Minutes for the regular National Finance Committee meeting October 23, 2012.

Meeting convened at 8:47 PM (ET) a quorum being present, the Chair being late and the Secretary being present.
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Attending: Ken Aaron, Jim Boyd, Bill Crosier, Campbell Johnson, Kim Kaufman, R. Paul Martin, Tracy Rosenberg, Alex Steinberg,  Barbara Whipperman.
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Agenda:

1. Approve minutes
2. Pacifica Radio Archives FY13 budget
3. Set date for National Office and Consolidated FY13 budgets

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The Chair being unavoidably detained the Secretary convened the meeting and took the chair.

Motion: (Kim Kaufman) “To approve the agenda” (Passed without objection)

Approve minutes 8:54 PM (ET)

Motion: (Bill Crosier) “To approve the minutes of the September 4, 2012, meeting.” (Passed without objection)

Motion: (Campbell Johnson) “To postpone consideration of the minutes of the September 4, 2012, meeting until the KPFK Treasurer has had time to review them.” (Passed without objection)

Motion: (R. Paul Martin) “To approve the minutes of the September 5, 2012, meeting.” (Passed without objection as amended)

At 9:10 PM (ET) Tracy Rosenberg arrived and took over the chair.

The KPFA Treasurer noted that the minutes of the September 5, 2012, meeting listed a motion that was passed which included the words, “‘Pension Expense’ line (General Ledger account #6102),” and that this should have been General Ledger account #6103. The committee agreed to insert a note to that effect in the minutes of the September 5, 2012, meeting.

The KPFK Treasurer finished reviewing the minutes of the September 4, 2012, meeting. The motion to approve those minutes was passed by the committee.

Motion: (Kim Kaufman) “To approve the minutes of the September 11, 2012, meeting.” (Passed as amended without objection)

Amendment: (Tracy Rosenberg) “To strike ‘CPB penalties incurred after following the advice of the Auditor were briefly discussed.’” (Passed without objection)

It was agreed to change “WPFW will spend 79 doing on-air fund raisers” to “WPFW will spend 79 days doing on-air fund raisers.”

Motion: (Kim Kaufman) “To approve the minutes of the September 18, 2012, meeting.” (Passed without objection)

Pacifica Radio Archives FY13 budget 9:33 PM (ET)

The committee discussed the Pacifica Radio Archives FY13 draft budget proposal. There were some questions about the total revenue numbers. The Pacifica Radio Archives (PRA) Director said in a note to the committee that PRA has not received all of the revenues for FY12 that are listed on paper. Not all stations are paying their Shared Services to PRA. The advisability of having the stations pay their PRA portion of Shared Services directly to PRA was discussed. It was reported that grants income for FY13 is uncertain at this time. Committee members felt that more information was needed.

Motion: (Tracy) “To postpone consideration of this item until the regular October 30, meeting” (Passed without objection)

Adjourned 10:24 PM (ET)

Submitted by R. Paul Martin, Secretary.