<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><br><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>sako4@comcast.net<br><b>To: </b>"kzyxboard" <kzyxboard@lists.mcn.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, November 30, 2015 3:45:09 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Beth Bosk<br><div><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Dear Mr. Campbell:</div><div><br></div><div>Let this email serve as my demand as a Board Director that Beth Bosk's application also be brought before the entire Board and not killed in the Search Committee -- a committee to which you refused to name me.</div><div><br></div><div>An email from Ms. Bosk that was posted to both MCN's announce listserve and discussion listserve is found below.</div><div><br></div><div>Ms. Bosk is a qualified candidate. As with Mr. McClean, her history with KZYX goes back to its founding, 25-years ago. She was an experienced and popular radio host and producer here at KZYX. </div><div><br></div><div>Ms. Bosk is also an experienced and popular newspaperwoman -- the editor of <em>The New Settler Interviews</em>. Her newspaper is funded by both advertisers and readers, and that could translate into members and underwriters for KZYX.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps most importantly, Ms. Bosk reeks of integrity. She was one of the organizers of Redwood Summer in 1990. She helped save our old-growth redwoods. She continues to be a strong environmental activist. Recently, she refused to shut up during public comment at a recent meeting of the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors when speaking out against the controversial "hack and squirt" practices of the Mendocino Redwood Company and other timber companies.</div><div><br></div><div>Ms. Bosk is well-known and highly respected.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br></div><div>John Sakowicz</div><div>MCPB Board of Directors, 2013-2016; Board Tresurer, 2044</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><br><div><br></div> Folks: Just want KZYX/Z listeners to know that I applied to the<br>chair of the committee through Stuart the minute I heard a search<br>committee for a new station manager was being formed. </div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><br>I did so as both a resident of the Mendocino coast from the 5th<br>District (which has no representation on the current KZYX/Z Board),<br>and as a founding programmer of KZYX, who spent six months organizing<br>support on the coast for a radio station, locally oriented, that would<br>address the interests of three groups not being served by commercial<br>radio in Mendocino County: Folks with classical music tastes,<br>folks who preferred Bluegrass and/or Alternative Music; and those of<br>us active in Forest and Ocean protection who wanted a radio station<br>that gave ample time to the enterprises of local people through<br>thoughtful talk radio, originating from the Philo studio. <br>Which is what I provided in a weekly, two-hour, mid-day show called <br>4th Gate Gazette. </div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><br>The phone line was always open while I was on the air, and for three<br>years listener participation contributed greatly to the quality and<br>popularity and range of 4th Gate Gazette. I was fired by a new<br>general manager (the first to insist he be addressed as GM) a<br>fortnight after a survey identified 4th Gate Gazette as the<br>listeners' favorite program. <br><div><br></div>While I was a volunteer at KZYX, I held off an FBI 'Prior Restraint'<br>foray, and lobbied relentlessly that an independent News Department<br>be established. </div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><br>I also supported the station's original Mission Statement: the<br>promise that there would be consistent attempts to elicit the<br>participation of the County's Indian and Latino communities, and that<br>they be reflected both in local programming and Board participation.<br>The granting of the license was originally based on those promises. <br>More than anyone, I was responsible for the hiring of Joseph Leon as<br>the first News Director and insistent that Joseph be allowed to<br>pursue his own style. </div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><br>And despite Annie Esposito's earnest efforts, the only time KZYX/Z<br>covered the matters of the local Indian reservations and rancherias<br>as a natural part of the County's fabric was when Joseph, himself a<br>native man, was news director.</div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><br>We have three white, female news providers and no coverage of<br>so-called "underserved communities". </div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><br>I worked at the station as a volunteer programmer at a time when the<br>spirit and say-so was much more collaborative. <br>And it worked. <br><div><br></div>Clay Eubanks never got back to me. The coast remains unrepresented .<br>. . along with every Indian and Latino resident of Mendocino and Lake<br>counties.</div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><br>It's inexcusable that this selection committee continues to<br>demographically represent so few elements of the signals range. </div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><br>--beth bosk<br><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div></div><br></div></body></html>