Former PNB Treasurer Tracy Rosenberg sent the enclosed note to the Pacifica National Board this morning, after the Save KPFA propaganda rag announced that KPFA, already not having paid network services for the past six weeks, does not have enough money to pay its bills for the next month, after two fund drives collected $1.2 million dollars in pledges in the last 94 days, Continue reading Where Did KPFA’s Money Go?
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California Attorney General Launches Audit of Pacifica Radio
Originally posted December 27, 2014
Berkeley-In response to a March 2014 complaint from 8 former board members who served on the Pacifica National Board between 2008 and 2013, the Registry of Charitable Trusts, the division of the California AG that supervises California nonprofit organizations, has launched a comprehensive audit of Pacifica Radio’s accounting and compliance functions. The scope of the initial document request is broad and encompasses most financial records from the past five years of operations. (see list below). Continue reading California Attorney General Launches Audit of Pacifica Radio
To all Pacifica Members, the US Public and all Pacifica Staff and volunteers:
As an explanatory vote, Hank Lamb’s attempt received 5 votes in support besides his own. Four of them were from the minority faction (Uzzell, Coleman, Birden, Gray). One was from the board majority (Reyes). The other two minority faction members present abstained (Reiter and Kaufman). The other majority board members present voted no (Edwards-Tiekert, Wilkinson, Brazon, Argueta, Diaz, Brown, Roberts and Casenave). Here are Hank Lamb’s comments:
Continue reading To all Pacifica Members, the US Public and all Pacifica Staff and volunteers:
How Did KPFA Lose A Million Dollar Annual Grant?
This announcement is running on KPFA encouraging listeners to donate to make up for money withheld by a “quasi-governmental agency.” It does not mention that the money is being held up due to incomplete bookkeeping both at the radio station and its parent, the Pacifica Foundation.
California Attorney General To Audit Pacifica
From Richard Uzzell, Pacifica Board of Directors, KPFT Listener Rep. Announced publicly on December 23, 2014
The Pacifica Board of Directors was informed today by IED, Margy Wilkinson of a December 17, 2014 letter (sent almost a week earlier) from California Deputy Attorney General, Julianne Mossler, “for Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General.” This was the first that the Board (as a whole) was informed of this letter the California Attorney General and the action it is taking toward the Pacifica Foundation Radio.
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Chief Financial Officer Report – Pacifica National Board Meeting 12-18-2014
The enclosed sound clip details the CFO report from the Pacifica National Board meeting of 12-18-2014. The report provides details on the stalled 2013 audit, the financial straits of the network and its radio stations and a heated discussion with KPFT listener rep Richard Uzzell about months of promises that the audit would proceed in as soon as June of 2014, although it did not begin until November 15th, ended after less than a week due to the inability to provide audit schedules and now has no scheduled date of completion. Pacifica stations will not be able to get out of suspended status with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and regain a million dollars in annual funding unless the 2013 and 2014 audits are completed and filed by March 31, 2014.
Open Hiring Practices?
The enclosed sound clip is from the Pacifica National Board meeting of December 18th 2014 and chronicles a weird interchange where in response to a question from KPFA listener rep Janet Kobren about open hiring practices at KPFA-FM in Berkeley, IED Margy Wilkinson hems and haws and basically admits hiring processes for temporary and casual positions were not open and that should be changed. KPFA staff rep Brian Edwards-Tiekert strangely jumps into the dialogue to aggressively defend the hiring of a temporary producer for his own program “Upfront” only to be reprimanded that the question was not specifically about his own program.
Pacifica’s personnel policy specifies that the nonprofit is an equal opportunity employer that practices affirmative action to increase workplace diversity.
Corruption in Executive Director Hiring Process
Originally posted December 17, 2014
Berkeley-A listener representative from Houston has resigned from the Pacifica personnel committee in disgust, citing severely flawed hiring practices. Richard Uzzell submitted his letter of resignation, which can be found here. In the letter, he provided two examples. The first statement is that board chair and current interim executive director Margy Wilkinson (who is not on the search/personnel committee) ran separate private ads for the executive director position. She directed the application materials to herself at the national office, instead of to the search committee. The private ads had different deadlines and requested different materials from the applicants than ads run by the personnel committee, which was the only body authorized to collect candidate materials. The second statement was that after the committee developed a survey for candidates to be scored numerically on a list of qualifications for the position, members of the rogue board majority, upset that a favored candidate or candidates had not scored high enough, narrowly passed a motion to include several applications with low scores in the semi-finalist pool, including some not even ranked in the top half of the 25 applications. Continue reading Corruption in Executive Director Hiring Process
Board Member Resigns in Protest of Corrupt Hiring Practices
Janis Lane-Ewart and the Pacifica National Board,
Although I have a great deal of respect and admiration for the Pacifica Personnel Committee Chair, I must hereby resign from the PNB Personnel Committee. I am unable to be part of a committee that reflects another deeply flawed hiring process. Continue reading Board Member Resigns in Protest of Corrupt Hiring Practices
Public Comment by Carol Wolfley and Robin Collin (KPFA CAB) at KPFA Local Board Meeting on 12-13
Public Comment by Carol Wolfley and Robin Collin (KPFA CAB)