<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><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>sako4@comcast.net<br><b>To: </b>"MCPB Board" <bod@kzyx.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, December 3, 2015 5:18:22 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: KZYX - Contact the Board -- Please forward my response to Mr. McClean<br><div><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Dear Mr. McClean:</div><div><br></div><div>Why do we the MCPB Board of Directors act in secret? Why, Mr. McClean? Because information is power. Because so much of what we do here at KZYX is secret. We could write secrecy into our By-laws , and, really, no one would know the difference.</div><div><br></div><div>Remember, we're not really a public radio station, Mr. McClean. You must have us confused with KMUD. No, Mr. McClean, we're a private clubhouse here at KZYX. We're closed to people like you who ask questions, who criticize staff, who challenge authority -- in a word, people who believe that public radio belongs to the public.</div><div><br></div><div>No, we will not disclose the names of the Search Committee. Nor will we disclose the names of the twelve applicants for the GM position, no matter how qualified they may be. Why? Because we don't want qualified applicants. We want more of the same autocratic, controlling, exclusionary management style a la John Coate and Mary Aigner.</div><div><br></div><div>In other words, Mr. McClean, we want Stuart Campbell. Indeed, he applied for the job.</div><div><br></div><div>Forget for a moment that Campbell has no nonprofit fundraising/administration experience, except for that which Coate and Aigner gave Campbell. </div><div><br></div><div>Forget that Campbell was a part-time, adjunct faculty instructor at a junior college who remodeled and flipped houses before he landed here at our doorstep at KZYX. </div><div><br></div><div>Forget that many of Campbell's students gave him low grades at ratemyprofessors.com, despite Campbell's propensity of giving everyone in the class an overly-generous "A" -- damn, you can't fool those kids.</div><div><br></div><div>Forget that Campbell's show here at KZYX is tedious and boring, and that Campbell's show rarely makes its Pledge Drive goals except through the help of so-called anonymous gifts that we throw his way.</div><div><br></div><div>Why do we want Campbell as our next GM?</div><div><br></div><div>It's simple, stupid.</div><div><br></div><div>We want Campbell because he is one of us. </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your question.</div><div><br></div><div>Happy Holidays,</div><div><br></div><div>John Sakowicz, MCPB Board of Directors (2013-2016), Board Treasurer (2014)</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>"KZYX Admin" <bod@kzyx.org><br><b>To: </b>bod@kzyx.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, December 3, 2015 4:20:40 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>KZYX - Contact the Board<br><div><br></div><title>Email</title><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="mceItemTable"><tbody><tr><td>Your Name</td><td>Marco McClean</td></tr><tr><td>Your Email</td><td>memo@mcn.org</td></tr><tr><td>Message:</td><td>Please explain to the paying members and the public why the so-called search committee for a manager for KZYX&Z is performing its deliberations entirely in secret, and why even the names of the people on the committee are being kept a secret. <br> <br>And explain your reasoning for keeping secret from the full board of directors, much less the public, the applications and resumes of the people who have applied. Why shouldn't we all be involved in the process instead of being shut out of the loop entirely? <br> <br>If you won't put these simple things on the station's website, nor talk about them on the air, nor group-email them to the membership, simply email them to me --one email-- and I'll read them on KNYO and KMEC. And/or you can email them to the Anderson Valley Advertiser. Or --and here's a thought-- you can tell one of your news reporters, and distribute the information via the KZYX news. <br> <br>It would be much more ethical for you to not do everything in secret in the first place as though the inner workings of a tiny noncommercial radio station are a matter of national security, but if that's not going to change, at least make the entertaining five-minute effort to explain why. <br> <br>Marco McClean <br>memo@mcn.org <br>http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com</td></tr></tbody></table><br><div><br></div>Submitted by 184.23.130.50</div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>