Morning. >> Good afternoon. I will call to order the cable communication advisory board meeting uh for Thursday, July 17th um 2025. The first item on our agenda is the approval of minutes. Is there any
questions on the minutes from the previous meeting? If not, I will entertain a motion to approve those minutes. >> I so move >> second. Have a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion? If not,
all in favor say I. >> I. I. >> Opposed? Motion carries. Now on to our cable access coordinator administrative report. Stephen. >> All right. So before you, we have our reports from January through June, uh,
showing all of our, uh, studio productions, all of our council chamber, uh, recordings, uh, recordings within the community such as the school board and, uh, board of Brown County Commissioner meetings, um, all of our different submitted programs, including
like weekly and monthly submitted programs. Um, any questions about the reports uh that we submitted? >> I don't think so. >> I have none. >> Tom,
>> no. None for me. No questions. >> All right. Then I will entertain a motion on new activities. >> I would move approval. >> I'll second. >> All right. We have a motion, a second. Is there any further discussion? If not, all in favor say I.
>> I. >> Opposed? Motion carries. Next is our programming update. >> All right, great. So, this is our uh programming updates. These are all the programs that we've uh completed since our last meeting. Um you know, at the top we have don't forget to read the instructions. The board game show that
we do with the library. We've only completed one. Um Living United, our our talk show that we do with the United Way of the Brown County area. We had four episodes of that. Um, The Process is a a show I'm not sure if we've had new
episodes of that in a little while, but we uh have completed a couple episodes of that. It's a um usually about a 20 to 30 minute look at a a specific project narrated by local artist Jason Jason Jasperson talking about different aspects of uh the creative process.
um something artsy. We've, you know, continued that program monthly, usually about 5 to seven uh interviews per per uh month. Uh we recorded a new show
today even um this morning. Uh the forum, we've had three new episodes of forum focusing on uh feeding the Dakota Riders. Uh we interviewed the middle school STEM teacher talking about their STEM program uh and uh someone
talking about the low vision project that's available at the library. Um and then we have continued working with the Brown County Historical Society recording all of their programs through uh throughout the since the last
meeting. I I think there's five different recordings and we did one as well today. um a few library presentations. Um and then we have our monthly updates that we do with the uh public library
and the parks and uh park and department. >> Was this backing up to the historical society? Was that based off of the the rapid and dam was that the after the damage had been done? >> It was. Yep. >> Okay, cool. >> That was a really good presentation they had for that.
um concerts in the park. Um well actually we've been covering a lot of different concerts including concerts in the park. Uh we've recorded a few of the uh concerts held out at Shells. Uh and then we've been covering a lot of the uh
performances by the New Municipal Band this summer. Uh we also stopped by Sweet Haven and recorded a concert with Luke Smith. Um we recorded another episode of Tales of the Town. this one about Carrie Nation. It's titled A Nation Obsessed
with Alcohol. Uh and we've got two more episodes that we're working on that we'll be filming later this month. Um enough said is uh the movie preview talk show where we talk about what's coming out this month. Uh we've continued to
record that monthly. Uh and then the next one, New Alm Ambience. This is a program created by uh our our new part-time guy uh Colton Pringle uh where he goes to different places within the community and records
uh this like ambience sound and visuals. Uh it's usually about 10 minutes long and it kind of just gives you it's a moment of zen. >> Yeah. Very very >> um so we've we've had an episode at the Herman Monument uh the way of the cross
and Pollinator Park. Um, and then we've had a lot of other community recordings. Um, some of these were, uh, live streams, uh, such as the, um, the anxious generation presentation.
Um, as well and the human rights commission's, uh, immigration forum that they had at the library. Um, uh, the Let's Talk Fraud Seminar was a big, uh, seminar that we were able to work with them and record that.
Um, and then we've covered some of the other local events such as Autofest and the Car and Bike Rollins. Um, and then we have our our YouTube channel reports for our last uh, period. We had
33,000 views, 912 hours of watch time. We've added 55 subscribers, and uh that puts us at 803 total subscribers. For the city of New Alm's channel, 3.8,000
views, 558 hours of watch time, uh added 13 subscribers for 298 total subs. Do you guys have a um uh a social media page on in anywhere like whether it's Insta or Facebook or >> We have a Facebook page.
>> Um I don't know the metrics on that. I can add that on to our our for next time. >> Yeah. I'm just curious. I mean you you've got a lot of good programs going out and if you if if there's any city push to to um you know make them pop up more often where people subscribe to the
channels and get more views on the programs. Sure. >> It's pretty inexpensive. But I think we were looking at it for some of the stuff we're doing this weekend and you know $20 goes a long way. >> Oh yeah. >> To get more likes or you know get >> getting those boosts and >> Yeah. boosting it out there. >> Yeah.
>> Expands your reach a bit. Um that's something we could look into. >> Um and we don't have as many followers on Facebook I feel as we do on YouTube but >> maybe you can piggy back off a city page or something else like that you know where they've got you know thousand.
Yeah. Um yeah, >> because there's a lot of good programming and it's, you know, it getting the word out there more um for people to to find it easier um would be good and and know that it's there. So,
moving forward, uh, yeah, we've got the, like, as I mentioned before, Tales of the Town is something we we've got, um, a couple episodes of that we'll be filming and and I'm sure we'll be developing some more ideas on uh, for that program. Um, New Ambience is pretty
easy to produce. I can just send Colton out to any part of the community to create another episode of that. Um, so that I like that program for that reason. Um, and then we've got the Bavarian Blast Parade coming up this
weekend and that's a big program for us. So, um, and that's a live live feed for us and it's a lot of work to put together, but it's important. >> Yeah, absolutely. I appreciate the variety. Yeah, it's for a town this size.
>> Yeah, we try to give something for everyone. um including our uh programs that I get from outside sources like the Minnesota DNR uh their outdoor uh skills and stewardship series where they talk about different things related to DNR
and uh I think that you know that's really interesting for the community. Um all right, anything from you Mike? jump up. >> Yeah. I mean, I we we do look on YouTube
as well for uh local creators or localish creators to add programming to the channel that we didn't create, like um the Minnesota DNR one. And on top of that, we also have uh Minnesota Bricks, I think it's called, regionally popular
YouTube channel. We play his content on the channel. Uh my brother produces uh um hiking videos about um trails in and around south southern Minnesota like you know state park hiking trail. Um he's
done one through Flandrew and we'll play the ones that are local. Um and they're like 3 to 5 minute descriptions of hiking trails. Um we have uh there's like a woodworking one too, right? >> Yes. The garage. >> The garage. Um which is a woodworking one. Um, and I think we might have one
or two other ones that are just locally produced YouTube stuff that we we contact them to get permission to play it on the channel as well, just to give it even more variety so that whenever you change turn the channel on, it's not the same three programs over and over. >> Do do we do any like how it works around here? Like, you know, we've got our own
power generation, a big water treatment place, you know, and and you know, san sewer treatment play. I mean there's there's a lot of things that you know we this the people of the community see me money being spent for but probably don't know you know the ins and outs and how how everything works. Do we do anything along those lines?
>> We have produced a couple episodes of well we did the police station and the power generation >> the police station one. Yeah. >> Yeah. We did a power generation one as well and one for Turner Hall and we were trying to get some businesses involved too but that's a little bit more little >> difficult. I I think it might be a good idea to go do another city one like a
water one. I think that's interesting. the the water plant is doing a major renovation next year and I think it after that would be a good time to do it. >> Yeah, because you get the treatment facility and then the water facility and >> I know they're I think they're doing a couple million dollar renovation on on both facilities in the next two to three
years. So, I think that would be a good time to do something like that cuz >> I mean they're cool buildings just but we've been in them a few times and it's always like wa that's pretty cool. >> It's neat how yeah how everything's in there and how it all works. It's it's really cool. So medical center might not be a bad one either. I think we tried to
contact them at one point to do it and we did not even receive a response. >> Yeah, we could try again. >> I think they've had turnover since we tried to contact them. So, >> sure, take a run at it again. >> Yeah. >> All right. Um any Tom?
>> Yeah, I'll jump in. Thank you, chair, members, and staff. Um, you know, another idea, I think we've done this in the past where we uh actually kind of do an episode on each department, >> um, and tell help to try to provide some
insight to our residents, um, on >> what their local government does on a day-to-day, month-to-month, year-to-year basis. >> So, I mean, this you some of these are probably already done where you've done some department overviews. Mhm.
>> Um but it might be nice to have a department overview for each of our departments um over the next couple years. >> I would love to do that. >> Yeah. >> I think the biggest challenge is everyone's very shy. >> Yes. Yeah. >> So it's getting uh hard to get people on camera, but um yeah, that that's
something we could look into more and see uh which departments would be good for. >> Yeah. And here's another idea is that we, you know, some people might be a good host or hostess for the show >> so that staff doesn't have to do the presentation and all the writing and
speaking. >> Um, if we have a staff member or a volunteer that's willing to be the uh the host of the show, >> I think >> there's certainly a handful of people in the city I think would be willing to do that. From just from previous interactions, they've they've been
pretty good. Like um Derek down at PUC is usually pretty good about being on camera. Um Joey's been >> more than grateful to be on camera and John at uh planning, >> but we also have some, you know, professional actors in town or amateur
actors who would do a great job narrating and hosting and hosting these episodes, so to speak. >> So that's one idea. Another thought I have on the programming report, the last page, the YouTube report.
>> Um, I'm wondering if we can try to do more a quantify over time, monthto monthth or quarter to quarter. >> Sure. >> Semi-year to year. >> I could break it down in a lot of different ways. They're pretty, you know, expansive in terms of how you want
to gather that information. So I can >> uh provide a little bit more detail month to month if we want to see it that way for next time we can do that. >> And and um you know also over time maybe a graph chart a chart or a graph about
how these views and and numbers have changed quantifiable over the past you know few years. >> Yeah I think if you see it over the course of that you know you'd see how it's you know grown quite a lot in the past couple of years. Hopefully we're growing. >> Some spikes from certain things.
>> Yeah, I know. I remember there when I did it like probably last year, I went for like the macro of the full time and there's just one random spike right in the middle where there was a like a really bad accident on 14. >> And we had done a video the previous
year about that road and it got like >> Oh yeah. >> 15,000 views in two days because of >> because of that. >> Pretty irregular. But >> yeah. >> Um yeah. Ju just so we can kind of at a glance compare this over time.
>> Sure. >> Um and then another little thought I had back um on a previous page um I guess it's three of five, page three of five. NUFS I mean I think a lot
of us know that it's the film society. >> Mhm. >> But uh there might be people that think it's the figure skating club. >> Sure. I can type it out. >> Yeah, >> public library. >> Um just little couple items like that.
But >> keep up the great work. I mean, we're very fortunate to have this department and quality staff in the department. So, thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> For sure. >> Um All right. Is there any other anything else? Otherwise, I'll I'll
entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to receive an order filed the programming update from January through June of 2025. >> Second. >> All right, we have a motion to second. Is there any further discussion? Not all in favor say I. >> I.
>> Opposed? Motion carries. Uh last item. Tom or Mike, do you have any additional comments? >> No additional ones. Uh just uh what I I said just briefly that uh we're very fortunate to have this great department, a great staff. keep up the great work and and thank you very much.
>> Yeah, I second all that. >> Very good job. >> Yeah, thank you very much. All right, with that uh we'll adjourn. Thank you everybody. >> Appreciate it.