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• Office expenses are budgeted $8,600 higher than the 2015 level. • The building is 11 years old and requiring more care. As such, this line -item was increased. Building maintenance includes the furnacelAC maintenance contract, lawn care, snow removal, carpet and window cleaning, fire inspection, and landscaping and building mechanical services. ® Building utilities include sewer, water, gas, and electric. • Insurance includes all property, liability, crime, volunteer, vehicle, and monument sign coverage. • Office supply line item includes all office supplies, and maintenance contracts on printers and copiers. • The Telephone/Internet/Web Hosting line -item was increased to reflect some additional costs. NMTV now pays a fee to house video -on -demand content on a remote server. This allows for unlimited simultaneous vlewing, without a reduction in speed. We have also Incurred more costs with our wireless live transmission of sporting events. This line -item also includes the website maintenance contract, web hosting, telephone costs, and the annual phone software upgrade. • Postage and subscriptions covers the cost of mailing dubs, equipment for contract maintenance, magazines, newspapers, and other postage for the NMTC. • Property tax is for the recycling assessment. • The Commission no longer utilizes the Senior Community Service Employment program for our cleaning service. As such, funds for a cleaning service are included. f-;4, ...... - The 2016 capital budget is set at $301,016. The first step in the transition to an HD facility is the Master Control playback and routing system. The Master Control portion of our HD Upgrade Analysis has been completed. The cost of the upgrade will be around $575,000. In anticipation of the need to upgrade to HD, all non-critical capital expenditures for 2015 were suspended, with the intent to use the remaining approved capital funds for the master control upgrade. That money, combined with the budgeted money for 2016, will be enough to pay for the Master Control upgrade without bonding. The upgrade can be scheduled to begin during the fall of 2015, with an anticipated completion of December 2015. Billing cycles would allow us to split the payments between 2015 and 2016. Further analysis continues to be done on the production truck and studio HD upgrades. Office equipment includes routine computer and software upgrades for office computers. It also includes software Licensing fees. The building was paid off in 2015. Operating expenses have been budgeted $10,958 less than in 2015. While the salary adjustments and benefits increases accounted for an increase in the budget, reduced legal costs resulted in a decrease in total operational expenses. The staff changes include recommended adjustments for several positions and an up -to 2.5%