<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Subject: </b>[KZYX-Board]- two agenda items<br><div><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><div>January 23, 2015</div><div><br></div><div>Dear Stuart Campbell, MCPB Board Vice Chair:</div><div><br></div><div>I understand that you are coordinating our next Board meeting.</div><div><br></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">I have important news to report. The FCC just wrote to me in a letter dated January 15, 2015. Apparently, the FCC made a finding of fact that, indeed, as I alleged, the MCPB violated EEOC laws by hiring Paul Lambert in 2011 without posting or advertising the job.</div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">MCPB has 15 days to respond to the finding...or we will lose our licenses.</div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">The letter is addressed to MCPB legal counsel, Colin Black Andrews and Melodie Virtue, at Garvey, Schubert & Barer, and is signed by Peter H. Doyle, Chief, Audio Division, Media Bureau, at the FCC.</div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">Sheila Dawn Tracy, Mary Massey, and the others who filed similar FCC complaints objecting to the renewal of MCPB's licenses pending a change in management, should also have a copy of the same letter I received</div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">I would like to see this item placed on the agenda for our next Board meeting. </div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">I have a second item I would like to see placed on the agenda.</div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">Because I have been denied due process in the appeal of my suspension as a host and producer of a popular public affairs show of more than six years at KZYX and KZYZ due to a trumped up violation, I will soon be complaining to the Inspector General's Office of the CPB, as I have been encouraged to do by others at the CPB.</div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">The gist of my complaint will be that I have been denied due process by MCPB Chair Eliane Herring's repeated insistence that my appeal can only be heard by MCPB General Manager, John Coate, and Program Director, Mary Aigner, when, in fact, my grievance is directed at Coate and Aigner.</div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">I have suggested that my grievance be heard by the CPB Ombudsman, Joel Cohen, or another such objective, third-party upon which Coate, Aigner, and myself, and our respective attorneys, can mutually agree. I would also like to have my grievance hearing videotaped.</div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">The important thing is that the person hearing my grievance be <span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">external to KZYX...somone fair and impartial.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">Again, I will be making the case that I was removed from the air solely because I complained to the FCC in my capacity as a KZYX Board member and as former Board Treasurer. </span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">My FCC complaint voiced my concerns about the following: misappropriation of funds (more than $10,000 stipulated for a Ukiah studio is missing); obfuscation of financial reporting (line items <span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">are not consistent across the station's three financial reports -- </span>the GM's Annual Report, the IRS Returns, and the Audit); the frequent and predictable failure of the station's Korean War-era broadcast equipment; the failure of staff to be present on station premises during business hours; the failure of station management to comply with EEOC regulations; the failure by staff to disclosure staff salaries and other financial data; and the meddling in Board election by station management.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">Again, Mr Campbell, I have two agenda items. One, the FCC letter. And, two, my impending complaint to the CPB regarding no due process for my grievance hearing as required and described in station's Policy Handbook.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">I do not consider this letter a privileged communication, because I am its author/sender and waive confidentiality. I strong believe MCPB Board business should be public business. We are, after all, a presumably public radio station. I strongly object to our current practice of secrecy in Board business.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">Thank you.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">John J. Sakowicz</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">MCPB Board of Directors (2013-2016), Board Treasurer (2014)</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">c/c Peter Doyle; Colin Andrews and Melodie Virtue; Joel Cohen; Mary Mitchelson</span></div><div style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>