Meeting of the Board of Directors
Boulder Community Broadcast Association, Inc. September 13, 2005
Called to order at 6:04 pm
Board in attendance: Marty Durlin (ex officio), Kit Hollingshead, Janaki LeFils, Paul Mischo, Greg O’Brien, Steven Sherman-Boemker, Michael Shuster and Marge Taniwaki.
Public in attendance: Kris Abrams, Stephanie Brown, Ann Campbell, Jim Ciarlo, Clover, Jordan Davies, Phil Dougan, Joel Edelstein, Karen Foley, Sam Fuqua, Linda Hardesty, Zachariah Parks, LeAnne Schamp.
The meeting agenda, Board list and minutes of the previous Board meeting were all approved.
Public Participation: Zachariah is attending as an applicant for the Development Director position.
Station Manager Report: (See attached)
Denver Campaign Report: (See attached)
There is no budget for executing capital campaign, which should pay for salary and materials. Also, donors want us to differentiate between capital campaign budget and operating budget.
Kris Abram’s role at KGNU: Long-term: Serving as the Denver Campaign Director, as described in the job description. For now, Kris is contracted through September, 2005. The Board passed a motion that empowers Marty to negotiate with Kris, to extend her contract up to the end of the year.
Committee Reports:
Budget Report: The 2006 Fiscal Year Budget was approved unanimously. Jim Ciarlo presented information on conventional loans. The Bank of Denver is willing to lend to KGNU, using the building as collateral. Repayment can be structured so that we pay interest on a monthly or quarterly basis, with quarterly or annual principal payments. No action was taken.
Reconsideration of Inclusiveness Training: Joel expressed his disappointment in the Board’s recent action to reconsider the antiracism training which is currently scheduled for mid-October with Peg Logan of Chinook. After further discussion, the Board held a procedural vote to reconsider the training, with the vote passing 4-3. A motion was then made to postpone the training and that it be reconsidered in Spring, 2006. This motion failed. A counter-motion was made, that the Inclusiveness Committee form a group to create an agenda acceptable to a broad range of KGNU people, as soon as possible, with the goal of October 24th, 2005 as the first meeting date of the antiracism training. This motion passed.
PBOG Committee: The committee met with the Denver Friends of KGNU on Thursday, Sept. 9th. Please see Andy Bardwell’s report (attached).
Program Committee: There is no conclusion yet on Arbitron ratings use regarding consideration of programming changes. Pre-emptions to regularly scheduled programming were made to accommodate carriage of the John Roberts confirmation hearings. Joel asked Marty for an evaluation of the Programming committee as a whole.
Nominating Committee: Michele Barone has resigned effective at last month’s Board meeting. A slate of candidates for the upcoming election of officers at the annual meeting is under consideration. Chip’s name has come up as a possible Interim Treasurer.
IT Committee: The committee discussed buying 3 new computers for the production studios. There has also been discussion of an experimental computer, set up with Advanced CoolEdit Pro, as well as the possibility of a UNIX machine. The new IT Chair is Neal McBurnett. Progress on wireless access is moving forward.
Signal Committee: The relocation of the Ward transmitter has stalled once again due to the situation in Nederland.
Building Committee: No report
Internet Committee: No report
Other Business: Clover thanked the Board for their dedication and hard work. He feels the Board needs 4-5 more people and encouraged current Board members to suggest potential candidates.
Agenda item for October: Follow-up on recommendations by Richard Male & Associates.
Meeting adjourned at 10:02 pm
Respectfully submitted,
Steven Sherman-Boemker
Secretary, KGNU Board of Directors