001We're about to get over right now. >> I keep forgetting your name. >> We're live. >> That's okay. It's >> a wannabe. >> Yeah, you >> I'm glad I'm alive, but uh the uh >> welcome everybody >> to the annual members meeting for Bevc camp. Glad you could all attend. uh like to have more members attend, but it's great those of you that are here are here and it's great that we can do it at 261 for the second straight year, I think. Yeah, we did it down here last year, too. So, um thank you Lachar for such wonderful food and uh so eat up. There's a lot of food back there. We're going to start the meeting now, but uh if you're hungry and want to get up and get more food and sit
002back down, that's just fine. Very informal. Okay. And I've been instructed to stay as close to this X as possible. So, I'm on it. Uh I'm Paul Earl. I've been on the Bevcam board for 22 23 years. I think 2002. And um seen a lot of change. And I'm sure we're going to see a lot more change over the next few years. Some of it within our control and uh a lot of it completely beyond our control. So it it's interesting times and for those of us that have spent our entire career pretty much in startups, it's um it's particularly fun right now to try to work through this stuff. What we're going to do first is you got the agenda. Uh we're going to do the election. And I'm going to turn it over
003to John Guardi who's on the board. Uh John, you can stand on the X. >> And uh >> this meeting is streaming live by the way, so that's why we have to stand on the X. So go ahead. Where's the camera? >> Camera's over there. >> Thank you. Uh I'm John Alieri and uh I've been a board member for about 10 years, 12 years, something like that. times. Uh I'm also on the nominated committee for board membership. This year we have u three candidates for three board positions and all three positions are member elected which means you will be voting for the three candidates each of the three candidates this evening. the our bylaws require that we actually have a paper ballot. So, while we have three candidates for three positions, and it might seem
004a lot easier if we just did a a voice vote for each of the three, we were required to actually have a a ballot. So, what I thought we'd do is um uh have each of the three candidates, one of whom is not here this evening, is out of the country. Uh and I will say a few words about uh Keith Sonia, but then John Chilio and Michael Davis, if you could come up and just say a few words about uh your background and basically why you want to be a member of the board. In John Tamilio's case, he is an a current member of the board. So this would be uh reelection if you will. Uh but let so the three candidates are Keith Sonia and Michael Davis and John Tamilio. Keith Sonia, as
005I mentioned, is not here this evening. Uh but let me just say Keith has been on the board at least for one term now. Uh Keith is uh has a background in um in public affairs and has consulted with u uh governments uh across the globe basically. So that's his expertise. He's been involved with local uh uh politics as well. Uh and he's been uh a valued member of the board. He was helpful uh to uh executive director Rob Chapman in developing the request for proposals that was u sub uh distributed last summer and was recently uh approved. So we'll hear a little bit more about that perhaps later. But Keith was very helpful to Rob and to the board in developing that and has been uh uh an excellent member and contributing member of
006the board of directors. So he is one of the candidates, Judge Millio, as I said, and Michael Davis. Um Michael, would you like to come up and uh just say a few words about why you'd like to join the board, a little bit about your background, etc. Very good. >> Try not to move. All right. Hey everyone, I'm Mike Davis. Um, so a little bit about me is I started my career and I graduated Curry College in 2019 and started my, you know, video production career in 2020 actually of being a production manager at Bedford TV. I did that for about a year and a half and then I had a lot of different freelancing um positions I was doing and then I was the um videographer up in the helicopter for um Boston 25.
007So I was Sky 25 and then I joined uh Phantom Gourmet in 2022 and I've been there since. I am a videographer and video editor for them. Um where I have won two New England Emmys and um uh Superub was recently on the show. Uh I pushed for years for that to be on the show and um they finally listened to me and it's um I pitched, shot, wrote and edited that piece. Um, and I believe my background with um, you know, like local TV and my expertise that I've had, I think it'd be a great fit to be on the board of directors. Thanks. >> Thank you, Mike. John ask one question. Just curious. Do you live in Beverly? >> Yeah. Okay. >> Skid on the X. Get on the X. >> It almost
008feels like a Monty Python skit. Like something's going to fall. a big weight. I'm John Tamilio. I live in Beverly um in Centerville. I'm a pastor. I'm a professor. I'm a musician. I wear a couple different hats. Uh my wife teaches in the Beverly school system. Um I I was born and raised in Beverly but moved away for several years and found my way back here. Um, my interest in Bevcam started as a viewer and then it morphed into me hosting a show at one point and I got to see a lot of the behind the scenes that people like Chris do who's a brilliant man of all jack of all trades uh, and others. And I I I'm not a tech person and I'm not interested in being a tech person but I'm but
009I was really interested in kind of being part of of this of this community. And during my time on the board, we opened this um facility due to the work of several people under the leadership of Paul. And I think that this is a a a resource that offers so much to the community, you know, with from from continuing doing what we've done at the high school with uh video production and now with podcasting with a storefront window. I think there's just so much that we can do and there's exciting things happening. If you uh you know look at the board or you talk to a board member, you'll hear about a lot of the exciting things that are that are happening. Some of it you took part in tonight by filling out those post-it
010notes that are around the room. So, I would like to continue and uh see great things happen right here on Cabbage Street and at the high school and beyond. So, >> thank you. >> Thanks. Thanks, John. >> And Michael and Keith and Absencia. And we're passing ballots out now. And if you would take a moment to vote for three, we'll collect them again. It may appear obvious, but only >> and it's members only. Thank you for reminding me. >> Like the jacket. I think there's a lot of >> family around collect Okay, >> slideshow. That is better. >> Thanks, Rob. >> Okay, I think we'll start the uh formal part of the uh meeting. I want to make a few general remarks and thank some people and then I'll turn it over to Rob to
011make some u comments about Bevcam and where it's going. And we're fortunate to have uh Sarah uh a lot with us from um the strategy company we hired to help us better identify ourselves and where we're going in the future. So, um, it was great that timing wise that she could be here and she'll say a few words later and she's responsible for all these post-it notes. Okay. All right. Okay. So, what since the last meeting, what's been going on? A lot's been going on. A lot of progress, a lot of emphasis on this location. We invested a lot of money in this location and we uh we don't have the revenue sources we used to have as vibrant as they were. So we're counting on this location to give us the opportunity to be
012much better recognized in the community and to generate different sources of revenue. So raising awareness um staff's done a good job with a lot of help from part-time people to staff evening and weekend hours with very few exceptions to 8:00 at night I believe and uh including Saturdays and Sundays and um so it it gives us the maximum opportunity to interact with the community which before those of you that have been around webcam you're in the high school we're still in the high school, but you can't interact with the community in the high school, especially these days with all the security and everything else. So, it just we had to bite the bullet and just take a chance to see what happened. New initiatives, progress, uh significant increase in podcasts in September and um August
013and September alone, I think seven new ones or something, Amanda. Yeah. And that's awesome. and uh also regular workshops uh which aren't on on media. Thinking about maybe doing that hybrid kind of thing going forward, but right now they're right here. People come in and they're starting to get some nice traction which is very encouraging. Um and then FIFA service production services which we we have gotten a few this year. Uh Chris is primarily involved in that and uh we're looking to do more uh increased member communications. Liz can't be here tonight. She's ill, but uh weekly emails go out pretty regularly. Uh there's postings to Facebook and Instagram, ideally daily, just to keep in front of people so that eventually it, you know, they really know who we are and they look forward to
014getting that little tidbit each day. Financials. Um we we have a lot of money in the bank. We've got about 650,000 give or take in the bank, which is nice. We don't need that much money in the bank. probably need about three just for a rainy day in case something happened. Two to three. But our problem right now, which the consultant friend is going to help solve with us, is what's the best way to spend the rest of that money that we don't need to be keeping in the bank? So, the reserves are healthy. Um the average quarterly payment, we signed a new contract with Comcast three years ago. uh the the average quarterly payment of a new Comcast contract in year 1 which was Q3 2022 through Q2 is on 187,000 and change. Okay.
015Okay. The average quarterly payment in in year three, which was Q3 24 to Q2 uh 2025, uh uh which we just got the most recent one in is $162,900 and change. So from an average quarterly point of view, that's a decline of about 13% in um three years. Okay. on the money that's coming in. Historically, that's been the only money that comes in except for occasional members. U membership is actually in uh four digits this year, which is wonderful. And is above $3,000. So, that's significant increase. Workshops have brought in about 1500. I'll just use a round number, but um but they've also brought in a lot of new members. So if you count those new members that probably wouldn't become new members if they hadn't come to a workshop and found out that they
016only had to pay 50% to come to the workshops and be a member and take advantage of the other services. So uh that's been pretty significant and the um and the production services I mentioned. So, our main source of revenue, 95%, 90 to 95%. Comcast and Comcast is going the wrong direction. And we only get a piece of the TV. We don't get a piece of their streaming and all that kind of stuff. That's a constant negotiation thing at all levels of government, but you know how slow that can be. So, uh, it's the kind of thing we just can't sit back and assume anything and have to figure out some ways to generate new sources of revenue. So, what are we what's in store for this year, next year, sorry, 2026? Well, we're going
017to meet the challenge that was at the last bullet of the last slide there by doing the strategic planning and market analysis. We we sent out a request for proposals back in May, I think. Uh accepted them through July. >> July. Yeah. And uh we got four proposals, all very qualified organizations. We decided based on relevant experience and um a lot of other factors, the proposal itself and whatever to go with paper crane associates which is based in Westford and uh uh and they began working uh about three weeks ago. Right. Okay. Um, and their charter is to help us uh identify who we really are andor who we want to be. uh and then figure out what services and products we might want to have in order to monetize more uh and to be
018less dependent on Comcast or any any Comcast lookalike uh going forward because they're all doing the same thing. Uh, and we are fortunate to have Sarah Clatt, president and founder of Paper Crane Associates, um, with us tonight. And she's, uh, gathering some data and, uh, she'll speak a little bit in, in a little while. Uh, we do plan to continue to initiate new new products and services based on the study findings. Uh, we're hoping to wrap up the the project or at least phase one. I mean, who knows what it might uncover, which says other things we should do. But, um, by around the end of Q1, uh, early April, something like that. So, we're going to have a lot of the, uh, year to, uh, basically initiate some new products and services. As appropriate,
019and I underline the as appropriate, we'll continue to expand podcast and other production services, identifying uh, possible revenue generators. Uh uh I'm a big believer in trying something but being smart enough to know when you shouldn't continue that and maybe try something else because if you don't try stuff you're you're you're just going to be stagnant and and we can't afford to be stagnant. So, uh, maybe some things we've been experimenting with will either spend less resourcing on them or they might go away. And, uh, we're looking forward to some wonderful big new ideas come popping out of the study. Um, support educational government programming. Those are two keys of the PEG as we all know. And uh if we the board gets a report every two months and the staff writes each each member
020of the staff writes what they've been doing. The amount of stuff that such a small staff is getting out. Um, but like sports alone, they're doing sometimes two or maybe three, I think I read, I don't know, games of some sort a day some days just because they're covering two or three women's sports and two or three men's sports and and uh and an email uh if at all possible. Uh so we can then proactively reach out. They can always have an opt out if they want to opt out, but at least we can send them the weekly um content email and uh I think there's something to opt out on that at the bottom, I think. And so they want to stop it, they can stop it. Right now, they can't get it. So,
021uh you know, that's that's a potential problem. Um recognizing contributors, uh I've already talked a bit about the staff under Rob's direction. Uh again, they're the staff along with upwards to 20 maybe or a little bit more part-time volunteers and part-time paid people. Okay. A combo. Okay. Uh do an enormous amount of work. Um the board we meet regularly and deal with issues as they come up. 2024 and 2025 have been busy years for the board. A lot more meetings than I can recall ever having because again when you're dealing with all this stuff that we're trying to do the best we can, uh you you've just got to meet and digest stuff and go from there. Uh board members that are here, if you guys could just stand up very briefly, please. Uh Matt,
022Alex, Andy, John, Tony, Judy, John, uh >> you're now a board member. Uh Michael, and uh and I'm a board member, and there's three missing. I think that I think that adds I don't know. Uh I'm not going to go through the producers and the community name by name. Uh, I asked uh Rob's team through Rob to put together those lists because I figured they could also be useful for um the consultant and u talking with people and talking with groups and everything else. So that might jumpst start that a little quicker by having this here. Uh we do plan to put this presentation my slides and Rob's up on um the website. So, anybody who wants to get a look at this can later on. Okay. So, with that, uh, there'll be time for
023comments and questions and stuff later, but to keep it moving, I'm gonna ask Rob to come up here. I just noticed I wasn't standing on the X. Is that Is that okay? >> Sounded great. >> Oh, good. Okay. Uh, and, uh, turn this over to you and OUR [Applause] >> WELL, thank you very much everybody. Um, I'm not going to say a lot. Uh you guys get to see me every day when you come to Bevc camp. So uh I think it's just nice to see everybody here. In particular, I'd like to thank the board members for their guidance and their support and their perspective and their uh everything they do with helping us try to guide where Bevcam goes through the future. So they put in a lot of work and they don't get
024paid, they pay me. So uh that's why I appreciate them. Thank you guys for all that. Um let me see what back up here. Uh, I do want to mention the staff. Um, as some of you may know, I fell off a ladder at the beginning of May and uh, you know, broke some of the first bones I've ever broken in my body. Uh, and it became a mobility issue and my staff stepped up and they were I was pretty much stuck in a bedroom up in Vermont for most of May and um, did my best to call in and see how they were doing, but they were able to handle it. So, I just want to say uh thank you to those guys for the incredible work that they did covering for me while
025I was recovering from my accident. Uh it was nice to know that um people were here that I could count on to take care of things. So, thank you very much. Um so, just so one of the things a couple things I just wanted to note was that this is the first year that we actually raised our membership dues uh in over 20 years. uh at the time um an annual membership I think it was $25 or it was $10 for seniors. >> Yeah. Five. >> Yeah. And maybe 50 for organizations. Um people would come in and they would just be astounded that we would be providing this kind of service for that amount of money. Um so we went to the board and we talked a little bit about it might be time. They
026spent some time on the membership committee that Alex uh chaired and we got into it and we decided to raise the the um membership dues. It was overdue and it went really smoothly. People were still very excited about how little it actually costs to be able to avail themselves of some of the services that we provide here. So, we got it overdone. We got it done. We're now at $24 a year for seniors and youths. 49 for an individual, 99 for a family. And organizations are $149. And an organization is basically an opportunity for somebody who's in the community who might want to um add their organization to be able to have a number of members who can actually come in and use the facilities and stuff like that. So we also want to work
027to identify membership benefits. Um you know this is include you know coming here voting for the board members uh getting discounts on it. What does it actually mean to be a member of Bevcam? So uh as Paul uh talked a little bit we're working with a consultant uh with PaperCam Associates. So we hope that we will be able to build on some of the work that we've already done with regard to what is being a member of of Bevcam actually mean. So production numbers. So this is a form that Michelle put together quick quickly for me to talk about who are our biggest producers. So there's the top 20. Is that 20 of them? Michelle >> top um eight. There's 16 total. >> 16 total of uh uh George is at the top with 44
028episodes. George is sitting right there. One of our MOST what's the um I'm trying to come up with a word that means somebody who does a lot of work and it's not the you know as you get older they escape the words that came from. There's the other ones. Um you can see what they've been doing. This one is one that scares me every day when I think about it. This is our revenue uh over quarters. So, we get our money from um Comcast on a quarterly check. And when I came on, this is about the time when I came on here, the second quarter of 2022. We can see that they had just negotiated and they were peaked at 190,000 a quarter. Uh in the time that's we've seen this line go down, we're
029now at about 160, just a little over 160 a quarter. That's a significant drop. when you see thinking that you're actually seeing $30,000 less a quarter that means almost $100,000 a little over $100,000 a year that we're starting to see a drop in the revenue. So a lot of the work that we've been doing with board the reason we brought on paper crane was to identify opportunities where can we begin to start thinking and working as sort of a traditional nonprofit. Um, I often tell people that as an executive director of a nonprofit, I'm fairly fairly unique in that I don't have to go out and raise my money every year for the I'm now in my fourth decade as an executive director of a community media center. And I've always just got these big
030checks that come from Compton every year. When we talk about what can we do to be able to diversify our revenue sources, we have to start thinking about what other nonprofits do and how do we begin to behave like that. So we begin to think about can we ask people how do we ask people for money? Can we ask people to support some of the things? So a lot of the conversations we've been having with the board have to do with these these sort of things. Um worried about you know if we tell people we can't provide this service anymore or that's going to start costing you. So the all the events that we cover out in the community you know how many of these can we actually do and are is there a value
031and price that we can put on there that people are willing to pay. So having these conversations is really what we'll be doing in the next few months. So and maybe someday that number will go back up some initial >> as I said diversifying funding structure might include membership services and training opportunities uh production services you know if we're going to be covering events can we charge for that giving campaigns uh you know typically people nonprofits I got one in the mail today from I forget who it was from but it was here's a here's your envelope envelope. Here's your your appeal and DevCan should be doing something like that. Can we monetize our content? How do we monetize content? What do we, you know, looking at that sort of thing? Can we um will
032people willing to sponsor and underwrite some of our content, some of our programming and stuff like that? Can we go out and find grants? Are there grants available for community media centers? Do we develop programs that are grant worthy or something like that? So, uh and then of course anything else that Sarah might come up with. She looks good. >> I think one key thing you left off to is your legislative part. >> There u that's just like one of just always in the back of my mind. I serve on the mass access board of directors which is the advocacy group for access in the state of Massachusetts and there are currently bills that they're working on to tap into some of that streaming revenue. So we don't get any revenue from streaming services there
033like the Hulu and Netflix and that's where media consumption is moving toward. Uh, as I say, cable subscribers are dying off. They tend to be older folks who are used to watching television as they watch it, you know, and clicking the channels. Um, I tell the anecdote of being down in Florida visiting my mother and saying, "Mom, why are you paying $200 a month in cable? That's ridiculous. You can watch you watch everything on Hulu." Not uh not totally cognizant of the ir irony of the fact that I'm talking about my own livelihood. So, um, when it comes to my mother, I'm like, we can cut that $200 down to $100 or something like that. Um, thanks. And now we want to hear from some of the bedcam staff. So, um, unfortunately, Liz called me
034this morning and is very, very sick. Uh, she's getting ready to go on a sbatical. Uh, she's taking some time with her husband to go to Japan, to the other side of the world. But we do have somebody filling in for her while she's away. This is Ashley. Ashley, do you want to introduce yourself and say anything? >> I'm actually >> Come on up so we can see you. >> You don't have to stand on the >> You didn't know you were going to come up and say anything, did you? >> Uh, Liz warned me. >> Liz gave me a warning. Uh, I'm Ashley. I've been a Bevcam member for about a year. Uh, I'm an illustrator, designer, print maker. Um, I filling in for Liz for all the social media. So everything you're going
035to see posted for the next month is going to be me running around trying really hard to be Liz. I have very big shoes to fill. >> Great to have you. Welcome. >> I think you're up first, right? >> Hey everyone. >> Hey, >> welcome back. Um, so I'm just going to kind of quickly touch on uh all the sports stuff we've been doing pretty much. Um, we still have studio shows going on at the high school, too. A significant amount. I see George quite often. Um, and uh, but anyway, I'm going to kind of just talk about what we've been doing with sports this year. Uh, fall season, we're currently covering five different sports. Um, which keeps us pretty busy. Uh, as Paul uh alluded to, we sometimes have couple games a day um
036that a lot of times the timing kind of overlaps which can be challenging. Like we'll have soccer starting at 4, but we'll have volleyball in the gym starting at 5:30. So, some days we have to decide which one we're doing, but other days we try to do both because the community really loves their sports here. um Robert Dos uh who I think most of you know did an incredible job building up this program and uh set the expectation extremely high. So we've been trying to keep up with that and just like give everybody what they want to see. Um so just in the last month um we did 25 games. >> Uh so yeah, so that includes there've been some Saturday mornings. Um I think do we even have a Sunday one? Was there a
037Sunday one? >> I think there was. Yeah, I think there was one Sunday one. So, once again, we look at the schedule before the school year starts um or gets back like in the winter, we look at it and we just see how much can we do with the resources we have, right? So, um outside of that, some of the things that kind of changed in the last year was that uh as everyone probably had heard, they were putting in lights and stands at the high school and half the town was like, "Yay, that's awesome." And the other half was like, "That's a waste of money." or you know the whole controversy of any any project in town. But that pro provided um some positive and some challenging stuff for us because yeah, sure we're
038right there. So it's kind of cool to be able to like easily troubleshoot. Although the distance to the field is a little longer than I'd like. So sometimes trying to run something out and back can be a little challenging, but it's easier than driving all the way to Herd Stadium. So, um, about half the games this season for football have, uh, are there and then the other half aren't heard. Um, the last two Fridays we had Friday night lights over at the high school. Um, went extremely well. Uh, especially considering we don't have any real infrastructure out there, which we haven't heard. We've got um you know fiber that runs across the city and we can plug things in and the cameras just show up and audio just shows up most of the time as
039long as you do the testing and everything. But there we're all you know we're wireless. Um we have some great tech. Um we got a really nice new wireless uh made by this company Swit that we get all our wireless stuff from. They make some monitors and stuff too, but uh it's rated for up to 6,500 feet, which I think would take us like into the coming center if we really had to. But, you know, it's got to be not blocked by buildings and such. But, um has significantly improved our signal strength because we were getting a lot of dropouts last year and the problem is is the main camera is also like bringing you sound and everything. So, you'd lose everything for a second and that was no fun. So, we knew we were
040going to be doing a lot of football. So, we stepped up and and spent some money to get that um underway. Um and still using our our other um wireless stuff for things like scoreboard camera. Um we also added uh a camera on the track for football, which is cool because uh at Herd you just have fencing and then gravel and then grass, so you can't really get around easy to get a nice shot. But we do have the nice track there so you can kind of roll. And I ran into a teacher the other day when we were setting up for uh volleyball and she was like, "I watched the game the other night. It was incredible. It looked like you guys were on the field." And I was like, "We pretty much were."
041It's like, so they people have been noticing that we've been trying to step it up. Um we've also been trying to add some more graphics, more PSAs that run between u periods. Um updated scripts where the announcers talk about workshops here. like and subscribe, hit the bell on YouTube, all the stuff you see on other videos on YouTube. We've been trying to really like up the production value, get more people to subscribe to what we're doing. Uh we're starting conversations to try to get some sponsorship stuff going. Um I know Liz was going to be meeting with the athletic director to talk about some opportunity there. Um so we're going to hopefully see some some uh new movement with those kind of areas. And you know, the first thing we noticed is, oh, there's all
042these great business banners at the track. Like, let's get let's get a BVC camp banner there. Like, why not, right? Like, so things like that, we're kind of really trying to use the sports program to kind of elevate and kick things off because it's I think where we get our most viewership. So, um, I think that's pretty much it. Uh, does anybody have any questions, comments? >> No. Everybody, >> yes. Does a does anybody in the community come and ask to look at the archives to to actually look? >> You know, every once in a while we'll get somebody that will ask for something, but they're asking for it from like 25, 30 years ago before Cam was incorporated. So most of that stuff, unfortunately, is impossible to find. We have some boxes of tapes
043that we sometimes go through, but we can almost if they're asking for a year in like the '9s, we can almost never find it, unfortunately. But would just be helpful to to that end like support an effort to digitize whatever is available in certain tapes like to digitize or remain tapes. >> Yeah, I mean I think we still have some decks there. Um >> to hire out for it. >> Oh to hire out for it. >> I mean we don't get a huge ask for it. I don't think it's it'd be a bad project to do cuz it's I mean those tapes are going to just continue to decay and >> eventually we won't have the stuff at all or something. >> Yeah. Or like Matt said, we could there's companies that do it and
044it's probably not >> super. Yeah. So, I mean I' I'd be down if somebody can get that stuff for us on our server. That'd be great because Michelle does a lot of stuff where she plays like things like old movies and she can talk about that more. But like I mean it'd be nice to be able to do like a throwback Thursday sports thing. >> Yeah. Yeah. She's got more to talk about with that. But like I mean I love that. That would be super helpful and it would clear some space with those boxes. >> I have a friend that does it. really okay we will talk about that. >> Um one other question I have is that do you have any like gaps in technology and things like that that are worth talking about
045here or >> Yeah. Yeah. I mean I we keep one of the things I keep like harping on every time I see somebody like uh we work fairly closely with Jake Pike from the city um and he's usually in tune to all the projects with things like fiber and stuff like that. So we keep telling them because they're saying we want to put camera security cameras out at the track and things like that. So we're going to run fiber at some point and we keep saying well let us know what we need to chip in to get those extra bundles the fibers so we can just have a box and plug in and um I think that's a big one as I kind of joke before but it's something we've talked about. I mean, I
046wouldn't mind having a golf cart cuz going back and forth to the field, like if there's like 5 minutes before a game and like all of a sudden something isn't working, like I literally like have sprinted before and like uh I'm not in shape so like that's always a challenge anyway. Um so unreasonable >> No, I mean you could probably get one like used. I I read we were joking about it going out to the track and >> used to Tim Tim who helps us out on a lot of stuff. We were uh walking out there >> and tennis would like donate or >> they might, right? >> But um I jokingly Mark Thomas heard us talking about it and he was like, "Oh, it's your next big purchase." And I was like, "Well, do
047we have a place to store it? Could we put in the garage?" He goes, "Yeah, sure." And I was like, "I'm going to tell my boss you said that. I'm going to hold you to that." >> I think it's actually like a worthy thing. So, >> yeah. Cool. But I mean that I think that's kind of the >> Any other ideas? Any other big ones? >> Uh off the top of my head, do you have anything? >> Yeah. >> I'll get you I'll get you a list. >> I'd say think about it like see if there's like big gaps. >> Yeah. >> That need to get addressed that will because it's of value to the community. >> Sure. >> And if we're providing more value to it and making your life easier by streamlining things,
048it's worthwhile to consider. >> Definitely. And I think I mean Rob could speak to this more but I don't think we did a capital this year was >> no we were just talking before some of that money you know and Matt was bringing it up what are some of the >> larger capital purchases that we should be planning for. >> Yeah. >> Good stuff. All right. >> Thanks guys. [Applause] Oh, no. Thank you. >> Hello, everybody. >> Hi. >> My name is Michelle. I'm the content manager here. Uh, work down at the high school with Chris full-time. Um, I just want to point out what what you were saying about um, archiving and maybe doing sending tapes out somewhere else. Um, just a quick recap at my previous job, I was actually in charge of
049archiving all of their old tapes from 80s, 90s. So, I did hundreds of tapes. Um, so it is on my list of things that I do want to do. Um, I just haven't had the time to do it. Um, but I am thinking of doing a throwback Thursday. Um, I don't know, maybe like eight or nine o'clock at night and playing one or two older shows. Um, posting it on social media. Maybe that will get people to watch cable. Hopefully, it could be a cable only thing. U, so that that is a goal of mine that I want to do. I just want to bring that up really quickly. Um, but I'm here to talk about active producers. Um, and top views for the year. Um, not that views mean anything or active producers mean
050anything. We love everybody. Even if you do one show a year, that's totally fine. Um, we just want people to get in, have fun, and create new content. Uh, but I will say, um, just quickly, I'm not going to go through all of them. Uh, but, uh, like Rob said, uh, we have George Bins here who does the Bins Report. Um, he had 44 episodes since January of this year. So, that's amazing. Um, give him a little round of applause there. That's great. Uh and it is um election season, so George has been having a lot of local um people in to talk about uh all things election. So that's been great. Um and then we have the second congregational church uh David Brandt who they stream their own services every Sunday, but they do
051give it to us to download and we play it every the next Sunday. Um I play it Sunday and Thursdays for them. Um so they've given us 30 services for the year. Uh Footprints Anthony Davis has 26 episodes for the year. Uh, Sharing Wheel with Sean Develin 25, Bob Butterworth 22, On Air 21, Saw Your Roll 21, Conservative Corner, 10 episodes. Um, and then we have some honorable mentions. Uh, just consistently posting. Um, maybe every other month or couple months. Uh, we got Safe and Sound, Michael Paloni with eight, Leah Hill, Rise Hill grow eight. Uh, Green Beverly has a podcast that they started Earth Springs with Sean Delin. Uh, seven, Gardening for Hot People, six, Beverly Neighborhood News with six, Art About five, Funny You should mention it, five, and Andrew Sport Zone with
052five, which he just started. Um, that's been great. And then just quickly, we got our top views for the year. Footprints Anthony Davis has 3,568 views for the year. That's the top, which is great. Um, and then we just go down the list. Sharing wheel with Sean Devlin is comes in second at just under 3,000. Um, on air we had 2485. Uh, Beverly Neighborhood News had 1458 and Bins Report had 1421. So, I just think that's great. I think it's just something that everybody should know how everybody's doing. Um, and yeah, I think that's it. Just something quick I know. Oh, and I also just wanted to say um Channel 5 reached out to us last week. I just think this is a little cool tidbit. Um they are doing a Chronicle episode on Beverly
053and they reached out to Bevcam and asked if we could use if they could use um a clip that we shot of Pepe the horse getting sworn in. >> Oh, and uh so they're doing a little segment on Pepe and they were like, "Oh, this is great." So, I sent them over that and sent them over uh the uh peppy music video that John did, which got 10,000 views on Instagram. Uh and they watched it and he said everybody in the office loved it. So, maybe they'll play it. I don't know. It premieres right now. What was that? >> It airs in 3 minutes. >> Yes. Yep. 7:30. So, I think it's going to be on YouTube tonight possibly. or if anybody is taping Chronicle, >> I I have a a direct in with Chronicle.
054>> There you go. There you go. >> My cousin works. >> Oh, perfect. >> Um she's like posting the show tonight. She was like >> Yes. >> I like I'm finishing it right now. I'm like, I'm going to stop talking to you. >> But um she she she said um there's an app that's out there. >> Oh. To watch it. >> It's called Very very Local and that's where it'll be. >> Perfect. and like a few. >> Oh, so very local. Check it out, I guess. Um, yeah, I just thought that was fun. Um, if anybody has any questions or comments, concerns, let me know. If not, >> what is it view? Is it an entire somebody watches the whole show? Just click on it. Click off. >> It's click on it. Um, there is
055a different uh analytic for watch time. Um, I could go in that and get all of that. Uh, but this is just clicking and seeing. And this is obviously YouTube only. We don't have um any numbers for Kevin. Yes. If not, I can send it over to Amanda. >> Yes. Amanda, let's go. >> All right. Quite a reception. Hey everybody, I'm Amanda. I'm education manager. I since being here at 261, I've also morphed into a little bit of a production uh manager for podcasting as well. Uh we have had definitely more than 13 podcasts I think throughout the year, but in the past two months alone, we've had 13 different um podcasts, different podcasters coming through these doors. Um, seven of them are brand new as of just August and September of this year. So,
056we've had more than double uh the podcast in the last two months. Uh, I know that three of those are a direct result of the intro to podcasting workshops that I do every month. So, those have been popular and a lot of fun. And most of them have been just through walk-ins, having a conversation with me or other staff and then following up. Um, so that has been really successful. Uh, and you know, we've gotten some members out of it as well is you know, people come in and want to talk about their podcast and of course, oh yeah, that sounds great. If you become a member, then you have access to all of this and then they find out how much it is and they're they sign right up. Um, so so that has
057been something that I think has uh we were hoping would come to fruition. obviously spending the money that we did on the space and the podcast studio. So, I do think that it is successful to the point that it might get too successful pretty quickly. So, that'll be interesting. Um, and you know, I like uh I like to be hands-on here, as does the staff. I have the members fill out a podcast proposal form and we go over it. We have a pre-production meeting. They come in, they do their show, I show them how to edit, I help them, you know, go on Canva and put together a graphic. I've had Mikey help me do some art for graphics. Um, and it's really good. They get really involved. Um, and I think that that level
058of support is what actually helps them to go from like the idea of like wanting a podcast to let me actually do it and then keep doing it, a follow through. and you know reminding people to bug um their guests to get back to them. >> Yeah, >> book that date. They're not too busy. They will they will come. >> Um and you know in terms of workshops in general, uh we definitely over the past year have seen new members out of workshops. Like Paul mentioned, I'll do free workshops, we'll do uh discounted workshops. We're playing around with it trying to figure out what works best. Uh but people are definitely responding to that. And just a little uh heads up, we have four more podcasts this month. Uh podcast, I just keep saying podcasts
059over and over. Four more workshops this month. Uh we have intro to podcasting this Wednesday, kids juggling October 15th. Uh podcasting for kids October 22nd. Please spread the word about that. I'm very excited to get kids more into podcasting and bring back Bevcam kids the podcast. uh and how to use any camera with Levi on whatever that date is that's after October 22nd, the following Wednesday and another Bevc camp orientation also uh November 5th. Uh so, you know, we're we're keeping going with the workshops. I'm trying to feel out what people want and what they're interested in. Clearly, it's mostly podcasting um and other things. So, uh I welcome feedback uh from our members here. What are you looking for? You always can feel free to email me at amandavcam.org. Um, that's pretty much all
060I wanted to say. So, THANK [Applause] >> OKAY. UH, FINALLY, we just have a a thanks for a great year. uh we look forward we really want to engage you in a conversation about the future of Bevcam. So we uh we want to hear from you in the next few months. There will be opportunities to include it and we have something planned for this evening as well. So if Sarah if you want to come up and talk a little bit about what we have for the last few minutes and Paul you want to take with me. >> No. Okay. >> You grabbed the clip from >> I don't have a slide. I don't think >> I don't have a slide. Okay. >> No, >> you give it back. Okay. >> All right. I got given
061given power and then taken away power. It's nice to be with you all. My name is Sarah Glad. I run a nonprofit consulting firm called Paper Crane Associates. And I'm just really delighted to be joining the Bevcam um the Bevcam organization to help it think about um its next few years. And so strategic planning is fundamentally about answering a bunch of questions together. Where is the organization today? Where does it want to head? And what's the road map in between? Um, and so we know that Bevcam is driven by its members. And that's why we're so proud to be kicking off strategic planning at the annual meeting so that we can hear directly from members about the things that matter most to you, the things that we can do as an organization um, to better
062serve you. And so we're doing that through two different exercises tonight. Um, and we know this is the first of many conversations we're going to have with members throughout the strategic planning process. But we have two exercises tonight. The first was a sticky note exercise around the wall um where that we had four strategic planning prompts and I know there's a couple of friends who joined us later in the evening and I'll make sure you get your sticky notes um so that you get to respond to those. Um and then um we're also going to have us group together in small groups and dive deep on your experiences as a member and what we could do better uh to help you meet your needs. Um and so that that means very literally kind of grouping
063up and we're going to um have uh um some small group discussion. Uh hoping for some volunteers to both facilitate and take notes in each of those groups. Um and then from here the planning process will take um you know six to eight months or so. And so there'll be many opportunities for you to continue to add your voice in. Um but we wanted to really anchor a member-based organization by kicking off strategic planning at the annual meeting. Anything else you'd like to add, Rob? >> No, I think so. >> Yeah. >> Okay, let's do it. >> All right. So, that does interrupt because not everyone's going to be able to stand on an axe. >> So, >> yes, please. >> How many how many people were invited to the meeting tonight? And how many
064people I mean, we know how many people are here. >> How many people were invited to the meeting? >> So, the entire just under 100 people. Just under 100 people. >> So, I always say the people who show up are the ones I want to hear most. um most from because they're the ones who are telling us um by coming tonight. Um that they um care deeply about the organization and and where the organization is headed. If you're listening um in at home and you're like, I wish I could be there, but soccer and this and that. Um there'll be plenty of other opportunities for folks to get their voice added into the process. >> You know what I'm thinking, sir, is that we can actually stop the streaming part of the meeting and just
065get right into breaking that. Hey Paul, if you want to say good night or anything like that. >> Yeah, I think yeah, we'll do that. Why don't we? Because everybody might not be able to hang around >> for that. I don't know. >> They stay for your portion and escape for mine. That doesn't seem it particularly fair. >> How long do you think this is going to be? >> We lock the door. >> We're going to lock the door. >> It's about 20 minutes. >> Yeah, as long I will keep people as long as they'll stay with me tonight. >> There you go. Uh >> Matt said he'll states online. >> Perfect. Does anybody have any general comments on what we've talked about tonight >> or questions? Okay. So, what I'm going to do is
066close the regular meeting and turn it over to Sarah and Rob and they can go until midnight if they want. >> Wonderful. Let's do it. >> Um, so, >> thanks for coming. >> Yeah. Thank you all for being here. >> Do we need like a a motion to adjourn or anything for the annual meeting or >> I don't know. We can do it. Yeah. Okay. >> Make a motion. >> A motion. Motion to motion. >> We get a second. >> Second. >> A second. All in favor? >> Anyone opposed to closing the annual meeting? All right then. Wonderful. We're going to transition into strategic planning. I'm going to ask you