CAB March 9, 2021 Minutes Approved

Community Advisory Board Meeting Tuesday, March 9 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 Susan Bechdel Tyson Chaplin Dennis Hall Chris Bragg

Laurie Ahern

Jen Martinez Rebecca De Leon Todd Achilles Leta Harris Neustaedter Laura Bond

Kendal Shaber Bill Vasconcellos Jeremy Woodson Kaleb Smith

Andy Huang Teresa Yragui

Board Members Not in Attendance: Shelley McEuen Mark Wheeler Tom Jans Bob Otten Maria Ramirez Mario Pile

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

Valerie Hadley, Office Manager

Call to Order: Dennis Hall called the meeting to order at 12:03 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. Corrections? None, 1 CAB March 9, 2021

Approval of the Previous Minutes: Motion to approve minutes motion by Kendal and Laurie second.

Committee Reports Executive Committee: Nothing to report

Governing Committee: Laurie Ahern has asked to have COI sent out as a reminder. Laurie spoke to M Wheeler about his position with no term limit as of the president’s request. Laurie is going to craft language to add that to bylaws to add to them. Feb. Governance meeting was to address bylaws and looking at language about who we are looking to bring in to CAB and request diversity/inclusion training.

Tom is going to help CAB find appropriate training for CAB. Also, when staff is receiving training then CAB will be invited to attend as well. One hour at May 11 meeting will be training with a short business meeting. If everyone feels comfortable with this or questions. Kendall thinks it’s very important. Teresa asked if we should wait for in person delay. Laurie appreciated input, but we should probably get started and the follow-up with in person at later date. Dennis agreed and Andy asked about outside meeting and Tom explained it would likely be Zoom. Andy suggested we provide liberal time for training. We will schedule 2 hours.

Nominating Committee: Teresa spoke about April 9 meeting and have had a resignation of Tom Jans. He will be leaving Boise and won’t be able to participate any longer. Tom Jans has moved to Milwaukee and made a donation to BSPR by donating his vehicle. Dennis explained that nominating committee doesn’t meet all year. They go April-Nov. Dennis and Teresa will be meeting about how to handle the big exit of many CAB member when terms end.

Fundraising Committee: Kendall: Meeting notes were sent out and pointed out Spring drive is 4/8-4/13.

More info to come. Thanked Laura Bond for getting connection with ZooBoise and they donated two sweepstakes items. Congratulated Kristen on promotion to Director of Membership. Next committee meeting is April 6. Dennis asked if re-writing could be completed by CAB and Kristin said yes. Training will be in late May and CAB can participate.

Advocacy Committee: Susan B Meeting in January and next is in April. Have been watching for upcoming in person events. Possibility of Soul Food event. Provided taped kudos for our favorite reporters, and sent thank you calls to new donors and members. Thank you calls are very well received.

Was appreciative to Tom for sharing last call that was very positive

Programming Committee: Andy said they will have a meeting in April, but nothing else at this time. Able to add inclusivity to programming.

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Station Report: Tom is recapping and done evaluation and set top line budgets. Keeping an eye on legislature and funding. Two open positions, Senior Broadcast Engineer and Major Gifts Officer.

Tax Statements sent out via email. Updating KBSW to HD radio. Engineering side, migrated old satellite receivers. This weekend is one year anniversary of Covid start. First leg. Round up email went out and a lot of interest. Next year we will be more prepared. Reader’s corner welcomed back Joel Wayne and news cycle is not letting up. Podcast version of 5 part version of elevated risk will be on facing west podcast. Also a story on some of the Oath Keepers. Coverage of Indigenous issues and some engagement. Drive will be over a weekend as well. Usually longer but with remote challenges we’ll do a shorter time. Need script rewrites…Teresa shout out for event with Maria Hinojosa and really enjoyed it.

Great example of outreach that can be done creatively. Dennis asked about University relations. Western States Public Radio, Tom is the president of this group and had a conversation about station/university relations. It was about how to conduct better relations. Number of GM that report directly to leadership of university is 12% and 48% to vice level. 40% report to more inward facing, but M Wheeler is more outward focused. Stations can be at a disadvantage ffor strategic planning etc…Tom posed a question to panel, “Most of staff didn’t sign up for State employee but want to be station employee. Reporter said that when university wants to sell station he realized he’s a university employee and a reminder that we try to be advantageous and we believe in press freedom and how to position ourselves in the future.

Kendall asked how can CAB best help the institution? Legislature is very alarming at this point.

Old Business / New Business / Good of the Order: Tom and Kristin working on two projects Digital Culture Accelerator and Table Stakes. Putting money in the system to help public medio get better in all media platforms. Explosion of digital media and we need to be there. The DCA creted the new app.

Funnelling habitual users in to funnel. Came upon project mission statement to know our digital audience better. Leaders in group are Kristin, Sasa and Lacey.

Kristin spoke about the Love of Public Radio campaign. Originally it was going to be Valentine’s but moved to later date for full staff participation. Received $1500.

Bill asked about license renewal process? Hasn’t started yet but will bring up near summer meeting.

Kendal urged everyone to follow legislature and contact people on state affairs. All is in peril right now.

Add extra half hour in next meeting.

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

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