Board Meeting Minutes: Sept 2006
The VFR Board of Director’s Meeting Minutes, September 2006
Agenda
Executive Session 6 - 7
Public Meeting 7 - 9
- Follow-up on VWB incident
- Facilitation of Code of Conduct
- Check in on accessibility and transportation
- Fundraising Help
- Emergency phone number exchange
- African American Affairs Collective Challenges (8.2.06)
- Cheryl & Noemi’s strike letter (9.20.05)
- Letter from the group of 11 women (10.5.05)
- Are documents submitted to the board public?
- Bill Weye status and status of web committee
- Responsibilities of Board members–Board rep to committees may be a recipe for burnout…should each committee to appoint a member to represent them to the Board?
- Transitioning to new Board / Recommendations to new board
- Limiting Posting on Announcement Listserve
- Listserves/email archives & communications in general
- Support for nomination committee & facilitation of election
- Ed Charla Music Library
- Planning ahead for annual meeting: major reports to membership on:
- Finances & fundraising
- Programming
- Operations
- Volunteer Coordination?
Minutes
- Comments for Board: Request from site-tech to discuss CDs and passwords at GM.
- From Executive Session:
- Board will issue a statement on personal attacks within the next week to the membership.
- Alex will respond to legal letter regarding legal matters.
- Statement will be drafted and issued about the Valley War Bulletin incident and Boards actions. Requests for any information regarding incident to be submitted to the Board.
- Accessibility report from Eric was delivered via email
- Transportation: put on GM agenda. Suggestion to explore in house options, determine where problems are, and create comprehensive solution.
- GM agenda item: Are we ready to commit to another on-air fund drive in October? Suggestion to devolve fund raising to Collectives themselves? Discussion should be had.
- Documents submitted to the Board are public. The Board recognizes that in some situations documents may need to be submitted confidentially.
- GM agenda item: We need volunteers for the web committee. Board will work on identifying Managing Editor.
- Board will write suggestions for new Board at the October Board meeting.
- Bob will talk to Bill Childs about announcements being VFR only and enforcing the language in our documents regarding listserve content.
- Physical Ed Chalra music library to remain in storage at Bob Gutowski’s until alternate and secure storage is found.
- GM agenda item: Re-announce what should NOT be happening at the station (ie: drinking).
- GM agenda item: Proposal for VFR’s First Annual Organizational Retreat.
- VFR is applying for grant to facilitate better relationships between white and non-white programmers.
- GM agenda item: Present Code of Conduct construction to occur in November
- Listserves created for official VFR business must be moderated. Alex will clarify to programmer list. Individual members are free to create their own lists but must clarify that they are not official VFR lists.
- Alex will draft language for communication with Cathy regarding recent set-up of Google-Programmers group.
Attending: Alex Peterson, Candace Clement, Bill Baue, Jane Braaten, Jose Tolson, Jay Deacon, Bill Weye, Dana Prescott, Bob Gutowski, Libby Reinish, Eric Nash, Tim Scott, Emily Miller, Cheryl Alexander
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