Our Minutes

April 11, 2006 APPROVED

Present: Luis, Sasha (for Aileen), Dev, Kris, Shahrahm, Anthony, Mary, Nick, Joe, Annie, Brian

Absent: Amelia, Lemlem, Sepideh

Facilitator: Tracy

I - Announcements/Agenda/Administrative

Approved 4-4 minutes with the following modification: Added the sentence: Also discussed the role of management vs. PC in looking at programs and making binding recommendations.

Discussed recent post to riseup.net list (old program council list-serv) and asked Brian and Mary to look into the elimination of the old list-serv w/the KPFA web master.

Confirmed that Marcia Kerwit has resigned her community rep position. The LSB will appoint the next person in line to complete the term through the end of June. Program council requests that the LSB try to do so at their next meeting on April 22nd. Program council drops from 15 to 14 voting members and two non-voting members (the program coordinator and the I-GM) and quroum remains at 8. One community rep position and the training position are unfilled. For the moment, the I-GM and the development position are being filled by the same person, Lemlem.

II - On-Going Programming

Mary, Nick and Joe volunteered to listen to Education Today over the next month in preparation for the contract end in June.

III - Special Programming

KPFA to cover April 23rd immigrant rights march/rally from Dolores Park. Tentative schedule is 1-4pm. Hosts unknown at this time. PA Department to update PC briefly at 4-18 meeting prior to Arbitron session at 7pm.

IV - Evaluations

'A Musical Offering" was approved for a year-long contract.

"The Johnny Otis Show" was approved for a year-long contract with a six month departmental check-in to assess progress on areas identified for improvement in the evaluations.

Music department to schedule check-ins for "The Big Thang" and "The Late Night Hype" in the next 4-6 weeks per the evaluations completed last fall.

PA Department to check in with Youth Radio about the self-evaluation form requested by the Program Council.

(....Program Council interrupted by visitor to request whether audio can be taken at the Wednesday 6pm funeral for the wife of Pedro Noguera with the idea of a segment on an upcoming PA show. PC agrees to try to assist with this after the meeting. After the meeting, a member of the unpaid staff agreed to attend the funeral and get some sound on tape).

V - Long-Term Issues

Discussed grid ecology worksheet and agreed to have program council members answer questions concerning listenership for discussion at April 25th program council meeting. Questions focus on perceived characteristics of subscribers, and of listeners who don't subscribe and on sources of audience growth and development. Goal is to work through issues of programming flow slowly by analyzing the issues thoroughly and seeing where there is agreement on basic principals to inform recommendations.

Adjourned @ 7:47pm

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