Our Minutes

November 15, 2005     APPROVED

 Present: Amelia, Dev, Anthony, Nick, Laura, Shahram, Mary, Annie, Sepideh, Brian, Stan
Absent: Luis, Kris, LemLem, Joe
Facilitator: Tracy

I - Announcements/Agenda/Administrative

Approved 11/1 minutes with two corrections - 1) Anthony Fest recorded as present 2) correction of the typo "elections at San Quentin" corrected to "executions at San Quentin".

Approved modification of June 28, 2005 minutes to change the sentence "Sunday Salon recommended for a year-long contract" to "Sunday Salon recommended for a year-long contract with a six-month check-in with the PA Director scheduled to address pending issues".

Roy Campanella came by the meeting to confirm that all proposals go to the program coordinator initially. The Program Council agreed as long as the log sheets that record what has been sent in are updated regularly and sent to the Program Council via the list serv or the PC mailbox.

Discussed news department coverage of Cupertino protests and arrests.

II - Evaluations

Amelia reported that the PA Department was backed up with premium processing and did not have recommendations for the completed Cycle IV and V public affairs evaluations.

Evaluation check-in on evaluations in progress (Cycle V music and Cycle VI PA). Radio Chronicles CD's distributed. CD's are also needed for "Your Health and Fitness due to lack of archives.

III - On-Going Programming

Program Council completed its review of the Work Week proposal from the Labor Collective. The proposal was not approved for broadcast. The PC received a commitment from Dev Ross to supervise a six month training period, including board op training and live broadcast preparation for members of the collective. On the completion of the training period, the program council will promptly review a new demo tape for a weekly program. The Program Council affirms its commitment to developing and broadcasting labor programming on KPFA.

The Program Council discussed policy regarding changes in hosts on existing programs. The Program Council requests prompt notification from the department head whenever a change supersedes vacation coverage (i.e. more than 6 weeks) and that contracts must be re-issued with the proper parties.

IV - Special Programming

Upcoming broadcasts include the Crafts Fair on Dec 10/11, UnThanksgiving from Alcatraz, Stanly Tookie Williams coverage from San Quentin from 7pm to 12:30am on December 12/13, and the Homelessness Marathon in February.

V - Retreat Follow-up

Aileen to locate most recent set of Arbitron reports.

Adjourned @ 8:12pm

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