Our Minutes

June 28, 2005             APPROVED

Present: Luis, Amelia, Dev, Roy, Aileen, Nick, Mary, Shahram, Anthony, Stan, Brian, Joe, Laura, Kris
Excused: Annie, Sepideh, Maya, Vini, Lemlem
Facilitator: Tracy

I - Announcements and Agenda Notes

Approved 6/21 minutes with no objections. Minutes are publicly posted after approval at www.kpfapc.motime.com

Distributed listener survey to program council members who requested them. Tracy has a file copy which can be loaned for review on request.

Four members of the program council volunteered their personal e-mail addresses for posting on the www.kpfapc.motime.com minutes site. Brian and Mary to work out the best way for any general messages to be delivered to all the PC members and report back by July 5th.

Amelia presented a year-long calender of holidays, commemorations, fund drives and historical anniversaries designed to facilitate easier planning for special programming on holidays. Program council members invited to add any dates to the calendar.

Amelia presented a new letter for proposal applicants (ongoing programming) describing a twice yearly proposal review process. Ongoing proposals would be accepted at any time, but PC reviews would happen twice a year in January and June.

Amelia presented a new program proposal summary log that will be distributed regularly to PC members to track proposals for ongoing and special programming.

PC to review all of these materials and provide any feedback/questions at the July 5th meeting.

II - Evaluations

Sunday Salon recommended for a year-long contract with a six month check-in with the PA Director scheduled to address pending issues. .

Africa Today, Full Circle, Over The Edge, Crack O' Dawn, Puzzling Evidence remanded to July 5th meeting.

Sunday News remanded to July 12th meeting.

Cycle 4 evaluations scheduled for completion by July 15th. Cycle 5 committee assignments will be provided at the July 12th meeting.

Discussed briefly possible methods for assessing progress on suggested improvements brought up in the evaluation process, including periodic department head check-ins. More discussion will be scheduled on evaluation follow-up and how to structure 2nd round evaluations in 2007-2008.

Also discussed follow-up on getting self-evaluation forms completed and returned to the station.

III - Special Programming

Met with the Labor Collective and discussed coverage of July 25-28 AFL-CIO convention. Redeveloped July 25th proposal into a call-in 15 -20 minute segment from the convention floor that can hopefully be incorporated into Against The Grain (using a satellite or land-line phone) followed by a dedicated convention follow-up show on Staurday August 6th pre-empting Saturday Morning Talkies. PA Department to contact Against the Grain to coordinate the segment.

Labor Collective also presented an idea for a national call-in show on worker's rights for Labor Day.
Idea has been presented to PNB programming committee as well.

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