[Kzyxtalk] Hopmann, Miksak, McClure, Grady, Futher & History of KZYX

[King Collins]

((Addition to the KZYXtalk Subjective Report on the July KZYX Board-mostly subjective report.))
 
Regarding David Hopmann, Tony Miksak,  Lynda McClure, Mike Grady, Jane Futcher and the History of KZYX.

To my right at the July 2014 Board meeting was Dave Hopmann. He's been there at all the meetings over the last year. Reputed to be a partner in a SF legal firm, he is surely part of the KZYX legal team. So far that team has spent over $10,000 to deal with the five complaints that triggered the FCC investigation and the delay in renewing the KZYX license. 

It is significant that lawyer David Hopmann was president of the board when the Grady committees were scuttled. (See The Case of the Missing Committees at  http://www.greenmac.com/hiddenAgenda/Issue11/1106.html) Grady's reforms required the board to operate more openly and in particular to hold regular committee meetings which were open to the participation of KZYX members. After Grady's departure, David Hopmann promoted the notion that the committees and public input are an incumbrance to efficient management and fund raising. He pointed out that there is no legal requirement to follow previously established board procedures. He had the willing ear of the new corporate-minded general manager John Coate Together they simply ignored and did not implement the reforms of the liberal democratic wing of the board. 

Some KZYX History: How the liberals briefly won control of the board. 

In 2006, board member Lynda McClure masterminded an electoral victory for the liberal wing of the board (Grady, Futcher, et. al.) over the hardline centrists (Tony Miksak, Johanna Cummings). (http://www.greenmac.com/hiddenAgenda/BoardMeetings/BM_5-15-06.html)
Tony Miksak had been president of the board and achieved some bad publicity by among other things, helping to stifle the movement for a Ukiah studio in 2005.  After the elections of 2006, McClure introduced a slate of candidates in the internal board election. It was McClure's slate of Grady, Futcher, Hockberg and Enriquez that won. The narrow victory of Mike Grady for board president over Tony Miksak marked the beginning of the short reign of the liberal democrats. 


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