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of Director's Minutes July 26th 2002 - DRAFT
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Olelo Community Television Board Members In Attendance: Andrew Aoki, Linda Colburn, Rochelle Gregson, Gary Honda, Mike Masuda,Lurline McGregor, Janis Reischmann, Ron Rex, Marilyn Yoza Board Member Absent: William Kaneko Staff: Manny Cano, Dawne Deponte, Susan Fujiki, Tom Galli, Keali`i Lopez, Kawika Nahoopii, Michelle Ogata, Sparky Rodrigues, Michael Scott, Rona Shibuya, Alan Sutterfield, Tammy Toma, Carissa Williams I. Board Chair Rochelle Gregson called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m. II. Acknowledgement Board Chair Rochelle Gregson acknowledged and thanked Joanne, her staff and faculty from Waianae High School as well as Mike Pecsok from Leeward Community College and Nettie Armitage, the Executive Director of the Waianae Coast Coalition who were instrumental in obtaining the HUD Grant to finance the construction of the Waianae Media Satellite Center. III. Public Comment The following speakers made comments:
IV. Approval of April 26th 2002 Minutes. V. Reports President's Report: Lurline reported to the Board on the second quarter implementation of the Strategic Plan. Basically, Olelo is on schedule in meeting the benchmarks. The Waianae Media Satellite Center is completed. The HUD grant allowed Olelo to do much of the construction and is still slightly under budget, although Olelo will probably be right on budget by the time everything is completed and equipment is purchased. The grand opening for the satellite center will be in October and there will be a formal opening and reception that will be sponsored by the partners, including, Leeward Community College and the Waianae Telecom Hui. The group will be inviting primarily legislators, education officials, including from the UH system and DOE, members of the Waianae coast community and Olelo Board members. Lurline informed the Board that Olelo has hired a Technical Services Director, Michael Scott and an Administrative Director, Susan Fujiki, both of whom started at Olelo earlier this month. Michael will be helping Olelo to integrate computer and video technology as we move into the future and Susan will help keep Olelo on track with the strategic plan implementation. Lurline reported to the Board that Olelo has filled the newly created Client Services manager position and consolidated the client counselors, volunteer coordinator and editing mentor into a new Client Services Department. Lurline explained to the Board that we anticipate that this new department will improve communication and coordination of the client experience from first contact with Olelo to program completion. Lurline also reported that Olelo hired a nonlinear editor mentor several months ago to work one to one with clients who are technically challenged. The result of this has been several completed programs that probably would not have been completed without this service. Lurline informed the Board that Olelo has counted 159 active volunteers who have logged almost 3,000 hours of volunteer time so far this year. Lurline reported to the Board that Olelo has created and implemented an advanced producer class and will be open to all producers but is primarily for newly certified producers who do not feel ready to do a production. So far, one class has been held and it was a full class and was well received. Olelo has also completed a script for the first training tape on how to use the compix. Lurline Minutes of the Board of
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informed the Board that Olelo has talked about having training materials available on video and on the web site in the future. Lurline informed the Board that Olelo initiated Block Programming on July 1st. Olelo did this primarily to be able to better promote programs. This took a lot of preparation by Olelo's programming staff to basically revamp the entire scheduling process and communicate with Olelo's clients about the schedule changes. The transition was done with a minimum of problems. Lurline reported to the Board that Olelo has been promoting OleloNet, a live videostreaming service that Olelo provides through the web page. In addition to live streaming of the legislature this past year, Olelo has successfully streamed several events, including Chaminade University's Graduation, the Kamehameha Schools Alumni Luau, a Music Awards program from Aloha Tower, and an upgraded streaming rate of the closing session of the legislature to Akaku on Maui so they could provide a live cablecast. Feedback from these events has been excellent. Lurline reported to the Board on the Vote!2002 project. It is Olelo's primary outreach effort for the year and is designed to meet a number of strategic plan objectives, including reaching a diversity of voices in the community, both in the creation of programming as well as in viewers; increasing diversity in programming and increasing civic participation in community issues. Lurline explained to the Board that there are seven primary initiatives within the project. The first initiative is Business Leader Presentations. Olelo has made three presentations so far and has been very well received. The question and answer session at the end has given Olelo a good opportunity to expose the business community to Olelo. The second initiative is "We the People". We the People has taken the time slot of the Capitol Commentary program after the session ended. There have been 5 programs aired and 62 participants interviewed. The third initiative is the PSA Campaign. Olelo videotaped 26 celebrities, business and community leaders and children speaking in different languages. Olelo will also provide these PSA's to broadcast TV for airing. The fourth initiative is "What's Your Vote?". Six groups were taped two weeks ago with television anchor hosts. Olelo will begin airing them in mid-August. The fifth initiative is "Candidates in Focus". Olelo has sent out 262 letters to each O`ahu and statewide candidate inviting them to participate. The sixth initiative is "Candidates Speak". Two hundred sixty-two letters were mailed inviting candidates to debates. Olelo has met with the League of Women Voters to gather questions and decide which races to pursue, which will be largely based on candidate response. There will be 44, one-hour long live, call-in debates that will begin September 3 and run at 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., Monday through Friday until the end of October. The seventh initiative, Minutes of the Board of
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Precinct Officials Training video will be done next month in conjunction with the Office of Elections. Lurline explained to the Board that the value of this project is incalculable because it isn't even possible to buy prime time on broadcast television to do what we are doing. Because we are using production resources that Olelo owns and is using as many volunteers as possible, from production personnel to moderators, the dollar cost of this project is minimal and falls within our outreach and public relations budgets already approved for this year. Finally, Lurline informed the Board that the Vote!2002 project has not and will not impact client usage of Olelo's facilities, equipment or channel space. Lurline concluded her report showing video clips of the Vote!2002 programming. Finance Committee: Finance Chair Mike Masuda reported to the Board that at the last finance committee meeting, the committee reviewed the audit with Howard Hanada, Olelo's auditor at Grant Thornton. Mike reported that the audit was clean and that for the second year in a row, there was no management letter. Mike requested from the Board approval of the audit report. The Board approved the audit report. Program Committee: Program Committee Chair Gary Honda reported to the Board that the ASAC Committee agreed to hold an open meeting on May 29th as an experiment to develop openness in the ASAC process. One of the goals of the first meeting was to establish the operational mechanics of the open meeting. The principles by which each meeting will be held is based on the idea on hooponopono and mutual respect. Gary also reported to the Board that the Program and ASAC Committee discussed how Lillian's Hong replacement would be selected. It was agreed that the next person with the most votes would be asked to fill the position and if accepted, this person would complete Lillian's term. Gary informed the Board that ASAC unanimously accepted the absence definition proposed by the Program Committee. This absence requirement applies only to the full ASAC meeting that includes members of the Program Committee and not to the elected ASAC members meeting.
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Meeting Gary reported to the Board that the ASAC elected members were asked to work on a proposal concerning the tape grant program. The proposal was to include a definition of the program, a means of monitoring and a system of evaluating the success of the program. The ASAC was advised that they did not have to limit their proposal to the tape grant but that whatever they proposed needed to be brought to the next ASAC meeting. Gary also reported to the Board that it was agreed that ASAC minutes would be taken by the staff and that the minutes would be expanded for distribution. Beginning with the July meeting, it was agreed that the meetings would be taped. Minutes would be emailed to the group two days prior to the elected ASAC meeting and finalized two weeks prior to the bi-monthly ASAC general meeting. Gary informed the Board that the July 24th ASAC meeting lacked quorum due to several members having to work and one member getting into an accident. The members present did discuss several non-action items. Due to the lack of quorum, there will be an ASAC open meeting on August 28th at 6:00 p.m. Legislative and Statewide Ad Hoc Committee Andrew Aoki reported to the Board that the committee met and discussed the goals for the rest of the year for the committee. There is a lot of goodwill among the other community access stations across the state and there may be opportunities beside legislative issues, organizational policy issues and programming issues. There are a lot of opportunities for coordination and collaboration that will benefit all of the communities, thus the goal for the committee is to begin fostering these relationships and open the lines of communication. VI Adjourned at 8:30 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted,
_______________________________ Gary Honda, Secretary
Minutes of the Board of Director's Meeting Friday, July 26, 2002 Page 5 of 5
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