The Interim Pacifica National Board Meeting was held January 11, 12 & 13, 2002, in New York City, at the New York Hotel Trade Council, 305 West 44^th St. (Between 8^th & 9^th Avenues). These meetings were open to the public. Here is the original agenda of this meeting. More information on the motions passed is posted below. Pacifica Management has finally made the “anecdotal minutes” of this meeting available. They're all in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. A link to the site where you can get the software you'll need to read them is below.

Minutes of the iPNB meeting of January 2002
January 11, 2002
January 12, 2002
January 13, 2002

Interim Pacifica National Board (iPNB) Members

Motions

I'm presenting the Motions that affected anything in Pacifica. I'm leaving out motions to overrule the chair, motions to accept minutes, and other parliamentary minutia. Some of the motions below link to other pages with more details about the motion. These are the motions as I caught them from the floor; I'm sure that the minutes will show some slight differences in wording, but I present the gist of the motions below. Besides motions, there was public comment, most of it from the two New York factions, and some of it hand picked by the iPNB Chair, and reports from the iPNB Treasurer, the Management and LABs of the five Pacifica stations, as well as from some affiliates.

Of significance was a declaration by James Ferguson at the very beginning of the meeting on Friday night that the iPNB meeting was illegal owing to insufficient notice. The exact meeting place was not known until Wednesday afternoon, but the general venue, New York City, had been known by all iPNB members since their teleconference, which cost $5,000, on December 29, 2001. On the last day of the meeting Marion Barry said that he was going to court the next morning to get the meeting declared illegal and everything done at it declared null and void. So far there is no evidence that such a filing was made to the court, also Messrs. Barry, Ferguson and Lee all attended the meeting and voted at it, so they knew where it was. If any challenge were to be filed lawyers familiar with Pacifica and the iPNB have said they believe it would fail.

1 This same motion had gotten a majority vote in favor, but had not gotten the super majority required for passage at the December 29, 2001, iPNB teleconference. It was sent to the judge for a decision, and he rejected it, owing to some signatures not having been gotten. The signatures were gotten before the January iPNB meeting and this motion passed by a super majority this time.

2 The National Office had resided in Berkeley, CA, for more than 50 years before it was removed to Washington, D.C. in January 2000.

In his Treasurer's Report Jabari Zakiya revealed that the Pacifica Foundation was $2.8 million in debt that was more than 90 days old, and that in general the Foundation was probably about $3 million in debt. A check for $400,000 which was part of the lawsuit settlement was waiting to be signed so that Pacifica could make use of it.

It was also revealed that KPFK had its separate account set aside for tramitter and antenna repair and upgrade emptied by the previous Pacificas National Board and Executive Director. As a result, KPFK's signal is approximately 25% of what it should be and it cannot even reach much of Los Angeles due to interference from another station based in Mexico. KPFA had established an “illegal” bank account which was also partially emptied by the same people.

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