October 25, 2006 minutes: monthly meeting

October 25, 2006 minutes
Meeting convened: 6:03ish
Directors present: Herrick, Richard, Richardson, Courtney, Fung, Lemke, Lipton, Augustine (staff rep)
Staff present: Stockwell, Moore
I. Minutes: September 20: defer to November (Richard)
II. Announcements/Communications from the public:
· Stockwell: WYOU/WORT co-hosted blood drive, Monday, (Oct 30): signup online
III. Reports
A. Officers: no reports
B. Staff: Reports submitted

• Music
• Listener Sponsor Development
  
• Business Development
• a. Events
• b. Grants
• Operations
• Volunteer Coordinator
• News and Public Affairs: Moore asked for resolution to protest abolition of habeus corpus: requested tackling another time

C. Committees: reports submitted unless noted as “no meeting”

• Executive: no meeting
• Finance
• Personnel: Action: Policy and Volunteer Handbook revisions

a. Resolution to ask music programmers for 2 extra hours/month to work with music collection

Courtney moves to amend language of resolution: take out MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO; Richardson 2^nd
All in favor: motion passes
Richardson moves to amend language of resolution: to remove THE MUSIC DIRECTOR and making it read: “to carry out tasks that THE MUSIC DIRECTOR considers”; Courtney 2nds
All in favor: motion passes

New wording:

THE WORT BOARD OF DIRECTORS ENCOURAGES ALL MUSIC PROGRAMMERS DONATE AT LEAST TWO HOURS PER MONTH IN ADDITION TO THE TIME THEY SPEND ON THEIR PROGRAMS, TOWARDS HELPING CARRY OUT TASKS THAT THE MUSIC DIRECTOR CONSIDERS NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN AND IMPROVE THE HIGH STANDARDS OF THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT
All in favor: motion passes
Staff is assigned responsibility to find a place for this wording in volunteer handbook. Further advertising is advised: listserv, etc., this too, is up to the staff to determine.

b. Personnel Committee, continued: Action item: to approve and add to volunteer handbook
Topic in a nutshell: How to deal with troubling behavior, especially with on-air issues
REFER back to PERSONNEL COMMITTEE

• PROM (formerly MCOC)
• Programming
• Engineering
• CAB
• Fund Raising
• Regulatory Compliance: no meeting
• Bylaws
• Events. Discussion on band contracts. Weiser is going to follow through with bands and other organizers to make expectations about allotted time during events
• Elections: Richard will meet with Stockwell before Nov. 8
• Ad hoc Sister Radio: no meeting
• Ad hoc facilities planning

IV. Old Business
A. Proposed change to Volunteer Handbook regarding production for national programs
Defer to November (Moore)

V. New Business
A. Director election: preview and planning staff. Need a good pool of candidates for 3 seats open; staff suggested annual meeting: February 11—ok’d

B. "Major donor" campaign preview and preparations (Fund Raising Committee)

C. Conference Travel Support Request via email (Liz DiNovella to AMARC in Amman, Jordan): reimburse $100
Courtney moved to reimburse; Richardson 2^nd
All in favor: motion passes

D. Scheduling
Board regular monthly meeting: November 15, Wednesday
Board regular monthly meeting: December 20, Wednesday
Board regular monthly meeting: January 17, 2007, Wednesday
WORT membership annual meeting: February 11, 2007, Sunday

VI. Adjourn; 7:45