PACIFICA NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Under the Foundation bylaws, a Delegate must have served at least one year as a Delegate to be eligible for election to the office of Director. The Delegates at each station elect four Directors each year for one-year terms, one of whom is a staff representative Delegate. The bylaws do not address what is to be done if no eligible candidate is willing to serve in a membership category at a station. Eventually, the situation will likely arise, probably in the staff category, where Delegates from a station will waive the one-year service requirement in order to maintain their full complement of Directors.
In addition to Directors chosen by the Delegates, the PNB elects two Affiliate Representative Directors and may optionally resolve to add a maximum of one additional seat for an At-Large Director.
PNB STANDING COMMITTEES
Under the Rules of Order, committee members serve until replaced. At it's January 2008 PNB meeting, the Pacifica National Board replaced the Director members of its standing committees. The Delegate members of these committees serve until replaced by their Local Station Boards, though some are no longer Delegates. Most or all LSBs have not yet elected replacement Delegate representatives to PNB committees for the new term and this is a high priority. Except for the Coordinating Committee, the Finance Committee, the Personnel Committee, the Committee to Investigate Charges of Racism and Sexism, and the Committees of Inclusion, each standing committee may have two Delegate representatives from each station area.
Pursuant to a PNB rule, committee members are removed after three consecutive absences (except for the officers on the Coordinating Committee and the LSB Treasurers on the Finance Committee, who hold those positions with bylaws authority). Meetings that fail to achieve quorum should keep a record of attendance so that vacancies may be claimed to have been created under the PNB rule and so eventually allow committee quorum to be achieved and business to be conducted. Except for rare closed sessions dedicated to or predominantly regarding matters that may be handled as confidential under open meeting requirements, all PNB and PNB standing committee meetings are webstreamed.
Audit Committee
(Members of the PNB Finance Committee may not simultaneously serve on the PNB Audit Committee. Under the California Nonprofit Integrity Act, staff may not serve on the Audit Committee. A legal opinion is needed to determine if this prohibition extends to those that Pacifica calls "unpaid staff," since the restriction may only apply to employees of the Foundation.)
KPFA: Joe Wanzala
KPFK: Jack VanAken
KPFT: Evelyn Bethune
WBAI: Nia Bediako
WPFW: Ambrose Lane
Coordinating Committee (Director Only)
(The Coordinating Committee includes the Foundation officers and a Director from each station.)
CEO: Dan Siegel (interim)
CFO: Lonnie Hicks
PNB Chair: Sherry Gendelman
PNB Vice Chair: Efia Nwangaza
PNB Secretary: Mary Berg
KPFA: Sarv Randhawa
KPFK: Jack VanAken
KPFT: Wendy Schroell
WBAI: Bob Lederer
WPFW: Ambrose Lane
Elections Committee
KPFA: Bonnie Simmons
KPFK: Yosh Yamanaka
KPFT: George Reiter
WBAI: Bob Lederer
WPFW: Rob Robinson
Affil: Efia Nwangaza
Finance Committee
(The chair of the Finance Committee shall be a Director who may be referred to as the Board "Treasurer." However, the Board Treasurer shall not be an officer of the Foundation. The LSB Treasurer at each station is automatically a member of the PNB Finance Committee. The LSB Treasurer need not be an elected Delegate.)
KPFA: Sherry Gendelman
KPFK: Grace Aaron
KPFT: Mike Martin
WBAI: Bob Lederer
WPFW: Rob Robinson
Governance Committee
KPFA: Sarv Randhawa
KPFK: Grace Aaron
KPFT: George Reiter
WBAI: Nia Bediako
WPFW: Ambrose Lane
Personnel Committee (Directors Only)
KPFA: Sarv Randhawa
KPFK: Jack VanAken
KPFT: Evelyn Bethune
WBAI: Nia Bediako
WPFW: Acie Byrd
Affil: Efie Nwangaza
Programming Committee
KPFA: Bonnie Simmons
KPFK: Margaret Prescod
KPFT: George Reiter
WBAI: Lisa Davis
WPFW: Rob Robinson
Affil: Lori Taguma
Technology Committee
KPFA: Bonnie Simmons
KPFK: Jack VanAken
KPFT: Wendy Schroell
WBAI: Carolyn Birden
WPFW: Rob Robinson
Committee to Investigate Charges of Racism and Sexism (Directors Only)
KPFA: Joe Wanzala
KPFK: Yosh Yamanaka
KPFT: Evelyn Bethune
WBAI: Lisa Davis
WPFW: Acie Byrd
TASK FORCES
(The following Task Forces have not placed restrictions on the number of Directors or Delegates who may join or a deadline on applications for membership.)
Affiliates Task Force
KPFT: Mike Martin
Affil: Lori Taguma
Affil: Efia Nwagaza
Archives Task Force
KPFA: Bonnie Simmons
KPFK: Margaret Prescod
KPFT: Wendy Schroell
WPFW: Acie Byrd
Committees of Inclusion
(These committees shall include one Director and three LSB members from each radio station area who shall be elected by their respective LSBs, and such additional individuals as those four shall choose by majority vote.)
2008 PNB Committee Election Results, KPFT
Audit: Staci Davis, Susan Young
Elections: (Postponed)
Finance: Alberto Luera (LSB Treasurer)
Governance: (Postponed)
Programming: Staci Davis, Wesley Bethune
Affiliates: Sandra Rawline, Deb Shafto, Teresa Allen
Archives: Melinda Iley-Dohn, Michael Woodson, Teresa Allen
COI: Curtis Green, Deb Shafto, Teresa Allen
2008 PNB Committee Election Results, KPFK
Affiliates:
Archives:
Audit: Donna Warren, Don White
COI:
Elections: Jan Goodman, Leslie Radford
Finance: Summer Reese (LSB Treasurer)
Governance: Gabrielle Woods, Leslie Radford
Programming: Sherna Gluck, Ian Johnston©
Technology: A Lexa, D Adelson
