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REVISED to include language of pending motions

Pacifica National Board meeting
Berkeley, California
April 24, 25, 26, 2009

Friday, April 24

Noon – 3 pm, Executive Session – Legal Matters.
Including briefing and discussion with attorneys Ricardo deAnda, John Crigler and Benjamin Lambiotte from 1 – 3 pm.
3 - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 – 4 pm Approve Agenda
4 - 4:15 pm Approve Minutes
4:15 – 4:45 pm Discussion of WPFW and Motion to rescind:

Motion by Gendelman to rescind the PNB January 30, 2009 resolution which created a vacancy for WPFW representation on the PNB.

Resolution adopted January 30: Acknowledging that the fairest interpretation of Pacifica bylaws as amended 2003 Article 5 Section 1B which states “Any Delegate who is currently serving as a Delegate and has served at least one (1) year as a Delegate is eligible for election to the office of Director by the Delegates for his/her radio station area subject to Section 3 of this Article of the Bylaws” can only be 1 year equals 365 days or 12 calendar months; and Noting also, that at least one other Delegate Assembly (KPFT) has interpreted the mandatory one-year requirement to mean 365 days or 12 months; and Declaring, therefore, that a continuing breach of Pacficia’s bylaws was created in qualifying Campbell Johnson for election as PNB Director;
This PNB:

1. Disqualifies with immediate effect Campbell Johnson as a PNB director;
2. Instructs WPFW Local Station Baord to re-tally the votes from their election for PNB director; and
3. Instructs WPFW to inform the Pacifica National Board of the change in candidate elected in place of Campbell Johnson.

4:45 – 6:15 pm KPFA Report
6:15 – 7:30 pm Dinner break
7:30 -8:30 pm Public Comment
8:30 – 9:30 pm iED and iCFO report on WBAI
9:30 – 11 pm Visit to KPFA

Saturday, April 25

8:30– 9:30 am National Elections – Report of the Committee
9:30 – 10:30 am National Finance Committee
10:30 – 11:30 am Governance Committee:

Motion: That PNB facilitate the recall election, as specified in the bylaws, resulting from a staff petition at KPFA.

Motion: That the LSB’s are to work with station management to ensure that station programming fulfills the purposes of the Foundation and is responsive to the diverse needs of the listeners (demographic) and communities (geographic) served by the staiotn, and that station policies and procedures for making programming decisions and for program evaluation are working in a fair, collaborative and respectful manner to provide quality programming” We recommend to the PNB that they request, in writing, an explanation from the GMs and PDs on how they are implementing this bylaw.

Motion: that the PNB collect information from the stations to determine if there is systemic abuse of the bylaws requirement of 30 hours of service. In particular that information be obtained on: Each program collective identified and named at each station, how many members are on each collective. What percentage of air time do these collectives represent and what percentage of the staff electorate do these collectives represent. Furthermore if any of these collectives have a sudden spike in membership prior to elections, and if the collectives represent a disproportionate share of the staff electorate.

11:30 – 1:00 pm Brunch
1 – 2 pm Public Comment
2 - 3 pm Personnel Committee
3 – 3:30 pm Committee Reports
3:30 – 3:50 pm Archive Report – Brian DeShazor, Archive Director
3:50 – 4 pm Affiliates Report – Ursula Ruedenberg, Affiliates Director
4 – 6:30 pm Strategic Planning discussion
6:30 – 8:00 pm Dinner break
8 – 10 pm Executive Session re legal, personnel, real estate matters.

Sunday, April 26
9 – 10 am Executive Session re legal, personnel, real estate matters
10 – 10:45 am Old Business
10:45 – 11:30 am New Business
11:30 am – 1 pm Brunch
1 – 2 pm Public Comment
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Chandra Hauptman