Our Minutes

 July 5, 2005            APPROVED

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

Note: This meeting did not make quorum and no binding votes were taken.

I - Announcements / Agenda / Administrative

June 28th minutes were modified to add Kris as present and to change wording on list-serv changes from "implemented by July 5th" to "report back on by July 5th". Full program council asked via e-mail to review minutes. If  there were no objections reported after e-mail review, minutes would be approved without objection and posted on Friday July 7th.

Brian and Mary reported back on list-serv options via Transbay that would allow for direct contact of program council members via minutes site while maintaining integrity of the list serv for internal communications regarding draft minutes and other administrative stuff. They are working on some technical issues, but expect to be able to implement a workable solution by July 12th.

Reviewed programming department materials handed out at July 28th meeting. No concerns raised regarding calendar of events. Program council requested that new ongoing proposal log sheets and new special programming log sheets be printed out and distributed to PC members whenever there is a change i.e. when new proposals are received and logged.

In reviewing the letter that was to be sent to on-going program applicants, the program council agreed in principal (non-binding) to the January and June twice yearly review schedule. Existing completed proposals received prior to the June deadline were described as:

Education-oriented PA show with Kevin Cartwright
Queer Life - a once a month collective PA show with Mike Alcalay and others
Watchdog - animal liberation
Work Week - labor issues
New Dimensions Potpurri
Comedy show with Cary Silberman
The Block Report

 In addition, the program council has Our Planet - an environmental program which has been requested to send in a revised demo tape for review.

The PC also confirmed that four on-going music proposals that were approved for broadcast remain active. Names and descriptions of the four proposals are requested for record-keeping purposes.

The PC agreed in principle (not binding) to review the programs in the next 4-6 weeks to let the applicants know if the programs are a) approved for possible broadcast when space allows b) in need of further modifications or changes c) not what the station is looking for at this time.

 
II - Evaluations

Confirmed Roy's e-mail communication that the program coordinator (Vini) is responsible for sending out self-evaluation forms and PC facilitator (Tracy)  is responsible for communicating evaluation schedule to program coordinator.

Tracy suggested that the program council should draft a supplementary policy for the evaluation proceedures that slightly streamlines the procedure for 2007-2008 evaluations if a program has already been fully reviewed. Tracy volunteered to draft a preliiminary procedure/form for PC review sometime in the next few weeks. Procedure would focus on reducing paperwork burden and focus future evaluations on measuring progress on the strengths and weaknesses observed in the previous cycle.

Scheduled evaluation reports for Full Circle, Africa Today, Pushing Limits, Over the Edge, Puzzling Evidence and Crack O'Dawn carried over to next meeting due to lack of quorum.

III - Technology

Brian suggested some possibilities for RSS feeds for specials and inquired on the status of podcasting work. Dev reported on the status of the podcasting project and suggested that Brian make direct contact with Lisa Ballard to see what assistance he could offer to her.

IV - Special Programming

Reviewed modified labor collective proposal for coverage of the AFL-CIO convention from the collective. Current state of the proposal includes an edition of "Saturday Morning Talkies" on August 6th that will feature material gathered at the convention. Kris to explore possibilities for a call-in report from the convention floor sometime on July 25th (1st day of the convention and pre-fund drive) being incorporated into one of the scheduled PA shows.

Adjourned @ 7:57pm

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