VFR Board Minutes 12.6.06
Valley Free Radio Board
December 6 Meeting
Minutes
MEF, 7:45-10pm
Board Members
Present: Adam Hurter, Anthony Ratcliff, Cheryl
Alexander, Chris Tinson, Jane Braaten, Jose Tolson,
Matt Dineen, and Patty McGill
Absent: Alex Peterson and Jessica Levy
Community: Bill Baue, Bob Gardner, Ed Russell, and
Eric Nash
Executive Session - 7:45-8:45pm
-Discussed Legal Affairs
Regular Session - 8:45-10pm
1. Announced and decided upon Executive Session
proposal:
a. The Board met in Executive Session to discuss a
lawsuit that has been filed by a member of VFR against
the station, MEF, and three other members of VFR
b. We agreed to search for a lawyer to fight this case
c. More details about the lawsuit will be discussed
about at the upcoming General Membership meeting on
December 20, 2006
2. Response to further gifts from Richard Moody (Eric
Nash recommendation)
a. The Board agreed not to receive any further gifts
from Richard until more information is learned about
his financial background
b. Eric and Patty will talk to Richard about his
finances
c. VFR will return a computer (”gift”) he recently
left at the station
3. The Board approved $130 to reimburse Ed Russell for
a sound card he purchased to improve the quality of
automation.
4. Review questions from Jose Tolson about VFR & Board
a. The Board agreed to Jose’s suggestion that a
membership survey be distributed at next General
Membership meeting
b. Jose will generate survey
c. The remainder of his questions will be discussed at
next Board meeting
5. Addressing African American Collective challenges
a. The Board agreed to begin meeting these challenges
by surveying the programming demographics to ascertain
if VFR is meeting its commitment to open the airwaves
to underrepresented groups
i. Anthony R will meet with Eric N to begin gathering
this information as well as the most up-to-date
information on programmers
b. Since many of the challenges raised by the AfAm
Collective are echoed in Jose Tolson’s concerns, we
will prioritize these at next Board meeting
6. Draft letter in response to billing request from
Cathy Santosus
a. Cathy recently submitted a bill to the Board
requesting to be reimbursed $491 for past web
development and hosting services
b. The Board denied this request because the work she
claims to have done was never contracted by VFR and
will send a letter in response
7. General Membership Meeting Agenda (draft - please
add more items)
a. Information about lawsuit and VFR’s response
b. Update on programmer information gathering
c. Re-present volunteer database idea
d. “Working Agree/Code of Conduct” - GMC
e. Jose Tolson power point presentation
f. Committee reports
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