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International House
Berkeley, California
April 24, 25, 26, 2009

Friday, April 24

See, hear, and chat!

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

4:45 – 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

9:25 am  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.

8:30– 9:30 am   National Elections – Report of the 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 - 2:20 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

x  – 4 pm  National Finance Committee

4 – 6:30 pm  (certain) 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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