Pacifica Foundation, KPFT FM 90.1 LSB
Regular LSB Meeting, May 14, 2014
Houston Institute for Culture 708-C Telephone Rd, Houston, TX Minutes Approved
on February 11, 2015
Call to Order: Chair Leo Gold called the meeting to order at 7:36 p.m.
Roll Call: Secretary Melinda Iley-Dohn/ Quorum
Legend for Attendance: P=Present A=Absent X
Excused Absence-
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Ex-Officio Member- P- Duane Bradley
|Listener Members |Listener Members|Listener Members |Staff Members |
|P -Teresa Allen |A- Nancy |P- Robert Mark | A-Jessica Apolinar |
| |Hentschel | | |
|P-Jim Boyd |P- Melinda |P- Colleen O'Brien| P -Tony Cox |
| |Iley-Dohn | | |
|P- Adriana Casenave |P-Joseph Kaye |P- Susie Moreno | P- Leo Gold |
|X- Maria Elena | P- Jim Krafka |X - Darrelle | X-Liana Lopez |
|Castellanos | |Robbins | |
|P-Phil Collins | P-Hank Lamb |X Richard Uzzell |( Resigned) Doyle Odom/ |
| | | |Joseph Davis seated |
|X- Charles Doc Dougherty | P-DeWayne Lark |P- Nancy |P- George Reiter |
| | |Saibara-Naritomi | |

Quorum Met-7:23 PM

A motion was presented by Adriana Casenave to consider the record of absence by
Doyle Odom as reason of removal from the board based on the Pacifica By-Laws to
postpone the decision to the next meeting in replacing Doyle Odom was proposed
by DeWayne Lark. Jim Boyd objected. It was noted that Joseph Davis the runner
up was present. Colleen O'Brien presented a motion to postpone the decision to
the next meeting to allow information to be gathered. DeWayne Lark requested to
ament the motion that the email sent per Doyle be sent to the LSB per email and
that the LSB consider this in thirty days. Per Chair Gold restated the motion
that the controversial email be forwarded to all members of the LSB. The
motion passed. Chair Gold requested a vote if Odom was to be accepted as being


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Houston Institute for Culture 708-C Telephone Rd, Houston, TX Minutes Approved
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absent. The Chair then requested a vote per the motion presented by DeWayne
Lark, postponing of the seating of the replacement member and Mr. Odom is being
asked to resend his email. Motion Passed.

8:10- Public Comment- Recording of the comments per kpft.org archive
CAB Chair Marianne Martinez requested to add Sue Witte as a voting member of
the CAB. She was accepted by acclimation by the LSB.

8:31 - Excused absences Darrelle Robbins Maria Elena Castellanos, Richard
Uzzell and Liana Lopez were approved by vote.

8:33- Approval of the Agenda-
Jim Boyd requested to put on the agenda listed as number 6 a motion requesting
that KPFT LSB members Nancy Saibara-Naritomi and Maria Elena Castellanos be
censured and reprimanded for conduct adverse to the best interests of the
Pacifica Foundation and KPFT by publishing emails dated April 26, 2014 accusing
General Manager Duane Bradley of intent to shred KPFT business and finance
documents. Motion passed Chair stated we would devote 10 minutes to the
consideration of Member Boyd's request to censor Members Nancy Saibara-Naritomi
and Maria Elena Castellanos.

Hank Lamb suggested placing the motion per Maria Elena Castellanos on the
agenda as item 1F on the agenda. Her motion was to send to the Governance
Committee (after approval of the minutes) a request to the committee to make a
proposal to the board a proposal of an attendance policy which would be
submitted to the LSB for approval as an addition to the LSB's Standing Rules.

George Reiter requested five minutes to submit a report regarding the Ad Hoc
committee for the Program Council. He stated that discussions with management
as ordered by the PNB and requested by the LSB were at this time a stalemate
and that he was being asked to agree to things that


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Houston Institute for Culture 708-C Telephone Rd, Houston, TX Minutes Approved
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he could not agree to in clear conscience could not vote for the Program
Council as it was presented, and he wanted Chairman Gold noted that he had
allotted twenty minutes but George stated he only needed about ten minutes and
requested that this could be done before the Boyd motion regarding censure,
right after the General Manager's report. Motion was made for the approval of
the agenda by Teresa Allen. Agenda was approved without

Approval of the minutes 8:46 -

Noted per the request of George Reiter that all motions have resulting outcome
of the votes. Noted by the Secretary. Jim Krafka requested a question mark in
front of the attendance of Doyle Odom in the April meeting but it was
determined that we would leave the attendance as absence until we determined by
later discussion of his status.
Leo received an email per Doyle Odom stating that he would was requesting the
LSB to accept his resignation from the board. A motion was made to accept
Odom's resignation and to seat Joseph Davis. Approved without dissent Minutes
also approved with suggested amendment to section regarding amended motion in
the previous month's minutes.

The Chair then suggested that we discuss the motion made for the standing rules
regarding attendance. Teresa Allen suggested that as a vote was not required to
have this referred to the Governance Committee that we should simply send this
to them. The Chair agreed with the suggestion that this be discussed in the
next meeting per the committee and brought back to the board for the June
meeting.

LSB Recognitions- Hank requested recognition of Duane Bradley for his work in
the fund drive and our donors for giving when they're not really getting what
they are paying for. Nancy Saibara-Naritomi recognized KPFT and the Execution
Watch The Prison Show, Ray Hill and Elizabeth Stein





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Regular LSB Meeting, May 14, 2014
Houston Institute for Culture 708-C Telephone Rd, Houston, TX Minutes Approved
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and others for their efforts. She stated they should be recognized for their
influence on the recent stay of execution of a man this week. Leo Gold
recognized PNB members who he felt in the highly contentious manner conducted
themselves in a professional manner. Melinda Iley-Dohn recognized Acie Byrd,
former LSB member from sister Pacifica Station KPFA, who passed away the week
of the meeting DeWayne Lark Dean Becker for his work and the fact that whenever
he is quoted in other media sources that he always mentions KPFT. Mr. Lark then
suggested that Becker's show was one which he felt could be presented
nationally.

Consent Items 9:14- None were to be reported

PNB Report 9:15- Recording of this report available at:

http://kpft.org/page.php?id=11531342#LSB_Audio_Archive

Minutes prepared per LSB Secretary Melinda Iley-Dohn