Our Minutes

September 20, 2005      APPROVED

Present: Luis, Amelia, Kris, Dev, LemLem, Annie, Joe, Anthony, Nick, Laura, Shahram, Brian, Stan
Absent: Sepideh, Roy
Facilitator: Tracy

I - Announcements/Agenda/Administrative

Approved 9/13 minutes without objection

Mary updated that Lisa Ballard is in the process of constructing a program council feedback mechanism that will  allow for general contact off the motime page and also forward programming-related e-mail comments to the entire PC.

Program Council approved doing a 2nd dedicated communications session on September 27th.

Les Radke from the Education Collective updated the PC on some material the collective will have available as short segments for PA programming.

II - Evaluations

Reviewed progress on cycles 4 and 5. Tracy announced that cycle 6 assignments will be put out on October 1. Cycles 7 and 8 are tentatively planned for November 10th and December 15th.

Luis and Amelia are assembling cycle 4 evaluations for recommendations over the next two weeks.

III - Ongoing Programming

PC reviewed note from some members of the Pushing Limits collective expressing concern about the time change to Friday afternoons. Amelia has arranged a meeting with them to go over the time change process. The PC appreciates the communication from them and the expression of their concerns, but continues to believe that the time change is in the best interests of the program and the station as a whole.

Amelia to continue discussions w/Apprenticeship program regarding the resolution in support of an one hour a week minimum of apprenticeship programming on an ongoing basis, be it Full Circle or some other format that may develop  in the future.

The Program Council was unable to complete the review of the Work Week and Potpourri demo tapes due to time constraints. The review has been rescheduled to November 8th, with apologies.

IV - Special Programming

The Program Council approved a 2 hour call-in based show to be produced by the Labor Collective for 10am to noon on the Saturday preceding the state special election (November 5th).

PC discussed the problems with the September 24th broadcast of the anti-war rally. Dev reported on the technical plan for the broadcast. PC confirmed that Silvia will be producing an hour of immigrants and labor coverage in the 12-1 period of the Miguel Molina-produced 4 hour special.

The broadcast time for the Pilipino OURSTORY special  will be 6:30 to 10:30pm on Sunday October 30th.

Adjourned @ 8:12 pm

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