chair chet messer associated with in my fifty years in the business world i originally became involved at the b m c as a volunteer videographer and that's something i intend to continue as an act volunteer going forward tonight i wrap up my six years on the board and then the past three years i've either been the chair or the vice chair and when you have substituted as the treasurer in the following  just three subjects board member ship the excellence of the staff that's led by jeff hans will and a couple of hopes for the future for the b m c which on several occasions i've described hidden gym in the town of belmont while no longer be a part of the policy and planning at the b m c i can assure you that given the skills on the strengths of the remaining board members and the three new members who are joining the board the governance of the b m is in good hands shortly scotched drafted the current chair of the board development committee will introduce this treat to the three new members of the board who  serving at the november board meeting it has been a privilege to serve with a diverse and committed group of professionals on the b m c bood who will remain they are aaron mcneal who is currently the secretary of the board she is a producer of programming and an important advocate for the education of youth and adults alike about their responsible use of and viewing of media including television and solved just take the plug turn it over and put it back in but both as a creative person and as a technical advisor has been very helpful to the board on these issues and runnels a membership elected volunteer with some very creative ideas for  involving our volunteers in turns in members in is a form of office holder and i didn't supporter of the bone boosters another very successful organization in beaumont and if there's no if there's a good reason to go to see a belmont football game and they're playing drake it on friday night in draycott but there's a good reason to go to the games and that is to support the kids to play football for bowman high school but you also get a chance to pick up a somewhat fond of because my grandsons a drummer in the band michael tims another creative person who's on the board and was elected by the membership michael has produced shows he's directed shows acted as a cameraman and has been very valuable as a member of the board and advising us on any number of technical issues relative to our production you went as a journalist  and she also is an advisor to the board on organizing our operation and the presentation of the b m c town day and other town wide events she's also been very accepting extremely helpful as a member of our board development committee i also had the pressure of serving with ed yea who i saw here early hi ed ed it's a very competent technical  person and much of the technology that is used here today thanks to vice and counsel jonathan green who some of you may know it wasn't original convener and is now serving the town as a on the cable advisory committee where he continues to educate me as a fellow advisory committee and we work on the new technology  that used to be in belmont high school over to this new state of the facility it was also important during the six years that i've served on the board taught as who was also original con and the producer of the longest running show on the b m c which is the time out for sports talk about jokes and i've had the opportunity to serve as a camera man on the show and he is a very skilled  host who also if you happen to go to some of the local college then use you may hear him as an announcer at those events as well two other directors who are leaving the board relations during her service at the b m c she has helped jeff develop an employee handbook as well as guide the implementation of our employee health care and benefits program scotched drafted who is currently  school department's appointed to the point and to the big c as admirably chaired of the board development committee he has been instrumental in developing a power prays point presentation to help educate potential board members about directorships at the b m c and he's also ensured that the b m see binder of important organizational policies and procedures are timely updated and he also helped developing programming related to the director ensures that the hard work of all locally produced program is timely cable cast she also helps tremendously with the needs of the volunteers germy murphy who is responsible for school and sports gender programs of dome on high school with multi camera excellence patti mahela are excellent administrative manager plays an important role in the membership and volunteer communications and scheduling as well as helping to keep the books and the vendors paid julie land is our producer of the many good tongue government meetings and as able to travel from or home from the belmont town hall to or home blindfolded as a used a new position at the b m c responsible for coordinating volunteer and member training as well as helping to produce their shows who will be newest employees starting in november has been hired to be a technical operations manager as many of you know adam dusenberry an important contributor to the building of the technical operations here at the b m c including the ability to broadcast programming in high definition once we gain the cooperation of comcast and verizon and he is also responsible for the implementation of a state of the b t o editing system include johnson who applies his skills in the studio production and editing and re parker who welcomes new and existing members at the front desk and also is a crew member in a senior network and adam  archives volunteer as to the future my hopes are that the two cable broadcasters in belmont comcast and horizon will one day soon understand the competitive advantage of committing the p m c programming to appear in their program guide and cable cast program and in high definition through with volunteers and paid staff the b m c produces excellent programming surveys  beaumont residents in the case that most people determine their viewing habits by consulting the program guide of the two cable companies unfortunately that guide only provide sanitation on the screen that says local programming which is not helpful since they don't even provide the name of the tom if you go to a local programming channels you don't know what they're going to be watching belmont bedford of burlington finally the fact that they do not carry b m c programming as they don't any other tom by the way although i think my understanding is that c n n is now broadcasting some of the cables towns they serve programming and i h d but neither of the two major producers of cable casting doing so but my hope is that they will do so because in the meantime they are relegating the work of this organization and its members to become second class broadcasters i heard kong asked and cable companies it's time for them to wake up and to smell the roses and speaking of roses i'd like to turn now to ask angelo to provide a rosy and strong financial report in the b m serve as its treasurer this past december the belmont media center renewed its contract with comcast for services with the town the contract is for five years with a five year renewable so it's a ten year contract so it guarantees revenue for the next ten years from comcast and we are in the process of talking to verizon we've just extended the contract with horizon for one year but we finalized in november and then the belmont media center will make any new report to the board of selectmen before the end of the calendar year because b m c funding is contractual and has received coral it has received quietly there was really a cash flow problem and that's really a great situation to be in for good in this past year for example i revenues were up thirteen percent over last year because the organization has been a putin steward of our funds we have sufficient funds to make strategic operating expenditures and capital purchases when the opportunities arise in a dynamic media environment we now  it is always good to compete it would vest in technology a curriculum when we think it may bring a great benefit to our members and the community at large for example don't want media center pledge five thousand dollars for the new press is in the process of reviewing the though we knew the current comcast franchise where the process of talking to arise it and that has yet to be reviewed but we as i mentioned it's been extended for a year and got that time to get all the details going and out for the characters school year we've made initial designation of one hundred thousand dollars for new capital equipment and two hundred fifty thousand dollars a set aside as an operating reserve which covers our expenses for almost three quarters of a year the board will revisit these designated amounts for the fi thank you angela thank you chut i can say on behalf of the staff in the board we are going to certainly missed shot you said practically everything i would have said and you said it so much better than i i we think going to join the meeting now  we have a video we want to show you but not yet but i there for my report is not going to be that long because i think after you see the video you won't want to hear me talk anymore anyway so it's been put together by one of our newest members and his name is dan dunbar but before we get there let me go through a quick presentation about your review and a year ahead and you'll see some of the slides behind you here one of the things i want to catch up on in the most recent past is that earlier in this year the national conference of the alliance for community media planned to hold its national conference in boston and it it's only held here about every ten years ten years ago it was in boston and i was on the organizing committee and this year this past year they asked me to sit on the committee for the conference here and after consulting with staff and board we decided that d m c would be a major partner in the planning and execution of the conference and i think to everybody who attended you can see here is the picture of the conference itself so many of our staff and board participated mike tim  enthused about doing these complicated productions and he was so very excited to oversee all the entire video coverage for this national conference which included seven hundred centers from across the across the country and although people in douma don't know about it i was very honored that the media center was really noted for our leadership on a nationwide basis for this conference and that's really due to the staff and the support of the board so and i think there might be one more and then of course to top it off lucas trego us who started belmont media when he was twelve years old and his final year won first place in the national hometown media festival for a program that he had about one hundred school football and not only that but one of his other videos was the opening video for the entire festival so not only did we put all this time into it we got rewarded at the end so  that was a great way to top off the top of the festival what i want to do is break for just a second in a deuce a couple of people because over the summer as you can as you know adam  departed to wilmington to take on a new project there and so in the process of us both planning this conference we had to kick it into high gear and hire two people and i'm proud to say that with the help of the board and particularly our personal we really wanted to find the best people we could so we really put it out there and i was very excited that we got so many applicants and we found two people that have so far fit in perfectly to be m c we're so happy to have them let me first introduce our new training and production coordinator she comes from after new hampshire she was there for several years and she brings a fresh perspective and ideas to one of our major objectives this year and that is to create a whole pat everyone was really excited to be here on the b m c t working as our training and production coordinator working on a couple different projects as of recently i've been visiting with area access centers and learning what they can do and see how we can apply it here to some of the things that we already offer and some new things that we can offer and i've been putting together the core survey that's out on the window by our conference room to see what people are interested in and putting out some surveys to see what people who are involved are interested in learning because we want to keep people who are involved keep them involved and keep them learning and things like that so when i big things right now working on some class schedules for november and december hopefully and then beyond that into the new year and yeah i'm really excited to get some of those projects running i hope to see a lot of you in the future and work with you guys i'm hoping to help some people accomplish some of their goals so yeah if anyone ever has any questions for me or has ideas or has things that they're really interested in learning please let me know i love hearing everyone's idea and  television production and equipment configuration i met bob many years ago when he worked at the boston neighborhood network and i had the pleasure of working with him on a number of productions he ran the studio for b n n which if you can imagine it's there's a lot going on there every day seven days a week and i don't know how he did that but he did it well and then for several years he worked with broadcast pics and actually was here when we installed our new system here and trained some of this on that so we're very lucky to  i know i have some big shoes to fill with out of but i'm going to make every effort to do it with a really great originally planning to speak for about a half an hour so i had to cut down this thing but i wanted to mention a couple of things if we could go forward in this light a couple i have spent a good deal of time on the website probably more time than i should have according to our developer and designer but to me it's one of the most important projects and i've done everything from read the b b c report on the next twenty years of technology and mass media i've studied every other website in massachusetts and beyond and what i've come to to know is that you know we can't recreate the world but we have to sort of catch it in a snapshot and then you know  update our site as we go along but one of the things that put that up there because you know we're living in this state was made by marshall mcluhan fifty years ago and of course it's true right as soon as you got version six version seven comes you can use version six forget it it's all over and it's the same thing with websites and apps that you know you know that something works and then the next thing comes out and that's sort of part of the  view that i have in terms of designing the website and i'm not designing the website but in putting the website together that as soon as we come up with one idea then something changes in our case our vendors who provide us the on demand in the live feeds and statement made by fifty years ago and and that's really really true today when you think about it about people's relationship to technology and i think that while that's a important i think what the community media center can do relative to our web site and all of our equipment and training is to you know not so much chase the technology every day because that's you're chasing electrons and you're never we're never going to keep up with that you know and there's always that thing we've got to follow that we've got to follow this and i think in the end what i've learned is that we have to take the best that we can and make it a useful tool for people so that they can use it here and have it have an impact on human beings in our community and have it have a positive in impact not chase the technology but let the technology help us so with that i would just like to give you a quick preview of our website our developers here we are just about there i see the light at the end of the tunnel as charlie will tell you we have most of everything done and he is just now waiting for me to give him a few other bits of content and weird should be live sometime in november we'll show it to the board and then we will do a soft opening then and then announce it after we have tweaked it out some but it's going to have it already has a lot of features that the previous website did not have and it's a little bit simpler you can see the the main page you'll be able to see what's currently on television now so it's constantly updated so if you want to see what's on it seven thirty tomorrow night one channel later channel line you can check the time hopefully people will find it useful because they won't be able to you want to look at when you go to the blog page you'll be able to filter out whether you want to look at just don't want news b m c news or dealers and because we're doing much more work with other community organizations that more community groups will also put be posting blogs related to bill money over here we've got a dropdown for to get involved both for calls taking a class and joining the m c you'll be able to b clicking on that sign up for notifications about crew calls and who we will let you know when we need somebody so that right now the way that it is julie and jane and patt send out alerts all the time people tell me all the time they see them they don't respond to them but eventually sometimes they do because they keep seeing them and it works but it's very labor intensive in this way you will be able to identify those programs you're interested in  then get a notification when the program you want to be involved in needs a crew needs a crew person and our social media site which we found we have both we have facebook twitter and instagram one here we started the appears recent on demand shows as well and if you want to scroll down a little bit charlie we have a sponsorship slide show here that rotates to go back up a little bit that way  if there's something you want to show as charlie go ahead otherwise that's that's a preview of the site you can see the live of all three channels and there to that right the moment but that we organize both by channels and by topics and then by tab where you will be able to choose what shows you want to keep track of the b m i b m c p a so that comes up with the shows you filtered out making very good progress now having a full staff on board makes a lot easier for me as well so that's where we are with the website if we want to go back to the report i just want to go over a couple of highlights of what's happened this year and then we'll show the video  if you want to switch back to a slide show germany that's fine ok well move forward one one of the things that we did is we created the belmont story project along with the belmont citizen harold belmont historical society the public library and the beach street center and that's been a great way it getting a lot of people together it's based on story corps where people come in and record their personal histories about belmont  some of several people in the room have also used that so that's an ongoing project and we're recording stories here and we set up a center at the library so the librarians can i can now also do that library on the next one and that's just some pictures that's the set up at the library and that's our podcast studio here in belmont now the next thing that we created was the the  network and that's becoming a very popular way for people to produce programming it's a lot easier than coming in the studio for some people roger cohen has started one here in the background community conversations a long with joanna todd of course has started a weekly podcast the todd cast which is aptly named we have another show called off the page which are about writers and writing hosted by a literature professor from framingham state and we have a new show called meet belmont produced by the vision twenty one committee and they had their first podcast the other day they'll be doing monthly pod casts about what town government does and how you can get the other thing that we did this year is we recruited a peabody award winning radio producer mitch hanley who was in town for a while and another producer kate ellis and we went into the schools and did some with the eighth graders around their mock trials and that was really an exciting thing to watch because the kids are so very excited about that sort of thing that we like to continue that every year for the merc trials but that was a neat experience  to go through course we did our election coverage this year as well hosted by joanna and jack kelly and that was a big year i mean that was a big election excuse me maybe not as big as the one this fall but in belmont it was pretty big and we've been continuing our program with belmont sport working with special needs participants at the program run by the belmont recreation division and that's a weekly program we run it three times a year here at the studio every thursday night right now they're working on a program about interviews with star market and another program that was started we hope to started up again belmont thirty hosted by bobby riordan who's now training to be a police officer but he at the time was working for the town administrators office and we got a good start on it and he's told us he would like to continue hosting that as i say again with a full staff we are looking at restarting that program with him  and then as chet mentioned very well we have the fast at it network and with bob lam self we hope to just further enhance that so that we can expand the number of people who can add it in the facility at the same time  let me give you some numbers really quick about what we achieve three hundred one organizational individual members that includes members of various organizations throughout the throughout belmont some folks come in when they are doing a program and then we don't see them for several months and they come back for the program so some folks have specific programs that they're always involved in but they're not over time they're not here every week and every and every month but over time now it's getting more and more crowded where we can't we're actually going to be needing to expand our evening hours and weekend hours to accommodate the next six hundred volunteer hours that includes all the crews for all the programs that are produced by us or that is by staff volunteers and in the school thirteen hundred thirty program hours have been produced here and then that's that's a total number of hours  produced that shown excuse me four hundred sixty nine original programming hours which translates to three hundred seventy nine programs individual programs produced for the year so that's about one a day  next and then we had almost two thousand total equipment reservations that's combined studio studios the equipment and the remote studios and then the value of that to belmont residents is two hundred two thousand dollars if people were to actually want to rent that equipment so that number just goes up with more reservations fifty nine class sessions which were certainly hoping to double this year with the addition of jane peters to create more classes one of that if you to hold for a second go back one slide maybe one of the things that all community media centers are facing right now and i belong to a group that we meet on a regular basis is finding classes that people want to attend because of you and because the ability of kids to discover things on their own it's everyone is going through this process of trying to find what is what is it that people are interested in doing and what how can we make it interesting for them more fun really that's just the word fun we had ninety eight class participants that doesn't necessarily include some of the stuff in school class in school classes that we did with students so that a higher number maybe than that reflects but again we're certainly hoping to recreate that this year we had six hundred visitors to the studio it's and i think you know none of my visits are included in that so and sixty thousand web page visits which we're hoping to increase as well and then the big number one hundred twenty nine government meetings most of those are what four hours five hours long mark one so and that number again just keeps keeps increasing as well for the coming year you all have a plan of programs and activities here i'm not going to go into detail about it but obviously we're finishing a new website and have an app an app for that  more local and regional programming were part of a new news show that's recently produced here in the boston area called beyond boston so we'll be adding that program will be contributing segments to that news program next obviously will be increasing classes and events here that are things like we'll have filmmakers come in and talk about how to be a filmmaker or talk about how to be a director a photographer and as we have been some of the programs of the developing local news and document programs one of the things that came out of the last out of the conference really and we have it on our website we play the program back and perhaps we can do following this meeting has sent out a an alert reminder for people to watch this program but the speech that was given at the alliance for community media conference was really a call to action for community media centers to become to fill in the gap and become a news program where there's been a decline of television news covering local local happenings and so they're saying that that really community media centers are the only way we can keep track of what's going on in addition to local newspapers and we're we're i'm happy that we have such a great relationship with the belmont citizen herald and have ongoing programs and productions with thanks to joy and then of course extending our community outreach i don't mind is not a big city it's not a big town but we know there corners and parts of belmont who we haven't reached yet so we certainly want to and then be what i want to refer back to the website you know the facility here is a crossroads for a lots of different people it's a place where you can feel welcome you know you come here to take a class to produce a program to watch an event but really what i say about it is it's a way to build community you maybe you're learning something but what you're really doing is building community with your neighbors with people maybe for the first time and what i see us doing with the website is really that's the virtual crossroads and i would use the clunky metaphor that it's a like a virtual campfire you come and get warm check out who's there see what's going on and maybe take off go back in your own direction come back and check in on a on a regular basis but a place that you want to come hang around for a while and see what's happening meet your friends  that is my report i wish i could have said it as well as chet but i mean i should let him do it but thank you very much what i'd like to do now is to ask scott to come up scott stratford who has been our esteemed chair of the board development committee has done an outstanding job scott is going to talk about our new appointments very quickly the hours getting a bit late but as most of you know the media center has bylaws which cause a certain amount of turnover on an annual or least every few years basis no one is allowed to have more than two full three y terms on the board that's to make sure that there continues to be a new mix of talent in the mix of energy and ideas coming in sadly it sometimes means that we have to say goodbye at the board level to people who are doing outstanding work and i was really put messer right at the top of that list chet is now finishing his second full three year term for a total of six years on the board and he will be greatly missed and has done so many wonderful things for the media center but what goes on in the real point of my coming up here is to tell you how excited the board is about the people who are becoming on as the new members beginning with the next board meeting three terms come up each year and they're all three year terms at the media center there are now the board of directors necessarily in that order so we have a need for some strong new folks and thanks to the work of join a few of us and chat and jeff and really the entire board we have some wonderful new talent coming on of comcast than probably anybody else in the room marian was doing her show around belmont before most of us even knew which channel the media was on she hopes to resurrect some of those classic v h s tapes we're  on the cable advisory committee service with distinction there she is one of the conveners as was i at the time that we made the transition from this media public access area being just a part of comcast to its own fully function five  one c three not for profit with this beautiful state of the art studio mary and help all that have it as well she's also former president of the belmont women's club she's currently the president of the belmont voters a long time which i'm surprised she came today because it's pretty tiring with all those folks coming in to do early voting the numbers of early voters have been unbelievable so it has consented to take on the partial term meaning for tamzin kathlyn which will consist of two years of kansa term and i for one could not be happier to have marion with us in that role now she's been involved in banking both in downtown boston state bank and more recently with the belmont savings bank very strong understanding not only of the importance of financial stability for organization like the belmont media center but also the connections to the local community financial or otherwise it will help strengthen this going into the future she is the current treasurer of the archangels greek orthodox church in watertown she's co president at the moment of the belmont women's club and she's the vice president of the welcoming her for will be a very distin saved the best for last all i had the privilege for the last three years of representing the school committee at the media center and it has been a blast it has been such a wonderful experience to get to know the individuals and the organization of this media center was just phenomenal work and continues to look for ways to end rich and handsome programming i'm pleased to see how many new things the schools have been doing with the media center to include  schools now which superintendent failing does in a regular basis here at the media center but in any event i'm moving on to other things and the person who will be replacing me just as angela friends a his ribs and of of the of the board of selectmen on the media center board the school committee by statute by our bylaws has an appointee and at their meeting on the fifteenth of november they'll be appointing laurie graham to take my place lori has had a distinguished career as a school college and the albany area she actually worked in local axis told vision he watches television then so it was almost fated to be that laurie skill set entered incredible crowds devotion to belmont it's going to be a wonderful fit for the media used to work in new york city for m t v and c n n is that right but anyway he's we're lucky to have him here now he's going to be teaching serenity classes so whenever you want to roll the video germy go right ahead evening everyone and welcome tell action belmont two thousand and sixteen i'm rebecca richards and i'm the director of the belmont gallery hari hello my you may know us from our live t v coverage of town and school graduation ceremony a wide variety of other community events but did you know that you can get involved at b a m c to learn how to use the state of the our digital video equipment in our h d t v studio or in the field by taking one of our training classes be a video volunteer on a t v crew a community events film and headed documentaries hyper local news and p s a we  edition of the time out for sports talk to us t todd casket and produce your very own show or podcast for your organization what you create and produce can be seen in belmont and beyon how do we do this the b m c staff is here to help but it's really the hard work of our volunteers like you keep the belmont media center running find out more at belmont media do you then maybe we can have dan come out here and just wave jeremy if you want to we're going to we're not going to honor our volunteers of the year and producer of the year and i'm going to ask jeremy to come up and give out the award they are doing we're all pleased to present a volunteer of the year award to charles garrett guinea and charlie's been volunteering for us for a couple years now actually spring of and fifteen but i thought it was earlier than that but he's done some really good work here on this first assignment was town day and he took on the challenging and very time consuming task of editing the entire video which involved many different clips and put together a nice piece since then he shot and edited powers music school concert presentations at the beach street center and produced his own p s a for the belmont habitat with guernsey and he also participated in the twenty fifteen summer youth video challenge charlie thanks and congratulations going to get your  my later i'd like to say thank you for the experience that i've had in the media center it's taught me a lot about filming it's given me a lot of chances to learn new things about operating cameras volunteer of the year award goes to mari and trainer who for a long time now has been a dedicated crew member of the von steps contemporary science issues and innovation show which is an educational science program produced here twice a month maureen has worked on the show as a camera operator and has also operated the audio board in addition maureen has helped us these past few years as a camera operator for the gift telethon fundraiser for the belmont food pantry maureen thank you for your time here at b a m c and congratulations thank you germans really i know you didn't necessarily want to do that this time but appreciate your coming up here and you've been working all day today volunteers really what makes this place goes we've said the final word tonight is for producer of the year and it gives me great pleasure to word this to stacey hammarlund tonight i've seen stacy grow a lot in her skills and techniques in terms of being a producer a director and editor and i realize now that the reason that she's done that is that she actually she's found what she really cares about in terms of the content and that is really what drives her and i can see that now that she cares so much about these issues and that's what keeps coming keeps her coming back and she has created i think two or three new programs and she's over the last year focus on health care and for others caring for ourselves and a number of other special programs so stacy you certainly are the producer of the year this year thousand times and if you have you can't produce something unless you have some incredible talent in front of the camera worthy of producing lisa real quick this is my partner in crime incredible talent amazing what she's done for the media center i don't think people mississippi realize it shut i think pointed out but she's really made us into a professional organization and i think an ethical organization and i'm really proud of that and proud of her you know there are skills that she's donated to the center over the last several years and we're sorry that she's stepping off the board but so happy that she's going to be continuing to serve the organization on a pro bono basis i mean she's been an profit organizations i've been on both sides and we have been so lucky to have the board members that we've had who brought such expertise and professionalism and scott is one of those people who is just like like shit like tim is and he sets the bar very high and he's challenged me and made me a better executive director and i really appreciate what you've done for the organization and me personally so scott in appreciation of your  time well good evening ladies and gentlemen there's everyone's been saying tonight fallen tears are very important here and as a at one time producer who's been producing so long it was before this so this building used to be an  t rental facility that's how long i've been producing and in fact around belmont's i marry and show was a regular staple on the at the b side of the b c t v channels back up but when it comes to volunteers seriously if you're you know you're interested get down here come down to the b m c and if you're free on wednesday nights and you have any interest in being the crew on a live sports show like jeff or anyone else here now and i'd love to talk to you i want to thank jeff also for belmont citizen harold at last year's annual meeting and that is that the mc is a hidden gem in plain sight and that also happens to be a pretty apt description of between his mild temperament and understated presence it's sometimes easy to take a  for granted it but possesses a rare skill set the ability to provide strong leadership and the versatility to thrive in whatever role is asked of him now most of you know i enjoy talking sports so i would be remiss if i didn't use  sports analogy to summarize chip strains now if chet played for the boston red sox he would be the perfect combination of david ortiz and brock holt leadership and versatility he played for the patriots would be the perfect combination of tom simultaneously and then coming full circle and serving as chair again this past year and regardless of in which seat he sat you can count on shots keep the monthly board meetings on point and on schedule being able to explain any idea or concept in layman's terms that  understand firstly i can't thank showed enough for all the advice and guidance you gave me over the years particularly during the year when i served as board chair if there's any good news about chet's time ending on the board it's that he's hardly faded from view as eventually he's going to remain an active member here at the b m c whether it's volunteering to run a camera one of the many events in town or stepping behind the microphone to do some play by play of all my high school basketball and of course will continue to serve a vital role on the belmont cable t v advisory but we're not done with you yet we've also of course got the other david c nelson spirit award which is awarded every year for lifelong learning selfless public service the spirit of adventure as you know david also was one of the original members of the b m c board and he has missed every day we remember a most for is a love of sailing and so in honoring shet is this year's recipient of the david c nelson spirit award you i have said enough earlier but i do want to mention that i had the pleasure of knowing david nelson who interesting lee one of the things that david was most  kind about was making sure that the belmont media center didn't or did provide a way for people who were disadvantaged to become a pod or of the organization and constantly hopped on the fact that we needed to have a scholarship program for young people who couldn't afford the membership but who could come here and learn there and develop their skills and david was it was a great guy in that respect and he was also somebody who thought planning was a very important part of it as you know he was a professor at bentley college so it was a it was a pleasure to serve with david here at the b m see the one thing that i would take a certain amount of  acceptance to is my ability to try to control the board meetings and make them timely when you're in a room with eight other people who are creative who want to make sure that their position has been heard we didn't always end on time but at least we got everybody had everybody get the opportunity to make a statement about what they think we should do and we would eventually come to consensus and so i thank all the board members for their contributions and it's been a wonderful six years here and i will be around as a volunteer as i indicated earlier and thank you very much so to televise our events are public means of course like a means and they always come through with flying colors so thank you so very much and thanks again folks