<div dir="auto">Wow, but I'm below the poverty level every tax year somehow. Strange. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 7:38 PM Tim Gregory <<a href="mailto:tgregory@saber.net">tgregory@saber.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Caveat Emptor<br>
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> On Jan 11, 2023, at 2:13 PM, Marco McClean <<a href="mailto:memo@mcn.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">memo@mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 1/11/2023 11:58 AM, JR Rossum wrote:<br>
>> Have you ever noticed how that every time you send them a little <br>
> money, their signal gets weaker and they decide to expand?<br>
> <br>
> JR, have you ever noticed that they pay just the manager and program <br>
> director /all/ the membership money you give the station? Around 2000 <br>
> members at $25 or $50 a year, and a few who give a little extra, amounts <br>
> to $100,000. The manager pays herself $60,000 out of that, plus full <br>
> medical and dental and vision. If the program director gets $40,000, <br>
> then that's all the money, to two people in the office.<br>
> <br>
> But because of donations from corporations and rich ranch families and <br>
> winery types, not to mention the $160,000 annual CPB grant, they have <br>
> enough to pay the surprisingly small expenses of keeping on the air and <br>
> keeping a roof overhead and the lights on, and enough left over so that <br>
> lately they've bought and are spiffing up a new office palace in Ukiah, <br>
> besides. You might recall my mentioning they don't pay the local <br>
> airpeople, and that the airpeople's representative on the board has <br>
> never brought it up, except once at a board meeting when I pointed it <br>
> out, and the aptly named Jerry Karp, the airpeople's representative at <br>
> the time, turned to the boardmember next to him, repeated what I'd said, <br>
> and they both chuckled at the very idea of it.<br>
> <br>
> Any suggestions of improvement or change in any area are simply <br>
> stonewalled and ignored until objectors get tired and go away. That's <br>
> the way it's always been at KZYX, all the way back to 1989. Ask Joel <br>
> Waldman... Oh, wait, you can't. He died of old age waiting twenty-five <br>
> years for his issues to be addressed.<br>
> <br>
> Rudy Redwood wrote, "Geez. It seems like Alicia Bales has been there<br>
> from the start but I thought that she was in the news arena. Too bad <br>
> that these egomaniacs can just randomly fire the volunteers - she was a <br>
> volunteer - not paid - right?"<br>
> <br>
> No, Alicia Bales is the Program Director, the second-highest-paid person <br>
> there, after the manager. Or was until yesterday. Next week there'll be <br>
> another one. Meanwhile I think the second-highest-paid person might be<br>
> the Business Underwriting Coordinator, or the Vice President in Charge <br>
> of Fundraising Strategy. It might be the Logo Designer, or the Bells And <br>
> Whistles Shaker and Blower. I dunno. It won't be any of the local <br>
> airpeople who actually use the transmitter to do radio on KZYX, because <br>
> all of them preparing for and doing their shows all year long, all put <br>
> together, year after year after year, continue to be paid nothing,<br>
> <br>
> --<br>
> Marco McClean, <a href="mailto:memo@mcn.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">memo@mcn.org</a><br>
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