Pacifica National Board

Regular Quarterly Meeting (Open Session)

Hotel Durant, Berkeley, California

Saturday, July 21, 2012

1:00 PM EDT, 11:00 AM CDT, 9:00 AM PDT (scheduled)

Meeting Minutes

I. Call to Order and Opening Business

The meeting was called to order by the Chair at 9:31 AM Pacific Daylight Time.

a. Roll Call / Establish Quorum

Twenty-two members were present, constituting a quorum:
Ken Aaron (KPFK), Ivon Alcime (WPFW), Teresa Allen (KPFT), Nia Bediako (WBAI),
Wesley Bethune (KPFT), Carolyn Birden (WBAI), Lydia Brazon (KPFK),
Bill Crosier (Vice-Chair, KPFT), Kathy Davis (WBAI), Revalyn Gold (WPFW),
Heather Gray (Affiliates), Campbell Johnson (WPFW), Ali Lexa (KPFK),
Efia Nwangaza (Secretary, Affiliates), Laura Prives (KPFA), Summer Reese
(Chair, KPFK), Marcel Reid (WPFW), George Reiter (KPFT), Tracy Rosenberg
(KPFA),
Dan Siegel (KPFA), Alex Steinberg (WBAI), Andrea Turner (KPFA).

Also present: Arlene Engelhardt (Pacifica Executive Director), LaVarn Williams
(Pacifica CFO), Andy Gold (Pacifica General Counsel), Jon Almeleh (National
Technical Director), Otis Maclay (Web Administrator) and members of the public.
The Recording Secretary
(John P. Garry III) monitored the live stream.

The audio for this meeting was live-streamed from, and can be accessed at,
KPFTX.org.
The agenda for the entire in-person meeting is available at KPFTX.org

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c. Alcime volunteered to be the timekeeper.

Agenda Approval (9:33)

Reiter moved to meet as a Committee of the Whole for 90 minutes to discuss
expansion of listenership and resources after the Alcime motion and before the
Finance Committee Report. Davis seconded.

Motion passed by a show of hands Yes-17.

The Chair posed the question: shall the board meet after dinner tonight? The
board responded affirmatively by a show of hands: Yes-10, No-9. The amended
agenda for the day was approved without objection.

Alcime Motion from July 20, 2012 (9:50)

Alcime moved: Whereas Pacifica has had deficit spending during each of the last
five years and has spent all of its reserves while accumulating debt, and
whereas the PNB approved the 2012 financial recovery plan, resolved, that
restoring the financial reserves as its goals and whereas the revenues are
still down, and that income during the first three quarters of fiscal year 2012
has been under budget and is likely to be negative by the end of the fiscal
year unless corrective steps are taken, and whereas the auditor has said that
debt is unsustainable, and together with the resulting lack of working capitol
led to the on-going concern alert and, resolved, the Pacifica National Board
supports the expense cuts announced by the Executive Director of at least one
million per fiscal year, relative to the fiscal year 2012 budget and encourage
the board and staff at all our stations to understand that these are necessary
to survival, even though cuts are never easy.

Crosier seconded.

Time was extended 15 minutes without objection (10:02).

Point of order from Aaron: Could we please stop the cross-talk conversations?

Rosenberg moved to extend ten minutes. Passed without objection (10:19).

Brazon moved to extend time sufficient to finish the stack (60 seconds per
speaker). Johnson seconded. Motion failed by a show of hands (2/3 required):
Yes-10, No-7.

Alcime's main motion failed by a roll call vote: Yes-10, No-10, Abstain-1.

Yes-Aaron, Alcime, Allen, Birden, Crosier, Gray, Lexa, Reiter, Rosenberg,
Steinberg.
No-Bediako, Bethune, Brazon, Davis, Gold, Johnson, Nwangaza, Prives, Siegel,
Turner.
Abstain-Reid.
Present not voting-Reese.

The board recessed from 10:42 to 11:05.

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Committee of the Whole (11:05)

The roll was called and quorum was established. Reiter articulated the
questions to be addressed by the Committee of the Whole: How to increase
awareness of Pacifica, increase listenership, increase funding. A three-minute
speaking time per person was established without objection.

Reiter: There is lack of awareness of Pacifica among progressives. Make use of
national and local special events. Partner with an organization that can
promote the event to its own members. Reach out to specific geographic
communities. Organize an on-air drive and canvas in neighborhoods for community-
specific broadcasts.

Brazon: Have a donation cup on your program logo.

Reid: Partner with other media outlets, for joint projects, to increase
awareness of Pacifica.

Gold: Groups that Pacifica announces on its Community Calendars should be asked
to assist with fund-raising.

Bethune: Form partnerships and cross-promotion with non-profits such as The
Nation Magazine, including their annual cruise.

Steinberg: Recounted proposals from a past committee that were not acted upon.

Alcime: The Mission Statement may need to change to address current issues.

Williams: "Tip jars" should be available at all stations.

Gray: Form coalitions with other progressive media entities. Partner with the
National Lawyers Guild and the ACLU to provide online links to information on
voting and immigration rights. E-commerce, progressive economic initiatives,
equal exchange.

Johnson: Media sponsorships and tables at events. Critical thinking groups
(ACLU, Leadership Council on Civil Rights) can be engaged with
programmatically. Pacifica can be a medium for their ideas and be more
relevant. Logo contest, recipe book.

Siegel: Permanent station managers, reconceptualize the National Office with
two main priorities: program development and financial development. We need to
deal with digital media. Facilities situation at WBAI and WPFW must be dealt
with.

Prives: Development directors and permanent GMs are needed. "Grassroots
Fundraising." Develop good programming.

Birden: Cited a co-sponsored fund drive with Pink Ribbons Project at KPFT.
Partner with non-profits.

Aaron: Coalitions with journalistic activities for "pre-packaged audiences,"
such as The Sierra Club, Truthdig, ACLU, Physicians for Social Responsibility.
We should go for audiences of interest, not based on racial heritage. We should
promote horizontally and stop preaching to the choir.

Davis: Partner with organizations for one-time, yearly events. The LSBs must be
responsible for raising money. BAI Buddy-a program for monthly donations. Each
person on each LSB could get ten people to donate. The organizations we partner
with should share their budgeted public service announcement money with WBAI.

Nwangaza: Must-carry policy. Need for surveys and evaluations. Program
evaluation structure and process. Programs should have term limits.

Reese: There is a lack of follow-up with major donors. A National Development
Director would be a good use of resources. Opposed repetitive fund drive
programming.

Bediako: Some New York City radio stations that have been bought out might have
facilities available for use by WBAI.

Brazon: The administrative functions of WBAI can be located in any office
space. Board agendas should include action items for implementation.

Gold: Development, fund raising, administration. The structure needs to be
addressed, clearly-defined roles. Create a resource book for the foundation
(identifying the various skills held by members of the Foundation).

Reid: General Managers should think of themselves as executives who can make
decisions.

Bethune: Supported the idea of a national development director and a national
program director.

Reiter: Special events for outreach can be done quickly.

Allen: Supported the idea of station publicists so the Foundation could have
more influence on what is said about Pacifica.

Gray: Communicate information about Pacifica, more contacts are needed.
Volunteer publicists are being found.

Turner: Any surplus funds should be used to hire a fund developer.

Johnson: Teamwork efforts with other stations are needed.

Prives: Our unwieldy governance system makes us dysfunctional and we need to be
functional in order to have development. Publicists should not be short-term
volunteers. Development directors are needed at the top and at every station.

Birden: Tony Riddle had originally suggested splitting WBAI's functions. It is
still a good idea and is feasible. We don't use what we already have: CABs.

Aaron: We should have an on-line ratings system. We neglect music.

The ED reported that Goal-busters will be presenting a development plan for the
network

Reese: We need a separate discussion about what's on the air, and is anyone
listening.

Nwangaza: Audioport needs to be continually upgraded.

Crosier: Survey and objective evaluations are needed. There are free on-line
programs for this.

Gold: The stations should report back to the PNB in six weeks on progress on
any of these ideas.

Steinberg: We may need a national promotional coordinator as well as a national
development director.

Williams: Include Pacifica and your local station in your will. Planned Giving
committees need to be reconstituted. Gift annuities.

The meeting adjourned without objection at 12:30 PM.

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The Board reconvened with a quorum of 19 at 2:16 PM.

VI. Elections Committee - Call-In with Elections Supervisor Terry Bouricous

Terry Bouricous reported to the board via telephone. Discussion followed. Time
was extended without objection. Discussion continued.

VII. Executive Director's Report

Delayed without objection to accommodate guest speakers.

VIII. PNB Chair's Report

Delayed without objection to accommodate guest speakers.

KPFA Local Election Supervisor (3:04)

Aaron Morris (KPFA LES) introduced himself to the board. Discussion followed.

Gold read a proposed statement regarding the Aurora, Colorado massacre. (3:15)

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IX. KPFA General Manager's Report (3:21)

Andrew Phillips (KPFA GM) reported (see Appendix A). Discussion followed.

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X. KPFA LSB Chair's Report (3:57)

Margie Wilkinson (KPFA LSB Chair) reported. Discussion followed.

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Public Comment (4:26)

Public comment was extended to ninety minutes without objection. Public comment
was heard for 89 minutes.

The meeting adjourned without objection at 5:55 PM.

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The Board reconvened with a quorum of 14 at 7:04 PM.

Prives acknowledged Chandra Hauptman, a former Board member and member of the
Affiliates Task Force.

VI. Committees & Task Force Reports (7:08)

Governance Committee

Reiter (Governance Committee Chair) reported and presented two motions:

Motion 1: Calling an LSB Meeting:
Whereas the bylaws require that unanimous
agreement of the officers for holding a meeting not authorized by the LSB
itself, therefore no individual LSB member or officer may unilaterally call an
LSB meeting.

Bediako called the question. Motion failed by a show of hands: Yes-5, No-8.

Motion 2: Committee Meeting Cancellations:
Meeting dates which have been established by a majority vote of a committee,
and properly noticed, shall not be cancelled except by a majority vote at a
properly noticed meeting at which quorum is achieved or by the written (email)
consent of a majority of the committee's members. Written (email) consent shall
be sent to the entire committee.

Aaron moved to refer to the Governance Committee (to compare the motion to
Roberts Rules). Birden seconded. Passed without objection.

Reiter moved to make November the month for LSB By-laws amendments voting.

Aaron moved to substitute: October shall be the month for LSB By-laws
amendments voting.

Crosier moved to postpone this issue. Johnson seconded. Passed without
objection

Personnel Committee (7:53)

Bediako (Personnel Committee Chair) reported and presented two motions:

Motion 1 (as amended):
LSB MANAGEMENT SEARCH COMMITTEE CONFIDENTIAL AGREEMENT



Amended Language:

"I agree and fully acknowledge that violating the terms of this agreement may
result in my being removed by the Local Station Board from the MSC and or
barred by the Local Station Board from any further participation in future
confidential committee work.
Passed in committee without objection 6/27/12

As a member of the (station name) Management Search Committee (hereinafter
referred to as "MSC"), I recognize and accept my responsibility to protect the
confidentiality of every candidate.

As a member of the search committee, I will have access to confidential
information and materials related to the search, and with full knowledge of the
critical importance of confidentiality to the integrity and success of the
search process, I hereby agree:

I will not disclose confidential information shared by candidates or other
committee members to anyone outside of Pacifica Foundation, including but not
limited to the applicant's employer or associates, or to anyone inside of
Pacifica Foundation who does not have legitimate reason to know based on job or
local or national board membership without the prior written consent of the
committee.

In this context, confidential information includes, but is not limited to,
applicants' names, places of current or previous paid or unpaid work, and
references; deliberations of the search committee relating to individual
candidates; and all documents which might identify individual candidates.

I will maintain the confidentiality and integrity of communications and
security systems including data processing systems, telephone conference
numbers, recordings, codes, e-mail and voice mail belonging to the foundation
or used to conduct the foundation's business.

I will take all reasonable steps necessary to ensure that confidential
documentation and other material is monitored, managed, stored, transmitted,
destroyed and otherwise handled in a manner that will preclude inadvertent
disclosure, loss or misuse.

I agree and fully acknowledge that violating the terms of this agreement may
result in my being removed by the Local Station Board from the MSC or barred
from any further participation in future confidential committee work.

I acknowledge that I have read and understood the Confidentiality Agreement.

Signed and dated: ______________________________


Birden and Bethune moved to amend: insert "and" and "Local Station Board."
Passed without objection.

The amended motion passed without objection.

Motion 2: Proposed Timeline for 2012 E.D. Evaluation Process

Note that survey dates would also apply to the E.D.'s self-evaluation.


I. Personnel Committee approval of survey - 7/25


II. PNB approval of survey:
- approve on PNB conf call - 8/9
- surveys sent out - 8/24
- to be returned - 9/9


III. Personnel Committee analysis of data and report creation: - 9/16


IV. Personnel Committee meeting with E.D. to discuss her response - 9/26


V. PNB meeting to discuss Committee report and E.D.'s response - 10/11

Birden moved to move this item to the closed session. Reid seconded. The Chair
moved the motion to the closed session without objection.

The meeting adjourned without objection at 8:22 PM.

Respectfully submitted by Efia Nwangaza, Secretary
John P. Garry III, Recording Secretary
(these minutes were approved on September 20, 2012)

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Appendix A-KPFA General Manager's Report

Pacifica Radio, KPFA-94.1FM Report

July 21, 2012
Andrew Leslie Philips
Interim GM (3/15/11-current)

OVERVIEW

The Pacifica Foundation has called for reductions in expenses and work force.
The Foundation's intention is to reduce network expenses by one million dollars
immediately.
This notice sent to all Pacifica affiliated unions June 26, stated layoff,
reductions in staff and reductions in pay, will take place. The memorandum
states there may be need to restructure staff and services and perhaps some
program changes effective immediately.

Union and staff members have these questions:

1) How did Pacifica arrive at the $1m number?

2) Is there a recovery plan?

3) Has Pacifica analyzed the impact of these changes on future fund raising?

4) What participation and contributions will the two east coast stations make
to this austerity plan?

5) What likelihood is there of WBAI and WPFW meeting their central services
commitments in future?

6) Is the PNB aware that KPFA loaned PNO approximately $1m around 2000 when the
national office was moved from then Executive Director, Lynn Chadwick's
mother's basement in Washington DC to Berkeley when the new governance
structure was installed? What is the status of that loan?

7) KPFA seeks detailed account information from PNO to ensure we are being
billed in accordance with actual amounts owed. We have been promised a meeting
to clarify these issues but so far this has not occurred.

When I rejoined Pacifica in March 2011, after an 18-year hiatus, KPFA was still
reeling following the major staff reductions that occurred in 2010. A total of
8.3 Full Time Equivalent staff positions were eliminated savings about
$404k/year. A dozen staffers took settlements and left. They were all people of
color and it changed the complexion of KPFA and reduced any affirmative action
success KPFA had over the years.

KPFA's current FTE number is 26.62, accounting for 47 people, at a salary cost
of about $1.9 million/year (more than 50% of total budget). We have 27 union
members in our shop. We figure we can probably cut the equivalent of about one
FTE before digging in to cut paid staff positions. To satisfy a goal of $300k
in cuts, KPFA needs to cut the equivalent of more than 5 FTE's.

Because KPFA has many half-time staff and because of union requirement to
respect seniority, we would likely have to cut up to ten positions, including
some of our best fundraisers.

Our projected budget this year is $3.3million. Our current membership numbers
are dropping and now stand at 19,667, almost 2,000 members less than this time
last year. Currently KPFA is able to meet its commitments but we have no
reserves.

Average Pledge (over last two drives) is $97.50. Fulfillment is 89%. From July
2011 to July 2012 we made $330,106 from web or about 12% of total donations.

radio is a portal to the Internet.

When we use the words community and radio today, they mean something different
than they used to. Today Pacifica's community is the whole world. We can stream
audio on the Internet from Berkeley to Baghdad; radio has changed - pod-casts
and Pandora, time-shift and twitter and satellites. Today our community is
local and global at the same time. And radio is terrestrial, virtual, text,
digital, pictures and sound, all at once - look at what Democracy Now has done
to radio.

Pacifica and KPFA must become more conversant with current Internet and social
networking opportunities. We have fallen behind and there is need for a
national initiative to push Pacifica into the 21st century technologies. We
neglect this at our peril.

Today, radio is a portal to the Internet. Most of the action is online. There
are e-commerce opportunities and social networking advantages to spreading the
Pacifica message. The Internet is a place to store our intellectual capital -
past, present and future. We need a sustained and immediate campaign to get
this done. But talk is cheap. Everybody knows we need to do this and we've
known for years. It's just that nothing happens. I believe this needs to be a
national initiative and that Pacifica will need more creative input than is
currently available in our system. We need professional input from those who
understand how to do this.

PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE

Pacifica is a stressed and over-worked institution. The ED has no assistant. We
are stripped to the bone. I am not surprised that there is no evident plan for
the future but it is obviously necessary. The last time there was a plan for
the network was in 1996 when the Foundation unveiled Vision for Pacifica Radio
Creating a Network for the 21st Century - A Strategic 5 Year Plan. But this
plan created a two-tiered system of paid and unpaid staff. The idea was to
increase audience and income. There is no evidence that it worked and today it
is the albatross dragging the Foundation toward bankruptcy and mediocre
programming.

The Pacifica Foundation and its affiliates, make up a unique national network
of independent local radio stations accessible in ways unimagined when the idea
of community supported, free speech radio was born. Pacifica has made the First
Amendment and democracy a living reality. And this voice is a necessary as
ever. Pacifica Affiliates Director, Ursula Ruedenberg's has created a document
exploring a Pacifica Internet Portal Project that explains more of these ideas.

The current iPD at KPFK, Alan Minsky has prepared a nuts and bolts document
called Building a Powerful Pacifica. It's a well thought out and substantial
document of more than twenty pages.

I have suggested that Pacifica take national control of all drive-time
programming (6-10am and 4-6pm). We could draw from talent within Pacifica to
develop the best possible programming during these hours when audience
potential is greatest, and that we heavily promote other programs from this
drive-time platform.

I have been in consultation with Nicholas Roberts, a web designer and
information architect who has worked in a major news organization and prepared
a paper for me called Pacifica Expanded which explores audio, video, streaming
and the web, e-commerce opportunities, aggregating resources.#

DEVELOPMENT

KPFA does not have a development director. However following attendance at NFCB
we began a relationship with Goalbusters, a development consulting firm
specializing in public radio fundraising. Founded in 2001, Goalbusters
specializes in working with nonprofit organization with limited development
staff. They have extensive experience in noncommercial media serving both radio
and television.

The estimated fee for a one year relationship with Goalbusters is less than
$40k. We are willing and ready to begin this relationship but are on hold
because of the hire freeze.

KPFA MANAGEMENT

At the beginning of June I announced to staff and the LSB that on advice from
the ED, I would be leaving Pacifica at the end of June. This determination was
subsequently rescinded.

I understand there will be another KPFA GM search. At this time I am not sure
how much longer I will be with Pacifica. My initial contract was for six months
and now it's been almost 18 months. I am currently working with no contract.

Currently KPFA has no program director. I have a temporary assistant who is
helping with PD, on-air fundraising coordination as well as assisting me as GM.
Since I am a former PD, we essentially have the situation covered for now.

MORNING PROGRAMMING

In an effort to boost flagging on-air fund raising in morning drive at KPFA, in
February I called for meetings to discuss ways to improve our morning line-up.
I assume many on this board will know that the former KPFA Morning Show was
pulled under orders by the ED.

This decision left the station and many in the KPFA community in uproar. It
made working at KPFA extremely difficult. Whilst the intention was to save
money it is not clear it actually did since the old Morning Show returned about
three times its cost. But when it was removed KPFA's fundraising remained
fairly constant and though morning drive income dropped substantially, it seems
pledges moved to other parts of the line-up.

But the number of days to raise the same money pre-removal of Morning Show in
2010 was 60, and today it is 80, a 25% increase.

A lot of pressure was applied to me not to place KPFA News Department in the
7am hour. The impetus for this pressure was largely politically motivated. But
I am a programmer by nature and finally decided to follow my programming
instincts, extract the internecine politics from the equation and install the
best programming I could with the resources I had.

At a time when newspapers and commercial broadcasters are slashing news
coverage, KPFA launched, UpFront, a new daily, hour-long newsmagazine with a
strong focus on state and local issues.

On Thursday, May 17th, KPFA started broadcasting this statewide collaboration
(with KPFK's Uprising and Sonali Kolhaktar) featuring hard-hitting interviews,
debates, and in-depth reporting from journalists working from Los Angeles to
Oakland to Sacramento.

At this point the new morning program is costing KPFA nothing. KPFA News
Department with Sonali Kolhakter from KPFK are essentially volunteering time to
create this new program. It is a good example of collaboration and was created
by producers - not me - and I commend them. Essentially I got out of the way.

About the hosts:

Brian Edwards-Tiekert is a radio journalist who has won multiple awards for his
feature reporting and radio documentary work on environmental issues. He's the
former co-host of The Morning Show, at the time KPFA's top-rated local program.

Sonali Kolhatkar is the founder, host and producer of Uprising, a daily morning
program at KPFK-FM in Los Angeles. She's also the co-director of the nonprofit
Afghan Women's Mission, and is the co-author of Bleeding Afghanistan:
Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence.

Staff cuts may necessitate the removal of this program. UpFront is returning
about $5k in an hour.

KPFA's FIRST VOICES APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM

KPFA's Apprenticeship program began in 1985 and there have been 38 iterations
so far. Currently there are more than two-dozen former and current apprentices
working with KPFA. Needless to say there are many others working at other
media outlets.

SPECIAL EVENTS

KPFA has an active special events program and outreach assistance from
volunteers. Here is a list of some events held and planned in 2012.

RICHARD WOLFF -"The Problem is Capitalism, The Solution is Democracy at Work"

DIANE RAVITCH -"The Death and Life of the Great American School System"

THOMAS FRANK - "Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle & The Unlikely
Resurgence of the American Right"

JOANN GRIFFITH & OTHER AUTHORS - "Redefining Black Power."

MICHIO KAKU - "Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and
Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100"

HARI KUNZRU - "Gods Without Men"

MICHAEL KLARE - "The Race For What's Left: Global Scramble for the World's Last
Resources"

RACHEL MADDOW - "Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power"

VAN JONES - "Rebuilding the Dream"

RICHARD LICHTMAN - "Cry the Corrupted Country: Reflections on the
Psychopathology of Capitalism"

DERRICK JENSEN - "Civilization and Resistance"

MEDEA BENJAMIN - "Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control"

CHRIS HEDGES - "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt"

JOY HARJO - "Crazy Brave, a Memoir"

KPFA's Bay Native Circle + The American Indian Treaty Council

KAY LARSON - "Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner
Life of Artists"

GABOR MATÉ -"Peace Within, Progress Without: How Self-Awareness Supports
Political Consciousness"

ROBERT HASS (National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, former U.S. Poet Laureate) -
"What Light Can Do, Essays on Art, Imagination and the Natural World"

Expected in next few months:

All on election: George Lakoff, Ralph Nader, Gar Alperowitz (America Beyond
Capitalism) ,Gindin+Leo Panicch: The Making of Global Capitalism, Michele
Alexander: The New Jim Crow

..ends.

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Appendix B--KPFT Report

REPORT TO PACIFICA NATIONAL BOARD
July 2012 - Berkeley, CA by Duane Bradley, GM


BUSINESS/ FINANCE/ DEVELOPMENT:
KPFT enters the final quarter of FY12 in relatively good fiscal shape. Cash in
the bank as of this report is $177K. Membership currently stands at 6,989.
Listener support income as of last week is over $928K, marking 81% of the FY12
budget goal for revenue. Our spring membership drive in May realized $239K of
the budgeted $300K, representing 80% of goal. We have a summer mini-drive set
for early-mid August with a goal of $140K to conclude our on-air appeals for
this fiscal year. Our FY2013 budget was passed by the local Finance committee
and approved by the LSB at our July meeting last week. Included in this budget
are reductions in expenses as required by the National Office and PNB. They
amount to approximately $70K and reflect a reduction in paid staff as well as
in outside programming expenses. We have reported to the Houston Endowment the
results of their funding of market research for KPFT and plan to follow this
report with a request for further funding from them to accomplish the goals set
out in the report. This is a primary facet in the KPFT plan to increase
listenership and, thereby, membership and income. Additionally, we have
submitted several other grants to help reduce the need to go on-air in ever-
longer drives for funding. We have been notified by Pacifica's National
Elections Supervisor of the hiring of an LES for Houston and look forward to
her imminent arrival and start.
PROGRAMMING:
KPFT has given notice to programmers of likely schedule changes before October
based on listenership and fundraising numbers. The station has engaged its
Program Committee on the elusive subject of mission adherence. At the
committee's recommendation, staff surveyed programmers about qualities in
programming that signified mission compliance, how the station could help
support such and how programs individually were in keeping with the mission.
One objective of this process is to quantify more clearly an abstract debate
about mission, about the notion of underserved communities in an increasingly
connected world, and how programmers understand their involvement. Recent
Arbitron figures report upward trends in listenership, ranking KPFT overall as
#33 out of 45 stations in the Houston-Galveston metro area, with a weekly cume
audience of 136,500 in June.
EVENTS/ OUTREACH:
KPFT's 42nd Birthday Big Top Bash in March was another rousing success and
raised over $15K.
Amy Goodman visited in late March and a special Dharma Café "Dinner & Show"
event raised over $11K. KPFT was one 3 local non-profits to benefit from
Jenni's Noodle House's 10th anniversary and received over $2000. Sonali
Kholhatkar visited from KPFK and helped raise $1000 for KPFT. We teamed up with
the Houston Blues Society at the 2nd annual Kemah Crawfish Festival and
realized over $5600 each as non-profit beneficiaries. We again had a major
presence at the Houston International Festival, this year celebrating Argentina
and South America; as well as sponsoring the spring concert series in downtown
Houston's Discovery Green Park. KPFT had a presence in the Cesar Chavez
Parade, the Art Car Parade and the Pride Parade & QFest. We sponsored the new
Asia Society Texas Center opening, the Arab-American Educational Foundation
concert appearance by Marcel Khalife and helped support the grand
Librotraficante Caravan to Tucson, AZ by KPFT's own Nuestra Palabra team, which
garnered national media attention and used the mass media's penchant for
sensationalism sensationally. The 37th annual NFCB conference was hosted in
Houston for the first time and several hundred community radio and media
colleagues from around the country had an opportunity to sample KPFT and Texas
hospitality, not to mention our humidity and heat. A beneficial, uplifting and
rewarding time was had by all.
FACILITIES/ STAFF/ ETC:
As mentioned above, we will finish the year with 2 fewer paid staff members. We
have been without an outreach coordinator since April and have off-loaded much
of that work to other staffers and the LSB outreach committee members. We have
re-engaged Steve Brightwell as KPFT Chief Engineer after an absence of 2 years
and we continue to work with him, attorney John Crigler and others to
renegotiate our tower lease to allow us to add a new antenna and to replace
coaxial cable damaged in the April electrical storm. We anticipate, and have
budgeted for, a $200K capital campaign in 2013 in order to obtain a solid-state
transmitter as well to complete the upgrades to our broadcast chain. KPFT
currently has about 8,400 Facebook friends, nearly 1,100 followers on Twitter
and has a new iPhone/iPad application. Likewise, we have begun launch of a new
look on the KPFT website. Thanks for reading this entire report. Peace to you.

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Appendix C-KPFK report to PNB

KPFK REPORT TO PACIFICA NATIONAL BOARD

July 2012 - Berkeley, CA

INTRODUCTION

This report outlines key station activities since the previous PNB report,
delivered in person at the PNB meeting in Los Angeles in January.

It details programming developments, outreach initiatives, operations and
financial changes, and the current membership situation at KPFK, Los Angeles.


PROGRAMMING

The programming department is developing many exciting new programming
initiatives. We have already aired three notable specials:


On June 16th, KFPK broadcast Pacifica's annual Bloomsday celebration, featuring
readings from James Joyce's epic novel, Ulysses. WBAI's Cat Radio and the
Pacifica Radio Archives coordinated programming and some of this year's new
recordings were made at KPFK.


KPFK sponsored an event called Economy, Poverty, and Work at the Last Bookstore
in downtown LA. The event featured numerous local labor leaders, as well as
KPFK hosts Jim Lafferty and Henry Walton. The day's proceedings were recorded
and rebroadcast on KPFK on Sunday June 17th, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.


KPFK featured special coverage on the Mexican National elections and their
aftermath. A special webpage for the coverage can be found on the front page
of the KPFK website in the right hand column or at the URLs
www.kpfk.org/elections and www.kpfk.org/elecciones. We launched our special
coverage of the election on June 10th with a four-hour broadcast of the Mexican
Presidential debate, hosted by KPFK's Spanish language programmers, with a lead-
up and analysis of the political climate surrounding the election. We featured
a one-hour drive time special on the elections on Friday June 29th at 5pm,
hosted by Antonio Gonzalez of the Southwest Voter Registration Project. Of
course, these elections are of tremendous importance for Southern California
given the large number of Mexican Immigrants in the region, and the amount of
local trade with our nearby southern neighbor. We had eight hours of special
bi-lingual coverage of the elections on July 1st; and we have continued to
follow the still-unfolding story of the election with daily coverage since.

In terms of the domestic Latino population, KPFK has consistently covered
efforts to get greater Latino involvement in U. S. electoral politics; an issue
of great importance to Southern California where Latinos are the plurality
population, but remain a voting minority. Ian Masters covered the issue on
Wednesday June 13th at 5pm with Angela Kelly, the Vice President for
Immigration Policy and Advocacy at the Center For American Progress. The
aforementioned Antonio Gonzalez regularly concentrates on this issue on his
weekly show, Strategy Session, Monday's at 4pm.

In terms of local elections, KPFK had extensive coverage of the California
primaries on June 5th. While we were in fund drive mode that day, management
asked the public affairs programmers to designate segments on the day's events
and we did a live special in the evening as results came in from across the
state as well as for the dramatic governor's recall election in Wisconsin.

On May 6th, KPFK put on its second annual Hero Awards at LA Live at the Nokia
Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. In advance of the event, we featured many
interviews about the people being honored: Charlie Haden, Pete Seeger, Gil
Scott Heron, and Fernando Pullum. In many of these segments, we related the
careers of these artists to their activities in Southern California and how
their work was conducive to community building. Of special note in this regard
are both Haden and Pullum who are local educators, at CalArts and LAUSD
respectively. A particularly fun segment on Charlie Haden was our morning
drive-time interview on Uprising with film star Jack Black about his father-in-
law, Charlie Haden. The interview aired on Friday May 4th at 8 am.

On Tuesday May 1st, KPFK had extensive national and local coverage of the
demonstrations taking place to celebrate May Day. The Occupy movement
concentrated a great amount of organizing in preparation for May Day including,
in southern California, where one of the featured events was a "Four Winds"
march, where four separate marches, coming from the north, east, south and west
converged on downtown Los Angeles. KPFK had local reporters in all four of the
marches delivering live reports across the day as well as from the rally that
followed the marches in Pershing Square.

In late April, KPFK did unrivalled programming on the 20th anniversary of the
Los Angeles Riots/Rebellion that was sparked following the acquittal of the
police officers charged with beating Rodney King. Almost all of our public
affairs hosts did some coverage of this historic anniversary. Examples include
Margaret Prescod's interview with Rodney King; only portions of which were
aired around the 20th anniversary; the entire interview was aired after his
death, on Tuesday June 26 at 7 am on Prescod's show, Sojourner Truth. Margaret
Prescod also did a special on Rodney King the day before his funeral, Friday
June 29th, which aired at 7 pm and featured members of King's family. Sonali
Kolhatkar aired exclusive media coverage of the 1992 uprising on April 27 at 8
am, including an eyewitness account and a segment about how Los Angeles has
changed in the last twenty years.

Another issue of local relevance on which we continue to do extensive coverage
is how the bloated US prison population affects local communities. On June
21st, Margaret Prescod had an interview with David Stein of Critical Resistance
about a Community-Based Solutions to Prisons and Jails event, in South LA.
KPFK has an hour-long show on the experience of prisoners (largely from
California) that airs every other Saturday at 1pm called Think Outside the
Cage.


There are a few significant programming changes to announce. Feminist Magazine
returned to KPFK's airwaves on Tuesday afternoons at 3 p.m. during the summer.
Alternative Radio is on hiatus until the fall. Julio Martinez's Arts and Review
returned to KPFK this week in a half hour format, Fridays at 2 p.m. D.J. Barry
Smolin has returned to KPFK with a new show, Head Room, at 10 p.m. on Fridays
beginning on June 29th. Kristi Lomax will be on hiatus until autumn.


Also, KPFK is proud to announce that a food politics show began a five-week
series on June 28th at 3pm. Focus on Food aired an hour long pilot, which
received a positive response from listeners. The show emphasizes local
initiatives to bring healthy food to a larger portion of the population; and
featured a segment in the pilot show about Los Angeles County's Master Gardener
education program.


OUTREACH/DEVELOPMENT

KPFK maintains a steady schedule of promotions and fundraising efforts through
our Media Sponsorships, fundraising events, Film Club and Member Benefits Card.
We've taken steps toward building a schedule of potential grants to develop for
the station, and developing a donor campaign that meets our needs and staffing.

Fundraising Events of Note
. Dr. Gerald Horne - a salon style talk organized by programmer Margaret
Prescod
. Uprising Radio (Sonali Kolhatkar) 10th Anniversary Celebration
. Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West book tour The Rich and the Rest of Us
. Van Jones book tour for Rebuild the Dream
. Chris Hedges book tour Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

Outreach Events of Note
. Screenings of "A Better Life" at the Museum for Latin American Art
. Panel discussion hosted by Ruben Luengas, where topics pertinent to the
national Mexican elections
. DJ events in local clubs

Interships - "Underground University"

The re-envisioned internship program, Underground University is student-run and
offers the means to develop students' voices and develop leadership skills. The
student has the task of recruiting interns from his/her school in order to
build the KPFK Internship Program. This approach is in response to the
challenge of staff not having the time to train students while getting their
regular jobs done. The objective is to train new talent, and support staff and
volunteer programmers at the same time. KPFK visited three schools to recruit
students for the internship program, visiting Loyola Marymount College, Mount
St. Mary's College and Santa Monica College. The first orientation of about 35
students took place on April 9, 2012.

Community Advisory Board - CAB

KPFK has spent the last 10 months in a process of reconstituting our CAB so
that it can be self-sustaining, productive and effective. An Interim CAB
Working Group met in January and February to begin the process of defining the
form and function of the CAB.

Station management delivered to the Working Group a series of documents,
originally generated by the PNB and the National Office as guidelines and
instructions for stations in the Pacifica network, originally delivered to
station managers to help with consistency of Community Needs reporting. These
documents were the Checklist of Reporting Requirements (which includes a
detailed "Plan of Action"); and the CAB Member Candidate Application and
Questionnaire. In addition, KPFA's Community Needs survey was sent to the
group, and KPFT's guidelines for forming and operating their local CAB.
Currently, outreach and recruitment continues to interested community members
and individuals in the listening area who are currently engaged in successful
community organizing.

Partnerships

KPFK has negotiated Media Partnerships for summer concert series with Grand
Performances, Skirball Cultural Center, John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, Levitt
Pavilion - MacArthur Park, Levitt Pavilion - Pasadena.

OPERATIONS

Public File

. KPFK's public file has been digitized
. EEO is being prepared and is expected to be filed on time

Landscaping

. The garden project in front of the KPFK building has smartened up the
street frontage. We have already received compliments by our neighbors and
passer bys.


LAFD Brush Clearance Ordinance


. In accordance with the LAFD Brush Clearance requirements we removed debris
from the roof and trimmed trees near the building.
. Inspections in our area started May 1st, but we have yet to be inspected.

HVAC

. The recent improvements to the 1st floor studios A/C unit have resulted in
the A/C performing well. As long as maintenance every other week is
performed KPFK shouldn't have any problems during the summer heat.
. Maintenance has been done by Operations and the IT Manager

Sewage Line and Pipes

. Our sewage line was treated with RootX last month; this was done to help
slow the growth of roots into the sewage line. This treatment must be done
every several months to help prevent our lines from backing up again.

TECHNICAL/ENGINEERING

Studios

. The KPFK studios are generally in good condition and repair with few
problems. The new Sage ENDEC Emergency Action Notification unit has been
installed and is operating properly. There are continuing problems with
the computer server that is the studio audio source for programs, themes,
promos and other copy.


Transmission

. Malibu Booster site - The FAA has the KPFK application for an "Outgrant"
on file. If approved, KPFK will be authorized to use FAA space at the
Saddle Peak booster site for the KPFK FM receive antenna. In the meantime,
we are testing other locations on Saddle Peak as an alternate to the FAA
site. When we find a location for the antenna we may have to reduce the
booster output power somewhat to achieve a balance between the 90.7Mhz
receive signal and the 90.7Mhz transmit signal. Even with the lower
booster output power we will still be able to increase KPFK signal
penetration along Pacific Coast Highway and in the canyon areas of the
Santa Monica Mountains.

. Rancho Bernardo translator site - This translator is in good condition and
is operating well covering Northern San Diego County. There are occasional
moments of interference from the FM station on 90.7Mhz in Tijuana
particularly during hot weather.

. Santa Barbara translator site - The translator is in good condition and is
operating properly and is covering the coastal area of Santa Barbara from
Isla Vista to Montecito. There are also occasional moments of interference
from the FM station on 90.7Mhz in Tijuana during hot weather.


. Mt. Wilson transmitter site - The KPFK Nautel NV-20 solid state backup
transmitter is on the air into the main antenna system. Repairs have been
attempted and completed on the old Armstrong transmitter only to have
other problems arise. Repair of the current KPFK transmitter has become a
continuing process with no end in sight. The FCC has approved temporary
transmission from Mt. Wilson at lower power while the difficulties are
addressed. Current antenna ERP is sufficient to cover the main KPFK
coverage area. The plan to replace the current problematic Armstrong
transmitter with another new Nautel solid state transmitter is becoming
more and more important if we are to maintain our coverage in Southern
California. With another new solid state transmitter in place interference
from Tijuana to our main signal from Mt. Wilson and to our translators
would be significantly reduced. With reliable solid state transmitters in
place we can anticipate that electrical power usage would also be cut
nearly in half and the cost of electricity would be reduced dramatically.


The emergency electrical generator has been repaired and wired into the
Nautel transmitter which will keep the transmitter operating during
electrical power outages.

BUSINESS/FINANCE

The financial situation for the station continues to be a concern, and at the
time this report was written, current cash in bank is $474,300.

Total Payables to date is $43,000 and Central Services owed to the national
office is approximately $211,000.


MEMBERSHIP

The following table details in brief the state-of-play with respect to station
fundraising during this financial year:

|Fund Drive Month |Pledged $ |Fulfilled $ |Fulfillment |
| | | |% |
|October 2011 |792,626 |586,902 |74 |
|December 2011 |267,340 |211,962 |79 |
|February 2012 |956,780 |677,722 |71 |
|May 2012 |957,399 |605,258 |63 |

Non-fund drive major donors have provided $21,875 during the financial year,
and car donations have generated $96,862 in revenue.

The current count of active members as at 30 June is 16,032.

Bernard Duncan
General Manager
17 July 2012

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