An interesting thing seemingly lost on some; there was and economic committee first, then there was an EDIC, sort of, the process was not followed, which is the reason it is no more. It was not created in correct procedure, did really nothing and tctv is not about economic development, many ideas and presentations since at least 2022 and not one has resulted in any improvement in funding or money coming in, just an increase in dollars going out.
Numbers do not lie, the record of the dollars are there, budget versus actual are there.
Now, look at 2019 when we had 39 man hrs per week and a budget of $49,277 for payroll
ReplyDeleteIn 2021 the first full year with covid the payroll went to $110,000
2023- requested $110,521 budgeted $113,000 133hr per week of employee time
2024- requested $119,405 budgeted $119,500 118 hr ""
2025- requested $195,041 budgeted $175,041 163 hr ""
2026- requested $198,884 budgeted $145,777 163 hr
You can go to Budget Book from FY21 on page 291 and find the projections for revenue. Those projections will show you that in 3yrs , $40,000 in earning was projected and in 5 yrs $230,000 in projected earning are listed. What happened? You can see the expansion of our TCTV funding over those exact years. Just so you not getting the wrong impression, in 2026 the $145,777 will most likely, according to Mr. Castle, run out somewhere from March to June.
In Mr. Castle's presentation to the Board He states that TCTV records about 120 Templeton meetings per yr. He also states they cost around $500.00 to complete. TCTV also covers 2 Town meetings on a usual year which are stated to cost $1,000 per event.
My math says that $62,000 is the cost of recording, uploading, editing the towns covered meetings.
What are we doing with the additional monies besides Channel 8 programming for the Town of Templeton?
It is my understanding that to date no external revenue has been generated and if you'd need reminding, we are in the 5th year of expanded funding, FY21-FY26.
So what happened?
I want Town meetings covered. I dont even mind some of the local content being covered, but a monthly news show is not what I'm looking for and dont believe it covers the barren "news desert".
I'm not comfortable asking tax payers to cover what I see and has been described as commercial expansion of TCTV for a potential revenue source that I have seen no proof exists.
RTM
Anyone who can read human nature saw this coming. Castle wanted a cushy public sector job with a pension from the get-go. He got it.
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