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Pacifica National Board Special Meeting
Various Locations via Telephone
Conference
MINUTES – Open Session
Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 8:30 PM ET
8:38pm Call to order by Chair Ms.
Margy Wilkinson.
Secretary Ms. Cerene Roberts took Roll Call/ Established Quorum.
KPFA: Brian Edwards
Tiekert, Jose Luis Fuentes-Roman, Janet Kobren, Margy Wilkinson
KPFK: Rodrigo Argueta, Lydia Brazon, Kim Kaufman,
Lawrence Reyes
KPFT: Adriana Casenave, Hank Lamb, George Reiter, Richard Uzzell
WBAI: Carolyn Birden, Janet
Coleman, Cerene Roberts, Manijeh Saba
WPFW: Jim Brown, Benito Diaz, Tony Norman
Affiliates: Heather Gray, Janis
Lane-Ewart
Absent: Luzette King
Staff: Ms. Summer Reese, iED
Mr. Fuentes time keeper.
8:40pm
Edwards-Tiekert moved/Fuentes seconded approve of Agenda.
8:41pm Kaufman motion/Coleman seconded to move her motion
that an HR employment attorney must available to provide legal counsel to the board during any employment or personnel
discussions be moved from III F. to I C.
8:51pm Kaufman Motion passed by a vote of 9yes/8no.
Voted yes (9):
Lane-Ewart, Kobren, Kaufman, Reyes, Reiter, Uzzell, Birden, Coleman and Gary.
Voted no (8): Edwards-Tiekert, Fuentes,
Brazon, Casenave, Lamb, Roberts, Brown and Norman.
8:53pm Uzzell motion to bring left over from past Agendas
re. Finance Committee to III A.
8:55pm Chair ruled Uzzell’s motion out of order. Uzzell’s challenged the ruling of
the Chair.
8:59pm Chair’s ruling upheld by a vote of 9yes/7no/2abstentions.
Voted yes (9): Edwards-Tiekert,
Fuentes, Brazon, Reyes, Casenave, Lamb, Roberts, Brown and Norman.
Voted no (7): Lane-Ewart, Kobren, Kaufman, Uzzell,
Birden, Coleman and Gray.
Abstentions (2): Reiter and Wilkinson.
9:00pm Chair’s motion to add Lamb motion for
the WBAI Dial Swap RFP to the Agenda at III H. No objection.
9:02pm Ms. Reese point of clarification about her
being referred as iED. Birden, Coleman and Saba raised a question about personnel information. Birden raised a point of
order because the iED question is not being address and requested the Chair to answer it. Chair said that she would not
address the question because it belongs to executive session.
Birden moved/Uzzell and Kaufman seconded to correct
the Agenda to change iED to ED.
The Chair ruled the motion out of order. Birden/Uzzell challenged the ruling of the
Chair.
9:17pm the ruling of the Chair was upheld by a vote of 11yes/8no/2abstentions.
Voted yes (11):
Edwards-Tiekert, Fuentes, Argueta, Brazon, Reyes, Casenave, Lamb, Roberts, Brown, Diaz and Norman.
Voted no (8):
Kobren, Kaufman, Uzzell, Birden, Coleman, Saba, Gray and Lane-Ewart.
Abstentions (2): Wilkinson and
Reiter.
Kaufman moved/Birden seconded a motion to clean and resend the Agenda using a different format.
Chair
ruled it is out of order.
9:27pm Chair moved to approve the Agenda as amended passed by a vote of 12yes,
1no/8abstentions.
Voted yes (12): Edwards-Tiekert, Fuentes, Argueta, Brazon, Reyes, Casenave, Lamb, Reiter, Roberts,
Brown, Diaz and Norman.
Voted no (1): Coleman
Abstentions (8): Lane-Ewart, Kobren, Wilkinson, Kaufman, Uzzell,
Birden, Saba and Gray.
Edwards-Tiekert moved/Casenave seconded to set the next meeting by March 13, 2014 at
8:30pm.
Uzzell moved/Kaufman seconded a substitute motion to set the same meeting days as last year, the original
meeting the fourth Thursday of the month and the carrying over meeting the second Thursday of the next
month.
Brazon amendment/Roberts seconded to reflect that for next meeting March 13, 2014 we should be able to add
items to the Agenda. (I did not receive the motion in writing from Lydia)
9:44pm Casenave Called the Question it
failed 2/3 by a vote of 11yes/9no/1abstention.
Voted yes (11): Edwards-Tiekert, Fuentes, Argueta, Brazon, Reyes,
Casenave, Lamb, Roberts, Brown, Diaz and Norman.
Voted no (9): Kobren, Kaufman, Reiter, Uzzell, Birden, Coleman,
Saba, Gray and Lane-Ewart.
Chair: PNV
10:01pm Brazon amendment motion failed by a vote of 9yes/11no.
Voted
yes (9): Fuentes, Argueta, Brazon, Reyes, Casenave, Roberts, Brown, Diaz and Norman.
Voted no (11): Edwards-Tiekert,
Kobren, Kaufman, Lamb, Reiter, Uzzell, Birden, Coleman, Saba, Gray and Lane-Ewart.
Chair: PNV
10:16pm Uzzell
motion failed by a vote of 9yes/10no/1abstention.
Voted yes (9): Edwards-Tiekert, Kobren, Kaufman, Lamb, Reiter,
Uzzell, Birden, Saba and Norman.
Voted no (10): Fuentes, Argueta, Brazon, Reyes, Casenave, Roberts, Brown, Diaz, Gray
and Lane-Ewart.
Abstention (1): Coleman.
Chair: PNV
10:19pm Kobren amendment/Kaufman seconded to
Edwards-Tiekert to be a continuation meeting. No objection.
10:25pm Edwards-Tiekert motion as amended by Kobren: “To
set the next meeting by March 13, 2014 at 8:30pm as a continuation meeting.” It passed by a vote of
13yes/5no/2abstentions.
Voted yes (13): Edwards-Tiekert, Fuentes, Argueta, Brazon, Reyes, Casenave, Lamb, Reiter,
Uzzell, Roberts, Brown, Diaz and Norman.
Voted no (5): Kaufman, Birden, Coleman, Gray and Lane-Ewart.
Abstentions
(2): Kobren and Saba.
Chair: PNV
10:26pm Kaufman move/Saba seconded I C. motion re. HR
Attorney.
10:29pm Reiter moved/Uzzell seconded to move I C. to number one on the continuation meeting. No objections.
10:30pm Roberts moved/Casenave seconded to Adjourned, it passed by a vote of 13yes/3no/3abstentions.
Voted yes
(13): Edwards-Tiekert, Argueta, Brazon, Reyes, Casenave, Lamb, Reiter, Uzzell, Roberts, Brown, Diaz, Norman and
Lane-Ewart.
Voted no (3): Kobren, Birden and Gray.
Abstentions (3): Fuentes, Kaufman and Coleman.
Chair:
PNV
ADJOURNED at 10:38pm
Minutes prepared by Assistant Secretary Adriana Casenave; approved on December
11, 2014.