[Kzyxtalk] The earplug of the board.

[Doug McKenty]

Well. This is a funny story. 

I showed up at the KZYX office yesterday with two other members to see financial and membership information that we had requested access to.  The bylaws clearly state all members can see this information upon request and I have some questions regarding just how much less the station brings in from the community now than it did before its financial collapse in 2007. 

Not only were we denied access to the information we requested but the police were there waiting for us. 

Apparently, Mark Scaramella wrote something in the AVA last week that if Judy Bari had been denied access to these records she would have stormed the station to get them. KZYX staff was frightened that we might get the notion from the article to follow Judi's lead so they called the cops for protection.  The article apparently made them feel we posed a "credible threat" to their personal safety. 

Initially, I just wanted to go over the station's numbers, but considering that the previous GM quit the day after we requested to see the information and the current GM called the cops to make sure we would not get access to it, I am beginning to wonder if something else isn't going on. 

When I explained to the officer on the scene what we were doing, he told me to give him a call if I found evidence of embezzlement. 

Since we were there, we went ahead and took a look at the Public File. Staff was nice enough to allow us to look at it.  It could use an update. 

Doug McKenty. 

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> On Oct 8, 2015, at 3:02 PM, David <uw at kzyx.org> wrote:
> 
> I was at the office yesterday. The four people who wanted to look at the
> KZYX Public Files were given the KZYX Public Files to review, and spent
> about an hour and a half reviewing both files. No director was present to
> request anything further. As for representatives of the MCSO, I trust one or
> more of the four people in attendance can explain why the deputies were
> there.
> 
> David Steffen
> KZYX Business Development
> (707) 895-2324 office
> (707) 322-9895 cell
> (707) 895-2451 fax
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kzyxtalk-bounces at lists.mcn.org [mailto:kzyxtalk-bounces at lists.mcn.org]
> On Behalf Of Marco McClean
> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2015 2:46 PM
> To: kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org
> Subject: [Kzyxtalk] The earplug of the board.
> 
>     Last week I sent email to the MCPB (KZYX) board of directors' 
> account. I got no reply from any of them --not even a "Got your email, 
> thanks, I'm thinking about it." And then it occurred to me...
> 
>     Stuart Campbell, as chairman of the MCPB board, used to stand 
> between the public and the board members and decide what information to 
> pass along to the board, what to angrily bark back about, and what to 
> simply ignore and delete. Now that Stuart is not only /not on the board 
> anymore/ but general manager, actually answerable to the board that sets 
> his rate of pay, I hope he's not still in control of that account, 
> opening and filtering email that listeners and paying members send to 
> the board's account thinking it's going straight from there to each of 
> the board members.
> 
>     And why was there ever such an obfuscatory wall in the first place? 
> Why aren't the directors'/trustees' email addresses posted on KZYX' web 
> page?
> 
>     Also-- was the KZYX so-called news department on the story of 
> Stuart Campbell ringing the station with law enforcement officers to 
> block members of MCPB from seeing station paper records they're entitled 
> by law to read and copy? Because that's news.
> 
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