Pacifica Radio Board Member Meeting

 Board members of WPFW Local Station discuss the most important issue regarding the station; attendance.
    WPFW had is monthly board meeting on October 21, 2009 at the AFSCME offices. The meeting was scheduled to start at 6:30 but began shortly after 7:30. The most important items for discussion, such as Attendance, Approval of Agenda and Approval of minutes, were listed on the schedule  first. Other items of infinitesimal importance, such as Interim Reports, Financial reports and elections, were to be discussed last.
    Attendance was taken and it became clear to many board members that certain parties were absent, once again. The question was now, are the members boycotting the meetings or are they simply just not in attendance. Members of the board took sides and an argument ensued.
    One member of the board said, "We must vote to remove all who are not in attendance from the board! They are trying to hijack these meetings. And [private citizen] has even made it clear she is not for this board and is refusing to come."
    Many board members agreed with [private citizen] statements. But some, tried to save their fellow members from becoming outcast. They gave excuses to the where abouts of their fellow missing comrades and testimony that they were not trying to "hijack" the meetings. They pleaded that they not be voted off until the following meeting.
    The debate over who to vote off the board continued for over 45 minutes. The final decision was made to vote off one member because of the known fact that she was trying to hijack the meetings. The others were given temporary immunity until the next meeting.     
    Amanda Greenleaf, a Washington Adventist University student who had a friend in at the meeting, understands the high importance of attendance to the board. "You have to be there at the meetings. Attending these meetings is vital. Its not about what you do in them but that you come to them. They are called meetings for a reason. You meet."
    The members in question are expected to be at the upcoming meetings. Without an excuse, their absence will surly earn them a dismissal from the board.