A snippet from Tuesday’s national finance committee meeting, which displays the Siegel/Brazon majority wiggling out of Bill Crosier’s sensible motion that requirements for Texas station KPFT to have reality-based budget numbers be applied to the other four stations as well. Continue reading Double Standards: All Budgets Are Not Equal
Berkeley– 22 months after scheming to depose her predecessor and replace her with herself and secretly setting up a nonprofit corporation to scoop up one or more Pacifica broadcasting licenses or other assets, Pacifica’s lame duck board of directors is facing the consequences and moving to mortgage real estate. In a startling national board meeting last night, reality overcame fraudulent financial statements trumpeting a “profit” for the year and chirpy election propaganda from Wilkinson’s faction sent out just a day prior. Continue reading Margy Wilkinson’s Pacifica Skids Off The Rails
After meeting for all of 8 minutes to conclude they had no budgets, no update, and nothing they could think of to do, Pacifica’s national finance committee adjourned their meeting. Continue reading National Finance Committee Runs For The Hills
A snip from the Pacifica National Board meeting of July 9th. A fascinating exchange where the board votes to tap KPFA’s bequest money to pay off the remaining $65,000 on the bill for the last audit, as the auditor will not start the already overdue FY 2014 audit without full payment. PNB treasurer Brian Edwards-Tiekert of the Save KPFA faction was very quick in previous years to accuse Pacifica of “raiding KPFA’s bank accounts”, often falsely. Now that the Siegel/Brazon faction controls Pacifica, he changes his tune and announces at the end of this snippet that “If management doesn’t grab money from anywhere in the network it can to meet the foundation’s obligations, it is failing in its duty of care” Edwards-Tiekert’s public accusations and petition in 2009 are documented in this Berkeley Daily Planet article www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-…llen-Taylor and the retraction issued the following week by the reporter: www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-…llen-Taylor. Akio Tanaka’s editorial followed: www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-…Akio-Tanaka
Berkeley – Seemingly uncontroversial proposals to videotape a regular public meeting of the KPFA local station board were met with opposition by the Save KPFA faction. Save KPFA-affiliated board member Mal Burnstein – just days after trying unsuccessfully to raise the minimum annual donation for Pacifica membership and voting rights from $25/year to $40/year – ranted in response to the videotaping request:
“The KPFA Local Station Board is not a public entity; it is therefore not covered by the First Amendment. and the First Amendment has nothing to do with what KPFA should or should not cover”. Continue reading A Good Board Is A Secret Board
Originally posted March 16, 2015
Berkeley-“I’m not even thinking about the FY 2014 audit”. Those were the words of Pacifica’s auditor on March 10, 2015 at Pacifica’s audit committee. The audit he is not even thinking about is due to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on April 17, 2015, so the nails in the coffin on Pacifica’s dwindling chances of being restored to Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding eligibility just got hammered shut. Continue reading The Gagged Auditor
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To:”Lemlem Tekle” , “Bonnie Simmons” , LisaRothman [at] kpfa.org
CC:”Sasha Lilley” , “Lemlem Tekle” , mawu_mama37 [at] yahoo.com, “Amelia Gonzalez-Garcia” , Rain Geesler” , “Sherry Gendelman” , “Gary Niederhoff”
Subject:Re: budget
Date:Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:58:28 -0700
I’m up for coffee Saturday—Lisa and I can still meet Tuesday afternoon. Also, we need a general strategy session. How about Tuesday night?
Issues include:
How should we be handling the expiration of the union contract—is a strike in order, or is it a really terrible idea?
What’s the best way to deal with these layoffs?
Coming up with, and presenting, an alternative budget.
“Strategic retreat on the LSB”—”how do we make our enemies own the problems that are to come?” Alternatively, should we be recalling LSB members/dismantling the LSB?
Getting the Roy issue to the national board.
“Propping up staff morale.”
“Strategic retreat on the LSB”—”how do we make our enemies own the problems that are to come?” Alternatively, should we be recalling LSB members/dismantling the LSB?
Dealing with the grievances underway.
Building community support—formation of a labor-community coalition.
Brian Edwards-Tiekert
Staff Representative, Local Station Board
KPFA 94.1FM
1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley CA 94704
