UPDATED UPDATE: Actually this is no big dead according to comments:
............So NEVERMIND.AnonymousAugust 1, 2013 at 8:15 AMyou're getting your meeting types mixed up.
This is a special board meeting, which has a few, easy to meet notice requirements. All it really is is a meeting outside the standard time, which the board has every right to do.
A special membership meeting requires mailed notice to all the members, 5% of the membership to show up, etc, etc.
That is where you can do things like bylaw changes.
This no way has anything to do with board member Timothy Welp appointed as new employee negotiator. Nothing at all. Stop thinking that. In fact, forget you just read it.
The new location for the August 6th board meeting is:
Public Notice
KBOO Board of Directors Meeting for August 2013
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013, 6pm
SEIU Local 503 Union Hall 6401 SE Foster Rd
Portland, OR
One bonus of the harder to access meeting is that it's harder for random KBOO members to just walk off the street and access. Because we've learned transparency and access have only given us trouble. If they don't have a car or don't want to bike home in late dangerous traffic, let them take the bus. With Trimet's cuts, they'll have to leave early.(503) 235-5071seiu503.org
We thank our benefactor Comrade Welp for gifting us this tactic. Welp was first mentioned in comments here:
AnonymousJuly 30, 2013 at 7:54 AMAnother thing that occurred at the board meeting which is interesting.
KBOO appointed a lead negotiator for the foundation/membership in the union negotiations with staff.
Board Member Timothy Welp was selected as the member of choice, likely due to his background in union negotiations. In his day job, Timothy serves as a union organizer at SEIU.
So a union organizer is representing the 5,500 person foundation in negotiations with the newly organized union staffers.
There were no questions about a conflict of interest.
Oh yeah, at the meeting last night Timothy said "in his professional opinion" he does not see the need for KBOO to have lawyers present during negotiations, but only have them for advice if needed.
Don't worry, this should work out fine.
That's right. It will work out fine. And if it doesn't, we can all say, "Oh welp."
In related news, KBOO has yet to explain Lisa Loving's disastrous choice interviewing a UNION BUSTING non profit OSPIRG as blogged here:
http://savekboofromsavekboo.blogspot.com/2013/07/scandal-lisa-loving-interviews-union.html
The comments on KBOO's Facebook timeline are still there:
https://www.facebook.com/kbooradio/posts/10151786890010767
Even the previous comment, where KBOO replied, has no followup:25 July at 07:12 ·
Neil LoehleinKBOO Community Radio
Neil Loehlein ps. I've had two friends fired from OSPIRG while trying to organize a union there, so this is a very important issue to me.Like · Reply · 25 July at 07:15
https://www.facebook.com/kbooradio/posts/10151785078395767
Aaaand, even Lisa "Gee I hope people have forgotten that hacker thing" Loving, who can't afford more bad press, is ignoring the issue:24 July at 09:20 near Portland ·
Chani Geigle-Teller
https://www.facebook.com/lisa.loving/posts/10151653923493673
Lisa Loving24 July at 06:49 near Portland ·
Benny EL Starseed But, did Ospirg talk about the awful benefits and working conditions they provide their canvassers, effectively manipulating and exploiting young activists and busting their attempts to organize themselves?24 July at 09:24 via mobile
It's as if the "Inner Party" is hoping this values discrepancy will go away.
But these are the values of transparency in action, Comrades! There are two sets of values: one for us in the Inner Party, and one for everyone less! We CAN cozy up to UNION BUSTING non-profits, while at the same time using a UNION organizer and UNION resources, all after slandering Fitch as pro UNION BUSTING. Yeah!
And if anyone doesn't like it, "Oh Welp!"
Expect ballots for the upcoming elections to be in, you guessed it, Swedish! (stop groaning)
Hypocrisy! Moral relativism! Solidarity!
-Meresa Titchell
PS: Don't forget to vote on your favorite Condescending Conch.
Also more board meeting reports can be either emailed or posted as comments.
Это время, чтобы остановиться с глупыми шутками шведских, товарищи!
ReplyDeleteحان الوقت لوقف مع النكات غبي السويدية، الرفاق!
ReplyDeleteأنا أوافق، وهذا هو حقا جعل حالة من الفوضى في الموقع!
I could say something about terrorists, but it would be wrong. Very, very wrong. Besides, we already have the Mossad agent below....that's probably enough tastelessness for one comment thread.
Deleteהשבדי לא עוד!
ReplyDeleteClearly a Zionist Mossad agent. Glorious Leader warned us about you people!
Delete"השבדי לא עוד"
DeleteWell duh.
God help us, it's spam.
ReplyDeleteMaybe someone should ask Timothy Welp what he thinks of KBOO's OSPIRG interview...
ReplyDeletetimothyjgwelp@gmail.com
I guess I'm a masochist...I'm going over Theresa's lies:
ReplyDelete"Submitted by Theresa Mitchell on Fri, 07/12/2013 – 4:29pm.
KBOO is suffering a cash crisis, in large part, because the 2012 Winter membership drive was cancelled by the new, brilliant and innovative management. We lost somewhere between fifty and seventy thousand dollars. However, the new management has claimed that thousands of dollars at a time will come in to replace those funds–they were to come from a huge boost in corporate underwriting. We are still waiting for these funds. Fortunately, from decades of funding community radio in the correct manner–that is, receiving funds directly from the listeners–we still have some reserves left."
The reserves are NOT from funds directly from listeners, if this indy comment is correct:
"KBOO built up significant savings when it received CPB (Corp. for Pub. Broadcasting) grant money. That money is nearly gone. There is also $200k in Board Reserves that likely will be used to cover staffing in the near term."
And then later she says it's manufactured:
"The attempt to get rid of Staff en masse by “Station Navigator” Lynn Fitch was often mentioned, and many expressed concern that the Winter Membership drive had been cancelled, with some saying the cancellation had been an attempt to manufacture an economic crisis. "
I know, I know, water under the bridge, but either there's a cash problem, or there isn't. Unlike the "Evil Fitch" meme, it's not something that can be spun. The numbers are there or they're not.
And this latest move with Timmy Welp to look more pro union friendly or shit is not going to change the reality of those numbers.
It may not just be Lisa Loving interviewing union busters.
ReplyDeleteAt the board meeting, Jeff Kipilman seemed to indicate that there are very few law firms capable of representing a membership organization in negotiations.
What if the only feasible option is Bullard Law, wouldn't that be hysterical!
But that would mean KBOO thinks it needs a lawyer, which it doesn't.
"What if the only feasible option is Bullard Law, wouldn't that be hysterical!"
ReplyDeleteThe lulz, just think of the lulz.
I was also thinking of Bullard when I heard they were having trouble finding someone.
Has Welp even been following the saveKBOO/keepkbookboo stuff? Imagine him bringing up Bullard and them having to explain why they can't go with Bullard.
Oh. My. God. lol
you're getting your meeting types mixed up.
ReplyDeleteThis is a special board meeting, which has a few, easy to meet notice requirements. All it really is is a meeting outside the standard time, which the board has every right to do.
A special membership meeting requires mailed notice to all the members, 5% of the membership to show up, etc, etc.
That is where you can do things like bylaw changes.
Aww geez. Now ya tell us.
Delete"Has Welp even been following the saveKBOO/keepkbookboo stuff? Imagine him bringing up Bullard and them having to explain why they can't go with Bullard. "
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing they're regular readers. If they haven't headed that off already, they're working on it after seeing your comment. It would still be funny if that was the only option. Funnier if Bullard told them 'no'.