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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/29/2015 12:29 PM, Stuart Campbell
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:55919CB1.2010401@comcast.net" type="cite">"Public
Comment" is an agenda item, and it is a time on the agenda for
those in the audience--those present, as I said--to speak. Why
must a Board member or former Board member read your statement,
something for which there is no precedent during the "Public
Comment" period during which you want it done?</blockquote>
<br>
You say, why must you; I say why not? I told you what I want. It
takes up no more time than if I were to read it myself, you refuse
out of spite, and I call that typical, because it is.<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:55919CB1.2010401@comcast.net" type="cite"> If
this is important enough for you to have read at this meeting, I
would encourage you to find someone other than a Board member to
read it during public comment. Or come to the meeting yourself. <br>
We are not trying to control or prevent communication. That's your
characterization, one I do not accept.<br>
</blockquote>
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You don't accept it? I see. Then, when on the air schedule is
the regular unfettered discussion of station business? Why are board
meetings not on the air? Why is there no open forum on the website?
Why have you for so long played goalie to prevent emailed
information from reaching the board?<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:55919CB1.2010401@comcast.net" type="cite"> <br>
The law does not require us to put your emailed request to have
something read at the Board meeting into the public file.<br>
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<b> The FCC requires that anything sent to the station intended
for the public inspection file go into the public inspection file.
I'm sending this to you, Stuart, a representative of the station,
and specifically instructing you to place this and the following
correspondence into KZYX&Z's public inspection file. It should
take you ten seconds to print, and ten seconds to put it in the
file next time you're at the station.</b><b><br>
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Subject: My comment for the public comment period of the Monday,
June 29, 2013 MCPB board meeting in Willits.<br>
<br>
Please print this email out and bring it to the Monday, June 29 MCPB
board meeting in Willits.<br>
<br>
My public comment:<br>
<br>
"I can't make it to the meeting this time. So when you get to the
public comment period I want a board member to read my public
comment aloud into the record. Any board member or former board
member will do. It takes three minutes.<br>
<br>
"MCPB spent $575,000 over the last twelve months. KNYO spent $12,000
in the same time. KMEC spent $19,000. The difference between
operating KNYO at 87 watts and operating KZYX&Z at a total of
about 5,000 watts is about fifteen dollars a day in electricity.
KZYX is spending twenty times what it needs to, even figuring in the
NPR show dues. And KNYO and KMEC have some valuable features that
KZYX lacks, like, for example, downtown performance-space studios on
the street in Fort Bragg and Ukiah and an easily configurable remote
studio system that doesn't require anyone to babysit the main
studio; remote broadcasts are controlled by the remote broadcaster
with one click to go on the air and one click when his or her show
is over. Any airperson can have a durable, portable, high-quality
remote studio for two or three hundred dollars and be up and running
in ten minutes. Those are only a couple of examples; there are more.
So when angry people defend the status quo and KZYX's hemorrhaging
of half a million dollars every year on the grounds that KZYX really
needs to blow through that kind of money to keep the shows on the
air, that's just not true; they have it all wrong. You're doing
everything in the most complicated, byzantine, oppressive way
possible, just as you've been doing for the past twenty-five years,
and the only reason KZYX didn't fail financially every year of its
existence --including this year-- is you've been bailed out by the
annual CPB grant. By anybody's measure, and in any business, that's
appallingly bad corporate management. That's
banana-republic-government-quality management.<br>
<br>
"I know you have a hard time seeing that, for the same reason people
swear by expensive alternative placebo medical products and
procedures. You've already invested so much faith and money --in the
case of KZYX, other people's money-- and you just naturally have to
defend it so you don't feel like a fool. And anyone pointing out
what's wrong with that becomes a threat to your authority, because
if everyone can see what's wrong, then you not only feel like a
fool, you look like one, too. It's just human nature to get huffy
and blame everybody else for the consequences of your own actions. I
understand.<br>
<br>
"So John Coate's going, now. If you must have an imperial manager
and pay him $60,000 a year to hang around the station and do the
lazy afternoon per month of crucial tasks that keep the station
legal, that person might as well be doing a real radio station
manager's work, which at KZYX would include the positions of David
Steffen and Mary Aigner, and so you can let them go. That single
suggestion, if you follow it, saves you $800,000 over the next ten
years, and I have other suggestions that will save you even more
money. I recommend you use that fountain of money to pay the
airpeople, the ones listeners turn on their radios to hear in the
first place.<br>
<br>
(signed) Marco McClean<br>
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Stuart Campbell replied:<br>
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I'm sorry Marco, but public comment has always been an opportunity
for those present to speak. We have no provision for reading
statements by proxy during that agenda item. If you can find someone
on your own to use their time to read your statement, that is, of
course, yours & their choice.<br>
<br>
That being said, Director John Sakowicz had asked for an agenda item
to discuss stripping staff members of their salaries, and it is on
the agenda as an item from a Board member. So, it would appear that
your idea will be brought up.<br>
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And I wrote:<br>
<br>
This is exactly what I'm talking about, Stuart. "No provision
during that agenda item"? Is there no public comment time
unrelated to a specific agenda item? You're sitting right there in
plain sight. Three minutes is three minutes. And my "idea", in
this case, is not to "strip staff members of their salaries" but
to remove goldbrickers from the trough and get the real workers
paid. Meetings are too few and far between, and this week I'm on a
job a four-hour round trip from Willits, and people sympathetic to
good radio and good governance have their own bits to bring up in
their allotted three minutes of squeak time. I /am/ getting
someone to read my comment: someone on the board; if not you then
another, and if each of you refuses, wow.<br>
Stuart, you've already prevented the public and membership
from communicating out of your control via the public resource of
the air, nor via any kind of open forum on the website, and you
play information goalie to prevent free communication between the
public and the board via email, and you and your cabal have
actively prevented my excellent literacy-project show from ever
being on KZYX at all, so...<br>
<br>
All right, you've always been like that, you'll continue being
like that; it's who you are.<b> Put what I wrote, and what I
write, into the station's public inspection file.</b> That,
anyway, is an explicitly spelled-out law.<br>
<br>
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