January 2006 Minutes

WCTV BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MINUTES
January 10, 2006

Call to Order - 11:05 am

Present: Kim Poinsett, Dave Burns, Ed Hoffman, Jerome Mahaffey, Willard Brown, Daryl Greene, and Mark Linderman. Staff: John Dalton, John Schuerman, and Diane Lucas.

Approval of Minutes
Board accepted the minutes of the December 13, 2005 meeting as mailed. Dave Burns moved to accept the minutes with Ed Hoffman giving the second, minutes passed.

Treasurer’s Report
Treasurer Jeff Plasterer was absent. John Dalton informed the Board that the bids for an annual audit were back. The Board approved Gillam & Zetzel for the audit. Willard Brown so moved, with Mark Linderman giving the second.

Director’s Report
John Dalton announced that after interviewing four candidates, Stephanie Frame has been selected to fill the position of Assistant Operations Director. This position serves as the production assistant, shooting the public meetings, and provides master control at the head end. The normal working hours will be from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m.
A Membership Renewal Letter for the entire year will be sent out in February 2006. We may have some on-air spots highlighting the “Friends” campaign.
Underwriting is an idea for future development. There might be a free month of Bulletin Board notices for non-profit and business members followed by a request for underwriting to continue the notices after the free month.
WCTV had 25 hours of Christmas programming during the holidays.
John Dalton is working with Jerome Mahaffey and others on some program ideas for spring. John is working with other access centers to offer a slate of our programs to trade.
John Dalton submitted a grant to ADA Indiana which would allow the Community Council on Disability Awareness to make tapes of “A Closer Look” to distribute. Daryl Greene hopes we can accommodate more closed-captioned programs. John stated that he and John Schuerman are currently tracking closed captioned programs and trying to create an awareness of those programs.
John Dalton did an extensive inventory over the holidays, and also hopes to develop a rate card.
We have begun a trouble log to track head end problems and solutions.

Old Business
At this time, the Marketing and Advertisement Committee consists of Dave Burns and Jerome Mahaffey. A goal is to improve the video quality of shows. Willard Brown indicated that he hoped to encourage quality without expecting producers to purchase additional expensive equipment.
In the spring, John Dalton will begin teaching workshops.
House Calls are something that could help local producers with quality. John Dalton, Jerome Mahaffey, Mark Linderman, John Schuerman, and Dave Burns volunteered to do house calls to help local producers on-site.

New Business
Ed Hoffman hopes to see the membership fees reach $10,000.

Good of the Order
Kim Poinsett thought we had a great Open House in December. Jerome Mahaffey is encouraged by the new programming. Mark Linderman is pleased with the direction we are going. Mark also thanked John Schuerman for his dedicated work. Willard Brown appreciates the Board and wishes the public knew of the Board’s good work. Ed Hoffman sees that WCTV is on the road to better quality programming.

Meeting adjourned by Kim Poinsett.
Adjourn - 12:15