Minutes of October 23, 2024 HCTV Board Meeting
Meeting called to order 6:05 pm. Present: Kurt Bos, Steve Freihofner, Rachel Kane, Rip Keller and Jim
Kelty & Macy Molleur. Guest Nicholas Kane.
Minutes of the September 24 meeting were approved. Motion to accept by Kurt, seconded by Rip.
Treasurer’s Report – by Kurt. We continue to have a deficit, but slightly less than last year.
President’s Report – Macy accepted the job offer to be HCTV executive director, for at least one year.
Steve and Macy will be meeting with the tech person at OSSU to see what equipment the high school
could use, to develop integration between HCTV and Hazen for video production, and involvement from
students. Steve reminds us that in order to work closely with students at school, anyone will need to get
a background check – get thee to the police station to get fingerprinted. Supervised visits would not
need this.
Signatures from Hardwick citizens are needed this year for town appropriation, they are due end of
December. Macy will send blank copies to board members. Rachel will take one to the Civic Standard.
Steve and Macy will start work on the budget, which we will look at in November.
Director’s Report – Macy has organized a bottle drive fundraiser for the station, and made posters. Drop
off is at M & M. How about new staff t-shirts, with an updated logo? The office needs to be cleared out,
the holdup is the question of what equipment is still useful. The Hazen tech person will be contacted, to
see if they could use some of the gear. Nicholas offers to help sort the equipment, and will be in touch
with Macy. What about the old tapes of town meetings? Rachel will contact the historical society to see
if they would like them. Macy asks if she can make a hire by emailing the board, or does she have to wait
until approval at a meeting? The board discussed but did not take a decisive vote on this, but gave
approval for the hiring of L. McKenzie. Can Kurt get paid for some of his work? The board needs to
revisit our employee and hiring policy, and bylaws to see about board members receiving compensation.
Macy was hired with the expectation of an average of 16 hours per week, but has been working more
like 20 hours recently, which the board is ok with, considering that there is a learning curve, a backlog of
work and new ideas to pursue. Jim will be away for 4 weeks, and Macy or others will have to cover for
his hours. Talk of how board members could take on more responsibilities.
Macy is not keen that the high school basketball games require a password from viewers in order to
watch them, this rule coming from the coach. She is going to discuss this with him, hoping to open the
viewing up. Also, she will ask if HCTV could receive the door money at the games once in a while, to
offset our expense in covering the games. Ensuing discussion about how much it costs us annually to
cover sports and town meeting and events – Macy and Jim will work on preparing this. Have we ever
charged a fee to cover town events? Apparently not, but it is time to consider it seriously.
Meeting adjourned at 8:15 pm. Next regular meeting is scheduled for December 4, 2024, at 6 pm.
Respectfully submitted, Rachel Kane, secretary HCTV