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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div>Dear Mr./Ms. SM,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>When a public radio station takes a million dollars in grant money from the</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Corporation for Public Broadcasting, it's supposed to respect their rules. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Open meetings is one of them:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cpb.org/files/stations/non-compliance/CPB-CSG-Non-compliance-Policy-Effective-January-1-2016.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.cpb.org/files/stations/non-compliance/CPB-CSG-Non-compliance-Policy-Effective-January-1-2016.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Whenever a meeting is closed, reasons must be documented and provided</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>to the public. Those aren't my rules. They're the CPB's rules.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Another rule is 'Open Financial Records'. I don't see any sense to a policy </div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">that says: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"No review (of the Form 990) was or will be conducted."</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Especially when that policy is stated for five years in a row. Under penalty</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">of perjury. On the Form 990s themselves. Not to mention the absence of</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><font size="3">audited financial statements where they should have been. </font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">As far as a hand-wringing conspiracy: I don't recall using that word. Or</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">even suggesting the concept. Should I be? What I see is a culture of</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">laziness and apathy. Dating back to 1995. And how certain individuals</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">exploited that culture.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">So I appreciate your thoughts on closed meetings. Very much so. But</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">how do you feel about the Form 990 issue? And the apparent lack of</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">audited financial statements?</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">Sincerely,</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">Scott M. Peterson</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">Mendocino</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><pre style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">> Scott Peterson. Ellen Saxe was making a regular Board report of CAB
activities. Her comments were not her, or the CAB's recommendations,
they were just a report of what listeners said at a CAB meeting.
Providing listener input to the Board is one of the functions of the CAB
and I think that Ellen takes her duties seriously. Listeners comments
were not nasty or nice, they were just opinions.
E-mail is the way than many organizations do business. Would you object
if they exchanged paper mail or phoned each other when working on
something? Boards of Directors everywhere have closed face-to-face
meetings when discussing employee matters. This is widely considered to
be the ethical thing to do.
How do I feel about e-mail business and closed meetings? I pretty much
don't care because I and the great majority of other members of KZYX
like the product of the station. What horrible, nefarious conspiracy do
you think is being cooked up in your imagined secret meetings of this
very small, non-profit organization run primarily by enthusiastic
volunteers?
The meeting minutes haven't been approved yet. Why don't you just call
the business number at the station and politely ask about them. SM</pre></div> </div></body>
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