<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>David,<div><br></div><div>KZYX only reports consolidated salaries as a single budget line item. The individual salaries are not broken down. Station GM, John Coate, has long maintained that individual salaries are a "privacy issue". <div><br></div><div>That's a bunch of bull, of course. <div><br></div><div>The County of Mendocino tried pulling that same stunt a few years ago. They tried not disclosing the salaries of department heads. When the Ukiah Daily Journal filed a freedom of information request and threatened to sue, the County relented and disclosed the salaries.</div><div><br></div><div>As a point of information, KMUD discloses the salaries of all staff.<br><div><br></div><div><br><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"David Gurney" <jugglestone@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, February 24, 2014 8:23:19 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Kzyxtalk] Salary of KZYX General Manager<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Is this true, what Sack says: "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I know what Coate gets paid, but the KZYX Board's secrecy rules prohibit me from disclosing it."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Is Coate's salary a secret? Or is Sack O'Whiz just blowing more smoke?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If true, why would anyone want to contribute to a community station that would not reveal what employees are being paid?</span></div>
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