Aug 26th Board meeting reports

I recorded 8/26 up till they went into closed session. When I have it ready will this site host the recording?

Also it would be great to hear if anyone stayed till they came out of closed session, as if they made any decisions it would have been action items that have to be in open session. Did anyone stick around who can report if there was any action after the closed session?

Short summary,

25 minutes to set the agenda (yawn).

Public comments started with Bruce's mea culpa which some tell me is covering up for others ... who knows?

Minutes approval ... Hadrian will want to pay close attention to the July 15th. Mark Sherman apparently got his way and sanitized the official version. The two attachments I believe will NOT be part of the minutes, but "part of the permanent record of the corporation". To me this suggests the publicly visible part on the website will not include the attachments, and the attachments will be buried in a file cabinet. Nicely done. We'll have to see how this plays out.

Committee reports. Hilarious! There is no Personnel Committee as it was combined with Governance during the new policies which are in abeyance. So the board wants the personnel committee to meet and report, but no one knows who is on it anymore. Same with Governance. Same with Finance. A lot of time was spent discussing that with all the resignations, with Lynn out, and key staff gone/fired, who is on committees? Even Ani was flumuxed. Then some time was spent discussing how you get people onto committees when they aren't meeting, so that people can make their three meetings so they can become members so there can be a committee again? Some advocated for issuing a waiver to the bylaws three meeting rule, some said just appoint more board members. They argued about this a lot then argued who was taking on too many roles.

Jeff Kipling did one of his hilarious reports, telling us he spoke with a big wig at Stoel Rives. The main guy Jeff talked to said he didn't want the work, and charged $500 an hour, but he'd move this to one of his less experienced attorneys at $200 an hour. Tim said that as this was only needed once a final contract was negotiated, before final approval, this shouldn't matter much or some words to that effect. So the board approved spending the money to get the contract blessed by the less experienced attorney.

Ani summarized out loud a written staff report.

A straw poll of everyone in the room re moving the location of board meetings to SEIU resulted in a clear preference to keep things at KBOO, and the board seemed to back down on moving the default location to SEIU.

Aiden became treasurer, and in defiance of the complaints from a particular staff member last week the board affirmed that he can go directly to any staff and demand anything he needs to get up to speed on financials. He can access any computers, any books, any reports. So he has been told to interface directly with staff as some sort of manager I guess. You'll have to listen to the recording carefully when I get it cleaned up.

Nom committee was the only good result. Sue wisely brought the League of Women Voters in for a fee to oversee the election. They don't know what they're in for, poor dears. But for a $1K fee (half in free PSA's) they'll bless the election which will take away any hint of fraud. Smart move, not that this election matters anyway. All the various expenses for the election were approved in about two minutes.

The development committee workgroup turning into a committee was the angriest part of the public session. No one can agree on how to proceed and brush pleaded with everyone to let this slide till next meeting. I don't recall if there was any resolution.

Board members endorsing candidates was disagreed with then not acted upon. Interesting who said what. I'll leave that for a transcript by someone else. But as there is no policy, there are no rules. Move on.

So closed session for SM return to work, job description for SM, dealing with Andrew's letter, and union negotiations.

No one yet has reported that they came back for the end of the meeting after closed session. Board was fatigued and did not enjoy themselves.

Listening to the soon to arrive recordings will clarify a lot and fill in blanks in my memory.

"Jeff Kipling did one of his hilarious reports, telling us he spoke with a big wig at Stoel Rives. The main guy Jeff talked to said he didn't want the work, and charged $500 an hour, but he'd move this to one of his less experienced attorneys at $200 an hour. Tim said that as this was only needed once a final contract was negotiated, before final approval, this shouldn't matter much or some words to that effect. So the board approved spending the money to get the contract blessed by the less experienced attorney."

LOL. Stoel Rives, of course, is Portland's quintessential rich, successful, corporate law firm.

Guess no one at KBOO noticed that Stoel Rives represented Shell Oil against Greenpeace last year...


www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2012/03/portlands_stoel_rives_represen.html

First half of audio up: operationfreespeech.boards.net/thread/118/kboo-board-aug-2013-pt1

Or go directly to file: www.mixcloud.com/ministryoftruth/kboo-board-meeting-at-aug-26-2013-pt1/