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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSBCCF Min 1995-01-16 . . . SEAL BEACH CABLE COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING MINUTES FOR JANUARY 16, 1995 The Board of Directors for the Seal Beach Cable Communications Foundation met January 16,1995 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. Rowland, Mr. Clow, Mr. Mueller, Mrs. Dahlin. Robin Fort-Lincke from Comcast was present. CONSENT CALENDAR REVIEW OF MINUTES FROM NOVEMBER 21, 1994 Following discussion, Mrs. Dahlin motioned the minutes be accepted and placed on file. Mr. Rowland seconded the motion. AYES: Mr. Clow, Mr. Rowland, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Mueller, Mrs. Dahlin NAYS: -0- MOTION PASSED: 5-0 FINANCIAL REPORT Mr. Mueller gave an overview of the Financial Report for the six months ending December 31, 1994; the Board is still solvent. Mr. Mueller pointed out that our LAIF (Local Agency Investment Fund) was with Los Angeles County not Orange County. Mr. Palmer said that the budget is basically the same as last year's budget. Mr. Palmer said that we are profitable, and with playback at Fullerton, we are not paying as much for part-time employees. Mrs. Dahlin motioned that the Financial Report be received and filed. Mr. Clow seconded the motion. AYES: Mr. Rowland, Mr. Mueller, Mr. Clow, Mr. Palmer, Mrs. Dahlin NAYS: -0- MOTION PASSES: 5-0 CHECK REQUEST Mr. Mueller stated that the Board had check requests for the telephone bill, Roy Pritchard - $1350 was the agreed upon amount for the audit, $300 is for the tax returns (for six months) which puts the Foundation on the sBlDe fiscal year (July 1 through June 30) as the City, a couple of football games, and Anderson Engineering for the repair of the camcorder. Mrs. Dahlin motioned that the check requests be approved. Mr. Clow seconded the motion. AYES: Mr. Clow, Mr. Rowland, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Mueller, Mrs. Dahlin NAYS: -0- MOTION PASSED: 5-0 . PG 2 SBCCF minutes 1/16/95 LOS ALAMITOS PROGRAMS Mr. Clow asked the other Board members how they liked the football games. The other Board members said they were good. Ms. Fort-Lincke was going to check to see if Los Alamitos did any other shows that would be of interest to us. Ms. Fort- Lincke said that she had arranged to get basketball games from Dan Smith at Los Alamitos at no charge. Mr. Palmer said that maybe we should work out something with them to pay them. Mr. Clow suggested $100 per program. Mr. Palmer suggested continuing to show the Los Alamitos High School games on Tuesday night at 9:00 p.m. every other week. Ms. Fort-Lincke said that worked out well. Someone suggested that the Board select the Los Alamitos programs that we want to be shown and that we pay $100 for each program that we use. Mr. Palmer said if we did 40 different shows, then we'd pay $4,000. Mr. Clow suggested using a new show each week, assuming that there was the supply. Ms. Fort-Lincke stated again she was working on getting the programs for free. AWARDS FOR PUBLIC ACCESS PRODUCERS . Mr. Palmer asked Ms. Fort-Lincke for her ideas for the award program. Ms. Fort- Lincke stated that she was still working on a plan. Ms. Fort- Lincke said that outside people would be unaware of all of the shows. Therefore, the Panel would be back to inside people and there would be the issue of how they are chosen. Ms. Fort-Lincke suggested the idea of having the public phone in what they thought on certain set categories. Ms. Fort- Lincke mentioned that awhile back we had the opportunity for people to call in to request the shows they wanted and people called in all the time. Mr. Palmer stated that we could award the longest running live show - talent and producer; then, award the producer who has produced the most shows; then award the most involved people. This would keep us from being critical and judging which is the best show. Mr. Rowland suggested having about six categories. The Board decided that they would like to see 6 awards total which includes Downtown and Leisure World. Mr. Palmer suggested having an Awards Night. Ms. Fort-Lincke mentioned that City Watch Live would have a five-year anniversary in the first week in February. Ms. Fort- Lincke mentioned that it would be nice if the Board wanted to present something to Mr. Peter Anninos and to Mr. Rick Paap. Ms. Fort-Lincke said that she went to Los Altos Trophy and they had different awards including one with a tv camera on top. The Board thought it was a good idea to get individual trophies for Ms. Anninos recognizing him as the Producer and Mr. Paap as the host. Ms. Fort-Lincke explained that the engraving is done on a plaque on the trophy's base. It was suggested giving them a completely separate award as a five-year recognition. Mr. Palmer agreed to present the awards. . The Board discussed the change in public access nights for the studio to Monday and Tuesday nights, except that City Watch Live would continue to be produced on the first Thursday of the month. Playback remains on Tuesday and Thursday. Ms. Fort-Lincke said that she would be working nights on Mondays and Tuesdays instead of on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Ms. Fort-Lincke also said that she would talk to Mr. Diller about not producing a live show on the night of City Watch Live's 5th Anniversary Show. . . . PG 3 SBCCF minutes 1/16/95 Mr. Mueller motioned that Ms. Fort-Lincke be authorized to spend up to $150 for two trophies for the Fifth Anniversary of City Watch Live. Mr. Clow seconded the motion. AYES: Mr. Clow, Mr. Rowland, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Mueller, Mrs. Dahlin NAYS: -0- MOTION PASSES: 5-0 The Board will discuss possible categories for future awards at their next meeting and the Awards system will start in six months. AUDIENCE COMMUNICATION Ms. Fort- Lincke stated that on behalf of Mr. Rob Roy, who was unable to attend the Board meeting, she wanted to thank the Board for funding the Christmas Show. She said it went really, really well. There were seven roll-ins, but things really moved and went smoothly. The Mayor was there. Mr. Palmer stated that the Board wanted to thank Mr. Roy for putting on such a good show. NEW BUSINESS PUBLIC ACCESS - FOOD PROVISION Mr. Palmer said that Mr. Rowland had brought up the issue of food provisions for the Public Access Productions. Mr. Rowland suggested that pizza or Subway sandwiches, or something like that, be delivered to feed public access crews. Mr. Rowland suggested that the amount be set at $35.00 for each studio shoot. Mr. Clow said that this was done in the past and the Board rescinded it. He stated he was in favor of it. Mrs. Dahlin said that in the budget discussions, the Board decided that we could not afford it do that. Mr. Palmer stated that we are not paying for Local Origination shows or playback. Mr. Rowland motioned that a maximum of $35.00 be allowed for food provisions for each studio shoot. Mr. Mueller seconded the motion. AYES: Mr. Clow, Mr. Rowland, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Mueller, Mrs. Dahlin NAYS: -0- MOTION PASSED: 5-0 SBCCF 94/95 BUDGET PROPOSAL Mr. Palmer stated that we now have a $50,000 projected budget. Mr. Rowland motioned that the projected budget be filed. Mrs. Dahlin seconded the motion. AYES: Mr. Palmer, Mr. Clow, Mr. Mueller, Mr. Rowland, Mrs. Dahlin NAYS: -0- MOTION PASSED: 5-0 REPORTS LOCAL ORIGINATION/LOS ALAMITOS The Board stated that they wanted to keep this on the agenda and could discuss the . . ~ . . PG 4 SBCCF minutes 1/16/95 Los Alamitos programs at this point in the agenda in the future. PUBLIC ACCESS Mr. Claw asked if we had ever sent a letter to Comcast requesting our money. Mr. Palmer stated that the City had our $75,000. Ms. Fort-Lincke was asked to see what she could do to expedite the funds being transferred to us. Ms. Fort-Lincke reported that she will be starting studio classes again on the first Saturday in February. There will be 10 students, if everyone shows up. Most of the students have enrolled based upon seeing the information in The Sun. Ms. Fort- Lincke also reported that there were 8 new certified producers from Leisure World who completed the port-a-pac and the editing class. Some of the new producers were already working on shoots. Ms. Fort-Lincke also said that she had spoken to Dar Brown and we could have our ad on the second page of The Sun but it would not be free. The prices Ms. Fort- Lincke got were for the non-profit rate. She stated that the response from The Sun was that in Leisure World, The Golden Rain Foundation owns the paper and the money goes back into the Golden Rain Foundation. Ms. Fort-Lincke said that she did a tape exchange with Los Alamitos and wanted to get into bicycling with them instead of paying for tapes. It has been working out well. Ms. Fort-Lincke never got any phone calls about the football games. The Board agreed that the games were well done. Ms. Fort-Lincke stated that we only had 11 hours of television time per week in response to the question of whether it would be beneficial to do more bicycling. Ms. Fort-Lincke stated that the Esperanza basketball game would be on Tuesday, January 17 at 9:00 p.m. In exchange, Los Alamitos wanted the Christmas parade and the Miss Seal Beach pageant. CORRESPONDENCE Mr. Palmer asked if there was any correspondence. Ms. Fort-Lincke stated no. BOARD COMMUNICATIONS There were no Board Communications. Mr. Rowland moved to adjourn the meeting at 8:15 p.m. and Mr. Mueller seconded the motion. AYES: Mr. Rowland, Mr. Mueller, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Clow, Mrs. Dahlin NAYS: -0- MOTION PASSED: 5-0 ~G~ __ Robin Fort-Lincke, Comcast Joseph Palmer, Chairman