Tillicum Foundation
Board of Directors Meeting
September 14, 2006
Tillicum House
OFFICIAL APPROVED MINUTES
Call to order 5:00PM
Attendance: Directors Ambrose, Cullimore, McLaughlin, Merritt, Newman, Price, Westerberg. Staff:
Hammock, Layton, Rideout. Guest: Jane Hill.
1. Approval of August 10 minutes. Ambrose moves. McLaughlin seconds. Unanimous.
2. Approval of August 25 special session minutes. Ambrose moves. Westerberg seconds.
Unanimous (with exception of Newman, who was not present at the meeting).
3. Staff reports:
Programming. Report accepted with thanks. Policy portion of volunteer manual distributed. Will
be reviewed ASAP and comments sent before programmers class on the 26th.
Ambrose appreciates KCPB tweaks and screening of new programmers.
Development: Report accepted with thanks. McLaughlin will meet with Arlene re “spreading
the gospel” on major gifts. Arlene reports Steve Forrester has become a major supporter and is
helping much to defray costs on Barbara Blair event. Liberty has approached Arlene re ongoing
underwriting collaboration. KMUN being recognized as cultural place for getting audiences.
News: Report accepted with thanks. Senior conference may result in a half-hour monthly show
on senior issues during the free half-hour on Mondays at 9:30am. Working title: “The Senior
Moment.” Uplink of stories requires some scrambling but can be FTP’d to server and anyone can
get them; depends on whether the story has a regional interest. Joanne does it as much as
possible.
4. General Manager’s Report.
a. Total cash on hand $54,559.95. Doesn’t include any September expenses.
b. Monthly financial spread sheet shows 11/12ths of the fiscal year. Concerns that we’ve
had with our year have had to do with future NFFS and what tier we’ll be in. This year we broke
even; previous years we’ve earned more revenue than we spent. Because of construction and
unexpected issues, we’re closer to breaking even this year but we won’t be in a bad situation.
Newman questions Development expenses – some at 172%.
Cullimore notes higher income from Megler. Hammock reports we began collecting additional
rents from EMF.
c. Final pledge drive numbers. $28,818.37 pledged. 423 pledges. Collected as of today:
$19,665.47. Third most successful summer drive ever. Doesn’t include challenge grants. We have
a high rate of actual return on pledges but it sometimes takes 2-3 months for it to come in. Two-
edged sword on PayPal: close to 50 people have been doing auto withdrawal and we don’t
really collect the $120 in one fiscal year. We need to tweak it somehow.
d. Special appeal was sent to every member whose membership had expired in this fiscal
year. To date have received about $3,800 in responses and 71 renewals, out of about 300.
e. Challenge grants: Over $10,000 pledge; have received all but about $2,000. Each grant
takes at least a half-hour conversation, so Arlene is soliciting Board help. The bad side is that we’
re getting into a culture where “I gave you $1,000 for that pledge drive and that’s it,” but we
want to pursue more.
f. Price expresses gratitude to staff for good job on drive.
g. KCPB October 14-20 pledge drive allows maximim use of national resources including the pitch
break channel that carries most of ME, with additional cutaways for pledging. Production control
room will be KCPB studio for the week. Joe, Elizabeth and Dave H will carry the on-air duties
along with interested program volunteers. Last staff meeting mostly about who does what.
Board members solicited for help. Westerberg would like to help during the four-hour classical
block. Hammock plans 7a-1p and 4p-7p for pitching. Performance Today is easier to break into.
Margarita asks whether Democracy Now! could be on both KMUN and KCPB. Could it be
morning and evening? Hammock isn’t in a hurry to make such a move. We only do an hour of NPR
on morning and afternoon drives; don’t know that we could do much to add DN! without taking
something off or displacing a local programmer, and doesn’t see anything he’d be comfortable
taking off to put in DN!.
Cullimore: As we were doing the bylaws, stations were saying that the biggest money maker
is when they have news, which gives both prestige and money.
Hammock: If we’re looking at it from a revenue enhancement standpoint – and this isn’t a slur
on the program – DN! isn’t the one that’s going to generate money. If you want just to make
money, run NPR all the time. The reason I could be convinced to move it around in the future
would be from a constituency standpoint, not revenue.
5. General Station Activities
1. Wheeler translator – Chuck rewrote Hammock’s paragraph and sent it to the community,
and people are happy that work is ongoing. Chuck’s been asking people in different locations:
North Folk reception is clear; behind the mountain is clear; where Chuck is is clear; haven’t heard
from Neahkanie mountain. Cost to clear up interference about $1500, not counting the time of
people already on the payroll. Someone is coming out with a $4,000 spectrum analyzer – much
cheaper than the $25,000 device we borrowed from EMF; it draws a picture of your signal. Chuck
got call from lady who lives on Neahkanie who listens to a Portland station that is 89.9; she says
88.9 interferes with 89.9 in her car and she’s unhappy about it.
2. Someone ran into the corner post upholding the porch roof; Albert is on it. The cedar post
replacement is coming in. Ray says it’s always been broken. Hammock will ask Albert to get in
touch with Ray. Dave A says we’re in for another El Nino this year, so we may have a lot more
luck with dry days than usual.
3. The Current. Newman: Did you get an email about waiting? I got no response. Hammock:
Two people is not a majority of the board. There’s no way we could have gotten notice out to call
for nominations and make notice of meeting without going ahead. If the Board takes action to
put bylaws before the membership Dave will put out a special edition. Newman: First we have to
see if it passes. The issues that caused the contention were removed. Cullimore: It doesn’t really
matter because we haven’t agreed on the bylaws.
Arlene: Production-wise: Daily A asked if we would always be doing .pdfs? They’d be much
happier. LazerQuik printed it this time.
4. “On Principle.” Newman: AAUW is having an issues forum at the Kern Room of the Maritime
Museum on October 3rd. Arline Lamear is going to try and switch the date so it doesn’t conflict
with On Principle.
6. Old business.
A. Strategic Plan. Cullimore asks if Cindy worked with Hammock on it. No.
B. Current: David Paul tells Carol he’s ready to go. Teresa deLorenzo, David Paul, Bob
Goldberg, another person have expressed interest. Dave H will contact David Paul and get a
team together, with Dave H being the final proofer.
C. NFCB meeting. Next window is January.
D. KOUW interested in board get-togethers. Everyone agrees is a fine idea.
7. Draft FY06-07 operating budget. (Hammock presentation) Column L is what was budgeted in
FY06 for the station; Column P carries forward what we’re doing with increases in items we know
will need increased. Column Q is what we’ve actually received or spent in FY06 through August
31, so it’s 11/12s of the FY. Column R is an estimation based on budget numbers of what we’re
looking at for an FY07 NFFS.
The other line item that has changed is that, thanks to Arlene’s efforts working with
Bloomfield, we’re about to submit a grant for support of classical programming on KCPB, in the
amount of $5,000 (which we’ve received in the past).
Have tried to make sure numbers are realistic in what we’re spending and be conservative in
what we might bring in. Have been more modest with enterprise income.
The ugly part is that looking at revenues for FY07, we’re $33K under. There are two ways to
look at cutting it: cutting expenses or finding additional revenue. One thing not included in
revenue is any sort of carry-over from the current FY. Have in bank today almost $55K; doesn’t
include September charges. Average monthly charges are $29K. Want to pay off everything we
can by end of FY, so estimating $35K in September charges. Should leave us on September 30
with $19,500 in the bank. $4,300 is in an investment account and not particularly liquid; cashing
it would cause a small penalty. None of this included in FY07 budget. Remember, the roof was
going to come out of foundation reserves, which is what this number represents.
Hammock raises an “unpopular issue”: He’s compelled to point out that we are leaving a
$9,000 offer on the table – the OPB/KCPB partnership. Whether we like it or not, OPB is coming
into this market. About two weeks ago, they filed a modification for their construction permit
which means they’ve found a location for their transmitter. They could be on the air quickly.
Merritt: Can we find out where they’re going to locate?
Cullimore: They are going to come in. If they were to come in, wouldn’t that absolutely absorb
the market? KMUN would have to concentrate on very strong local programming. KCPB and OPB
would be in partnership.
Hammock: There are people who are in fact migrating from KMUN to KCPB. Some listen to both,
but the fact remains that what KMUN does is a very popular and a strong programming service in
this community. The impact of OPB coming into the market will be marginal on KMUN. No station
of the group in Portland has fewer listeners now than it had in the past. The fear he has is that
KCPB’s audience will move to OPB. He’d like to work in some kind of tandom; what they’ve
proposed is considerably less from them and more from us.
Ambrose: When we set up KCPB it was to provide national programming for Warrenton and
Astoria. We have a direct competition that also has a northwest news focus that we’ll never
have on KCPB; we can never put any local content on KCPB. I think it’s reasonable that we work
with KOPB.
McLaughlin: But Portland also has a growing population that we don’t have.
Layton: OPB’s underwriting rates will be very high for this area. I wish we had a strong hour of
local news.
Cullimore: That would have to come on KMUN.
Hammock: Five hours each weekday KCPB would carry a repeat of OPB – with their inserts. We
would own the minute at the top of each hour. If I’m given a green light, I’ll go ahead and
renegotiate. Criegler thinks it would be illegal for KCPB to carry OPB’s membership drive. I’d like
to see the translator they’ve licensed to be here become a translator of KCPB and we use it to fill
in some of the gaps in coverage. It would have been easier to do that before they filed their
recent modification. They might also try to relocate their translator so that it serves someplace
like Seaside. There are two elements: One is that it’s a potential source of revenue. But that’s
not enough. There’s a reluctance among some board members to engage with OPB on any level.
But if we do nothing, there will be a pledge drive for OPB on the air.
Rideout: The stations in NPAN run their news all about the same. The benefit is that OPB pays
us to run our stories. It wouldn’t be that much different from what you hear now, except the
station would get some revenue.
Westerberg: What’s the time constraint?
Hammock: It’s more like a glacier than a horse race. I don’t know that it’s going to happen
immediately.
Cullimore: I cannot separate KMUN and KCPB completely. The only way we will keep our
listenership is by very strong local programming -- not regional but local. Are we going to be able
to have enough resources to build a really strong news department and collaborations with
public affairs?
Newman: We were talking about the budget and that this is a possible source of revenue. I’d
like to take it off the table completely. I’ll raise $9,000 to keep OPB out of the Tillicum Foundation.
If someone wants to tune into the OPB pledge drive 24/7, fine; people will keep their money
here.
MOTION: Dave H contact OPB and explore a new arrangement or agreement to co-broadcast
OPB and KCPB. Ambrose moves. Westerberg seconds. Nos: Chuck, Cindy, Carol. Yeas: Dave, Ray,
Bob, Margarita. Motion passes.
Ambrose: What the figures are now saying is that we have no cash reserves. Essentially there
is no money floating in our system. Thrilled to see we’re pursuing some grants.
Cullimore: We may not have reserves but we have more expenses than before, eg, Joanne’s
salary which came out of Sound Partners but is now covered by general funds.
MOTION: To adopt the first reading of the budget. Price moves. Ambrose seconds. Unanimous.
Hammock distributes revenue pages for FY04 & FY05, for comparison purposes..
8. Annual meeting plans. Saturday, November 11. 9am breakfast, 10am meeting. At Grace
Episcopal Church. Last year’s crew will be put together by Dave H.
MOTION: To broadcast annual meeting. Price moves. Newman seconds. Yeas: Cullimore,
McLaughlin, Westerberg. Nays: Ambrose, Merritt. Motion passes.
9. By-laws amendments.
MOTION: To rescind the votes made during the August 14 special session. McLaughlin moves.
Newman seconds. Ayes: Cullimore, Merritt, Price, Westerberg. Abstain: Ambrose
<secretary leaves the room for a moment>
Newman: The main change in this document is that the major changes proposed in August
were deleted. Most of the changes have to do with housekeeping and with deadlines for the
Current. Some of Cindy’s suggestions are included. Also, the original was written in essay form
while this document is more bulleted.
Hammock: The concerns I’d had were some of the specific references to annual meeting
notices that addressed publications that no longer exist. That’s been taken care of with this
document.
MOTION: That the amended bylaws be approved as amended, subject to grammatical
corrections, and presented to the membership in a special Current and at the November annual
meeting, for adoption at that meeting. McLaughlin moves. Cullimore seconds. Discussion ensues.
Newman: Do we need to have Jack Cullimore print the old one, the new one, and send it out
to entire membership now and then again with the ballots? Would it be good enough to put it on
the web and announce on the air that it’s on the web and will be sent with ballots.
Westerberg: The more communication we can do ahead of time, the better.
Cullimore: Legally you have to have both.
Price: I received the document mid-morning and haven’t had the opportunity to read it. Given
that some of us would like to reconsider some of the more major changes suggested in August,
are the changes in this current document weighty enough to go through the process of
presenting them this year?
Call for the question. Yeas: Ambrose, Cullimore, McLaughlin, Merritt, Newman, Westerberg.
Price: Abstains. Motion passes.
Newman wants to alert the membership at the annual meeting that there are some additional
ideas for changes to the bylaws, including increasing board members and having some
appointed by the Board..
10. KCPB: mission statement. Tabled.
11. Staff update: [Hammock reporting]
Liz Diamond has given notice. Her last day full-time is November 3rd; afterwards she’s willing
to look at a job-sharing situation. This won’t affect our NFFS status. Tom Hartland will work one-
day a week beginning next week. We’ll be getting another work-study student who looks sharp.
Next board meeting: October 12. Ambrose and Newman will be out of town.
Troll Radio: September 30.
Barbara Blair fundie: October 28
Annual meeting: November 11, 9:00 breakfast, 10:00 meeting
7:19pm adjourned to Executive Session.
Respectfully submitted,
Cindy Price
Secretary
15 September 2006
Approved by the Tillicum Foundation Board of Directors
October 12, 2006
Board of Directors Meeting
September 14, 2006
Tillicum House
OFFICIAL APPROVED MINUTES
Call to order 5:00PM
Attendance: Directors Ambrose, Cullimore, McLaughlin, Merritt, Newman, Price, Westerberg. Staff:
Hammock, Layton, Rideout. Guest: Jane Hill.
1. Approval of August 10 minutes. Ambrose moves. McLaughlin seconds. Unanimous.
2. Approval of August 25 special session minutes. Ambrose moves. Westerberg seconds.
Unanimous (with exception of Newman, who was not present at the meeting).
3. Staff reports:
Programming. Report accepted with thanks. Policy portion of volunteer manual distributed. Will
be reviewed ASAP and comments sent before programmers class on the 26th.
Ambrose appreciates KCPB tweaks and screening of new programmers.
Development: Report accepted with thanks. McLaughlin will meet with Arlene re “spreading
the gospel” on major gifts. Arlene reports Steve Forrester has become a major supporter and is
helping much to defray costs on Barbara Blair event. Liberty has approached Arlene re ongoing
underwriting collaboration. KMUN being recognized as cultural place for getting audiences.
News: Report accepted with thanks. Senior conference may result in a half-hour monthly show
on senior issues during the free half-hour on Mondays at 9:30am. Working title: “The Senior
Moment.” Uplink of stories requires some scrambling but can be FTP’d to server and anyone can
get them; depends on whether the story has a regional interest. Joanne does it as much as
possible.
4. General Manager’s Report.
a. Total cash on hand $54,559.95. Doesn’t include any September expenses.
b. Monthly financial spread sheet shows 11/12ths of the fiscal year. Concerns that we’ve
had with our year have had to do with future NFFS and what tier we’ll be in. This year we broke
even; previous years we’ve earned more revenue than we spent. Because of construction and
unexpected issues, we’re closer to breaking even this year but we won’t be in a bad situation.
Newman questions Development expenses – some at 172%.
Cullimore notes higher income from Megler. Hammock reports we began collecting additional
rents from EMF.
c. Final pledge drive numbers. $28,818.37 pledged. 423 pledges. Collected as of today:
$19,665.47. Third most successful summer drive ever. Doesn’t include challenge grants. We have
a high rate of actual return on pledges but it sometimes takes 2-3 months for it to come in. Two-
edged sword on PayPal: close to 50 people have been doing auto withdrawal and we don’t
really collect the $120 in one fiscal year. We need to tweak it somehow.
d. Special appeal was sent to every member whose membership had expired in this fiscal
year. To date have received about $3,800 in responses and 71 renewals, out of about 300.
e. Challenge grants: Over $10,000 pledge; have received all but about $2,000. Each grant
takes at least a half-hour conversation, so Arlene is soliciting Board help. The bad side is that we’
re getting into a culture where “I gave you $1,000 for that pledge drive and that’s it,” but we
want to pursue more.
f. Price expresses gratitude to staff for good job on drive.
g. KCPB October 14-20 pledge drive allows maximim use of national resources including the pitch
break channel that carries most of ME, with additional cutaways for pledging. Production control
room will be KCPB studio for the week. Joe, Elizabeth and Dave H will carry the on-air duties
along with interested program volunteers. Last staff meeting mostly about who does what.
Board members solicited for help. Westerberg would like to help during the four-hour classical
block. Hammock plans 7a-1p and 4p-7p for pitching. Performance Today is easier to break into.
Margarita asks whether Democracy Now! could be on both KMUN and KCPB. Could it be
morning and evening? Hammock isn’t in a hurry to make such a move. We only do an hour of NPR
on morning and afternoon drives; don’t know that we could do much to add DN! without taking
something off or displacing a local programmer, and doesn’t see anything he’d be comfortable
taking off to put in DN!.
Cullimore: As we were doing the bylaws, stations were saying that the biggest money maker
is when they have news, which gives both prestige and money.
Hammock: If we’re looking at it from a revenue enhancement standpoint – and this isn’t a slur
on the program – DN! isn’t the one that’s going to generate money. If you want just to make
money, run NPR all the time. The reason I could be convinced to move it around in the future
would be from a constituency standpoint, not revenue.
5. General Station Activities
1. Wheeler translator – Chuck rewrote Hammock’s paragraph and sent it to the community,
and people are happy that work is ongoing. Chuck’s been asking people in different locations:
North Folk reception is clear; behind the mountain is clear; where Chuck is is clear; haven’t heard
from Neahkanie mountain. Cost to clear up interference about $1500, not counting the time of
people already on the payroll. Someone is coming out with a $4,000 spectrum analyzer – much
cheaper than the $25,000 device we borrowed from EMF; it draws a picture of your signal. Chuck
got call from lady who lives on Neahkanie who listens to a Portland station that is 89.9; she says
88.9 interferes with 89.9 in her car and she’s unhappy about it.
2. Someone ran into the corner post upholding the porch roof; Albert is on it. The cedar post
replacement is coming in. Ray says it’s always been broken. Hammock will ask Albert to get in
touch with Ray. Dave A says we’re in for another El Nino this year, so we may have a lot more
luck with dry days than usual.
3. The Current. Newman: Did you get an email about waiting? I got no response. Hammock:
Two people is not a majority of the board. There’s no way we could have gotten notice out to call
for nominations and make notice of meeting without going ahead. If the Board takes action to
put bylaws before the membership Dave will put out a special edition. Newman: First we have to
see if it passes. The issues that caused the contention were removed. Cullimore: It doesn’t really
matter because we haven’t agreed on the bylaws.
Arlene: Production-wise: Daily A asked if we would always be doing .pdfs? They’d be much
happier. LazerQuik printed it this time.
4. “On Principle.” Newman: AAUW is having an issues forum at the Kern Room of the Maritime
Museum on October 3rd. Arline Lamear is going to try and switch the date so it doesn’t conflict
with On Principle.
6. Old business.
A. Strategic Plan. Cullimore asks if Cindy worked with Hammock on it. No.
B. Current: David Paul tells Carol he’s ready to go. Teresa deLorenzo, David Paul, Bob
Goldberg, another person have expressed interest. Dave H will contact David Paul and get a
team together, with Dave H being the final proofer.
C. NFCB meeting. Next window is January.
D. KOUW interested in board get-togethers. Everyone agrees is a fine idea.
7. Draft FY06-07 operating budget. (Hammock presentation) Column L is what was budgeted in
FY06 for the station; Column P carries forward what we’re doing with increases in items we know
will need increased. Column Q is what we’ve actually received or spent in FY06 through August
31, so it’s 11/12s of the FY. Column R is an estimation based on budget numbers of what we’re
looking at for an FY07 NFFS.
The other line item that has changed is that, thanks to Arlene’s efforts working with
Bloomfield, we’re about to submit a grant for support of classical programming on KCPB, in the
amount of $5,000 (which we’ve received in the past).
Have tried to make sure numbers are realistic in what we’re spending and be conservative in
what we might bring in. Have been more modest with enterprise income.
The ugly part is that looking at revenues for FY07, we’re $33K under. There are two ways to
look at cutting it: cutting expenses or finding additional revenue. One thing not included in
revenue is any sort of carry-over from the current FY. Have in bank today almost $55K; doesn’t
include September charges. Average monthly charges are $29K. Want to pay off everything we
can by end of FY, so estimating $35K in September charges. Should leave us on September 30
with $19,500 in the bank. $4,300 is in an investment account and not particularly liquid; cashing
it would cause a small penalty. None of this included in FY07 budget. Remember, the roof was
going to come out of foundation reserves, which is what this number represents.
Hammock raises an “unpopular issue”: He’s compelled to point out that we are leaving a
$9,000 offer on the table – the OPB/KCPB partnership. Whether we like it or not, OPB is coming
into this market. About two weeks ago, they filed a modification for their construction permit
which means they’ve found a location for their transmitter. They could be on the air quickly.
Merritt: Can we find out where they’re going to locate?
Cullimore: They are going to come in. If they were to come in, wouldn’t that absolutely absorb
the market? KMUN would have to concentrate on very strong local programming. KCPB and OPB
would be in partnership.
Hammock: There are people who are in fact migrating from KMUN to KCPB. Some listen to both,
but the fact remains that what KMUN does is a very popular and a strong programming service in
this community. The impact of OPB coming into the market will be marginal on KMUN. No station
of the group in Portland has fewer listeners now than it had in the past. The fear he has is that
KCPB’s audience will move to OPB. He’d like to work in some kind of tandom; what they’ve
proposed is considerably less from them and more from us.
Ambrose: When we set up KCPB it was to provide national programming for Warrenton and
Astoria. We have a direct competition that also has a northwest news focus that we’ll never
have on KCPB; we can never put any local content on KCPB. I think it’s reasonable that we work
with KOPB.
McLaughlin: But Portland also has a growing population that we don’t have.
Layton: OPB’s underwriting rates will be very high for this area. I wish we had a strong hour of
local news.
Cullimore: That would have to come on KMUN.
Hammock: Five hours each weekday KCPB would carry a repeat of OPB – with their inserts. We
would own the minute at the top of each hour. If I’m given a green light, I’ll go ahead and
renegotiate. Criegler thinks it would be illegal for KCPB to carry OPB’s membership drive. I’d like
to see the translator they’ve licensed to be here become a translator of KCPB and we use it to fill
in some of the gaps in coverage. It would have been easier to do that before they filed their
recent modification. They might also try to relocate their translator so that it serves someplace
like Seaside. There are two elements: One is that it’s a potential source of revenue. But that’s
not enough. There’s a reluctance among some board members to engage with OPB on any level.
But if we do nothing, there will be a pledge drive for OPB on the air.
Rideout: The stations in NPAN run their news all about the same. The benefit is that OPB pays
us to run our stories. It wouldn’t be that much different from what you hear now, except the
station would get some revenue.
Westerberg: What’s the time constraint?
Hammock: It’s more like a glacier than a horse race. I don’t know that it’s going to happen
immediately.
Cullimore: I cannot separate KMUN and KCPB completely. The only way we will keep our
listenership is by very strong local programming -- not regional but local. Are we going to be able
to have enough resources to build a really strong news department and collaborations with
public affairs?
Newman: We were talking about the budget and that this is a possible source of revenue. I’d
like to take it off the table completely. I’ll raise $9,000 to keep OPB out of the Tillicum Foundation.
If someone wants to tune into the OPB pledge drive 24/7, fine; people will keep their money
here.
MOTION: Dave H contact OPB and explore a new arrangement or agreement to co-broadcast
OPB and KCPB. Ambrose moves. Westerberg seconds. Nos: Chuck, Cindy, Carol. Yeas: Dave, Ray,
Bob, Margarita. Motion passes.
Ambrose: What the figures are now saying is that we have no cash reserves. Essentially there
is no money floating in our system. Thrilled to see we’re pursuing some grants.
Cullimore: We may not have reserves but we have more expenses than before, eg, Joanne’s
salary which came out of Sound Partners but is now covered by general funds.
MOTION: To adopt the first reading of the budget. Price moves. Ambrose seconds. Unanimous.
Hammock distributes revenue pages for FY04 & FY05, for comparison purposes..
8. Annual meeting plans. Saturday, November 11. 9am breakfast, 10am meeting. At Grace
Episcopal Church. Last year’s crew will be put together by Dave H.
MOTION: To broadcast annual meeting. Price moves. Newman seconds. Yeas: Cullimore,
McLaughlin, Westerberg. Nays: Ambrose, Merritt. Motion passes.
9. By-laws amendments.
MOTION: To rescind the votes made during the August 14 special session. McLaughlin moves.
Newman seconds. Ayes: Cullimore, Merritt, Price, Westerberg. Abstain: Ambrose
<secretary leaves the room for a moment>
Newman: The main change in this document is that the major changes proposed in August
were deleted. Most of the changes have to do with housekeeping and with deadlines for the
Current. Some of Cindy’s suggestions are included. Also, the original was written in essay form
while this document is more bulleted.
Hammock: The concerns I’d had were some of the specific references to annual meeting
notices that addressed publications that no longer exist. That’s been taken care of with this
document.
MOTION: That the amended bylaws be approved as amended, subject to grammatical
corrections, and presented to the membership in a special Current and at the November annual
meeting, for adoption at that meeting. McLaughlin moves. Cullimore seconds. Discussion ensues.
Newman: Do we need to have Jack Cullimore print the old one, the new one, and send it out
to entire membership now and then again with the ballots? Would it be good enough to put it on
the web and announce on the air that it’s on the web and will be sent with ballots.
Westerberg: The more communication we can do ahead of time, the better.
Cullimore: Legally you have to have both.
Price: I received the document mid-morning and haven’t had the opportunity to read it. Given
that some of us would like to reconsider some of the more major changes suggested in August,
are the changes in this current document weighty enough to go through the process of
presenting them this year?
Call for the question. Yeas: Ambrose, Cullimore, McLaughlin, Merritt, Newman, Westerberg.
Price: Abstains. Motion passes.
Newman wants to alert the membership at the annual meeting that there are some additional
ideas for changes to the bylaws, including increasing board members and having some
appointed by the Board..
10. KCPB: mission statement. Tabled.
11. Staff update: [Hammock reporting]
Liz Diamond has given notice. Her last day full-time is November 3rd; afterwards she’s willing
to look at a job-sharing situation. This won’t affect our NFFS status. Tom Hartland will work one-
day a week beginning next week. We’ll be getting another work-study student who looks sharp.
Next board meeting: October 12. Ambrose and Newman will be out of town.
Troll Radio: September 30.
Barbara Blair fundie: October 28
Annual meeting: November 11, 9:00 breakfast, 10:00 meeting
7:19pm adjourned to Executive Session.
Respectfully submitted,
Cindy Price
Secretary
15 September 2006
Approved by the Tillicum Foundation Board of Directors
October 12, 2006