March 14, 2006
Board of Directors Meeting
3/6/06
In attendance: Sarah Stedman (board), Alex Sergay (not), Jason Voss (board), Sarah Herard (GM), John Notarianni (board), Chaz Berret (not), Julia Holter (board), Brendt Rioux (not)
I. Preliminaries
a. Rather than wait until BOD minutes are approved in order to post them on the blog they will be sent to the BOD e-mail list, then revised and approved.
II. Public Comments
III. Old Business
a. Podcasts/Stream/Internet. Living Writers has a Podcast site now; all public affairs shows should get similar pages soon. In the meantime, the main WCBN page should get a link to the Living Writers page.
b. The playlist/database has been screwed up, so Ryan Hughes should be contacted to fix it. Alex is upset that there is only one person who can fix it (what if Ryan gets hit by a bus?).
c. Sites for shows. The format and program to be used need to be determined. The WCBN Wiki is a topic of continuing interest.
d. Fundraising for renovation. We will eventually need the money for the renovation, so those details need to be determined sometime in the future. A swanky press pack could be helpful to sway donors. Posting our budget might be also useful for reassuring donors that we’re not asking for more money because of frivolous spending. It could also be helpful to tighten the budget for next year so that it looks better to them.
e. Alex knows some P.R. woman who will help set us up for the press kit, but we need someone to begin putting it together. Chris Janik? Miranda? Jason Voss will take up the coordination of this task once Sarah H. leaves.
f. A year-long fundraising campaign with promos might help.
IV. New Business
a. 35th Anniversary of WCBN is in 2007. At the 30th anniversary reunion it was decided that there should be a 35th. This will also be a good opportunity for fundraising.
b. GM report. Sarah H. presented a report of station matters over the past year.
c. Budget review. Items from our SOAS Budget report were discussed. The only thing to go over-budget was fundraiser premia.
d. BOD elections. Next BOD meeting will be April 3. Max Sussman, Jen Herard, and John Notarianni’s seats are up for election this term. Since Jason Voss was elected in Fall but the alumni seat is supposed to come up in Spring, it will be on the ballot again in order to get back on schedule.
e. Office-space renovation plans. No new ideas.
f. Appointment of interim GM starting March 20th . Sean will be appointed once Sarah H. leaves, but he will not be GM once Sam Turner comes back and takes up the position. Either he will appoint the new GM or the election will determine it.
g. GM elections. GM petitions need to be in by March 27 so that the election can take place on April 3. The new GM will take office in May. If someone is appointed for the summer, the BOD will need to approve it.
Posted by cberret at March 14, 2006 07:50 PM