fort-Lincke stated that there are only four Comcast employees here. Sometimes all of them are gone at once. There could be freelance people working in the building when the doors are locked. For future information, if the building is locked, tapes can be dropped off in the mail slot in the back door. Mr. Clow asked whether anyone used our computer. It was decided that was not a problem. Mr. Rowland motioned to adjourn the meeting at 8: OOPM. Mrs. Dahlin seconded the motion. AYES: NAYS: MOTION Mr. Rowland, -0- PASSED: 4-0 Mrs. Dahlin, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Clow ~l~a~ Robin Fort-Lincke, Comcast Joseph Palmer, Chairman