Community Media Center of Carroll County Inc.

“The board of directors review the 990 before it is filed.”

“Conflict of interest issues are dealt with on a board level via self- declaration of conflicts. Any issues disclosed are documented.”

“The executive committee considers the executive director's salary separate from all other staff, and submits a recommendation to the board. The recommendation is based on the executive committee member's experiences in the industry, and the committee will also request hr to perform a comparability study from time to time (not necessarily annually).”

“The governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and the financial statements are available to the public upon request at the community media center of carroll county office.”

“In fy 23 the community media center (cmc) worked to increase the quality, engagement and efficiency of our content production and build partnerships with community organizations, schools & members while focusing on being good stewards of our resources. In the fall of 2022, the community media center board of directors began the strategic planning process to lay out a new blueprint for the vision and mission of the organization. Based on data from surveys and interviews with partners, key stakeholders, staff, patrons, volunteers, business and community leaders, the goal of the new plan is to advance our driving principles and direction for a vibrant and sustainable future. Cmc broadcast 453 original programs on cable channel hd-1086 - a total of 271 programming hours. Cable channel 19, the public access channel, broadcast 432 original programs for 208 total programming hours - 31% of the programs aired on cable channel 19 were community produced. Channel 23 aired 174 original programs for a total of 226 hours of programming. Interest in cmc's online content grew across multiple platforms in fy 2023. Cmc's website (carrollmediacenter.org) had 99,602 views and 42,634 users. This was a 68% increase in views over fy 22. Cmc's youtube channel had 206,800 views - a 70% increase from fy 22 there were 27,106 visits to cmc's facebook page - a 26% increase from last fiscal year. The community media center (cmc) provides a comprehensive array of digital media services for carroll county, maryland and adjacent communities. Services include outreach, training, production facilitation, production and creative services and digital media distribution via cable, video streaming, web and social media. The cmc provides video coverage for eight municipalities in carroll county, maryland. This includes routine gavel-to-gavel meeting coverage as well as special meetings and events. Meetings are streamed live on the cmc's website, on social media platforms and on cable channel 23 to ensure broad access for the public to engage with their local governments. In fy 2023, cmc increased the municipal meeting coverage by 40% compared to the prior year. In fy 2023, cmc covered 174 municipal meetings and events, airing a total of 226 hours of municipal programming. While our meeting coverage increased by more than 40%, improved production processes allowed us to cut our staff hours per meeting by more than 40% as well. Cmc continues to be a source of unbiased information regarding candidates running for public office. Cmc provided no-cost production services with strict guidelines to ensure nonpartisan equal treatment, in the form of candidate video profiles to all local candidates running in contested races in the 2022 general election and the 2023 municipal elections. In addition, cmc created an online voters' guide to provide the public important dates, election information, polling locations, video profiles and live coverage of local candidate forums. All candidate profiles and election forums were streamed live on facebook, youtube, the cmc website carrollmediacenter.org) in total 16 hours of original elections content aired on cable channels hd-1086 & channel 19. In the fall of 2022, cmc held 3 local forums for general election including two for carroll county board of education and one for carroll county commissioner- district 3. The forums had a combined reach of 7,600 with 1,254 views on youtube. In the spring of 2023, each of carroll county's 8 municipalities held elections and cmc again offered candidate profiles and created an online voters' guide. Cmc covered 5 municipal candidate forums in the spring. The municipal forums had a combined reach of 10,531 on youtube. Twenty-three candidate video profiles were produced and generated a combined reach of 29,829 on youtube. Cmc continues to expand its local sports coverage. Branded as cmsportsnet, cmc provided coverage of local high school football, boys & girls soccer, boys & girls basketball, high s”