KPFT Local Station Board Agenda
February 13, 2019
Midtown Bar and Grill
415 W. Gray, Houston, TX
77098
I. Call to Order 7pm.
II. Staff Recognition
III. Roll Call

1. Alán Alán Apurim

2. Wesley Bethune
3. Adriana Casenave
4. Bill Crosier
5. Joseph Davis
6. Elayne Duncan

7. Anisa Faruqi
8. Don Freeman (Non Voting)
9. Robert Gartner
10. Wally James
11. Jim Krafka

12. DeWayne Lark
13. Adrienne LaViolette
14. Mike Lewis
15. Matthew Moore
16. Susie
Moreno
17. Vinisha Patel-Adams
18. Ben Perodeau
19. Rick Pothoff
20. Nancy Saibara-Naritomi
21. KC
Sinclair
22. Rita Washington
23. Ted Weisgal
24. Vaniecia Williams
25. Egberto Willies


IV.
Agenda Approval.
V. Minutes: Additions and Corrections
VI. Consent Items
A. Suspension of Standing Rule to
Consider Report from the EEOC and
B. Membership in the Houston Peace and Justice Center
VII. Standing and Special
Committee Reports.
A. CAB Update
B. Committee Reports Question and Answer
VIII. Public Comment. [Time
Certain: 8-8:30pm]
IX. Interim General Manager’s Report. (Don Freeman)
X. Pacifica National Board
Report
XI. LSB Committee Reports
A. Anti-Racism and Diversity
B. Budget and Financial Oversight* (also
referred to in the Standing and Special Rules as Budget and Finance Oversight)
C. Development
D. Election
E.
Facilities Management and Planning
F. Governance
G. Management Selection and Review*
H. Outreach
I. Program
Council Committee
J. Program Policy
K. Technology
* Designated as “Fiduciary Committees;” voting
membership limited to LSB Members.
XII. Reports: Old Business
A. Community Calendar PSAs [Bob, DeWayne]: Record
and air them in accordance with the motion approved by this body.
B. Program Council subcommittee [Joseph, DeWayne,
Deb]: DeWayne Lark to host LSB member meeting
C. LSB Fundraising Committee [DeWayne]
D. Volunteer PSAs
[Vaniecia]: Get them recorded and on air
F. Int’l Youth Programming [Nancy]: Reach out to HISD communications
department
G. Bill Crosier Investigation [Nancy, DeWayne, Rick, Wesley, Alán Alán]
H. Writing Contest
[K.C. Sinclair
I. Happy Hour [K.C. Sinclair/Ben Perodeau]
XIII. Unfinished Business
A. Report from the
Pacifica Foundation’s counsel to explain our individual liabilities as LSB members.
XIII. New Business.
A.
Saibara-Naritomi:
Whereas the KPFT LSB has had almost two decades or more history of not being given access of
financial documents such as: 1) bank accounts' statements; 2) actual expense bills; 3) contracts; 4) donations; 5)
grants' copies of checks, deposit slips; 6) bequests' copies of checks, deposit slips; 7) commissions; 8) premiums
unsent; 9) premiums sent; 10) sustainer-ship deposits; and 11) salaries,
the KPFT LSB recommends that the above
information be made available to the LSB, blackening out of donors', sustainers', companies (if requested by the
companies or a signed agreement to allow or not), for financial transparency.
B. Saibara-Naritomi:
The KPFT LSB
moves that the donations and expenses be posted with : 1) date pledged 2) date processed 3) amount 4) premium 5) name of
show given credit 6) date of sustainer ship 7) expense description 8) snap shot of bill 9) date of payment.
C.
Saibara-Naritomi:
The LSB moves to have an intermission after Public Comment or if there is no public comment, at
8:30 pm, the approximate half point of the meeting, IN ORDER TO USE THE REST ROOM WITHOUT MISSING THE MEETING, and to be
able to CONVERSE, with the Public and with each other, dance, sing and share snacks TOGETHER. Saibara-Naritomi: The KPFT
LSB moves to change the Public Comment time which may be more convenient for the Public, who may want to return home
sooner to prepare for the next days' work, and may take advantage of the sky light in driving home.
D.
Saibara-Naritomi:
Motion for amendment to the KPFT Standing Rules: 1. Article IV , section 1, Limits to on-air
Appearances Addition: The exception to this rule is participation in the KPFT LSB REPORT TO THE LISTENERS SHOW.
2.
Article 3, sec. 6, LSB Members' Required Participation in one local KPFT LSB Committee: Add: The failure to do so is
removal from the LSB, since the work of the LSB is dependent on committee work. Note: As is the chair’s
prerogative, this motion will be sent to the Governance Committee for review.
E. Crosier:
Motion on Bullying,
Harassment, Slander, and Intimidation of LSB members:
Whereas, we have experienced repeated and serious bullying,
insults, harassment, name-calling, slander, other abuse, and attempts to intimidate KPFT Local Station Board members,
both in LSB meetings and committee meetings, and
Whereas, such egregious behavior often uses lies and misleading
information in attempts to defame and/or insult LSB members, sometimes in attempts to provoke reactions which are then
seized upon to further attack the victims of the abuse, and
Whereas, such behavior has resulted in resignations of
good LSB members who have been working effectively to help KPFT, a number of whom were not even the targets of the
bullying tactics but who did not want to be part of a board that tolerated or encouraged this, and
Whereas, in
addition to LSB members, members of the public have also been allowed, if not encouraged, to similarly engage in this
behavior during public comment, with few or no limitations, and
Whereas, neither free speech principles nor Roberts
Rules of Order allow such despicable actions, and in fact violations of decorum are prohibited by Roberts Rules for all
attendees at meetings, whether they are taken by board members or the public, and
Whereas, the LSB Secretary has
chosen to ignore Roberts Rules concerning what should go into minutes, even though LSB members have pointed out that the
minutes should only reflect actions taken by the LSB and not details of debate and certainly not public comment, and
even the PNB Parliamentarian has confirmed that only actions taken by the board belong in the minutes, and
Whereas,
putting defamatory comments about individuals into the minutes, which are posted publicly on the Internet, and which are
inappropriate in the minutes, is an additional act of defamation, leading to additional legal and financial liability,
and
Whereas, such behavior opens us up to lawsuits for allowing these actions to continue with only occasional mild
admonishments, but without any effective measures to stop them, and
Whereas, these aggressive, unethical (and perhaps
illegal) and anti-Pacifican actions have given the KPFT LSB a very bad reputation, have run off donors, and have made it
even more difficult to establish or continue effective working relationships on the LSB, making the LSB even less
effective in doing things to help the station, and
Whereas, these actions have contributed to the distrust and
overall dysfunction of the KPFT LSB, therefore
Be it Resolved, that:
1. Such actions will not be tolerated,
whether initiated by LSB members or others, including those participating during public comment.
2. Such actions
will be grounds for immediate ejection from the meeting, for the duration of the entire meeting, of any person engaging
in such actions.
3. Derogatory comments about individuals will not be included in the minutes of any public meeting,
nor in executive session.
4. Comments made during public comment, and all personal attacks made during other times
will be removed from past minutes, including those posted online, and shall be removed within one week from the date of
this motion.
F. To encourage more active LSB participation, and a better quality of work, and to decrease the
absence of LSB members, be it required that the number offences within a year be limited to four (4). Note: As is the
chair’s prerogative, this motion will be sent to the Governance Committee for review.

--Nancy Saibara-Naritomi
XIV. Adjournment