KPFT 90.1 Houston, TX-Pacifica Radio - Elections

A. Each Local Station Board will have the following powers and responsibilities established by the recently adopted bylaws of the Pacifica Foundation.

Each local station board appoints directors of the Pacifica Foundation, which manages the radio stations in New York, Washington, D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, and Northern California (Berkeley). Each local station board can recall the Foundation directors it elected by a simple majority of the local station board.
The local station board also appoints from its own membership representatives to serve on committees of the national foundation working on finances, programming and governance, for example.
The local station board will have to power to screen and select a pool of candidates for the position of General Manager at each radio station. From this pool of candidates, the Pacifica Foundation Executive Director will hire the station General Manager.
The local station board and Pacifica Foundation Executive Director may initiate a process to terminate a station General Manager. However, both the Pacifica Foundation Executive Director and local station board must reach a mutual decision to terminate the General Manager. If these two parties cannot agree, the decision will be made by the Foundation's board of directors.
The local station board will have the power to screen and select a pool of candidates for the position of Program Director at each radio station. From this pool of candidates, the General Manager will hire that station's Program Director.
Annual and separate evaluations will be written by the local station board on the job performances of the radio station's General Manager and Program Director. In addition, the Pacifica Foundation Executive Director will be subject to a yearly review and recommendations by the local station board.
The local station board will be required to review and approve the radio station's budget. Quarterly reports by the local station board must be forwarded to the Pacifica Foundation board of directors on the station's budget, actual income and expenditures.
To ensure that the radio station's programming fulfills the purposes and mission of the Pacifica Foundation, the local station board will work together with station management. The local station board will guarantee the station's responsiveness to the diverse needs of the listeners (demographic), and communities (geographic) served by the radio station. The local station board also has the responsibility to see that station policies and procedures for programming decisions and program evaluations are working in a fair, collaborative and respectful manner to provide quality programming.
The local station board is charged also with the following responsibilities: assist the station in fundraising activities; conduct Town Hall-style meetings at least twice a year which are devoted to hearing listeners' views, needs, and concerns. Community needs assessments must be performed by the local station board, or by a separate Community Advisory Committee formed by the local station board for that purpose.
The local station board also has the mandate to actively reach out to underrepresented communities to help the station serve a diversity of all races, creeds, colors and nations, classes, genders and sexual orientations, and ages. The local station board is directed also to help build collaborative relations with organizations working for similar purposes.
Finally, the local station board will ensure that the radio station works diligently toward the goal of diversity in staffing at all levels and maintenance of a discrimination-free atmosphere in the workplace.

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