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The Pacifica Foundation's National Board (PNB) includes two seats held by people from Pacifica Affiliates. This is to promote collaboration and coalition between Pacifica and its affiliates.
"Affiliate board members" on the PNB are asked to represent affiliate concerns and act as liaisons between the PNB and affiliates stations and give input into the development of Pacifica's affiliates program, as well as participate in other board issues.
These board members are nominated to the PNB by either 1) an affiliate station or 2) an association of affiliate stations. Commercial stations may not nominate. Anyone who concurrently serves on an affiliate station's board of directors may not serve on PNB and should not be nominated.
Seats are held for one year and nominations occur yearly. Nominations for Affiliate PNB must be submitted to the secretary of the PNB by February 15. Email is the preferred mailing method. Emails should be cc'd to the PNB chair and the affiliates coordinator. Nominations must include:
1) a written description of the procedure by which this person was selected
2) certification by the general manager or governing board secretary of the nominating station or association
3) the candidate's resume
4) a statement of the candidate's interest in serving as a director of the Pacifica Foundation.
The final selections of affiliate PNB members are made via telephone interviews and elections by the other seated members of the PNB. Elections of the affiliate PNB members occur at the end of February or beginning March. Affiliate PNB members attend the next board meetings, which are held in March. Travel, lodging, and food expenses are provided to board members by the foundation during board meetings.
Below is the description of Affiliate PNB seats and their nominations in the bylaws of the Pacifica Foundation:
SECTION 4. NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF AFFILIATE REPRESENTATIVE DIRECTORS
A. NOMINATION
Any Foundation "affiliate station" (as defined below) or any association of affiliate stations may nominate one or more candidates for the two Affiliate Director positions on the Board. Nominations shall close on February 15th each year and shall be submitted in writing to the Foundation Secretary.
Every affiliate station or association of affiliate stations submitting nominee(s) shall include with said nomination(s) a written explanation of its procedure for selecting the nominee(s). Said statement shall be certified by the station general manager or the governing board secretary of each affiliate station nominating said candidate(s) or by the secretary of the association of affiliate stations, as appropriate. In addition, each nominee shall submit his/her resume and a statement of his/her interest in serving as a Director of the Foundation.
The Foundation Secretary shall forward to all Foundation Directors all materials submitted supporting each nominee not later than March 1st.
For purposes of this Section, an "affiliate station" shall be defined as any non-profit non-commercial broadcaster that broadcasts programming provided Any or distributed by the Foundation pursuant to a written agreement with the Foundation, including, for example, community radio stations, internet broadcasters or digital broadcasters, as such technology may be developed. An affiliate station shall not be a radio station whose broadcast licenseis held by the Foundation.
For purposes of this Section, an "association of affiliate stations" shall be defined as any group of affiliate stations that have joined together to form an association, provided that said association has adopted bylaws and its membership is limited solely of affiliate stations.
B. ELECTION
As the first order of business at the Board meeting in March each year, the Directors present and voting (excluding any then current Affiliate or At-Large Directors from the vote) shall elect two (2) Affiliate Representative Directors from the nominees submitted by affiliate stations and/or affiliate station associations, using the Single Transferable Voting method. Affiliate Directors shall serve for a one-year term which shall commence immediately upon their election.
(When there are more than two candidtaes nominated for PNB seats, the election process has been ammended to be conducted by telephone prior to the March Board meeting)
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