‘Wish you would get a full night’s rest my friend’

And we're wrapped!

Dee Dee Myers wrapping us up - we'll bring models at the next board meeting (some time in May) - we'll follow up with dates. That concludes our business

Motion to adjourn - Carmona
Seconded -Do

Vote: all in favor

That doesn't penalize those institutions. Those who have, get more and those who have less get short changed. Because this fund is expected to grow, there would be monitoring of funds allocated. Would there be a system to reallocate funds that are clawed back to go towards an effective organization

Henrietta Borroughs - I rep east Palo Alto center for community media est in 2003. The city is considered an underserved community. I agree that a hybrid model should be established. Pro Rata would maintain the status quo rewarding larger institutions while giving less to smaller outlets

Hugo Morales - founder of Radio Bilingue - Community radio by people of color should not be excluded. Since 1975 farm workers have built community radio stations. Totally community driven farmworker radio. Providing critical information in times of crisis

Von rees (spelling?) - Side question - initially in the process, there was allocation beyond journalists. We ave 21 titles publishing 2x a week in SoCal. We also develop technology for newsrooms. We're talking with NJCIC to adopt tech to assist newsrooms

Matt Pearce - director of policy at Rebuild Local News - raising a technical comment
in the nonprofit definition there's a clause where 501c3 states coverage of news, this is an unintended tripwire (looking at 990s) sharing Cal-Matters 990, doesn't mention news/journalism.

Little - we bought this newspaper 8 years ago - we've hired more journalists, to say it doesn't happen, it can if you do it the right way. Disappointed that hedge fund newspapers would be eligible. That's wrong

Little - the McClatchy Foundation has thoroughly thought this through. Recognizing that smaller orgs are out here doing the work of good journalism. Love the clawback thing (even papers who get grants lay off journalists)

Greg Little - owner of Mariposa Gazette and officer on CENA board.

Ernani - standard metrics like retention is tricky. Fellows and freelance staffing. External factors in community instability will have different community conditions

Ernani - layering in additional indicators (beyond populaiton) - language and broadband measurements materially impact how info travels. Population makes sense for general newsroom, when we shift towards civic info, that cost per person is not stable (language, trust, media saturation, geography)etc

Ernani - social media and sms are the primary way people receive info. We should recognize the real world pathways that community knowledge moves through. For eligibility, could fiscally sponsored orgs be eligible? For protective structure for immigrant serving orgs this would be important

Malena Data Ernani - speaking for someone who manages civic partnerships. Seeing how info actually moves across different communities across the ground. On broadcast restriction - understand and agree without overindexing. We need to broaden how we define broadcast. For many indigenous communities..

Martinez-Saldana - these approaches [no cap for specific newsrooms] reward scale but not impact and continue historic inequities. This should allow orgs to make a case for how they reach underserved communities and build trust

Martinez-Saldana - our media ecosystem is stronger working together with broadcast. Communities in rural areas, low digital literacy rely on broadcast media. Efforts to replace CPB funding isn't secured. Basic operations for public media are restrained.

Jose Martinez - Saldana - broadcast radio must be included. Broadcast newsrooms shouldn't be treated differently. Radio produces news, realtime info that communities rely on. Vital ethnic and community media should not be excluded. Radio Bilingue fill a voice no other can

Scott Hays - cofounder of OC world - located in Orange County. Nonprofit multimedia company supported by community. Earlier Regina said we need to be open to a media field that's unique and diverse. This org is excluding multimedia programs

Ellis - CENA - recommends reimbursement for printing, payment for surviving, tiered payment structures funding first five journalists. Include freelancers in the definition of qualified journalists. Biweekly publication to qualify

Ellis - the devastation of local news is a matter of trust. Please consider 3/4 of americans trust local news compared to trust of media overall. Businesses need local news for local advertising. 90+% of google add traffic are bots.

Ellis - we're central to central valley and have been hit by inflation and cost of labor. It's unfair to lay blame at google, the data is undeniable -

citing stats about newsroom layoffs and closures

Public comment
Reggie Ellis
Scott Hayes
Jose Martinez-Saldana
Malena Data Ernani
Greg Little
Matt Pearce

Wilson - let's find a solution. It's up to us to be the adults in the room. All throughout it talks about underserved communities. I could be here on a horse saying look what's in the legislation. We need to figure out what that split should look like. My people have been disproportionately affected

Wilson - everyone has been harmed. I could go through the history of how our community was harmed by reporting from big publications. I could say lets fund the bigs that made immigrants scapegoat and butt. How Black men and communities have been demonized by the bigs

Glasser - To disenfranchise hundreds of journalists doesn't seem right to me. They pulled from another state that isn't California.

Glasser - I think the fairest thing is handing it out per journalist where each entity gets based on journalists they hired and needs to be used on journalists. That's fair. In other iterations, there were set asides contemplated. There could be in this formulation.

Glasser - is sustains existing newsrooms [not having a cap]. Let's go over where this legislation came from. It came from google monopolizing the ad tech. It hurt those with significant digital publishing businesses. Those aren't the smaller orgs basically

Enriquez - Wanting to ask about the cap. We have, in grantmaking, mins and maxes. What's the benefit of not having a cap? How would that meet statutory goals?

Do - we need quantifiable and qualifiable data about newsrooms to overlay with the map, even with a hybrid model