Hardwick Community Television
Annual Meeting
July 31, 2014
Memorial Building, Hardwick Vermont
Attending:
Monty Shatney, President
Kurt Bos, Secretary/Treasurer
John Klee
NancyKellogg
Rachel Kane
Leif Goldberg, Executive Director
Robin Grant, Technical Director and Recording Secretary
Called to order at 6:07 PM.
Minutes:
The minutes of the HCTV Annual Meeting of 2013, having been previously
emailed to board members, is up for approval.
Monty moves to accept, Kurt seconds.
No discussion.
Vote unanimous
Annual Report, by Leif Goldberg
Produced 98 programs in-house
Imported 160 from other Vermont AMOs (VMX)Another 40 from beyond
Vermont (PEG Media)
Have been archiving almost all of our locally produced programming on our
website, either using Ustream (live), or Vimeo (edited playback).
We do live broadcasting from here and Hazen High School. We did not use
the live feed at the Town House this year, nor at the Hazen Auditorium. Monty
says we should use those more. Nancy asks about broadcasting school
plays. Leif says that copyright usually prevents that.
There have been 6 days of training so far in 2014 alone.
No serious tech problems, just minor things. Comcast has been consistent.
Inventory changes: bought a second tapeless camera. A match to the JVC
HM-100 we already bought (to replace the aged Canon GL2s).
Comcast’s funding has been going up steadily. Robin explains that this
means more people have been signing on and/or they are increasing the cost of Basic Cable (since we get 5% of only basic cable and not the High Def
channels).
Nancy asks about taking advertising from VTEL. Leif explains that we can’t
take advertising. (Discussion ensues about various internet transmissions)
End of report.
Monty moves to accept the report, John seconds.
No discussion.
Vote unanimous.
Elections:
Monty’s term is up. (He finished Steve Freihofner’s term)
Robin nominates Monty as President for a two year term.
No other nominees.
No discussion.
Vote unanimous.
Monty nominates Dave Mitchell as Secretary/Treasurer for a two year term.
No other nominees.
No discussion.
Vote unanimous.
Nancy Kellogg is nominated by Monty for a two year term as director. No
other nominees.
No discussion.
Vote unanimous.
Community Comment:
None.
Other Discussion:
Monty raises questions about quorum requirements for the Annual Meeting,
which we didn’t think we were going to get for this meeting. No action taken.
Annual Meeting adjourned at 6:30 PM