WBCR-LP 97.7FM, Great Barrington Community Radio

Meeting Minutes 2.21.07

2.21.07
Board Meeting Minutes
of the
Berkshire Community Radio Alliance

Location:
Zenn New Media, Gt Barrington, MA

In Attendance:
B Shalles, A Hardcastle, P Rapp, D McGrory, C Pizzichemi, P Tierney, J Stefanacci-Seward, N Ring.

Absent:
C Meyer

Guests in attendance:
A Condon

—Convened 7:40pm—

-Agenda-
Motion: To adopt agenda.  Seconded. Approved- Unanimously. for further agenda,
see below.

-Public comment-
A Condon spoke on monthly meeting space, funddrive publicity, berkshire record article.

-Berkshire South-
Motion: to pay berkshire south $70 for every meeting we host there, if they require it.
seconded. discussed. Approved- Unanimous.
Task: jan to contact berkshire south with board decision.
Next General Meeting:
wed february 28th at 7pm @ Berkshire South.
Agenda items to be Spring Funddrive, Democracy Now!

-Berkshire Record Response-
Task: Paul to redraft response letter to Berkshire Record, for next week’s edition.

-Committee Reports-
see attached

-Review of tasks-
Bank account signatories- Partially Accomplished- Task: Jan to visit bank to complete.
Tech committee projection to trez- Not Accomplished
Thank You letters to volunteers- Accomplished

-Review 2007 Budget-
Motion: to accept 2007 budget submitted by trez. seconded. discussed. Approved- unanimously.
See attached.

-March FundDrive-
Discussed. Fundraising and Programming Committees to coordinate.
No action.

-Democracy Now!-
Discussion in light of apparent controversy over schedule changes.
The board is satisfied with the process and procedures followed by the Programming
Committee that led to the discontinuation of the evening airing of Democracy Now!, were in line with the broader mission of the organization.
The Board also expressed the need for better communication and publication from the
Programming Committee in the future, when overseeing significant schedule
changes.

-Public Relations Committee-
Tabled

-Space Committee-
Christopher P. reports no activity of committee.
Discussion of capital campaign.
Motion: to suspend activity of Space Committee, except for collection of space leads,
until capital campaign commences. Seconded. Discussed.
Approved- unanimous.

-Rotary-
The Rotary Club requests that we provide a speaker to one of their meetings, to talk
about WBCR-LP and it’s history.
Nick, Paul, Asa, Jan, and Ben expressed interest in speaking at their meeting. Date to
be determined.

-Board Retreat-
Motion: to have board retreat. seconded. discussed. approved unanimously.
dates and times to be determined.

-Other business-
-Grass Roots Radio Conference scheduled for june 21-24 in lowell, ma.
numerous board members expect to attend.

Adjourned @ 9:48pm

minutes taken by B Shalles.
rock!

wbcr-lp Committee Reports 2.21.07

Finance Committee-
Chris M. reporting
Finance Committee is struggling to get going.  We haven’t met, and I may need to recruit one more person.  Budget and spending policies are at the board for this meeting.

Fundraising Committee-
Chris M.  reporting
We had a very good meeting for the fund drive on Feb 13.  We have a series of premiums, which is something new.  We also have 2 $500 challenge grants, one from Simon’s Rock and one from Greylock Credit Union.  Press releases will go out this week and we’ll have reminder cards sent to lapsed members.  We have Day Captains for the drive and are getting good volunteer sign-ups in the studio.  Hopefully a great fund drive! 

Membership Committee-
Don McG. reporting
To my knowledge there has been no action by the membership committe since the last board meeting.

Programming Committee-
Scott M. reporting
No Report Received

Publicity Committee-
Will McD. reporting
No Report Received

Space Committee-
Christopher P. reporting
No Report Received

Tech Committee-
Nick R. reporting
No Report Received

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