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

Sat Dec 12 11:56:53 PST 2015

Hi David Gurney, 

Yes, Marco McClean should be in the final round of five. He's an original incorporator of KZYX, and he currently has very popular shows on KNYO and KMEC. He has mmany years experience in both print and electronic journalism. 

Doug McKenty should also be in the final five. Doug is a former member of KZYX Board of Directors, and, once upon a time, not that long ago, Doug was so popular with listeners that he had three shows on the KZYX schedule. 

And KMUD's Cynthia Click should be in the final five. She's KMUD's music director. Supervises 120 volunteer programmers. 

Instead, we get the "coronation" of Stuart Campbell. 

Stuart Campbell, who has no absolutely fundraising/administration experience, except that experience -- about three months -- which the KZYX Board of Directors gave him out of sheer desperation. Stuart Campbell, who is a part-time, nontenured, adjunct instructor at a Santa Rosa Junior College and who consistently gets lousy writeups from his own students at www.ratemyprofessors.com. Stuart Campbell, who calls himself a "professor of ethics", but who, rather unethically, hijacked the KZYX's GM Search Committee by appointing the committee's chair and many of its members, and insisted on being copied on emails of the committee's work -- a clear conflict of interest for Campbell who knew he would be applying for the GM job. Stuart Campbell who largely makes his way in life by flipping houses. 

Yup. 

The KZYX Board of Directors will crown Campbell and present him with other items of regalia this coming Monday at KZYX Board Chair Meg Courtney's house with acts of homage by the new ruler's subjects to follow. 

All I asked for permission to do was to videotape the coronation. Meg said no. 

Happy Holidays, 

John Sakowicz 
KZYX Board of Directors (2013-2016), Board Treasurer (2014) 

----- Original Message -----

From: "David Gurney" <jugglestone at gmail.com> 
To: "kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org> 
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 9:20:21 PM 
Subject: Re: [Kzyxtalk] Fwd: [KZYX-Board]- video 

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. 

Why isn't Marco (and all the others mentioned) listed as candidate for this job? 

Also imo - the station needs to move it's HQ's to Ukiah and/or Fort Bragg, or perish. 

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 5:43 PM, King Collins < king at greenmac.com > wrote: 

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 

KZYX Chair Meg Courtney, 

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. 

Hiring the GM/Executive Director of a public radio station should be a public process. Transparent. 

It should be 100% transparent. 

I have my concerns. 

The fact that the Search Committee railroaded the search process is deeply distributing. I'll explain. 

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. 

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. 

The committee chose these inferior applicants over an applicant -- a woman -- who is department manager at KMUD. She manages 120 volunteer programmers. 

Really? 

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. 

Really, we bypassed him? 

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! 

Really, we bypassed him, too? 

None of this is fair, Meg. 

I have another concern. 

My other chief concern is that the interviewing process is now being railroaded. I'll explain. 

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. 

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. 

A videotape of Monday's proceeding would be instructive for the public on how our board really conducts its business. 

John Sakowicz 
KZYX Board of Director (2013-2016), Board Treasurer (2014) 

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