CAB January 12, 2021 Minutes APPROVED

Community Advisory Board Meeting Tuesday, January 12 12:00 – 1:30 PM Zoom Meeting during Quarantine 220 E. Parkcenter Blvd, Room 700, Boise ID 83702 Board Members in Attendance: Julie Adams DeFord x Susan Bechdel x Tyson Chaplin x Dennis Hall x Shelley McEuen x Jen Martinez x Rebecca De Leon x Todd Achilles x Leta Neustaedter x Laura Bond x

Laurie Ahern x Mark Wheeler x Andy Huang x Teresa Yragui x Bob Otten (on phone) Kendal Shaber x Bill Vasconcellos x Jeremy Woodson x Mario Pile x Kaleb Smith x Maria Ramirez x

Board Members Not in Attendance: Chris Bragg Tom Jans

Staff in Attendance: Tom Michael, General Manager Bethany Taylor, Membership Kristin Jackson, Membership

Chelan Lippincott, Major Gifts Valerie Hadley, Office Manager Kyle Kitterman, Business Manager

Call to Order: Dennis Hall called the meeting to order at 12:00 pm. Mentioned the prior meeting for new members. Welcome new members and asked all to introduce themselves. Dennis asked for minutes approval, notes from last meeting.

Approval of the Previous Minutes: Motion to approve minutes motion by Kendal and Bill second with November 10, 2020 Approved 1 CAB January 12, 2021

Committee Reports Executive Committee: No big items to report at this point. Dennis thanked Laurie for leadership and other contributions.

Valerie will send out the COI as a docusign in next day or two.

Governing Committee: Laurie A spoke of CAB expectations and embedded COI to be included. When Leta wanted to return we needed to adjust bylaws to make clear board members serve no more than 2 consecutive terms but can return after a year off and can again do two terms. Mark brought up BSU volunteer and asked if University should nominate or how that is done. Laurie made motion to approve changes to by laws and second by Tyson. Approved Nominating Committee: Teresa committee report is minor. Did major report for new members at last meeting and will meet again in April.

Fundraising Committee: Kendal to talk about good news of fundraising. Staff brought it again and did a great job. Had ridiculous goals that they blew away.

Kristin: $107, 850 over our goal for month of Dec.! Online and on air donations only. Does not include mail in donations. Also 796 donors over goal. New Member accounted for 25% of all donations. Average gift was a little lower, but that is because of new members.

Chelan: talks of million-dollar gift from the Childers. Worked on a long campaign to inspire others.

Received a lot of support and we received three gifts in the month of December.

Came through collaborative fundraising platform who work directly with NPR. Historically they’ve been separate but last year we started working together. BSPR was one of the first to receive a 3-way gift to NPR, BSPR and KUOW. $10,000.

Second gift (5-figures) given in support of Reader’s Corner. Tom’s been working hard on it and people have a strong affinity for Dr. Bob Kustra. The last gift was directly inspired by Childers gift. It was 6 figures and no limits to uses towards newsroom.

So grateful for fundraising and gifts Advocacy Committee: Susan very little to report. Welcome to have new members meet at January 28th.

Been challenging since

Programming Committee: Andy, very little to report

Station Report: Tom Had some specials on air. Always have someone at the station. Worked on special for Georgia elections and Wednesdays carried the storming of the capital. Special programming requires 2 CAB January 12, 2021

a lot of changes for engineering, underwriting and hosts. State of the State from Little and then we’re carrying debates over the next couple of days.

MWNB had a 3 part series on Lithium mining and deep dive into food insecurity and We Are Idaho.

Good to see increase in members, might be due to some election info but these new donors were after that. We campaign with giving Tuesday and ask listeners to nominate non-profits and give UW campaign.

Had to non-profits that received that.

UW has been meeting with a consultant team during Covid.

Welcome new news interns and new MWNB team members.

Coming up: 5 part series about police violence in the MW. Staff working on Diversity training through Maynard Center. Talk about finances at next meeting. Every 7 years we have to go over license renewal and that is happening this year.

There may be petitions against us and asked counsel if we needed input from CAB but they are unnecessary.

Kendal asked about security at the station. Tom spoke that most are not in the building but also that the building has been locked since Spring.

Teresa asked about Ex officio member of their choice for BSU being appointed? Committee will meet and decide how to move forward.

Tom, Dennis and Laurie discussing meeting times. Any differences March, May, July, Sept and Nov. 2nd Tuesday of the month from 12-1:30 pm.

Dennis suggested we have zoom open up and open for 10 minutes before and after.

Old Business / New Business / Good of the Order: Tom answered some questions about filing for new license renewal and timelines. About 4 different filings to do and have our counsel on retainer for quarterly meetings to help with requirements.

Kendal brought up wording about diversity in bylaws. Leta mentioned that in her opinion there should be more specificity in race and gender identity.

February 11, virtual event with Maria Hinojosa with. There will be a registration link coming out a week before and partnering with station, rediscovered books and the Hispanic Center of Idaho.

Dennis ended meeting at 12:33 pm Next CAB meeting dates: March 9, May 11, July 13, Sept 14, November 9 12:00-1:30 pm as Zoom until further notice.

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