<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Fact check: Half of KZYX's budget is spent on salaries and benefits. Look at our published financials.</div><div><br></div><div>Further fact check: KZYX's GM makes just shy of $60,000. Remember, John Coate gave himself a 10 per cent raise back in the summer of 2013 -- way back when a third of all county employees were being pink slipped and its remaining workers were forced to take a 10 per cent pay cut. </div><div><br></div><div>So much for worker solidarity here at KZYX, your would-be community and public radio station!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Further fact check: Mary Aigner, Program Director, is entirely superfluous. She's unnecessary. Dead weight. During the almost seven years that I had a biweekly show on KZYX, Aigner did nothing to help me. Nothing. Zero. Nada. Zilch. I planned all my own shows. I scheduled all my own guests. Every single one. I outlined all shows. Prepared all questions. And, I did all my own follow-up, including thanking guests.</div><div><br></div><div>Aigner, and her snarky attitude -- for which she is justly infamous -- only got in my way.</div><div><br></div><div>Question: Exactly what does Mary Aigner do to earn her annual salary of $50,000, plus benefits?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"David" <uw@kzyx.org><br><b>To: </b>"kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, November 2, 2015 1:53:42 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Kzyxtalk] nly contribute to a public radio station that pays its airpeople as much per hour as it pays their boss. There are plenty such stations around. Look them up.<br><div><br></div>Marco.<br><div><br></div>It would be useful if you would spend a little time fact-checking. To begin,<br>start with facts.<br><div><br></div>First, you suggest that KZYX salaries are unknown. The GM's salary is (and<br>has been) known for years. It's been published on the KZYX website and<br>continues to be published on the KZYX website: $54,000 (look at the IRS form<br>990).<br><div><br></div>Second, you state (as if there's a basis for it) that "a good guess for what<br>David Steffen, the "business underwriting coordinator", was paid is in the<br>$40,000 to $50,000 range." Wrong.<br><div><br></div>As usual you fail to report that, as I announced at a board meeting last<br>spring, I'm paid a salary equivalent to $15.00 per hour, the oft-cited<br>"living wage" in Northern California. Do the math. That puts my income at<br>$31,200. That's assuming I worked only 40 hours per week. I wish. The<br>reality is that I work more like 60 hours per week. If you doubt that this<br>was announced publicly, feel free to check with the AVA's reporter who was<br>in attendance.<br><div><br></div>Third, as for "vilifying . . . people", perhaps you're referring to the KZYX<br>board meeting in Willits where I asked one board member to apologize for his<br>unprovoked personal attacks. He would not. I asked that same board member to<br>apologize to a contributing member of the station for telling that member to<br>"go fuck yourself". He offered no apology for that either.<br><div><br></div>David Steffen<br><div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Kzyxtalk mailing list<br>Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br>http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>