[Kzyxtalk] Fwd: [KZYX-Board]- two agenda items

[sako4 at comcast.net]

Subject: [KZYX-Board]- two agenda items 

January 23, 2015 

Dear Stuart Campbell, MCPB Board Vice Chair: 

I understand that you are coordinating our next Board meeting. 

I have important news to report. The FCC just wrote to me in a letter dated January 15, 2015. Apparently, the FCC made a finding of fact that, indeed, as I alleged, the MCPB violated EEOC laws by hiring Paul Lambert in 2011 without posting or advertising the job. 

MCPB has 15 days to respond to the finding...or we will lose our licenses. 

The letter is addressed to MCPB legal counsel, Colin Black Andrews and Melodie Virtue, at Garvey, Schubert & Barer, and is signed by Peter H. Doyle, Chief, Audio Division, Media Bureau, at the FCC. 

Sheila Dawn Tracy, Mary Massey, and the others who filed similar FCC complaints objecting to the renewal of MCPB's licenses pending a change in management, should also have a copy of the same letter I received 

I would like to see this item placed on the agenda for our next Board meeting. 

I have a second item I would like to see placed on the agenda. 

Because I have been denied due process in the appeal of my suspension as a host and producer of a popular public affairs show of more than six years at KZYX and KZYZ due to a trumped up violation, I will soon be complaining to the Inspector General's Office of the CPB, as I have been encouraged to do by others at the CPB. 

The gist of my complaint will be that I have been denied due process by MCPB Chair Eliane Herring's repeated insistence that my appeal can only be heard by MCPB General Manager, John Coate, and Program Director, Mary Aigner, when, in fact, my grievance is directed at Coate and Aigner. 

I have suggested that my grievance be heard by the CPB Ombudsman, Joel Cohen, or another such objective, third-party upon which Coate, Aigner, and myself, and our respective attorneys, can mutually agree. I would also like to have my grievance hearing videotaped. 

The important thing is that the person hearing my grievance be external to KZYX...somone fair and impartial. 

Again, I will be making the case that I was removed from the air solely because I complained to the FCC in my capacity as a KZYX Board member and as former Board Treasurer. 

My FCC complaint voiced my concerns about the following: misappropriation of funds (more than $10,000 stipulated for a Ukiah studio is missing); obfuscation of financial reporting (line items are not consistent across the station's three financial reports -- the GM's Annual Report, the IRS Returns, and the Audit); the frequent and predictable failure of the station's Korean War-era broadcast equipment; the failure of staff to be present on station premises during business hours; the failure of station management to comply with EEOC regulations; the failure by staff to disclosure staff salaries and other financial data; and the meddling in Board election by station management. 

Again, Mr Campbell, I have two agenda items. One, the FCC letter. And, two, my impending complaint to the CPB regarding no due process for my grievance hearing as required and described in station's Policy Handbook. 

I do not consider this letter a privileged communication, because I am its author/sender and waive confidentiality. I strong believe MCPB Board business should be public business. We are, after all, a presumably public radio station. I strongly object to our current practice of secrecy in Board business. 

Thank you. 


John J. Sakowicz 
MCPB Board of Directors (2013-2016), Board Treasurer (2014) 

c/c Peter Doyle; Colin Andrews and Melodie Virtue; Joel Cohen; Mary Mitchelson 



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