. . . in-person PNB meetings, those were the days . . . Some may think that directors getting together for three days, maybe four, would be a power for good, reducing fractiousness & misunderstandings, developing generosity of spirit & the making of allowances, a Pacifican incarnation of Saint Greta – others may think it would only provide opportunity, to go with motive & means, creating work for the local PD . . .

. . . PacificaWorld . . .

. . . so it goes . . .

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Nevertheless, rather than a bouquet of barbed wire:

Thanking Chair[:] Executive Director Dan Coughlin and others present Marty Durlin, Chair of the PNB, with flowers (daisies and roses), and thanks her for her service.

Pacifican cherubs, in Los Angeles . . . F14Jan2005 PNB minutes, unpaginated; page 2 of the PDF – https://kpftx.org/archives/pnb/pnb050114/pnb050114_1935_minutes.pdf

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The requirement per by-law Article 6, Section 1, as amended 20July2015:

The in-person ‘Annual Meeting’ of the Board of Directors shall take place in late January each year, or at such other times and places as agreed by a majority vote of the Board of Directors. The Board shall meet in person one to four times each calendar year as agreed by a majority vote of the Board of Directors. The one to four in-person regular Board meetings shall rotate through the five Foundation radio station areas so that meetings do not take place twice in the same radio station area until a meeting has been held in all other station areas.

https://pacifica.org/indexed_bylaws/art6sec1.html

The original wording:

The ‘Annual Meeting’ of the Board of Directors shall take place in late January each year, or at such other times and places as agreed by a majority vote of the Board of Directors. The Board shall also regularly meet in March, June and September of each year. The four regular Board meetings shall rotate through the five Foundation radio station areas so that meetings do not take place twice in the radio same station area until a meeting has been held in all other station areas.

https://pacifica.org/indexed_bylaws/art6sec1.html

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The cost? Sometimes said to be $54k (re midtown Manhattan, 2005), other times $80k (re 2008):

From Director D. Warren, Who paid for the NY PNB and how much did it cost? Answer: Central services & WBAI paid; the amount was $54K.

Chief Financial Officer Lonnie Hicks, 18June2005 PNB minutes, unpag.; p. 2 of the PDF – https://kpftx.org/archives/pnb/pnb050618/pnb050618_68_minutes.pdf (re the F1-Su3Apr2005 PNB, Hilton Metropolitan, Lexington Ave)

and

we could save immediately approximately $80k if we eliminated the summer meeting in lieu of a phone conference

PNB Finance Cttee Chair Mike Martin (KPFT), 20Mar2008 PNB, 56:47 – https://kpftx.org/archives/pnb/pnb080320/pnb080320a.mp3 (the discussion continues as the ‘b’-file; a $75k estimate was made at the 18Mar2008 PNB Finance Cttee, 0:01, meeting a nod of approval from CFO Hicks – https://kpftx.org/archives/pnb/finance/080318/finance080318b.mp3)

And $80k? In 2008? $2k x 40? A bigger entourage than Al Sharpton.

(Deserved digression: Mike Martin is a trial lawyer with a well-earnt national reputation in helping workers suffering silicosis, notably in proving respirator product liability. His work website proudly says, under “Public Service and Recognition”, “2005-2009 – National Board Member — Pacifica Foundation” – https://www.martinwaltonlaw.com/attorneys.html. Mr Martin tried his best to get Pacifica to see sense, to cope with money.)

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34 meetings, 2004-2015; the series starts in a notable way: it’s the “[f]irst meeting of the ELECTED Pacifica National Board[,] Berkeley, CA, March 13 and 14, 2004[.] There is no more interim Pacifica National Board!” (original Trump-caps) – https://kpftx.org/archives/pnb/pnb040313/pnb040313_1923_minutes.pdf (unpag., but p. 1 of the PDF; also, not minutes but an anonymous detailed (& jocular) contemporaneous report – author is Hugh, who seems to have posted it here, http://www.ominous-valve.com/pac/040314pnb.html (currently a broken URL), with the Trump-cap clause as the sub-title to the original title, ‘The iPNB is dead, long live the PNB!’; the kpftx.org editor removed it for an unknown reason, without informing the reader; Hugh’s URL per http://www.wbai.net/pnb/pnb_mtg_rpt_berkeley3-14-04.html).

So the new by-laws, hard fought, finally got their new governance. Hurrah! A new day Pacifica. Hurray! . . . Can i have an amen? “Point of point, madam Chair!”, exclaims Director Delegate Citizen Comrade Friend. “I challenge the ruling of the Chair!”.

9 of these 34 meetings have no audiofiles (incidently, the earliest audiofiles in the Pacifica public archive are of the 28Apr2004PNB – https://kpftx.org/archives/pnb/pnb040428/pnb040428a.mp3); unless stated, audiofiles, agendas, & minutes are available (at https://kpftx.org/archive_2004.php, etc., then use ‘Filter Committees’ at the top):

F1-Su3Oct, Ramada Inn Rockville, Rockville, MD (no audiofiles; agenda appears in the F1Oct minutes)

F28-Su30Oct, Houston area (undisclosed secure facility; no audiofiles; approved agenda appears in the F28Oct minutes; Su30Oct agenda consisted in a private session & public comment, but no minutes posted)

F29Sep-Su1Oct, some town (by sequence, it would be Berkeley area; undisclosed secure facility; no materials: no audiofiles, no agendas, no minutes)

F28-Su30Sep, Beacon Hotel, 1st Ave, Manhattan (nothing: no audiofiles (the last such occasion), no agendas, no minutes)

F19-Su21Sep, Washington, DC (undisclosed secure facility; no agendas; no minutes)

F9-Su11Oct, Houston (at an undisclosed secure facility; no agendas)

F1-Su3Oct, Beekman Tower Hotel, 1st Ave, midtown Manhattan (no agendas, no minutes)

F23-M26Sep, Channel Inn Hotel, Washington, DC (this, & the next 6, are 4-day meets)

F20-M23July, Hotel Durant, Berkeley; cancelled was the F9-M12Nov meeting

F8-M11Nov, Sheraton Four Points Hotel, Houston

F7-M10Feb, Beacon Hotel, Washington, DC

F12-M15June, Aris & Carolyn Anagnos Peace Center Foundation, Culver City, LA County for the first 3 days, then Concourse Hotel, LA Airport (this was the penultimate venue of the 7th circuit, with only the Berkeley area to come, consigning it to Vladimir & Estragon status – even to awaiting a new dawn, a new day?)

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