Our Minutes

August 9, 2005      APPROVED

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

I - Announcements/Agenda/Administrative

Approved minutes of August 2nd meeting without objection

New program council list serv is up and running and PC members should have received a welcome message in their subscribed e-mail accounts. Anyone reading the PC minutes site at www.kpfapc.motime.com will be able to send a message to the entire program council by clicking on the "contact the PC" link.

Motion made and passed to create a carte letting people know the location of the feed back mechanism and the location of the PC minutes. Dev and Tracy to coordinate the carte.

Program council agreed that they would be open to continuing communications training with Liam Kirsher - the tentative schedule would be to use the PC meeting time every 4-6 weeks for a dedicated session on dialogue and techniques for creating better understanding and managing hot topics. Tracy to check-in with Liam regarding dates and logistics. Liam will be asked to contact one or two PC members privately to discuss questions prior to the 1st session which is not anticipated until September.

Tracy to contact Brian to try to track down June listener comments CD so it can be posted for online listening by PC members.

II - Evaluations

Reviewed progress on 4th and 5th cycles (of a total of 8).

Full program council confirmed tentative vote from the August 2nd meeting to include DN in the list of programs to be evaluated by the end of the year.

Africa Today review delayed due to clerical error which has been resolved and the evaluation should be completed in two weeks.

Motion regarding an on-air component for the apprenticeship program carried over to wait for feedback from the apprenticeship program on the proposed motion.

III - Ongoing Programming Program council will be reviewing the new program proposals received between January and June of 2005 at the rate of two a week. Demo materials are posted for on-line listening by PC members and PC members will fill out a one page evaluation form for each demo they listen to. Proposals will then be categorized as a) active and waiting for a time slot b) in need of changes and modifications and PC will review a new demo tape incorporating the requested changes if the producers choose to make one c) not what the station is looking for in new programming. The program council will review "Watchdog" and "The Block Report" on August 16th, followed by "Education Show w/Kevin Cartwright" and "Queer Life" on August 23rd.

IV - Special Programming Program council initially reviewed Labor Collective proposal for Labor Day. Questions regarding proposed length of program, plans of regularly-scheduled programs on that day, and national participation. Conversation to be continued on August 16th.

Adjourned @ 8:04 pm.

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