[Kzyxtalk] Fwd: [KZYX-Board]- video

[King Collins]

Excellent. Thnaks very  much., That is a real contribution to the public discou rse. --king

On Dec 11, 2015, at 9:48 AM, sako4 at comcast.net wrote:

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> From: sako4 at comcast.net
> To: "kzyxboard" <kzyxboard at lists.mcn.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 9:45:22 AM
> Subject: [KZYX-Board]- video
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> KZYX Chair Meg Courtney,
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> 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.
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> Hiring the GM/Executive Director of a public radio station should be a public process. Transparent.
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> It should be 100% transparent.
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> I have my concerns.
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> The fact that the Search Committee railroaded the search process is deeply distributing. I'll explain.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The committee chose these inferior applicants over an applicant -- a woman -- who is department manager at KMUD. She manages 120 volunteer programmers.
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> Really?
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> 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.
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> Really, we bypassed him?
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> 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!
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> Really, we bypassed him, too?
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> None of this is fair, Meg.
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> I have another concern.
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> My other chief concern is that the interviewing process is now being railroaded. I'll explain.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> A videotape of Monday's proceeding would be instructive for the public on how our board really conducts its business.
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> John Sakowicz
> KZYX Board of Director (2013-2016), Board Treasurer (2014)
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