Minutes of Local Station Board Meeting of WBAI Radio at 160 Schermerhorn St.. <br> Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 7:00 pm <br />
           <br>Attending 21 members at 7:20 pm. New and old members introduce themselves.<br>Roll Call of the 2019 LSB<br />
Members in attendance –<br>Dacio Quintana<br>Hazel Pinder<br>Vajra Kilgour, Staff<br>Basir Mchawi<br>Errol<br />
Maitland<br>Randy Credico<br>Marilyn Vogt-Downey<br>Eugene Hamond<br>Mitchel Cohen<br>Jack DePalma, Secretary<br>Alex<br />
Steinberg <br>Maxine H. Galmon, on telephone from Texas to Alex on PC<br>Jim Dingeman, past Chair<br>R. Paul Martin,<br />
Staff, Treasurer<br>Michael D.D. White, Vice Chair<br>Carolyn MacIntyre, Chair<br>Max Schmid, Staff<br>Kathryn Davis,<br />
Staff<br>James Sagurton<br>Ralph Poynter<br>Shawn Rhodes, Staff<br>King Downing arrives at 7:40 pm<br>7:25 pm: Call to<br />
Order by Jim Dingeman / draft agenda offered<br>Jack DePalma appointed time keeper.<br>Motion to adopt agenda and set<br />
adjournment time 9:45 PM<br><br>Agenda Amendments: <br>Motion #1 to move approval of past meeting minutes after<br />
treasurer’s report as #16, adopted and labeled 16a<br>Motion #2 needed membership information outreach added to agenda<br />
as #17d adopted and named as The LSB member service and communication outreach<br>Amended agenda adopted with no<br />
objections at 7:35 PM, 20 minutes of public comments while voting and tallying of votes recorded below<br>Nominations<br />
for officers of LSB: Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer<br>•	LSB Chair: C. McIntyre 13 / K. Downing 8 <br>•	LSB<br />
Vice Chair: M. White 11 / K. Downing 9 // 1 abstain and 1 C. McIntyre<br>•	LSB Secretary: J. DePalma 12 / K. Downing 9<br />
// 1 blank<br>•	LSB Treasurer: R. Paul Martin 13 / W. Herrwagon 9      tallied and decided by 8:30 PM<br>Telephone and<br />
internet voting protocol addressed with secret voting according to FCC and CPB rules. Remote voting requires secrecy<br />
rights be waived by voting LSB member as tellers verify identity and reason for absence, on speaker listen in and record<br />
vote choices.<br>The LSB meeting recessed and reconvened as the Delegates Assembly.<br> Single Transfer Voting (STV)<br />
counting explained. <br>Three Listener Directors Elected: Ralph Poynter +6, James Sagurton +6, Alex Steinberg +6<br>Two<br />
Staff Representative Directors Elected: Shawn Rhodes +14 , V. Kilgour +8<br>LSB meeting reconvenes when Delegates<br />
Assembly is adjourned.<br>Shawn Rhodes announces the LSB Radio Show Committee<br>Excused absence -<br>Ad Hoc Management<br />
Evaluation Committee election voting begins before 10 PM. <br>Meeting concludes with tellers (E. Moser and G. Goodwin)<br />
collecting ad hoc MEC ballot choices while observed by others. Tellers and observers record the ballot choices from the<br />
ballots and the envelope holding all the ballots is sealed at approximately 10:15 PM in the lobby as required. This was<br />
witnessed by E. Moser and C. McIntyre. The vote tally spread sheet was shared with T. Goodman at Pacifica in California<br />
for STV enumeration and evaluation of results.<br><br><br><br>The results shared and posted by Jim Dingemen in this<br />
order for the 2019 WBAI LSB Management Evaluation Committee are: <br>Marilyn Vogt-Downey           <br>Erroll Maitland  <br />
             <br>Michael D.D. White                  <br>Basir Mchawi                   <br>Mitchel Cohen               <br />
 <br>The order of the next not elected candidates - <br>James Sagurton<br>Randy Credico<br><br>Meeting Officially<br />
Adjourned at 10:20 PM<br><br>REPORT offered by the General Manager at 9:50 PM<br>Berthold Riemers offered a current<br />
financial report at the end of the evening while the ad hoc MEC voting and tallying occurred.  His report includes these<br />
major points:                                                                                                           <br />
                    <br>WBAI owes $440,000 to Pacifica for pension funding, for PN central office services and Pacifica<br />
Archives fees.                                   <br>WBAI owes $48,000 in accrued debt for electricity used at 4 Times<br />
Square Tower; that will paid in monthly installments of $1000 payments additional until retired.                        <br />
                                                           <br>When the 2017 audit is completed, the $2.3 million dollar<br />
ESRT debt will be removed from WBAI‘s account and then added to the Pacifica National account.<br><br>Submitted by:<br />
Jack DePalma