WBCR-LP 97.7FM, Great Barrington Community Radio

Minutes February 26, 2009

BCRA Board Meeting
February 26, 2009

Members in Attendance: Paul Rapp, Phil Tierney, Peter Levine, Judy Eddy, Nick Ring

Guests: Jessica Holmes

January Minutes:
Motion to accept. unanimous.

Treasurer’s Report:
Motion to accept: unanimous.

Facilities Report:
Report via phone from chair Ben Shalles. CO will be completed and a new one issued to finish off minor elements of the pace. Discussion of resolving outstanding debts to contractors.  Leak in office between stone wall and poured foundation.  There have been several recent break-ins around town; programmers will be notified to ensure properly locking and alarming of the station.

Fundraising Committee:
Report via phone from chair Serene Mastrianni. March 13 is the house concert at Serene’s house with the Joint Chiefs.  Half of the tickets are currently sold; the rest will be opened up to programmers as available.  March 15 is the kickoff of the on-air fund drive which will run through March 21.  March 15: book and bake sale at the station from 9am-1pm.  March 16, 17, 18: “dine arounds”.  Participating restaurants will be accepting cards (distributed at the station and around town as well as at the restaurants the week before) and pay us $5 per card collected.  Pearls, SoCo, 20 Railroad, Bizen, Cafe Adam, Neighborhood Diner, Baba Louie’s are confirmed and waiting to hear from Napa, Siam Square, and Aroma.  Instant $1 grocery store offering: Berkshire Co-op Market and GB Bagel confirmed, waiting to hear on Guido’s, March 21: Concert In The Flesh at Searle’s gym. Doors at 6, music at 8pm.  $10.  Alborro will be offering mexican food dinners for sale and doing sound and lights.  $250 for S/L plus $1/ticket above 250 tickets sold.  We will apply for a beer/wine license with the town.  March 21, 1pm: Documentary about indigenous peoples and environmental sustainability will be shown at the Mixed Company space; no charge but donations accepted.  March 22: World Water Day Festival with 3 films being shown with “Flow”, “The Whale Rider”, “Titanic”. Director of “Flow” will be on hand. Venue TBD.

Programming Committee:
Listener concern about commercial speech in describing a guest.  PC found no violations, but recommended alternative sources for biographical material.  Several reports of microphones left on and speech that went out on the air.  Met with chair of fundraising committee to confirm fund drive dates.  Programmer complained about her show time being changed in the new schedule.  She brought her complaint to the programming committee.  She was offered two time slots and chose to remain in the slot set for the new schedule.  Paul Fischer, a new programmer, has chosen to withdraw from the schedule due to a complication in the airing of his first program.  PC sent out an email to programmers about transitions between shows.  Harold Schrager has been doing a terrific job coordinating the return of the AM show.  Rishi has done fantastic work corralling the training of new programmers.

Tech Committee:
Committee plans on conducting more real-time meetings via skype.
Turntables: Lots of needle breakage. Peter Levine will coordinate development of turntable policy, training, and safety of the equipment.

Women and LPFM:
Prometheus Radio Project is collecting data on Women and LPFMs to present at the Women and Media conference (http://www.centerfornewwords.org/wam/)..  Nick will coordinate the gathering of information and sharing it with Prometheus.

New Board Member:
Motion: Appoint Jessica Holmes to fill a vacancy on the board of directors.  approved unanimously.  She will transition into the Treasurer position previously held by Judy Eddy.

Next Board Meeting:
Next board meeting will be determined and posted as soon as possible.

Motion to adjourn at 8:17pm.  approved unanimously.

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