[Kzyxtalk] "pretty solid" advice

[Scott Peterson]

Dear Mr./Ms. SM,

When a public radio station takes a million dollars in grant money from the

Corporation for Public Broadcasting, it's supposed to respect their rules. 

Open meetings is one of them:

http://www.cpb.org/files/stations/non-compliance/CPB-CSG-Non-compliance-Policy-Effective-January-1-2016.pdf

Whenever a meeting is closed, reasons must be documented and provided

to the public. Those aren't my rules. They're the CPB's rules.

Another rule is 'Open Financial Records'. I don't see any sense to a policy 

that says: "No review (of the Form 990) was or will be conducted."

Especially when that policy is stated for five years in a row. Under penalty

of perjury. On the Form 990s themselves. Not to mention the absence of

audited financial statements where they should have been. 

As far as a hand-wringing conspiracy: I don't recall using that word. Or

even suggesting the concept. Should I be? What I see is a culture of

laziness and apathy. Dating back to 1995. And how certain individuals

exploited that culture.

So I appreciate your thoughts on closed meetings. Very much so. But

how do you feel about the Form 990 issue? And the apparent lack of

audited financial statements?

Sincerely,

Scott M. Peterson

Mendocino

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> Scott Peterson. Ellen Saxe was making a regular Board report of CAB 
activities. Her comments were not her, or the CAB's recommendations, 
they were just a report of what listeners said at a CAB meeting. 
Providing listener input to the Board is one of the functions of the CAB 
and I think that Ellen takes her duties seriously. Listeners comments 
were not nasty or nice, they were just opinions.

E-mail is the way than many organizations do business. Would you object 
if they exchanged paper mail or phoned each other when working on 
something? Boards of Directors everywhere have closed face-to-face 
meetings when discussing employee matters. This is widely considered to 
be the ethical thing to do.

How do I feel about e-mail business and closed meetings? I pretty much 
don't care because I and the great majority of other members of KZYX 
like the product of the station. What horrible, nefarious conspiracy do 
you think is being cooked up in your imagined secret meetings of this 
very small, non-profit organization run primarily by enthusiastic 
volunteers?

The meeting minutes haven't been approved yet. Why don't you just call 
the business number at the station and politely ask about them. SM 		 	   		  
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