##VIDEO ID:0kjKKqL9vtw## good evening in accordance with the requirements of the out meeting Ro please be advised that this meeting of Public Access cable committee is being recorded and will be uploaded to the lunenberg access YouTube after the meeting meeting has been held in person at the location provided in this notice members of the public are welcome to attend this in-person meeting please note that while an option for remote attendance and or participation is being provided as a courtesy to the public the meeting will not be suspended or terminated if technological problems interrupt the virtual broadcast unless otherwise required by law members of the public with a particular interest in any specific item on this agenda should make plans for in person virtual attendance according Zoom meeting information is on the notice the agenda lists for this evening the only topic which may be discussed as this is a special meeting and that's it votes may be taken as a result of such discussions not all items listed oh well only one item will be discussed other items may be brought up to the extent permitted by the meeting law as we have a member via Zoom you okay yeah oh so by roll call Pete are you really here or just virtually I'm virtually here excellent how are you doing uh I would rather it be spring Steve ah me too absolutely and Steve hey I am present and ready to go and Steve W who's present which is a quorum faith I don't hear nobody's had a text or anything so uh three is a quorum for our committee so we are good to go um sorry Joe our manager is here as well I don't roll call manager otherwise I have to roll call the entire audience here been a long day trust me I so I put down public comments uh sure I did yeah okay are there any public comments hearing done moving right along any committee comments hearing done moving right along Financial year 26 budget which is the only topic I send out to everyone on the committee and Joe uh last and best uh budget uh which Joe and I have been putting together over the last few days one way or another um it uh Pete did you manage to get the spreadsheet on or anything like that no I did not okay we we'll try and be a sensible with the numbers without going we can go into as much detail as you like yeah I trust you everything everything everything okay well that's what you wanted so the first spreadsheet which is in the format that we've used for the past few years you have to good um we used that as our building block um the second spreadsheet was the one that was sent to us by oh no I only sent one spread sheeet right so oh okay that's the format for um Finance now which is not quite the same as ours okay basically just going down the numbers um the salaries for uh full pack uh salary is are for people who are uh full or Port part-time employees that are benefiting there's 10 12,100 um the videographers who are actually employees as well but not benefit all of them together is 38,500 and that's uh $4,000 or so increase um on what we budgeted last year um and necessary we are covering more meetings uh separately for whatever reason longevity um because Joe is uh really old and been here a long time she gets longevity so that's included in the salaries as well Al together that comes to $42,000 and2 okay with that yes yes the other stuff is the operations that I shall go through so we do have the lease on the um School building of 6,000 per year vendor expenses 500 um we have purchase of services 1,00 we have consultant Services uh 500 and a a lot of these are essentially the same as the previous year advertising 350 office supplies 200 um equipment maintenance and supplies is 15,000 again that's money that uh we need to have ready in case something needs to be done um not at the level of capital which is separate then next is capital which we have 30,000 I will explain how we're planning to manage that um and the indirect costs we've not been provided with those yet so I took last year's numbers uh popped them into my calculator and it came out at 3,621 the indirect costs are things like uh Health Care um Social Service no social security that's the one um pension those kinds of things um so the total pack expenses without the capital is 54,2 72 and if we add the capital in as well that would be eight $84,000 so all together adding that to our salaries the total expenses budgeted for the year would be 196,197 and 69 is that clear and reasonable and acceptable to everyone I Peg access expenses at 54,000 that's excluding salaries okay thank you hence the next line mhm and it excludes Capital as well thank you Capital you may remember is for emergencies if the cus has a significant contion two hens and one being con W so there damn I did try okay everybody good on that yes Pete well other than my annual objection to the $6,000 rent fine understand that at this point I'm sorry to say we have to put it in there I I know you do I but I don't have to like it true I don't like it either I got excited because of the way they put it in their format I thought we could not have to put it in but Joe corrected me thank you Joe okay where on Earth is all this money coming from so the uh calculation page of the spreadsheets I sent out uh which is is that one um I took the Comcast numbers from February of 21 and because of the timing and everything else I'm using calendar years here it just makes the calculations much more sensible so I have 16 payments and I've been uh put them all into a spreadsheet there's a surprise um the average over the full four years actually is 49,000 um the average for whoops sorry folks where it says average 20 oh yeah that's right average 24 uh was 46,4 163 average of 23 was 49,000 so we've come down quite significantly and that's the qually numbered so multiply by four it's probably good place to add that as many of the Comcast people found out as my wife is a big baseball person uh nesson has been deleted from Comcast really yes yes she spent a half a day talking to comcs and they gave her eventually that she has so Pete you need to know this a two-year deal costing one more dollar a month for the premium Ultra gold Comcast package that includes Ness there was no other way to get it and my wife said well then we're going to look somewhere else we're going to do something else just to do internet with Comcast was over $120 so and the ladyes said well let me look for already about Ness uh the thing because nesson is $30 a month it on its own and my wife does MLB on her own now she's gonna save over $100 on MLB because that's part of the supreme package oh so it's costing us an extra dollar we get super highs speed internet now instead of regular speed and we have everything so I only say this if there are people who are like my wife who was extremely concerned about the fact that nessen was cut um call com um xinity call Xfinity and find that that package because it cost us a dollar more Mon oh the two years locked in period yeah so and that's going to be announced on talking baseball on our first show okay thank you well I wanted to bring it up because if anyone watches this then good anyway me all back at the r sorry to interrupt this was a good point to put it in we paid comast $271 they credited us with $6 and we have the cancel check that's been going on for two weeks already sorry about it meanwhile the average for f for um calendar 24 because that's what I have numbers for it's 46,4 63 a reduction of 3,300 um so what we uh then did is use that to come up with a potential average for uh 25 calendar 25 and it's 43,000 161 if it continues to decrease at the same rate which is completely unpredictable um people are doing exactly what Steve was just describing uh they do get rid of cable services video Services um and keep the internet so they can use it for streaming which I will address so that's where that number came from the estimated income for financial year 26 $146 226 146,000 that look right MH yeah $226 it might be $1 more with what Steve just explained thank you it's as accurate as we get now Bartholomew which is our investment account um uh we had uh we put 720,000 in two years ago well June uh June a year and a half ago um right now it's at the end of December 24 it was standing at 773 759 which means it's gone up 53,000 in 18 months so the interest uh to June of 25 uh looks like and we can't guarantee this it's a variable rate and the shortterm boms um 35,43 so for want of a better number that's the one we've used um as an income now the way they structured the spreadsheet for us to fill out they are showing that as an income that we can use um if we have questions later I'll explain a technique for using it that Joe and I eventually decide it will work right so so since Inception we've had 71,000 increase which is not bad the Comcast income we also get from the town interest we only put three4 of the Enterprise and we get 13,000 a year from the town which we presume is interest somehow on the 250 OD th000 which is the rest of the ENT price back um we do have space to put retained earnings in here because uh neither Joe nor I have come up with uh what we think might be the right answer to this so we have to ask them when we do it so there's a blank there which will actually the biggest change it would make is where the money comes from in terms of doesn't really change anything in the overall picture so the total income 24,65390 [Music] [Music] uh so that's where we stand we know of other packs who are in much worse situation than this who don't actually have the reserve funds so that's the bottom line quite literally it's the one right in the middle of the Bri so does anyone need any clarifications de [Music] confusions any comments hearing none can I ask for a motion to accept the budget as prepared by Steve and Joe Steve W and Joe so moved um second present further discussion hearing none the motion is passed thank you all and thank you Joe because you gave me a lot of the stuff I threw my spreadsheet spat it all back out which is what it does the other piece of the presentation I would like to go through quickly which is the PowerPoint one uh this has two two reasons for being um I did not update this year okay I don't know what happened to my copy oh is that my copy over there no [Music] from did you write that I wrote on one no I didn't write did I write on that one I don't think so okay but very quickly uh rather than try and put this up if you can bring it up on your own computers is fine it's essentially the same format as we've used the last couple of years um I took that um there's a pack Mission which we put up typically at the beginning each time uh we have this is the one on Pro we have Park accomplishments uh in particular significantly improved audio in the bot meeting room which is by the way where we should be for this particular one but this should it arise is basically the form I would use for an annual meeting um a list of channel8 government meetings some locally produced for public uh Channel 9 and educational 22 which has got Sports and Studio shows events and entertainments I do have a slide which I prepared for Joe um that explains why having a studio U makes a tremendous diff difference to the quality of some of the stuff we produced I'd kind of like to put it in here but I haven't done it with so um if I can I will so we the finances as always this financial Preamble while pack is a town Department we are self-funded and pack revenue from Comcast is reserved for pack Capital Improvements and operations and does not affect Town budget Enterprise fund is reserved for fitting out and equipping and US stud and other expenses the franchise fee from Comcast is the principal Source we get interest and it mentions the bartholomy um the copy if you have it in front of you uh are not the real numbers because we uh they don't flow into PowerPoint directly so I have to get approval on the spreadsheet before I create this the first one would be the concast fee income table which I talked about the second one is the pack anticipated income for FY 26 um the indirect costs that I'm going to take out unless the town or finance department let us know what they really are because we have to um do our best adjustment on those um the next slide is the pack budget now that's in the format that we normally have it in we're going to have to use the format that they gave us but I'll just put that right in there um that spreadsheet is linked to the spreadsheet we just talked about climed the number on the one spreadsheet it changes on the other driving in N then there's a summary budget which has the you know salaries indirect costs uh operations where the money is coming from so it's a summary budget um this slide I added uh we had it before was ARA funding basically it was a request last time we put it in or a grant I think would have been granted it um this one says the aror approved spending plan was executed and it's the videographic kits the studio cameras and the broadcast audio uh in particularly from the belato room is where you're all sitting this one is changed significantly because so has the situation um the ACT to modernize funding for Community media that's what's known typically as the streaming Bill um didn't make it through last year but it also wasn't killed so the first bullet says the bill will assess a fee to stream streaming entertainment companies for their use of rights of way which will be used to fund Community media efforts uh we'd like to get legislate as as many as possible co-signing on this bill this is essentially the same format as the cable Act of 1984 which you probably remember from when the last time was you read it but it's to cover the streaming part of it there a lot of people are are doing precisely that um the next does have the two numbers there are official year this session not this year oh sorry you look like I got something wrong no oh good um there's a summary of what it means essentially there would be a um a fee imposed on streaming companies which we do not have to negotiate town by town and City by City And Hamlet by Hamlet do you have hamlets here not in probably unated town probably in the western part of the state oh that's where I'd expect I taught Hamlet for 38 years say what I taught Hamlet for 38 years very good good job we're not standing on the stage we' all be in trouble um so that's the end of all the budget stuff um this presentation is a replic of that with on the very back page has the proposed warrant and that has to go in fairly soon I seem to remember according to what I read today today tomorrow thought it was January 20th you really yes and I said oh that's a Federal holiday town hall is closed yeah it's du in tomorrow so I assume it's tomorrow but the email said January 20th did it really has to go in tomorrow right de well one of them has to go in tomorrow yeah it goes in tomorrow that's what St it does go in tomorrow yes that's correct the email that I got from the town hall from where that lady no the lady oh maybe I get email I sent it to you remember I phed you Au yeah something like that yeah said January 20 there was a thing and she also quoted the lawyer the lawyer had to come in say something about the charter and redoing all the dates for when everything is due was a whole long email yeah I saw that I just get through to the but it did say January 20 oh okay and I thought that was odd yeah but I said not a problem for us because if you submit tonight when we go tonight it's stamped January 20th no one's going to read it till tomorrow 3 o' their problem so I will read the warrant sorry and I will change this copy of the warrant oh yes the one that's in my computer does have 26 so the proposed warrant is to see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds a sum of money to fund the FY 26 uh P access Enterprise operating in capital budgets or take any other action relative there too submitted by the pack committee so if uh if there's a motion to accept that motion to accept the warrant second uh any further discussion such as but get the damn thing out tonight please okay by roll call Pete I st I Steve me oh I sorry I was confusing myself um in that case thank you all very much and I will entertain a motion all right motion to adjourn second all those in favor get the hell out of here by bye oh I'm sorry say hi good night folks oh eyes really just have to say I again go okay I that's a majority of the exist three