VFR Board of Director’s Meeting Minutes 6.6.07
7-9pm Media Education Foundation
60 Masonic St., Northampton
MINUTES
Attendance: Mary Wheelan, Matt Dineen, Tony Shannon, Michelle LeBlanc, Jane Braaten, Tony Udell, Lundy Bancroft
Absent Board members: Chris Tinson, Anthony Ratcliff
General members/others: Bob Gardner, Bill Weye, Joan Tabatchnik, Alisa Klein, Dana Prescott, Ed Russell
Minutes taker: Jane B.
1. Sexual offense policy: Joan Tabatchnik (sp?) and Alisa Klein presented materials to be used in formulating recommendations for a policy regarding sexual offenses at the station. Alisa and Lundy will confer on what recommendations to make.
2. License transfer – VFR is undertaking to transfer our broadcasting license from MEF to VFR. Tony U., Chris and Anthony R. will address the license transfer paperwork.
3. Jane B. currently is the check signer for VFR’s new account. Jane will email Ed R. and Eric about the possibility of empowering an operations/tech person to be check signer.
4. Financial report – short version, current balance
5. Publicity spending: the Board agrees that in principle we should be ready to spend on publicity (example, an August anniversary event), despite scarce resources.
6. New program schedule: Tony U. presented two proposals from the Scheduling Subcommittee, to simplify the collective structure to 4 collectives, each responsible for allocating time slots in respective time blocs. These proposals are intended to simplify and increase accountability of program schedule management. The Board agrees that these proposals are moving in the right direction, though further discussion is necessary. They will be proposed and refined in this week’s Prog Com mtg and presented to the General Membership.
7. Webstreaming has been down and some tech fixes are necessary. Tony U. will be emailing Bob Gutowski.
8. Some restructuring/revitalizing suggestions will be addressed at the Fundraising meeting June 10. Organizational restructuring suggestions were tabled until the next Board meeting.
9. The next Board meeting will tentatively be held July 10 (instead of 4th). Matt will check on room availability.
General Meeting Agenda (?)
1. Program Schedule/Program Committee restructuring
2. Webstreaming needs
3. Fundraising/publicity initiative
Presentation: VFR’s historical role (Jose Tolson – see his recent email)
-Executive Session: Legal & financial – Minutes recorded separately
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