Draft Minutes of the KPFK Local Station Board Meeting of July 24, 2010
A Regular Meeting of the KPFK Local Station Board at the
People's College of Law 660 Bonnie Brae Street, Los Angeles, CA 90057

John Cromshow served as Chair. Doug Barnett served as Secretary. Richard Vega
served as Parliamentary adviser.

1:30 pm Meeting called to order.

12 Members present constituting a quorum: Ken Aaron, Jonathan Alexander, John
Cromshow, Kim Kaufman, Fred Klunder, Ali Lexa, Sequoia Olivia Mercier, Dutch
Merrick, Margie Murray, Shawn Casey O'Brien, John Parker, Reza Pour and John
Wenger.

Members arriving later: Rodrigo Argueta 1:45, Leslie Radford 2:00, Donna Warren
2:20, Lamont Yeakey 2:45, Ricco Ross 3:06.

Members leaving early: Jonathan Alexander 2:40, Ali Lexa 3:30, Shawn Casey
O'Brien 3:40, Rodrigo Argueta 4:10, Margie Murray 4:15, Lamont Yeakey 4:35.

Motion by Ken Aaron to accept excused absences. Seconded by Shawn Casey
O'Brien. Motion carries.
Excused absences: Luis Cabrales, Summer Reese, Bree Walker, Donna Warren

Approval of the Agenda

Motion by Fred Klunder to move the discussion of Alan Minsky's memo to "New
Business" Passes

Motion by Shawn Casey O'Brien to move the PNB report until after the Election
Supervisor's report. Passes

Motion to change the Report to Listener agenda item to the Town Hall Meeting
matter.
Three abstentions recorded. Motion passes.

Chair calls Fred Klunder out of order.

Motion to set a time certain for Alan Minky's memo. Chair rules motion out of
order.

1:50 pm Vote on agenda; some Nays. Agenda approved.

Public Comment.

June Minutes approval & LSB issue of late attendance, discussion.

Chair calls John Wenger out of order.
John Wenger and Shawn Casey O'Brien challenge the ruling of the Chair.
Challenge passes. Time of arrival will be listed on the Minutes.

Motion by Shawn Casey O'Brien to vote by roll call. Chair states "A roll call
vote requires a 2/3 vote". Chair states, "Shawn Casey O'Brien is ruled out of
order."

Point of order by Shawn Casey O'Brien "Roll call vote requires a majority."
Chair states: "This is the 3rd time Shawn Casey O'Brien is called out of
order."

Motion by Jonathan Alexander to move this entire topic off to other meeting.
Passes by acclamation.

Chair notes that for committee meetings, proper notice has to be publically
noticed.

June 24, 2010 LSB Minutes approved by proclamation.

Announcements: iPD meeting Co-Chairs are Kim Kaufman and Ali Lexa, PrOC Chair
is Rufina Juarez and Vice Chair is Rodrigo Argueta. John Parker resigns from
the GM Search Committee. Shawn Casey O'Brien gives notice that the PNB may be
voting next month to amend the Pacifica Bylaws.

2:15 pm Local Election Supervisor A 1 minute long cart [short audio recording]
has to be done by each LSB candidate this Tuesday. A 30 second cart will be
done in Spanish, all will be run 30 times im a 2 month long rotation. There
will be 3 or more live on-sir candidate forums, and a Spanish translated forum.
There will be 2 Staff Candidate Forums during business hours. There are 26
confirmed Listener-Sponsor Candidates and 6 Staff Candidates.

Public Comment.

3 pm: The fund-raising task force: Primary function is to come up with
fundraising projects, ideas and events to help supplement and support the
station. Currently on the task force is Luis Cabrales, Kim Kaufman, Ali Lexa,
Sonali Kolhatkar and Kwazi Nkrumah, who is also on the CAB. This group is open
to anyone - public, LSB member or otherwise. Anyone interested in
participating or contributing contact any of us Ricco Ross and Leslie Radford
join the committee by email.

Moved by Shawn Casey O'Brien to make the Fundraising Task Force a Committee.
Passes without dissent.

PNB Report:
Sean Casey O'Brien reports that all the Affiliates bring in $200,000 every year
to Pacifica. There was a 3 hour seminar at this PNB meeting on auditing
[forensic bookkeeping]. Two out of the five General Managers actually attended
in Berkeley. Nothing significant was dealt with at the PNB meeting. This
failure to get anything of substance done was a failure of our Chair of the PNB
and our ED. Four stations asked for membership waiver, and the NES failed to
extend time for waivers. For good news, KPFK and KPFT have more revenues than
expenditures and more donations than budgeted.

Leslie Radford reports there were very good discussions in the breakout groups.
Two votes were held on membership waivers.

Ricco Ross reports there was no time for Q&A with the NES and the GMs. There
was no follow through on breakout discussions. Electronic Elections was the
whole discussion of the NES, she diverted us from problems in this election.

Public Comment.

Ken Aaron states that he will take responsibility for the originals of waivers,
make copies of the originals.

Leslie Radford states the waiver task force has not met and that the LSB has an
approved form.

Motion from Ken Aaron to extend the meeting until 4:30. 2 no, 1 abstenntion,
Passes.

Motion by Chair to extend by 4 minutes. 1 no vote,. Passes.

Motion by Rodrigo Argueta: At the next meeting of the LSB that we deal with the
[LSB] motion of the ICE raids that was approved in 2007, it hasn't been
implemented fully at radio station KPFK, it's been three years. Passed without
dissent.

4:09 pm Notification, nomination, election with on-air announcements will run
in August, election of LSB Secretary in September.

Item 6, Future LSB Meetings:
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at Workmans Circle
Saturday, September 25, 2010 at Palms Westminster Presbyterian Church
December 11, 2010 at Palms Westminster Presbyterian Church

4:15 pm Motion by John Parker to move to New Business after item 6. Passes
with no objections.

Public Comment.

Motion by John Wenger: Resolved: The PD (or iPD) shall email to the LSB his
current process for implementing programming changes, and shall email updates
to the LSB as soon as he changes the process. Until this is done, the PD (or
iPD) shall not change programming. The Chair shall send this motion to the
Management Team and a copy to the iPD.

Ricco Ross calls the question.
Leslie says no, we need Q&A.
Motion: To extend by 10 minutes. Passed.
Motion: To close debate. Passed.
4:33 Kim Kaufman opposes motion.
Motion Passes.

Motion by Leslie Radford to aAdd the iPD to the LSB e-mail list.
With Kim Kaufman and Lamont Yeakey opposed, motion passes.

Motion by Donna Warren that Jennifer Kiser send a notice to programmers that
the interim Program Director's letter, which appears to be dated July 23, 2010
to programmers, is condemned by the [KPFK] Local Station Board, and that the
LSB urges the iPD to rescind his letter. Motion fails.

Meeting adjourned.

db/JC