Permanent Cable Committee - Regular Meeting

Meeting to audit at 07:01.

Mister Chapp, I can make a motion to accept the minutes of March 4 as written.

Second. Motion remaining seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Any abstentions? I do. Can you volume down?

No. It's not her, Zach.

No. No. It's Zach's volume.

You're getting loud and loud, Zach. I heard. Okay. Thanks.

Sure, Kat. We'll go to the next item on the agenda, which is FY twenty six budget update.

Okay. Well, quick update. We have I put March and April reports in there. We haven't received the $0.50 per subscriber annual fee yet. We did get the Verizon Capital check for 50,000 for March.

Then for April, we're about halfway through the month. I did renew the Adobe subscriptions for Dell that were approved at the last meeting. And that was a big a bigger expenditure. And we did have the after hours card reader entry system and monitor installed. It doesn't work. The touch it's one door. We'll get it fixed by tomorrow. I

didn't know it wasn't working.

So our account balance at the April, if you go to the very last page where it takes out my deduction with the town, salary paid to the town, our account balance is $765,058.10.

Motion to accept as read. Make a motion to accept the, the budget as read by Karen.

Mhmm. I'll second

it. Thank you. Mhmm. Any discussion further discussion? Does anyone wanna question anything?

I just had a I wasn't looking at the right page. So the April number and then the fiscal year, page eight on this packet, is the July.

Yeah. So the balance before they you take out my salary Gotcha. That's paid to the town.

Thank you. Yep. I found it right differences. Right on top. Thank you.

The next page is the breakout of the Ed funds. This is before any Wow.

He buys a lot

is before anything from today. So MET has the credit so far for the three quarters

Mhmm.

Is $66,561.95. And to date, purchases have been $26,320.33, leaving a remaining balance at $40,241.62 for purchases by MET.

Different than years past. Right? Absolutely. Give you a way to free now.

Really? It's amazing.

No. It's what we want we were hoping for now that the money comes in correctly. Update on '27.

So I know at I don't if it was the last meeting or the one before it was voted. Our budget for FY '27 was voted. We've had a little bit of a hiccup. And

We'll talk a little later.

We'll talk about that during our executive session regarding salaries. So

Yep. That's just showing you the budget as she presented it last time to us. Okay. We'll come back. Yeah. We'll come that. Back Do you have any studio updates, Carrie? Just letting you

know that the card reader has been the new card reader system has been installed. The monitor for the security has been installed in my office. Everybody should have their new cards. Love card. It just didn't work up the door. So it will I'll get it.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

They are working on these doors and the inside door over there. My card works. Get it.

Just don't card work.

Just don't come over call the one, you know, the number here, and we'll let you go.

I'm gonna call you with no light at home.

So that is an update on Please. Sure. Yeah.

How about your Facebook account?

So personally and professionally, in order to have a business page on Facebook, social media, you have to have a personal profile that it's attached to. So McCann was attached or is attached to my personal Facebook account on Facebook. And there was an incident on April Fool's Day where my account was hacked, and I lost access to it as well as the McCann page. Since yesterday, I was able to get in. Thankfully, for just a little bit, not enough to change the password and get rid of the person who hacked me, but enough to add Zach as an admin on the McCann page.

So we do have access to the page, and I'm working on resolving the issue with my account still being attached to it. But until we can clear up the the hacker. I've unfriended everybody on my account and basically made it as minimum as possible And just to try to get them to not even wanna be on my profile anymore. So McCann wasn't touched or harmed. I did unpublish it. So it's not accessible right now if somebody wanted to go to the McCann Facebook page. But we do have our website that's actively working fine, and

we've been

sending people to watch videos either there or through the town website, the agenda center.

Okay. Any questions?

Just a quick question, probably totally unrelated, but last meeting we talked about the Verizon renewal. Are we going anywhere with that at this point? That's the next item on the agenda. Just thought I'd ask.

Franchise Verizon franchise renewal update. Sure. Yes. Bob's gonna be our attorney again. He's already got Karen already sent him the information. I talked to Emily, his daughter, who was his secretary on Monday, and she said that she printed a note. You sent it on a Friday. Right?

I think

it was last

yeah. Two Fridays ago.

Two Fridays ago? Well, she's gonna make them give us an answer. I'll have to get an answer soon, just to answer Verizon. And it's just basically answering them back that we're not going to negotiate.

Yeah. It's the

It's the state senate

in to us. The state that we are in three years. You know, it's a three year notification

that we got. So that's where that stands right now.

Okay. Good.

The camp purchases?

Nope. I don't have anything. I just added in there in case something came up.

But And net updates?

Net purchases.

Net purchases? Yes. Okay. Yes. So on page 11 of the packet, we have a a quote from B and H, and these are more or less miscellaneous items.

They're not really cohesive, but I can kinda go through touch on some of the some of them. But the goal here is essentially to kind of round up my camera our camera kits at the school where each camera has a tripod, wireless microphone, batteries, SD cards. So we're adding more microphones. So on the and also kind of like getting some replacement parts for the tripods to extend their lives. So on the first page of that, you'll see microphone clips for $2 just to replace the the clip that attaches the the wired mic and a Monfrotto mounting plate for a tripod that went missing. So we're getting just a few extras just so we can keep that. It's a standard plate. Let's see. Some mounting screws that came off for the

tripod plate. Quick question on this. Sure. Everything comes from The Philippines, China, Italy.

Yeah. I don't know if that's the news or what

is the expect to get that. Like, that's a year.

And I never noticed that. If that's a

If that's a news tape

comes from US. Yeah. The gas yeah. Dropping tape. Yeah. That's what I that's all we're good for, the drafting tape. Yeah. Yeah. So And I would hit the point.

That is interesting. I've never noticed the country of origin and the B and H quotes.

Continues on the next one. So

I thought

that was

So I a pizza for free. I should I didn't notice that too, but either. But, yeah, some SD cards, some mic more microphones, some gaff tape. This this amount of gaff tape should get us through over three years. We use a lot less than we need need to back in the day where every wire had to be taped down now. Oh, yeah. The wires are They were wired. Wireless. Yeah. The heart plugs into a wall. Mhmm. And it booms right up to our room. So so microphone stuff here in that B and H order. I think the bigger ticket I I request come from from the computers, is a separate quote. So I don't know if these should be done one at a time, these requests.

Yeah. I did the B and H quote. Yes.

Can there are two separate I I sent Karen a B and H quote, I think, probably the night before the previous meeting when I was at parent teacher conferences, and I missed it. So there are two separate B and H quotes is my point, because I added some monitors.

And Page four zero four

is one. Exactly. Now one thing to clarify is that the computer quotes coming up, I believe some of those quotes include the monitors with it.

Oh, okay. I was I just

wanna double check that. I could

be wrong. Nope. Those don't The one that Aucher's does.

Nope. They don't. Oh, the Aucher's does. Okay. Yeah.

So lockers, it says, there's one is one computer and one monitor.

Oh. You see it? Yeah.

So I scroll.

But maybe we can just Yeah. Let's do the maybe just the first PNH quote first. That doesn't have to do with any computers.

Done. You can't make it.

I could give it a try though.

Mister chairman,

can make a motion to approve B and H quote 1127961350 for February for equipment for Met.

I'll second.

Motion is made and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Any abstention? Move on to your next one. Yes, sir. Alright.

So these next ones came after tons of thought. We had the the past two weeks, as the quarter three in our, school came to comes to an end on Friday. And the use in the computers, everyone's finishing their videos. And, we lots of computers have just started crashing all at the same time. And I think part of that is many of the computers that came with the new school weren't future proofed as well as they could be.

They knew there's more stock models that maybe would work in a photography class or web class. So there's 20 and they're six years old. But so those were the computers. And there are two other computers that we actually brought from the Nichols that still were useful. But we found that as Adobe auto updated to 2026, they became they weren't unable to update because we couldn't update the operating system. So it just became an issue where

And then were they Macs or PCs?

Macs. These are all Macs. So student could, like, start a project in one computer and with the edit share server we have, conceivably, it could finish on another. But when we moved to the older computer, it wouldn't open the project because it wasn't running the newest version of Adobe. So over break, I'm gonna try to back roll the version to a 2025.

But ultimately, it's gonna be an issue where we're not gonna be able to run the editing software on the computers we have. So I did some research and the iMacs, they're really slick and they look great, but it's kind of like a one time Mhmm. You you you know, you can't upgrade the RAM and the hard drive and the graphics card Mhmm. The same way that you can, like, a a tower PC. So I spoke with the technology ops officer at the school too.

He said that the Windows machines are just a lot easier to secure on the student accounts. We had an issue where we basically the iMac is one student account, and they log in to Chrome. And when they leave, their Chrome account that they access all their Google things with is still there unless they choose to delete it. They forget, and now someone else has access to all their data. So they can't the school, since we're, like, the only Macs in the district or whatever, they don't have the security to keep that safe.

And, also, these these towers will allow us to upgrade mod you know, in pieces. If we needed a new hard drive, if one crashed, we're not losing the whole computer. If we need more RAM or, graphics card, things like that. I'm just kinda loading my notes here. I think I yeah. So the limited functionality of the hardware updates kinda made the Macs something that I wanted to I wanted to just explore what Windows could do, and now Adobe runs Windows just as well. We can edit the videos on Windows just as well. Exactly. It's connected to the edit share server the same way. Our TriCaster machine is a Windows machine, and it's super stable with the edit share, server.

So I wanted to give this a whirl in a smaller scale. Like, I'm not wanting to re replace the whole lab. I sent out just some April notes. It was like six or maybe nine pages long to all of you before this meeting. And I just in the notes, it has a list of all the computers we have in that room and which ones let's see.

One, two. I don't wanna cut them off. But There's about 10 that were purchased through the this committee since 2023, and there's probably about 14 or 15 that are in there that are 2020 or before. So my goal and my vision is just for the next few months, if this works, we add three more and maybe three more after that and kind of just

Yes, ma'am.

Have have, kind of wave Rotate

them in.

Rotate them in. Exactly. So it's less of a big ticket expense all at once. Anyhoo.

So they're looking into the future.

Well, paying the future expense. He wants the The the people that

we we would be buying the or you would be buying the shrimp, Can they guarantee you another three to four years?

Longing machine? Yeah. Not necessarily. But these specs are pretty robust in terms of the processor, and it's it it these computers represent a major upgrade in terms of what the kids are gonna be able to do. Four k editing, kind of seamless transitions from one computer to the next, even if they're going from Mac to Windows. So I'm confident that these computers will have that shelf life. The term they use like to use is future proof where, you know, it's still it's not obsolete, you know, when it comes out of the box and that's still good for, you know, I wanna try to get ten years out of these machines.

Spring Spice, how does a tower with a monitor compared to a

Yeah. It's

It's dollars.

Yeah. With the with the screen, probably about $1,500 more per unit. This is just me eyeballing the quote. We might pay I I could look it up, but maybe 2,200 for an iMac, and these are coming in at more like 3,800 with the with the whole monitor and the tower.

So the quotes that we have that I was we have a quote from Ocres for one tower and one monitor. And then the quote from CDW was for three. Right?

Yeah. The Ocres one should have been for three. Okay. And I don't know why how that what that happened there. But Just multiply

it by three.

Yeah. And there was one other quote that I don't see here, but there was another company. We got three I got three quotes just because this is something different. It's a larger price, and I can look it up. But, you know, bay basically, it was for three. They're all you know, if you look, they're all kind of within the $200 of each other. The CDW one came in lower here, and I think that's not even

Are there cheap CDW ones?

No. I think it just has all the specs.

Okay.

It's just multiple pages of the exact specifications. Alright. I don't think I think that's just like a shopping cart.

Okay.

So my guess, I don't really think that's such

a low memory. Twenty five twelve gig. What the else could be that was terabytes. Oh, really? On the hard drive? I'm sorry. That's the first thing I look at now. I just found them for the health department. Oh, nice.

Yeah. So it's just on the two Aucharist machines, they'll give you Windows 11 Pro, but it doesn't show on the B and H that it comes with Windows 11.

The B and H one was Just the monitor. Just monitor.

Just the monitor.

Which I was gonna add to the first vote we passed, but the quote had already been prepared for the original items we just approved. So it just

made sense to do it separately. The first one that you do with ARC is is is a Dell preconfigured. Correct. If you're looking there, it's a 32 gig memory and then one ten s s d.

That's that's

got Probably six years. Either one of them. Should get more than that.

Big piece of the job. Well, I got a big exchange. Oh, yeah.

I got a thumb drive.

That's a takeaway. Absolutely. Yeah. Remember you used to get a box like that. Yeah.

I have that too. I just wanna check because I didn't I wanna check the email what I received just to make sure. I know it's in the packet here, but I didn't see this I didn't get the chance to see this packet prior to. So there's

some I

think I missed one.

Right. I think we missed one.

Yeah. So for three units from Cockers, it'd be 11,481. For three units from CDW, is it the same It's not the same. It's not the same

computer at all.

No. That's not it is the same computer, but that

is not the same specifications.

Right. I mean, just in there

Alright. So that

big thing Dell Pro matched our, you know, it goes a long time.

Gigabytes, one terabyte SSD, where the other one was 500. Five twelve. Five twelve. The the good news is is that that's the the hard drive capacity is probably the least important part because the kids won't be using the hard drive. They'll be editing on the edit share server down the hall. So this is just the processing power. That is the most important thing. The hard drive will run the software and the operating system. The 32 should be alright for you though. Right.

So the price difference just between these two quotes, it's, it's $11,004.81 from Acres for three units with the the everything's in the one and

pepper Right.

Order. The other is a cross confined order with CDW, B and H for the computer and monitor, and that comes to $10,007.28 $0.09.

And then was there a third? $52. Was did you get a third quote from me?

Yeah. You said there was a third one. I didn't

Let me just check myself. I can use It's on my laptop, but I'm not sure.

I pull up plate. So

just so I understand what's going on here, we are looking at how many new PCs?

Three. You have a group?

Yep. And those would go with the monitors requested? Correct. Okay.

That's happen.

It's like mixing a match. Prices come together. I like the idea that you're getting with Lockers, you're getting both the monitor and the computer. Oh. Where you have to sort of pick and choose what CD No. CDW.

We were gonna add the monitor and then we my original plan was, oh, let's just if this comes in under 10, we'll just store the monitor on the b and h quote. So the CDW does offer that exact same monitor, and it was initially in there. But then I thought, oh, you know, if there's complications from being over $10,000. And then I realized, you know, I'm just gonna get three quotes anyway. So that's kind of the, you know, the theory behind that.

But I let's see. Do you need a DVD drive? I don't, but they actually don't really offer one. Like, In I the This tower does have a DVD drive, I I could take it or leave it. It's not something we're gonna use,

Believe me or not.

Other than the ripped DVD like, take DVDs we've had from twenty years ago Mhmm. And kinda digitize them again. Oh, yeah. I do have three quotes in here.

Right now.

She went to pray the last one.

Let's see. No. Maybe I don't. I just have the specifications.

In in equal.

But I do think this CDW was the most competitive.

I don't think did she go for the CDW?

Yes. She she got we got the CDW here. Really? Like Yeah. Right after ARC is I don't know what number it is.

Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. They go, Marvin. Sorry.

Then you drop down another page, two pages. Oh, okay. Break it down much.

You have everything I sent you. I think I just missed oh, no. Is it there?

Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. It's a company called Wally Computer Associates Inc. Wally. Yes. W h a l l e y. So that one ends from case

Yeah. Thank you so much. Okay. Good.

Need my glasses. 35 Shrine D. That's 1000770.

That's right at the brain. And Oh.

And that is here. You hear them?

Yellow rice. And I do. Yep. So it's the yep. The monitor in the tower. 32 gigs of one terabyte hard drive.

Which company do you wanna go to? Remember, you wanna be able to get support too, that's the

I believe this company, the like, it says the customer contact like, the school department uses this, and they spoke with the sales rep, and they said they could basically just switch over the bill to MCAM, you know. Like, they'll honor this quote.

But this so you get the educational discount Right. At that company.

Right. Exactly.

That's why it's $10.07, Seth. Right. Okay.

So, honestly, it's the same computer. I could take it or leave it in terms of where they're

It's tough, guys. Choose. Now it's called choosing.

Go with the cheapest if I say it Yeah. Exactly.

You can if somebody wants see that quote, so

you can see the thumb brush at the top. Oh, yeah.

Rig up.

Sorry about that. There was a lot of papers that came online.

That one only is one. Right. Thank you. But

that has to do with anything. You

ask me to do

that.

Like it. Yeah. That's what I have to like. Okay. So one tower and one monitor. So it's be three. So this so this number is three times three?

Yeah. Which

is No. That's the total number. Four three, I think.

But you but, Jared.

Oh, no. The is this 3,005

They only gave a quote for one of each. Yeah. So we gotta multiply it by

three.

You you multiplied it already? 3,590?

$10,007.70. 7

10,007

What's the phone? Zero. Is there any zeros and change of the

bond? Yeah.

That comes to

the bonds. She's not gonna see it. You have to read it.

Oh, I know. Just What's the total there? It's 3,001.

$3,590.

$3,503.05

$9.00 dot 0.

Is that the lowest price on the Midland? Yes.

But it's not in our package.

Southwick Masters? I don't. I even.

Yes. So $10,770.

Okay. Because we we had another one earlier. It was $10,007.22. I just wanna make sure we were

It's it's 2,000 the three of the three. Yep. Yes. Okay. Adam, you're choosing this last one from WCA?

Yes. They're from Massachusetts. Good. Semi local company. Southwick up by

Do you know them?

I don't know them, but I know where they are. Need a motion? Mister chair. Vote. I'd like to accept a quote from Wally Computer Associates in Southwood, Massachusetts. Quote number 437925. That's 437925. And that's the computers for MET at $10,770.

Second. Bob said it. Bobby. Yeah. Motion to be made and seconded. Any further discussion? I think we just killed it.

All set.

All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? It passes.

Thank you all. I was

wanted to have Sean work out the quote with them. Should he want me to reach out to them?

Maybe I'll give them your info and they can or I don't know. I'll give you their info. You'll Okay. My people will talk to your people. Thanks.

But I know Sean just wanted to do the order and then send it to us. Sure. Absolutely. That'd probably be easier since he's got an account with them.

Exactly. We'll do that. That way, we don't fill in any paperwork.

Once you get this all working, Adam, let let's know how it works. I will. Because that'll give us a direction for the future. Where's Sharks? Way to go.

And if any updates from you? I have tons of updates to share. Oh, that's good. Don't want everybody to lead any further because on Tuesday around 10AM, we the press release came out and, we found out that Middleborough High School students won two New England student production awards in 2026 Nice. Which is excellent. So that brings our total to 19 student production awards in the past eleven years. Wow. And which is really up there. Some of the most in New England. Well, they get

the best teacher. Appreciate

that.

Is there enough room with the trophy?

It really is. We

have

to

squeeze.

Oh. So We can't wear any coins out. That's a good problem to have. But I wanna just shout out these students who just did exceptional work. Had a student, Danny, Danny Tawa, who received a student production award in the long form non fiction category, which is a category we've never won in. It's basically a documentary between ten minutes and thirty minutes. Wow. And they did a a documentary on the making of one of the speech and theater workshop performances called Teen Edition. And they were in the show. They had a role in the show and they also were able to film all these behind the scenes rehearsals, interview the cast and crew, and really get a sense of the whole program organically building to that opening night.

This student was one of my filmmaking students and that was their major film that they wanted to produce. So it was a semester in the making and it's such an awesome feather in their cap that that was the recognition they got. And the speech and theater people love it too.

That's a thing. You can see her.

Yes. Yep. And also, I wanna celebrate sophomore Aaron Davis, who earned a student production award in the photographer category, which might sound peculiar for a video contest, but photographer in this this jargon means like cameraman for video. So he did a whole amazing highlight of the MHS football season. He loves doing the sports related highlights.

So he it wasn't more like the broadcast angle, but more like a film angle of all the footage. He was on the sideline, right, you know, getting the players coming on and off the field and in the rain and all this cool stuff. So so that's actually his second consecutive student production award as a freshman last year. Wow. He was one of our only winners in the audio sound category for a contest video he did.

So this is a kind of a different type of award that he won, which is really cool. We also had three other nominations or honorable mentions, I should say. They didn't win, but they were in the top four in the category. Specifically, our studio production class, which is the first time that class has been specifically a studio class. One of the two classes won for their newscast for MET News, is our flagship TV show where all our news stories and highlights go. They're behind the anchor desk. They're introducing the pep rally highlights and

the Just like the big guys.

Just like the big guys. So it's really cool because that all happens in the setup similar to this. Yep. And what I love about that class is the collaboration because no one person can do it by themselves. So everyone has a specific job. And in that class, they all get trained on the audio mixer, teleprompter, anchor, technical director, graphics, editing, and then it all just comes together. And it's really their show. They come up with the rundown and the script, and so, that's just a really cool achievement. I've had a senior Joshua Horseman earn an honorable mention in the editing category for the twenty twenty five senior walk. And what makes this particularly challenging is he did what's called a SDE, a same day edit.

So, basically, they compiled in an hour long senior walk. They filmed it from, like, eight different cameras. And, basically, the senior walk gives the seniors a chance to get in their caps and gowns and walk through each building of the school from kindergarten through the elementary through the middle and the high school. And they get to see their teachers walk the halls about one last time, and it's the day before graduation. It's the last day they're ever in with their class before they graduate.

So he takes all that footage and compiles it and edit it all night on one of the our laptops. And by the next morning of graduation, he we get to post that and that's like really cool So definitely close at the heartstrings because all the parents, if you know, like, day, they're all end up at the post office with like the fat heads of their kids and like the signs and

But I love that you use the drone.

And we use the drone.

Draw on footage, get the buses, get the off the

So someone's crush, just he has our implicit trust. It's like, here's the footage. And it's like anyone can make a cool looking video, but few people can do it in that amount of time. With the expectation, people are two hundred hundred fifty people are waiting to see that video when it drops.

Seem easy and that's

the Right. Exactly.

An editing job like that is unique. Right. Absolutely. You know

do that at NIC too.

Correct. Yeah. So we had a group of students do that last March, again, for probably the fifteenth year in a row or so. But and then the last honorable mention is really special because it came from our level one class, the video production class. So they're the first time students. And they produced a public service announcement called the Apple. And the themes of it kind of relate to eating disorders and pressures from social media to be thin. And it's just like so simple in its brilliance. Like, there's no words or anything like that. And it just, I think it resonates with the kids of today who are scrolling through their phone and they're seeing all these people that they might aspire to look like, and then they feel pressured to do that.

So I wanna give a shout out to Sanaeh Agasti and Tanisha Rajil for producing that awesome video, and it kinda gives hope to all our current level one students that, like, you don't have to be the most have the most experience to be eligible and be ready to win one of these prestigious awards. So it's really cool. So we we'll hear more information in the coming months about awards reception. Last year was at Boston twenty five studios. And they all Aaron and Connor and I got to go there on the last day of school and get a whole tour of the facilities, kinda mingle with other students who are also winners in that work.

And I think the meteorologist Kevin Lemanowicz gave a little some remarks, and we had pizza and and then kinda got their crystal pillars, which is what it's all about. And that's kept within the school. The students will get a certificate. Well, Congratulations. Oh, I be sure to do that. And if anyone wants to watch the videos, they're all on our website middlebartv.com, as well as Ariana MET. And our compilation show we call Netflix. And we run all the contest videos there as

well as We're this close. This close. This sucks.

M E T Flicks. And then we have another show called Through the Lens and and that's our filmmaking studio talk show. And it's basically like DVD commentary. I had a chance to talk with the producers of each film that they made in the filmmaking class, talk about the challenges and the obstacles and how they came up with their idea and then they made a movie trailer for their film and we watched the film And it's all kind of embedded in there. But it's all on our website and right at the top. So with pictures and videos. So I couldn't be more proud of what what's happening here in our school and it's like, you know, really really the best time. So we've never taught more kids. We have a 184 kids

learning TV Pro this year, and I think that you deserve an applause from us because you take us to there and make us look good. So I appreciate it very much. Oh, thank you.

You guys I'm the one. Thank you. You guys are the unsung heroes because they don't know if, you know, without the decisions you guys make to support our program, there would be this none of us would be here. So I just wanna celebrate you guys and give you guys applause equally.

Well, congratulations to all the winners, and congratulations to all the students.

But These are always Super excited. They're always just fired up the group of that I have right now that are literally starting that process and making everybody else for next year.

Father and I have been here the longest, and I think this

is the most we've ever seen. This is this is very good. I mean, from an educational standpoint, you give the kid insights. I shouldn't say kids, You give them an insight in what's possible. Yeah. Okay? That's the most important thing. If they understand who they are, where they wanna go, They have a great mind. And

it's so it's so great because they get recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. These are industry professionals. They're not scoring each other's videos. It's like people who work in TV and film for a living. Part of their view is they watch these videos and they score them and

Watch them.

And then it's something you can put on a resume in so many careers. I've been doing this long enough to see that there's alumni that have really stuck with it, and it's that's really satisfying to me. That's nice. And I do have more news

if we No. No. No. The floor is yours, Gareth.

Awesome. So on behalf of the elementary school music teachers, they're overjoyed because they get their camera kits that were purchased through here. Mhmm. I inventoried everything. Everything got a label. They got this is tiny, but they got the little MET with the bike flags. So everything they do is for their programming and the music teachers already email me back and they're like, this is awesome. We're using this. They taped a third grade musical just Monday or Tuesday. And they had all the gear and it was like, we didn't have to run down there.

Have the two cameras set up. They edited between them. So I'm offer I've offered to give them whatever training they need and access to that. But it seems like they're really running with it. And I think there's more to come in terms of podcasts and programming and getting the kids involved.

On that channel? Mhmm.

Okay. It's on the other channel. Alright. Yep.

So And I have those cameras too that that I was gonna get

Oh, nice. Yes.

The older ones. So Yeah. They still work.

We'll take we'll take whenever we have because it's just more opportunities for the kids. So and that was where I had a training with the during professional development time, we were able to, like, have some training with them. So it isn't, the first time they've ever been exposed to the gear. So but I look at it as a starting point, you know. It's halfway through and beyond in the year. So whatever they do now is really just to get their feet wet and to kind of prep for the next year and beyond. So I expect some bigger things and, you know, eventually would like to get it in the hands of the middle school teachers and and beyond. Adam? Yes.

I was there last night at the musical and it was wonderful.

Oh, great. See, they

just They did a great job and it sounded great. It was a good time.

Yeah. So there we go. So it's good that we have that coverage and that the kids, if anything, they get to see themselves properly and the parents that weren't there.

Did you have something to say, Bob? I did. The musical the the music class came down to Oak Point Oh, and did a presentation for about an hour and a half, which was really, really good. I mean, you can't you can't underestimate giving somebody some direction and then leaving them on their own to go do it. That's most important.

I mean, they they were filmed. The kids that were in the the instrumentals, they were filmed. It seemed like there was, like, eight people filming, but they all had the camera running at the right angles and so forth and so on. So for the music department, actually, for the high school, I think that was that was really good.

Yeah. Yep. We covered it. Just some last bit of notes in terms of moving forward for the next remainder of the school year. We had some studio lights that we were getting some, like, error and the lights have gone out. Not all of them, but, like, one at a time kept dropping out. So over April break, or over February break, we contacted the Barbizon Lighting Company who installed it as part of the school building budget, And they gave us some things that we can try, so we're gonna try it next week over April break. And hopefully, there's good news. I wanna just keep you in the loop on that because that could be an initiative as to just get those squared away heading into September. It's not a big deal now because I'm not covered teaching the studio production class, so they don't get a ton of use.

But it's something that I don't wanna wait till October and have it be too late. Oh, you know.

My biggest barbers on-site is the lighting guy here.

Not necessarily. We did talk to them first just because they installed it and they had the access to the I don't know the name of the brand light, but it I don't know. It was Andre.

He used to work for them. He branched out and sold and he's a good guy, and he

does good good work.

That'll be expensive then.

I'm not beholden to any any Barbizon for sure because they're definitely the biggest and the usually, the most expensive. So so I'm yeah. Whatever comes in. So we'll definitely be looking into that. And I think that's it for now. But tons of stuff happening here. We have tons of events being covered in games.

Yep.

Like I said, I have a 180 students this year and a 140 of them this semester, and they're taping every we got 21 new programs on the channel in the past thirty days with three more to be added in the next two days. So they're keeping us busy getting the content on the channel and just kinda recycling through a lot of lacrosse, some tennis in there, some you know?

Well, speaking of adding programs, we reached a milestone Mhmm.

I saw that.

In our cable pass system. We reached a 10,000 shows that so, you know, between the school and all the productions they're doing, all the stuff we're covering here between meetings and events, and it's a lot. We've reached that 10,000 show ID. Cool. Yep. Joe was so excited. He came running to me with, like, a little piece of paper, he's like, we did it.

I was worried what was gonna happen because it was, like, $9,900. And I'm like, is it just gonna reset? Is this gonna be a problem, like, y two k?

No. Does that make you proud? Are you a part of some of them building

the Christmas group?

It does.

Back in the day?

Back in the day, 2011.

But that's it for our updates for now.

Karen, do you have any update?

Well, my update was the 10,000. The big milestone, and we have a active eight access users now. We've had a couple that had gone away for school that have reached out to me to come back for the summer. Some, you know, different reasons, they had stepped away for a little bit. So we have, you know, Emily and Sophia, all the people that just here.

Emily is the one that applied here?

Yeah.

You tell them where she's working.

Yeah. She's working in Plymouth. Yeah.

But remember that. And then, Scott also interviewed, and he's been doing a lot of weekend coverage of events that happened on the weekends because, like, he still works at the other studio during the week. But just to make a little extra money, he's covering it, editing, and just giving us the final product, which is great. Good.

Anything else to cover prior to the committee? We're gonna go on to executive session to discuss.

Lot to return to.

So we'll I know all about it.

Oh, I think

I'm not

even gonna read that. Okay. We're gonna go into executive session

Not to return.

Not to return to open session, but I need a roll call vote. Nick?

Yes.

Karen?

Nope.

I know, but you still have to say Yes. Going in. Alright. In returning, Bob? No. Allegedly. Allegedly. Joanna? Yes. You're gonna hang around with us? And I said yes. So thank you very much everybody out there, and we're done.