Saturday February 26th at 9:00am CST
Open Session
I. Call to Order and Opening Business. PNB Chair (10 mins)
a. Roll Call / Establish Quorum. PNB Secretary Establish excused absences and timekeeper.
(3 Min.)
II. Auditor's Report - Ross Wisdom (120 mins)
III Finance Committee Report-Summer Reese (15 mins)
IV Audit Committee Report - Nia Bediako (15 mins)
V CFO Report-Lavarn Williams (30 mins)
Adjourn at 12:00pm CST
Lunch Break - Noon to 1:00pm
Reconvene in Open Session at 2:00pm CST
I. Call to Order and Opening Business. PNB Chair (10 mins)
a. Roll Call / Establish Quorum. PNB Secretary-Establish excused absences and timekeeper.
(3 Min.)
II. Finance Committee-WBAI Budget, WPFW Budget, KPFK Budget (45 min)
Saturday February 26th at 9:00am CST
Open Session
I. Call to Order and Opening Business. PNB Chair (10 mins)
a. Roll Call / Establish Quorum. PNB Secretary Establish excused absences and timekeeper.
(3 Min.)
II. Auditor's Report - Ross Wisdom (120 mins)
III Finance Committee Report-Summer Reese (15 mins)
IV Audit Committee Report - Nia Bediako (15 mins)
V CFO Report-Lavarn Williams (30 mins)
Adjourn at 12:00pm CST
Lunch Break - Noon to 1:00pm
Reconvene in Open Session at 2:00pm CST
I. Call to Order and Opening Business. PNB Chair (10 mins)
a. Roll Call / Establish Quorum. PNB Secretary-Establish excused absences and timekeeper.
(3 Min.)
II. Finance Committee-WBAI Budget, WPFW Budget, KPFK Budget (45 min)
III. Unfinished Business
a. Motion - Uzzell, Resubmitted by Steinberg (15 min)
Due to possible conflict of interest, any person who has been terminated from the Pacifica
Foundation employment for cause shall be prohibited from membership in the Pacifica Foundation
b. Motion - Steinberg, Resubmitted by Steinberg (15 min)
Whereas the WBAI LSB failed to elect any officers at its December meeting or
conduct any of the business of the LSB as a result of disruptive activity by
members of the audience and whereas the Pacifica Foundation
cannot afford to pay expenses for meeting places and security for an LSB that is
not carrying out its bylaws mandated responsibilities, the Pacifica National
Board, in an effort to bring the WBAI LSB into compliance with its
responsibilities, directs the WBAI LSB to conduct its meetings via telephone
conference.
This directive applies to the first meeting of the WBAI LSB/delegates assembly in January. That meeting is directed to
elect officers of the LSB and Directors for the Pacifica Foundation as its first order of business. This directive shall
remain in place for subsequent meetings of the WBAI LSB until such time as a further review by the PNB establishes that
significant progress has been made towards establishing an atmosphere of mutual respect and comity that will allow the
WBAI LSB to resume in person meetings.
All secret ballots at telephone conference meetings of the WBAI LSB shall be conducted by email to a neutral third party
who will tabulate the votes and announce the results. The Pacifica legal counsel or his representative is hereby
designated to be a neutral third party responsible for counting secret ballots. WBAI LSB telephone conference meetings
will be streamed on the Internet - unless they are part of an executive session - so that the public may listen and a
special telephone number will be made available for the public to phone in public comments.
c. Motion - Ross, Resubmitted by Rosenberg (15 min)
The PNB authorizes acquiring 6 Unpaid Publicists w/in 30 days of the present date to work at each of the 5 stations and
one head Publicist to coordinate at National Office. Passed unanimously at KPFK LSB.
d. Motion - Bennett, Resubmitted by Crosier (15 mins)
The Affiliates Task Force focuses on understanding, communication and expansion of the Pacifica Affiliates Program. It
shall be an advisory group to the Affiliates Coordinator, the two elected Affiliate Directors and to support Pacifica's
Affiliates Program. The Task Force is unique because it includes Pacifica's clients (Affiliates) as well as Pacifica.
This is due to the fact that the Affiliates are not only clients receiving services from Pacifica, but also partners in
collaboration in the democratic media movement.
Consistent with the Pacifica Mission, the Task Force's mission is to facilitate communications between all parties
within Pacifica and the Pacifica Affiliate Network; and to advance the practice and pursuit of sustaining and expanding
grassroots community radio. The Task Force shall strive to increase the capacity of the Pacifica Affiliate Network
through an exploration of mutual benefits: by working together, sharing programming, resources, information and economic
stability.
Anyone from an Affiliate station or Pacifica's Network is welcome to participate in the Task Force, as long as they
follow the four principles stated below:
1) Participants respect the responsibilities and authority of affiliates' General Managers in their contractual and
financial relationships with Pacifica Foundation.
2) Participants respect the responsibilities and authority of Pacifica staff in their contractual and financial
relationships with Affiliate station.3) Participants respect the responsibilities and authority of members of the
Pacifica National Board.4) Pacifica staff and board members (and affiliate general managers if they are involved)
respect the right and responsibility of the Task Force to organize itself as it sees fit to be most effective and to
make recommendations as an advisory body.?When voting is involved only Task Force members who have attended three
consecutive meetings (the meeting of the vote and two meetings immediately prior to the vote) shall be allowed to vote.
The Task Force will elect Co-Meeting Facilitators (who shall be PNB Directors) and a Secretary (who shall be any member
of the Task Force). In order to select permanent yearly Facilitators, there shall be a pro tem Facilitator for the
first three meetings. The Task Force shall meet a minimum of once a month.
Most of the Task Force's work is collaboration, information gathering, and communication. In order to secure
institutional support for the network, there may, occasionally, be a need to make policy recommendations to the PNB
and/or staff.
All Task Force reports and communications shall be first approved by the Task Force.
The Task Force provides a forum for input and discussion about the needs of affiliates and Pacifica, and for developing
the affiliates network. It provides a support system for this process. It also works on individual advisory projects.
These are implemented by subcommittees, in coordination with the Affiliates Coordinator. Subcommittees currently being
recommended include (but are not limited to) a Survey Subcommittee for gathering information about affiliates' needs and
a subcommittee for financial development. These are being recommended in response to needs that have become evident
during this past year.Public Comment - TIME CERTAIN 4:30PM (30mins)IV Adjourn at 5:00pm CST
Dinner Break 5:00pm to 6:30pm (90 mins)
KPFT Tour and Reception 7:00pm - 10:00pm (120 mins)