UPSO Council Meeting (by Conference Call)
12-11-12
Attending: Ruthanne
Shpiner, Adrienne Lauby, David Gans, Ann Garrison
Next Meeting:
December 8, 7 pm. Performance
Studio (See below for important details
about this meeting)
Topics:
KPFA/UPSO Website
Fundraising for Equipment
Copyright Confessor and the KPFA Stream
UPSO Workshops
Communication & Cooperation
Next Meeting
1) KPFA/UPSO WEBSITE
Can KPFA have a protected area for UPSO where we could
discuss, post notes and do various other things? David hasn’t talked to Miguel about this
yet, but he will do it soon. We
discussed and clarified the idea.
2) FUNDRAISING FOR
EQUIPMENT
As of a couple of days ago, we have $645. Plus, a complete PC system that came through
one of David’s friends and has been checked out by Antonio. That computer may come to KPFA as soon as
next week.
3) COPYRIGHT
CONFESSOR AND THE KPFA STREAM
Copyright confessor computers in On Air studio—really needs
upgrading in keyboards and changes in the basic set up.
The programmers need to put in the info about their music into
this system because otherwise their programs can’t be streamed. Encouraging the programmers to do this
should be a management process. We
don’t like having the steam go down.
We’d like to know more about how much this is happening and what are the
individual circumstances. Are there
particular problems unpaid music programmers are having in completing this
task? We’d like to encourage people to
do their part and also help improve the hardware lay out. We may, at some point in this process, write
letters about how important we think this is to Andrew and the LSB. David will look into this problem.
4) UPSO WORKSHOPS
Leaders (thus far): Ann Garrison, Clay Leander, Kate Raphael,
Adrienne Lauby
Adrienne will attempt to get the first 6 month’s schedule
together by the January meeting. Would
you like to lead a workshop? Or have a
topic that you can’t seem to bust through on your own? Let us know.
5) COMMUNICATION
& COOPERATION
This was a complex conversation about how we might fulfill
our mission in working with the various groups of people at the station. [By-laws: Section One: 1.3. To foster communication and cooperation
between management, paid staff, and unpaid staff and between the station and
the communities it serves.] We don’t
want to label issues as belonging to a particular set of people, but we do want
to name the tensions clearly when necessary and attempt some forward movement. We might try a well-planned meeting of the
News department and reporting staff or something similar with all public
affairs
staff. (The music staff has meetings
occasionally, which are called by Luis Medina.) There is also the UPSO
grievance procedure that lays out a system that could lead to some resolution
in some situations. Hopefully the
Workshops will bring some people together, at least to get to know folks they
don’t normally work with.
6)
NEXT MEETING
Our
next meeting is a once a year Special Meeting of the Unpaid Staff
Organization. All who attend can
vote. Shahram will chair.
This meeting will include a discussion of by-laws and
election of a new Election Committee as our by-laws require. http://www.kpfa.org/staff/unpaid
--UPSO by-law changes can be submitted at this time (the only time in the 12 month cycle).
Notes by Adrienne
--UPSO by-law changes can be submitted at this time (the only time in the 12 month cycle).
Notes by Adrienne
Unpaid Staff Organization Council Members
Shahram Aghamir: shahrama2004@yahoo.comDavid Gans: david@trufun.com
Ann Garrison: anniegarrison@gmail.com
Adrienne Lauby: adrienne@sonic.net
Tim Lynch: tlynch@socrates.berkeley.edu
Bylaws
and grievance procedure:
