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Greetings-

The KPFA LSB is meeting this Saturday at Cafe de la Paz, near the corner of Cedar on Shattuck in Berkeley. Meeting begins at 11am and is wheelchair accessible. Below is the draft agenda for this meeting.

Chandra

_*DRAFT*_

_*KPFA Local Station Board & Delegates’ Meeting*_

6/10/2008
11 AM to 4 PM
Café de la Paz
1600 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA

ITEM #

Agenda Topic

Call to Order

Introductions & Announcements

Excusing Absent Members

Agenda Review and Approval

Minutes Review and Approval

Consent Calendar

Public Comment

interim General Manager’s Report

Treasurer’s Report

Committee Reports: Outreach, Governance, Fundraising, GM Hire

2pm- Special Order: Disability Access Motion and presentation

KFCF Report

Motion re: Community Advisory Board (CAB)

New Business

4:00PM -- Adjourn

THIS AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Times shown are for guidance only, except for special orders
June 14, 2008 LSB & Delegates’ Meeting Agenda -- Detail

Committee Reports:

Outreach – two motions:

1. Resolved, the LSB authorizes the outreach committee to sponsor a town hall meeting on the housing and foreclosure crisis in September 2008.

2. Resolved, the LSB authorizes the outreach committee to organize, in partnership with the City of Richmond, a town hall meeting on immigration issues.

Governance – Motion to approve the draft LSB self-evaluation process

Fundraising – Report from LSB participation in May Fund Drive

GM Hire

Disability Access Motion (Chandra Hauptman)

MOTION:

To ensure compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), California’s Unruh Act (CA Civil Code 51-51.3) the CA Building Standards Code (Title 24 of CA Code of Regulations), and in compliance with the Pacifica Mission of making the Network inclusive for all listeners, the KPFA LSB moves that the following disability access recommendations (including health and safety issues) proposed by the KPFA Disability Access Committee, be fully implemented by KPFA in FY2009:

_*No cost Items:*_
• Identify and make available a disability access liaison as a “go to” person for people with access needs;
• Identify people who can pull music from music library, within 24 hrs of request, and make it available for disabled staff to ensure equal access to music;
• Mark rear exit door a fire door to ensure ADA compliance (health and safety);
• Relocate bike ramp and garbage cans to ensure wheelchair access to rear entrance door (health and safety);
• Reinstitute scent free policy and prominently place appropriate signage (health and safety);
• Ensure that any new construction (such as the restaurant building renovation) is completed with accessibility options integrated into the infra-structure; and
• Enable wheelchair access to conference room and kitchen area by rearranging or replacing furniture as needed.

*_$500 and under:_*
• Conduct mandatory disability access sensitivity training for all paid and unpaid KPFA staff by 9/08;
• Provide and make available grabbers for access to high places in 4 high-use studios, the mailbox area and in the kitchen ($10/grabber x 6 = $60);
• Install Braille on buttons at entrance to elevator and on inside of elevator (health & safety);
• Add Braille signs at entrances to all 4 restrooms;
• Wrap hot water pipes in bathrooms (health & safety);
• Ensure that most common rooms and major studio electrical lights and switches are wheelchair accessible;
• Install blind-accessible VU metering software in newsroom and/or on-air studio;
• Improve hallway lighting for greater visibility ($300) (health & safety); and
• Install transcription software (Dragon & Dictate) on 1 additional computer ($200).

_*Above $500:*_
• Make front entrance doors fully accessible by 12/31/08;
• Remove odor from elevator (health & safety);
• Install screen reading software (JAWS) on 1 additional computer ($900); and

* Purchase/install one additional sit/stand workstation (Manual =
$1800; Electrical = $7500).

- see you there