Board Meeting Agenda June 18, 2025
Vision: Redwood Community Radio envisions a community of listeners who, guided by the example of RCR programming, work together to create better, more just and sustainable world systems to ensure that all humans and other living species on earth move toward a higher quality of life and are able to survive challenges in the time ahead.
Mission Statement: Redwood Community Radio will encourage a communication center of open airways (KMUD) for all voices to inform, educate, entertain and inspire the listening community through quality programming.
Ground Rules: Speak respectfully to one another. Focus on issues, not personalities. Support the facilitator. No interruption. Make criticism constructive, specific, substantiated and, ideally, when the person(s) are present. When required, a five-minute break shall be granted to attendees to encourage peaceful communication. Speakers during Open Time will be assigned an amount of time not to exceed five minutes. Any further discussions during the meeting will be between Board Members unless a guest is acknowledged by the Facilitator or is scheduled as part of the agenda.
Proposed Agenda
Redwood Community Radio Board of Directors
June 18, 2025 5:30 p.m.
Zoom Online Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/launch/edl?muid=f7dde73d-e2c0-4645-98b5-10ed8d3eb7d7
Meeting ID: 865 8402 5022 Passcode: 018144
I. Call to order, and establish a quorum.
Opening comments from the President; meeting ground rules.
II. Roll Call
BOARD-APPOINTED MEMBERS: Matt Knight, Lelehnia DuBois, Interim Secretary Jama Chaplin
MEMBER REPS: Interim President George WinterSun, Correspondence Secretary Stephanie Thomas, Elise Sauer
PROGRAMMER REPS: Charley Custer, Andy Caffrey
III. Approval of minutes of May 20, 2025
IV. Approval of Agenda
V. Open Time
VI. Consent Calendar
A. Appoint officers as follows: President: Charley Custer, VP: George WinterSun, Treasurer: Andy Caffrey, Secretary: Jama Chaplin
B. Appoint the following committee chairs: Development: George WinterSun, Policy: Jama Chaplin, Mediation: Lelehnia DuBois, Membership Drive: Matt Knight, Building and Grounds: Elise Sauer
C. Appoint Stephanie Thomas as Correspondence Secretary
D. Appoint Jama Chaplin as Parliamentarian
E. Appoint George WinterSun as Board Packet Volunteer
F. Appoint Lelehnia DuBois to share meeting dates on KMUD listserve
G. Confirm the new Board Meeting Date as 3rd Wednesday, 5:30 pm.
H. Approve for the second time revisions to Policy 6.11, Fair Access to the Airwaves and Restrictions (Attachment 1)
VII. Management Reports – see written report in board packet
VIII. Finance Committee Report
• Review and approve Financial Statements submitted by Financial Manager
• Acknowledge receipt of draft informational returns
IX. Old Business
- Grant access to two board members for CFCU, CCCU accounts
X. New Business
A. Approve SoHum Pride event proposal
B. Close Vocality/CFCU credit card account,
and move the $2000 to checking
C. Schedule financial tutorial for Board with Financial Manager
D. Proposed Personnel Policy revisions:
schedule study session with Financial Manager
E. Proposed revisions to Capitalization Policy (see Attachment 2)
F. Committee appointments: Chairs who have emailed a proposed list by
June 16 may ask the board to appoint their committees. Further
appointments may be made next month.
G. Schedule Board training
XI. Committee and Other Reports
- Programmer Representatives
- Member Representatives
- Community Advisory Board (CAB) – Siena Klein
- Correspondence Secretary – Thomas
- Development – WinterSun
- Membership Drive – Knight
- Policy –
- Mediation –
- Building and Grounds –
XII. Proposed Meeting Schedule
All meetings take place online unless otherwise stated. New board chairs may be changing meeting dates. Those interested in attending one should first check with the office to ensure that no changes have been made to this schedule, and obtain meeting links and/or locations.
Board of Directors 3rd Wednesday, 5:30 pm
Membership Drive 4th Tuesday, 4:00 pm: June 24 (Matt Knight)
Development 4th Thursday, 4:00 pm: June 26 (George WinterSun)
Policy Exception to 1st Monday: June 3031, 11:00 a.m
Executive Exception to 1st Monday: June 3031, 12:00 p.m.
Finance 1st Tuesday, 3:00 p.m. July 1
CAB Quarterly, at station and virtual (Siena Klein):
Aug. 14, 5 pm.
XIII. Closed session – personnel
XIV. Adjourn
Note about attachments: Proposed additions are underlined; proposed deletions are marked with strikethrough.
Attachment 1
Policy 6.11 – FAIR ACCESS TO THE AIRWAVES AND RESTRICTIONS
03/03/15, 03/18/25
Programmers can say (in decent language) what they think with some exceptions. These exceptions include initiating talk about RCR issues without first informing RCR Management, and personal messages. Paid staff members and board directors, when on-air or otherwise representing KMUD, are considered as “the voice of KMUD”, so they will refrain from endorsing political candidates or ballot measures.
Everyone hosting a show or otherwise representing KMUD on-air They not only needs to carefully choose their words, but must also be knowledgeable about relevant Federal Communications Commission, Corporation for Public Broadcasting and RCR policies and procedures.
Talk show hosts must give other sides a fair shake. This means that talk shows (other than regularly scheduled news programs) are encouraged to include and expose all sides of an issue. At least 25 per cent (ideally 50 per cent) of the time of each call-in talk show will be open to callers. (The Program Director may make exceptions to this, for example when a host needs to pre-record a show or produce a show with an alternate format.) Hosts of call-in shows shall make a statement early in the show that everyone is welcome to call in. Hosts must allow all callers to express themselves on the show, especially those with opposing views. However, talk show hosts may at the start broadcast a message describing another format, such as, “This show will take comments and questions, but will answer once the caller is off-air.” Opposing views are not required to receive equal airtime, only a reasonable amount of time.
Engineers will disconnect callers who use “the seven dirty words” (i.e., piss, shit, fuck, cunt, tits, cocksucker, motherfucker) or express obscene or indecent imagery, and then briefly explain to listeners what happened. Engineers generally need to refrain from adding their own content to the show and should generally remain neutral. However, a host may invite the engineer to contribute their thoughts, with clear parameters. Engineers should never deliver the last words of a show’s content. They should also not be expressing their views on-air while callers are on hold.
Attachment 2
4.6 CAPITALIZATION POLICY
05/11/20
Revisions recommended by Finance Committee and Policy Committee:
The threshold for capitalization of assets is $8,000. Anything over that amount is to be capitalized. Anything less shall be expensed in the year it was purchased. This policy takes effect as of January 1, 2019.
The Board will approve all major projects in advance, including but not limited to, asset improvements, equipment purchases, and other capital projects. This includes expenditures that may aggregate over the capitalization threshold.
