Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Boulder
Community Broadcast Association, Inc.
January 13, 2004
Call to order at 6:10
Board members in attendance: Arleigh, Chip Grandits, Paul Mischo, Greg O'Brien, Steven Sherman-Boemker, Gabrielle Silva, Nile Southern, and Marty Durlin (ex-officio).
Public and volunteers in attendance: Kris Abrams, Davide Andrea, Phil Dougan, Joel Edelstein, Guy Errickson, Janaki LeFils, Timothy Lenk, Robert Sharpe, and Michael Shuster.
The agenda and the updated board of directors phone list were approved as were the minutes of the previous board meeting held November 11, 2003.
Public Participation: Robert Sharpe spoke on the importance of the community voice. He expressed his opinion that there is limited time for listener responses during call-in shows, and would like there to be more time for listeners to give input and express themselves. Robert also suggested the possibility of devoting an entire program for listeners to call and voice their thoughts and opinions. Also, Robert said that the news content in general is very good and suggested that more attention should be given to relevant issues such as population growth, development, environment and education.
Nominating Committee: moved ahead of Station Manager's report.
Janaki LeFils and Michael Shuster were presented as prospective board members. Both presented the board with an oral synopsis of their applications in lieu of the physical documents, which will be provided at a later date by the Nominating committee chair. Additionally, Paul Mischo was up for his second term. The board had been polled during the previous weekend, and all were in favor of Paul continuing his board membership. With seven voting board members in attendance, all candidates were approved unanimously.
Station Manager's Report: (see attachment)
Denver AM Signal is moving forward with a letter of intent to be submitted for an AM frequency in Denver.
Digital Conversion: (see attachment) Davide Andrea, KGNU's volunteer engineer, presented information on High Definition (HD) digital conversion. Davide's opinion is that there is not enough information to make this decision at this time. He will continue to research and the issue will be revisited at the next board meeting.
Denver Signal Expansion: Kris Abrams reminded everyone of how important it is that we "think big," in our effort to raise nearly $4 million dollars towards this project. Phil Dougan volunteered to be responsible for approaching former board members for gifts. Discussion was held on how to proceed from here and the board resolved to create and empower the Denver Capital Compaign steering committee the due diligence committee. In addition, the board approved that the Denver Expansion Committee, comprised of Arleigh, Chip, Gabrielle, Greg, Michael, Nile, Paul and Steven, be empowered to contiune making decisions as they have been, as a sub-committee of the board.
The Spring Pledge drive will take place March 26 - April 3, 2004, with a goal of $165,000.
Community Advisory Board: (See attachment) Of note was the low turnout for the meeting. There were no strong issues presented at that meeting.
Bylaws: (See attachment) Proposed was an amendment that Article XV of the bylaws include a 2 part recall process. Any recall could be triggered by a petition of 15% of the station membership. Chip Grandits moved to tentatively approve the recall process, pending review by KGNU's legal counsel and concerned parties. The Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center was nominated and has agreed to act as the designated oversight organization. The motion was seconded and unanimously approved. Michael Shuster moved to approve the new wording in the bylaws regarding one vote per listener member. The motion was seconded and approved.
PBOG committee: Greg O'Brien listed several upcoming events being planned, including the Silent Auction, Feb 12th, Christine Lavin, March 9th and 10th, Women's Blues Review in May, Plant & Garden sale in June, The Charles in July, Book & Record sale in August, and a possible Labor Day service auction.
Programming committee: Joel reported that the a listener-member on-line survey is being investigated, with late spring as a tentative target date. Joel presented a draft proposal for special programming for Denver, which would include a brief 5-10 minute split broadcast of Denver headlines and a Denver community calendar.
Internet/IT committee: (See attachment)
Building committee: Phil Dougan reported on facility maintenance and upgrades.
Signal committee: Chip Grandits discussed the possibility of a new location for our Nederland transmitter. A transmitter in Fraser is probably not financially feasible at this time.
Other business:
Marty moved that we adopt the Cabaret Room as the new meeting space for future board meetings. Motion was seconded and approved.
Adjourned at 9:00pm