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