September 20, 2006 minutes: monthly meeting

Regular Meeting, September 20, 2006
convened: 6:15
Directors present: Herrick, Richard, Beckett, Moore (staff rep), Lipton, Richardson, Fung, Lemke, Courtney
Staff present: Stockwell

I. Minutes: August 16: approved

II. Announcements/Communications from the public

• Stockwell re-announced a Sunday morning telephone communication to WORT claiming that a bomb had been placed downtown; it was not reported to us exclusively.

III. Reports

A. Officers: no reports

B. Staff: Reports submitted

• Music
• Listener Sponsor Development
• Business Development
• Operations
• Volunteer Coordinator
• News and Public Affairs Facilitator

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

• Executive: no meeting
• Finance
• Personnel: Discussion item
• PROM (formerly MCOC)
• Programming
• Engineering: no meeting
• CAB: no meeting
• Fund Raising
• Regulatory Compliance: no meeting
• Bylaws: no meeting
• Events
• Elections: no meeting
• Ad hoc Sister Radio
• Ad hoc facilities planning

IV. Old Business

A. Proposed change to Volunteer handbook re: production for national programs: handout from Moore
èReferred back to Moore to fiddle with the language

V. New Business

A. Conference support request: Lea Zeldin (handout)
Courtney moved to support request;; Lipton 2^nd
All in favor, motion passes

B. Childcare reimbursement for Programming Committee member. See request within Programming Committee report; Much discussion.
Courtney moved: that existing childcare pool be expanded and volunteers who are members of committees of the board can submit receipts for reimbursement until this fund is down to zero; Lemke 2nd
All in favor, motion passes

C. Rebroadcast requests
1. From Overeaters anon
Moore moved to accept; Richardson 2^nd
All in favor, motion passes

2. Augustine orally submitted request from Art Schuna (Two for the Blues) to continue on-going forwarding of interviews only (not music).
Lemke moved to accept; Moore 2^nd
All in favor, motion passes

D. Personnel Committee discussion topic (see report): “How do we decide to add additional staff?’
Moore moves to refer topic to Staff Collective and bring back report to November BoD meeting; Beckett 2^nd
All in favor, motion passes

E. Scheduling; Next Board of Directors meetings

• October 25
• November 15
• December 20
• January 17, 2007

Meeting adjourned: 7:30