Our Minutes

August 2nd, 2005   APPROVED

Present: Emiliano (sitting in for Luis Medina), Kris, Dev, Shahram, Anthony,
Stan, Mary, Roy
Excused: Amelia, Aileen, Laura, Brian, Annie, Sepideh, Joe, Maya, Vini, Nick
Facilitator: Tracy

The meeting did not make quorum.

I - Announcements/Agenda/Administrative

July 19th meeting minutes and suggested change to July 12th minutes were conditionally approved. These documents are appended for full program council review via e-mail and will be considered approved without objection if no objections are recieved.

Mary reported that she and Brian are progressing with the minutes contact project and anticipate it being up and running shortly. Tracy agreed to send Mary the full PC e-mail list to assist with the implementation. Program council members verified the e-mail address they prefer for subscription to the list serv.

Demo Tapes are posted online for the ongoing program proposals: Watchdog, The Block Report, Queer Life, New Dimensions, and Education Program/Kevin Cartwright. PC members are asked to listen to them. The demo tapes for Work Week and the Cary Silberman program will be posted if/when they are received by the PC. Any other program proposals will be carried over to the next review period in January 2006. Review discussions to begin on August 9th, subject to listening having been completed.

Item on pursuing further communications training/workshops carried over to August 9th meeting due to lack of quroum.

II - Evaluations

Cycle 4 and 5 evaluations proceeding.

The 4th evaluation for Africa Today remains open and Tracy is contacting Amelia off-list to get that straightened out.

A conditional vote was taken to include Democracy Now in the list of programs being evaluated. The vote will be considered binding on the full council if no objections are presented.

III - On-going Programming

Program Council discussed language to maintain a minimum of an hour of weekly on-air time for the apprenticeship program (currently formatted as Full Circle). Conversation will continue on August 9.

IV - Special Programming

Reviewed Seeds of Peace special coverage.

Adjourned @8:08 pm

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