Approved April 25, 2013
PACIFICA FOUNDATION BOARD

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Special Open Telephone Meeting
March 28, 2013
At Various Locations
8:30 pm (ET), 7:30 pm (CT) and 5:30 pm (PT)

MINUTES



I. Call to Order/ Opening Business. Board Chair Summer Reese called meeting
to order at 8:35 pm.
Gray designated to be the Time Keeper.


A. Roll Call/ Establish Quorum. Board Secretary Richard Uzzell called
the roll/ Quorum achieved. Brazon moved to excuse Dan Siegel's absence
and Stitt had requested an excused absence. HNO both Excused.

Box Legend Attendance: X Present; Ab Absent; Exc Excused Absence;
AL Present-Arrived Late.
KPFA - Berkeley., CA. KPFK - L.A., CA.: KPFT -
Houston, TX.: WBAI - N.Y., N.Y.:
X Brian Edwards-Tiekert X Lydia Brazon X
Teresa Allen X Carolyn Birden
X Tracy Rosenberg X John Cromshow X
Jessica Apolinar X Janet Coleman
Exc Dan Siegel X Brenda Medina X
Nancy Hentschel X Cerene Roberts
X Margy Wilkinson X Summer Reese X Richard
Uzzell X Manijeh Saba


WPFW - Wash. D.C.: AFFILIATES: Staff & Counsel:
X Benito Diaz X Heather Gray
X Luzette King X Janis Lane-Ewart
X Tony Norman
Exc Katea Stitt


B. Agenda Approval. Allen moved the approval of the Agenda. Discussion
followed. Medina moved that the motion re: Dissolving the ED Search
Committee be moved to New Business. Discussion followed. Chair ruled that
the motion had been on the Agenda for some time and was the remaining part
of an earlier group of motions; therefore, it was the Chairs opinion that the
motion would remain where it is on the Agenda. Discussion followed.

Rosenberg moved to Call the Question on Agenda Approval. Question Motion
Approved, 13-4-2. The Motion to Approve the Agenda Approved, 13-3-2.

C. Minutes Approval. Rosenberg moved the approval of the Minutes for the
March 14, 2013 Open PNB Meeting. Roberts proposed a wording correction in
her Point of Order that appears on page 2, line 2 & 3; saying that the
Point of Order mentioned here, stated that the motion to rescind,
"misrepresented the motion it intended to rescind." Correction made.


Rosenberg moved to Call the Question on Minutes Approval. Question Motion
Approved, 14-4. The Motion to approve the Open Minutes of 3-14-13, as
corrected, Approved 14-2-3.


D. Setting PNB Meeting Dates. Coordinating Committee moved that the
Monthly PNB Meeting will be set as: Primary Meeting - 4rd Thursday of the
month, and Continuation Meeting (if needed) the following month's 2nd
Thursday. Medina moved that any Continuation Meeting be limited to a
total


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PACIFICA FOUNDATION BOARD

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D. Setting PNB Meeting Dates. (Continued)


(both Open and Closed) of one and a half hours. Birden moved that the
proposed 1 ½ hours not include Agenda Approval. Chair ruled that the
motion was unnecessary because Continuation Meetings do not have Agenda
Approval. Motion to amend to limit time Failed, 6-11-1. HNO the Motion
to set the monthly PNB meeting dates Approved.

II. Committee Organization. (Carried over from 3-14-13)

A. ED/CFO Search Committee. Uzzell moved that the PNB shall dissolve the
ED/CFO Search Committee and that those functions shall be passed to the
Personnel Committee. Discussion followed. HNO motion to dissolve Search
Committee Approved.

III. Motions from Committees & Task Force.

A. Programming Committee.

1. Arbitron. Programming Committee moved that Pacifica will not
use the services of Arbitron
until the December 31 deadline, set by the court to correct
their sampling bias is met, except for
fund and grant raising and general reporting;" be send back
to the Programming Committee. Discussion followed. Rosenberg
moved that the Motion be sent back to committee. Discussion
followed. "HNO Motion to send Arbitron Motion Back to Committee Approved.

B. Financial Reform Audit Taskforce (FRAT).


1. Unbudgeted Obligations. FRAT Committee moved that any
employee found to be establishing,
verbally or in writing, unbudgeted obligations for the
Foundation, in excess of $5000, without
prior written approval of the National Office shall be subject
to disciplinary action including
dismissal. Discussion followed. Motion re: Unbudgeted
Obligations Approved, 10-6-3.


IV. Next Meeting. Uzzell moved that there be a PNB Continuation Meeting
April11, 2013. HNO Motion
Approved.

IV. Adjournment. Time had expired. The Open Session Adjourned at 10:07 pm
(ET).



Minutes taken and scribed by Richard Uzzell, Board Secretary.




Minutes Approval:


Date Approved: April 25, 2013


Witness of Approval: Summer Reese, Pacifica Foundation, Chair