Community Advisory Board Meeting Thursday, April 16, 2015 – 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Ron and Linda Yanke Family Research Park 220 E. Parkcenter Boulevard, Room 700 Board Members in Attendance: Emily Walton, Chair Shelby Zepeda, Vice Chair David Lombardi Shikhar Sarin Randi McDermott (phone)
Maria Trebby Susan Giannettino Cornelia Sprung Camille Oldenburg
Staff in Attendance: John Hess, General Manager Tara Cooper, Recorder
Paul Stribling, Programming Director
Marilyn Shuler Kristin Mattews Vicki Lawson Paula Brown Sinclair
***************** Call to Order – Emily Walton Chair, Emily Walton, called the Boise State Public Radio Community Advisory Board (CAB) meeting to order at 6:04 p.m. Approval of February 2015 Meeting Minutes – Emily Walton Motion: Shikhar Sarin made a motion to approve the minutes; seconded by Marilyn Shuler. The motion was passed unanimously. Sub Committee Reports Advocacy (Emily Walton): Congress has zeroed out CPB funding the last 4 years. Now that the Senate majority is Republican, it will likely be more difficult to put anything through. In the past, we’ve always had two years of forward funding, the House has proposed removing the two year forward funding. This forwarding funding helps give us a political cushion, so we’ll have to keep watching spending bills. We will need to write an op-ed (there are tailorable ones from Protect My Public Media) more toward summer to match up with when Congress makes those decisions. Emily is going to assign Tony Shallat to this.
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