This Pacifica National Board meeting will be held in Houston, Texas - Home of KPFT

Friday, April 11th, 2008

12:45 PM : Welcome and acknowledgments from the PNB Chair

12:50 PM : Introduction to Anti-Racism training by Committee to Investigate Allegations of Racism and Sexism Chair (Lisa Davis)

PNB In-Person Los AngelesMeeting

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Motions passed (1^st draft):

10:16 am. Affiliates Task Force motion that a proposed fiscal allocation for the Affiliate Coordinator/Outreach Director, as outlined by the Affiliate Task Force recommendations to the Natonal Finance Committee, be considered in the National Office budget beginning with 2008, with line items as necessary for an Outreach Division, and that the Affiliate Coordinator/Outreach Director needs a commensurate salary that will be determined in the next two weeks by the HR Director, the ED, and Chair of the Affiliates Task Force.

Passed 7/28/07 12-4 w/ 2 abstensions.

11:14 am. Motion by WS/MB to postpone a Tech Committee motion on PNB meeting calendar to September in-person meting when we'll have instructions and logins for posting.

Passed 7/28/07 13-4.

NFC motion recommended from the PNB Fincance Commottee, adapted for PNB approval by the NFC secretary:

Whereas , the operating expenses of the Pacifica Foundation are increasing annually at a rate faster than is being matched by increases in income:

Therefore, be it resolved:

Proposed Bylaws Amendments Concerning Delegate Terms and Election Schedule

Seven Directors of the Pacifica National Board have proposed the following amendments to the Pacifica Bylaws, which will be voted on by the Pacifica National Board and the 5 stations’ Delegate assemblies (the same bodies as the Local Station Boards, but convened solely to vote on bylaws amendments) in September 2007.

There are three separate sets of changes, each of which will be voted on separately -- i.e., if any is rejected, the other(s) can still stand on their own. For each change, various amendments will be required to affected bylaws sections, so as to conform to the new rules:

AGENDA
I. Roll call
II. Approval of agenda
III. Approval of minutes
IV. Discussion with CFO to get budgeting information

• Follow up with projected timeline for task force to address budget process

V. Report of Structure Group

Agenda:
1. Introductions
2. Presentation by The Affiliates Coordinator
3. Questions/ Discussion
4. Election of chair and rotating minute taking
5. Delegation of work groups

Recent motions adopted by the Pacifica National Board

Haiti Solidarity
LT. Ehren Watada
Journalist Subpoenas
Iraq War Withdrawal
Troy Anthony Davis
Police Brutality

Editorial Audio in AudioPort:
direct link to audio with background audio [bed]

At the recommendation of The Finance Committee of the Pacifica National Board of Directors, six directors have proposed an amendment to Article Six, Section One of the Pacifica Bylaws. This amendment would reduce the required number of annual 'in-person' Pacifica National Board meetings from four to three, and would continue the practice of alternating the Board meetings among the 5 Foundation radio station signal areas.

Whereas the Senate, in passing S. 3930, has given President Bush extraordinary and chilling power to indefinitely detain and try prisoners in the so-called war on terror,

And whereas the legislation strips non-citizen detainees of the habeas corpus right to challenge their own detention and permits use of coercive interrogation tactics such as stripping, hooding, hypothermia, and other objectionable techniques;