I must say I am deeply troubled by this turn of events of having Stuart Campbell as one of the finalists in the application for the open General Manager position. <br> Having gone to the two open Search Committee meetings involved in the process of job description and placing of ads and having asked formally to be acknowledged as being a community representative of the coast, I was excluded, as I thought I would be, from the closed session of vetting applicants. I must point out, with Jenness Hartley's appointment to the Board, there was no longer any--I repeat , NO, community member left on the Search Committee. It was only Staff ,Volunteers and Board members, past and former-- all who are closely associated with each other.<br> Eubank has promised that Board business would be conducted with integrity and transparency-- that "moving forward was going to be different than what has been in the past." As much as I want to believe this to be true, after 4 years of observing the proceedings of previous Boards & 6 months of watching the current Board in action, I find little, if any, transparency, misinterpretations of Bylaws and CPB donor regulations, no implementation of CAB recommendations and still after two years of promises, no real means of communicating both with the station's listeners or members.<br> Campbell's performance as a programmer's Representative was non existent and, as such harmful. He was also negligent as Board President to not have a discussion of the rescinding of the Safe Harbor policy on the Board agenda as an Action item for discussion and input from the public with a corresponding vote of Board members in affirming a policy change. <br> All of this negligence disqualifies him as a serious candidate for the permanent position of General Manager. He is deceitful and I will go so far as to say, I believe he is a pawn of the former Board President, David Hopmann as was former GM, John Coate, who still remains the voluntary administer of the station's website long after his resignation. Hopmann wrote Coate's contract and insidiously inserted the title of Executive Director which had never been a part of any previous GM's contract.<br> Campbell's kowtowing to Hopmann was evident at the past Willits meeting when at Hopmann's suggestion from the position of audience member, Campbell call a recess so that Hopmann would not miss any of the meeting while attending to an eye problem. Such attention to "special interests" while neglecting the public interests by having closed nominations does not indicate a change of any kind but more of the fanciful window dressing for the sake of appearances that we have been accustomed to through the machinations of past Boards. <br> The fast rise of Campbell from programmer to Board member to Board President to Interim General Manager does not show any management experience except that he is an incumbent and, in my opinion, complicit in the authoritarian show of disregard for process shown by the current Program Director and the former GM in rescinding Safe Harbor. He did not allow inspection of station documents and even called the sheriff to secure the station against security threats even though the alleged source of the threat was not among those, myself included, who showed up at the station having given previous notice of their right to inspect and their intent to do so. Is this really what we can hope to expect more of in the future? And what became of his professed intent to go back to his teaching job after his contract ended? More show and no follow through. Campbell is contaminated material and not a prime example of the desire to leave past discordance behind and move towards a harmonious integration of diverse voices.<br> Not that I think it will be of consequence, but my vote is for someone who has experience in radio management and most important of all, has the confidence of the listening public of making a fresh start. I ask the current Board of Directors to not throw away a golden opportunity to select someone who comes untainted from previous alliances.<br> This is a crucial time of the station to come together in support of new talent and new energy. I find it difficult to believe that in the search process we cannot find someone more suited to the job than the person who, by default, ended up substituting for the truly qualified. Is the fix already in? Let's hope not.<br> Sincerely,<br> Sheila Dawn Tracy<br><br><br>David Gurney <jugglestone@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Thank-you for publicizing this. It ain't right - the process of picking KZYX's new GM and PD should fair and open, not behind closed doors by some kind of clique. Hopefully those days are over.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Why isn't Marco (and all the others mentioned) listed as candidate for this job?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Also imo - the station needs to move it's HQ's to Ukiah and/or Fort Bragg, or perish.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 5:43 PM, King Collins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:king@greenmac.com" target="_blank">king@greenmac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Excellent. Thnaks very much., That is a real contribution to the public discou rse. --king<div><br><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On Dec 11, 2015, at 9:48 AM, <a href="mailto:sako4@comcast.net" target="_blank">sako4@comcast.net</a> wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><br><div><br></div><hr><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><a href="mailto:sako4@comcast.net" target="_blank">sako4@comcast.net</a><br><b>To: </b>"kzyxboard" <<a href="mailto:kzyxboard@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank">kzyxboard@lists.mcn.org</a>><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, December 11, 2015 9:45:22 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[KZYX-Board]- video<br><div><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div>KZYX Chair Meg Courtney,</div><div><br></div><div>Per the suggestion of some of our station's members, I would like to videotape our meeting on Monday. We can air it on public access television after we hire our GM/Executive Director, so there shouldn't be any confidentiality issues.</div><div><br></div><div>Hiring the GM/Executive Director of a public radio station should be a public process. Transparent. </div><div><br></div><div>It should be 100% transparent.</div><div><br></div><div>I have my concerns. </div><div><br></div><div>The fact that the Search Committee railroaded the search process is deeply distributing. I'll explain. </div><div><br></div><div>Three of the five finalists that the Search Committee chose are clearly inferior to some applicants who did not make the final cut. Those three inferior candidates are padding, fillers, place holders. </div><div><br></div><div>The first of those three inferior finalists is a guy who has lived in Shanghai, China for the last 25 years. The second finalist is a guy who is currently unemployed and who was a lightning rod for controversy at his last employer. The third inferior finalist, our current interim GM/Executive Director -- Stuart Campbell -- has absolutely no fundraising or administrative experience except for that which our board gave him a few months ago, and who is an nontenured, part-time, adjunct faculty at a junior college who is unpopular with his own students.</div><div><br></div><div>The committee chose these inferior applicants over an applicant -- a woman -- who is department manager at KMUD. She manages 120 volunteer programmers.</div><div><br></div><div>Really?</div><div><br></div><div>Another applicant who did not make it to the final round was an original incorporator of KZYX 25-years ago, and who currently hosts and produces popular shows on KNYO and KMEC.</div><div><br></div><div>Really, we bypassed him?</div><div><br></div><div>A third applicant who didn't make it to the final round is, in fact, one of us. He is a former member of the KZYX Board of Directors, and at one time he was so popular with our listeners that he had three shows on the schedule. Three shows!</div><div><br></div><div>Really, we bypassed him, too?</div><div><br></div><div>None of this is fair, Meg.</div><div><br></div><div>I have another concern.</div><div><br></div><div>My other chief concern is that the interviewing process is now being railroaded. I'll explain.</div><div><br></div><div>Not allowing individual board members to ask her or his own questions amounts to censorship. You may have been able to keep me off the Search Committee, indeed, all committees -- a violation of the California Corporations Code -- but I won't be silenced insofar as to what I feel I must ask the final five applicants. I represent the 35% of our membership who voted for reform in the last board elections.</div><div><br></div><div>Videotaping our final interviews on Monday will allow for transparency in what I believe is our "coronation" of Stuart Campbell. Let's face it, the Board made the decision to hire Stuart Campbell long before we started going through the motions of a hiring process. All that remains is the ritual placing of the crown on his head.</div><div><br></div><div>A videotape of Monday's proceeding would be instructive for the public on how our board really conducts its business.</div><div><br></div><div>John Sakowicz</div><div>KZYX Board of Director (2013-2016), Board Treasurer (2014)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br>MCPB thanks Mendocino Community Network for sponsoring this free list.<br><div><br></div>This is a CONFIDENTIAL forum. 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