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PACIFICA NATIONAL BOARD SPECIAL MEETING
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Conference
MINUTES – Open Session
Thursday, April 17, 2014 – 8:30PM ET
Chair Ms. Margy
Wilkinson.
8:42pm Secretary Ms. Cerene Roberts took Roll Call/ Established Quorum.
KPFA: Brian
Edwards-Tiekert, Jose Luis Fuentes-Roman, Janet Kobren, Margy Wilkinson
KPFK: Rodrigo Argueta, Lydia Brazon, Kim
Kaufman, Lawrence Reyes
KPFT: Adriana Casenave, Hank Lamb, George Reiter, Richard Uzzell
WBAI: Carolyn Birden,
Janet Coleman, Cerene Roberts, Manijeh Saba
WPFW: Jim Brown, Benito Diaz, Tony Norman
Affiliates: Heather
Gray
Absent: Luzette King and Janis Lane-Ewart
Time keeper: Brian Edwards-Tiekert
8:46pm Edwards-Tiekert
moved/Kaufman: to excuse absences.
8:52pm Reiter/Diaz: to table. Passed by a vote of 15Yes. Chair: PNV
8:53pm
Uzzell Point of Order (never sent it in writing) about illegality of meeting being called etc….
8:55 pm Chair rules
Uzzell out of order. Uzzell/Kaufman challenged the ruling of the Chair.
Kobren asked for Roll Call votes on the
rest of the votes.
9:14pm Vote on Roll call voting passed by a vote of 13Yes 3No 1Abstention.
Voted yes (13):
Kobren, Edwards-Tiekert, Brazon, Kaufman, Reyes, Casenave, Reiter, Uzzell, Coleman, Saba, Brown, Diaz and Gray.
Voted
no (3): Fuentes, Argueta and Norman.
Abstention (1): Roberts.
Chair: PNV
9:16pm Voted upholding the Chair
passed by a vote of 11Yes 7No.
Voted yes (11): Edwards-Tiekert, Fuentes, Argueta, Brazon, Reyes, Casenave, Reiter,
Roberts, Brown, Diaz and Norman.
Voted no (7): Kobren, Kaufman, Uzzell, Birden, Coleman, Saba and Gray.
Chair:
PNV
9:17pm Edwards-Tiekert move to approve the Agenda
9:18pm Uzzell/Saba moved to add to III A on the
Agenda, before PNB Committee Elections, his motion : that due to potential conflict of interest of an "Interested
Directors," that no paid staff representative shall be a member of the National Finance Committee.
9:26pm the motion
failed by a vote of 9Yes 10No.
Voted yes (9): Kobren, Kaufman, Reiter, Uzzell, Birden, Coleman, Saba, Brown and
Gray.
Voted no (10): Edwards-Tiekert, Fuentes, Wilkinson, Argueta, Brazon, Reyes, Casenave, Roberts, Diaz and
Norman.
9:29pm Uzzell moved to add a motion on the Agenda at numeral VI after L: that all personnel hires made
directly by the Board shall have been preceded by an established process and procedure to select a pool of
candidates.
9:39pm Motion passed by a vote of 11Yes 6 No 3Abstentions
Voted yes (11): Kobren, Edwards-Tiekert,
Kaufman, Reyes, Casenave, Reiter, Uzzell, Birden, Coleman, Saba and Gray.
Voted no (6): Fuentes, Brazon, Roberts,
Brown, Diaz and Norman.
Abstentions (3): Argueta, Wilkinson and Lamb.
9:44pm Brazon to move numeral VI item I
to numeral III after PNB Committee elections…….
Motion passed by a vote of 16Yes 2No 2Abstentions.
Voted yes
(16): Edwards-Tiekert, Wilkinson, Argueta, Brazon, Reyes, Casenave, Lamb, Reiter, Uzzell, Coleman, Roberts, Saba, Brown,
Diaz, Norman and Gray.
Voted no (2): Kaufman and Birden.
Abstentions (2): Kobren and
Fuentes.
Kaufman/Coleman to move numeral VI K to numeral V
10:03pm Motion failed by a vote of 7Yes 12No
1Abstention.
Voted yes (7): Kobren, Kaufman, Uzzell, Birden, Coleman, Saba and Gray.
Voted no (12):
Edwards-Tiekert, Fuentes, Wilkinson, Argueta, Brazon, Reyes, Casenave, Lamb, Roberts, Brown, Diaz and
Norman.
Abstention (1): Reiter.
Saba to move her motion from numeral VII B to numeral IV B
Motion failed by
a vote of 8yes 9 No 2Abstentions. Voted yes (8): Kobren, Kaufman, Reiter, Uzzell, Birden, Coleman, Saba and
Gray.
Voted no (9): Fuentes, Wilkinson, Argueta, Brazon, Casenave, Roberts, Brown, Diaz, Norman.
Abstentions (2):
Fuentes and Lamb.
Agenda as Amended approved without objection.
Edwards-Tiekert/Casenave moved: That the
PNB approve it's secretary's proposal to have John Garry and Terry Goodman collect and tabulate ballots for all
outstanding committee elections.
Lamb called the question; failed by a vote of 12Yes 7No (needed 2/3).
Voted yes
(12): Edwards-Tiekert, Fuentes, Wilkinson, Brazon, Kaufman, Reyes, Casenave, Lamb, Roberts, Brown, Diaz and
Norman.
Voted no (7): Kobren, Reiter, Uzzell, Birden, Coleman, Saba and Gray.
10:30pm Reiter moved to extend
20 minutes. Passed by a vote of 15Yes, 2No, 2Abstentions.
Voted yes (15): Edwards-Tiekert, Argueta, Brazon, Kaufman,
Reyes, Lamb, Reiter, Uzzell, Coleman, Roberts, Saba, Brown, Diaz, Norman and Gray.
Voted no (2): Casenave and
Birden.
Chair: PNV
Kobren amendment: Before the ballots go out all directors running for any of the contested
committee seats are to have the opportunity to make a candidate statement at an open session about their qualifications
to be on the respective committees. Failed by a vote of 7Yes 10No 1Abstention.
Voted yes (7): Kobren, Kaufman,
Reiter, Uzzell, Coleman, Saba and Gray.
Voted no (10): Edwards-Tiekert, Fuentes, Argueta, Brazon, Reyes, Casenave,
Roberts, Brown, Diaz and Norman.
Abstention (1): Lamb.
Chair: PNV.
Edwards-Tiekert main motion re:
secretary’s proposal for PNB committee elections…..Passed by a vote of 12Yes 5 No 1Abstention.
Voted yes (12):
Edwards-Tiekert, Fuentes, Argueta, Brazon, Reyes, Casenave, Lamb, Reiter, Roberts, Brown, Diaz and Norman.
Voted no
(5): Kobren, Kaufman, Uzzell, Coleman and Gray.
Abstention (1): Saba.
Chair: PNV.
10:52pm Edwards-Tiekert
motion to extend the Open Session for 20 minutes. Passed by a vote of
11Yes 5No 3Abstentions.
Voted yes (11):
Edwards-Tiekert, Wilkinson, Argueta, Brazon, Reyes, Casenave, Reiter, Roberts, Brown, Diaz and Norman.
Voted no (5):
Kobren, Kaufman, Coleman, Saba and Gray.
Abstentions (3): Fuentes, Lamb and Uzzell.
Governance Committee
motion about timeline for Bylaws amendments. Passed by a vote of 16Yes 3No.
Voted yes (16): Kobren, Edwards-Tiekert,
Wilkinson, Argueta, Brazon, Reyes, Casenave, Lamb, Reiter, Uzzell, Roberts, Saba, Brown, Diaz, Norman and Gray.
Voted
no (3): Fuentes and Kaufman.
Brazon amendment to change the date from 17 to 21. Passed without
objections.
Next meeting date:
Reiter Motion: April 14, 2014.
Reyes Amendment: April 8,
2014.
Roberts Amendment: April 30, 2014. Failed by a vote of 4Yes 10No 3Abstentions.
Voted yes (4): Lamb, Reiter,
Brown and Gray.
Voted no (10): Kobren, Edwards-Tiekert, Fuentes, Brazon, Kaufman, Reyes, Casenave, Saba, Diaz and
Norman.
Abstentions (3): Argueta, Uzzell and Roberts.
Chair: PNV
Reyes Amendment motion passed by a vote of
11Yes 8No.
Voted yes (11): Edwards-Tiekert, Wilkinson, Argueta, Brazon, Reyes, Casenave, Lamb, Roberts, Brown, Diaz
and Norman.
Voted no (8): Kobren, Fuentes, Kaufman, Reiter, Uzzell, Coleman, Saba and Gray.
Reiter’s motion
as amended by Reyes passed by a vote of 11Yes 7No 2Abstentions.
Voted yes (11): Edwards-Tiekert, Wilkinson, Argueta,
Brazon, Reyes, Casenave, Lamb, Roberts, Brown, Diaz and Norman.
Voted no (7): Kobren, Reiter, Uzzell, Birden,
Coleman, Saba and Gray.
Abstentions (2): Fuentes and Kaufman.
Adjourned to Executive Session at
11:35pm.
Minutes prepared by Assistant Secretary Adriana Casenave; approved on December 11, 2014.