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The Questions That KPFA Manager Rijio Can't Answer & Concerned Listeners Do Damage Control
The supporters of KPFA Concerned Listeners on the KPFA Local Station Board prevented the listeners and public from knowing some basic questions about what management policies are at KPFA and who is being paid and how much to produce a new employee handbook. Apparently these questions are so difficult that Lemlem Rijio's supporters on the board needed to vote the resolution down. These are the same people who complain about the financial crisis but then refuse to expose where money is being spent and why KFPA continues to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in lawsuits and lawyers defending KPFA.
These are from the posted minutes of the KFPA Local Station Board from last September 2008. Apparently the Local Station Secretary Susan McDonough can't do her job and post the minutes in a timely manner. This was the last posting of minutes of the Local Station Board. So much for transparency. This is either incompetence or malfeasance of the Concerned Listener's supporter on the board.
http://lsb.kpfa.org/files/sept%20final%20minutes.pdf
To: KPFA LSB
Fr: Susan McDonough
Re: Draft #1 Minutes from September 13, 2008 LSB & Delegates’ Meeting
Held at Café de la Paz, Berkeley, 11am-3:30pm
Dt: September 30, 2008
Item #13: Motion re: HR Practices (NH)
Motion made and seconded: Be it resolved that: The LSB requests that the interim General Manager Lemlem
Rijio to provide the answers to the following questions:
1) How long have you been IGM?
2) When did you assign to someone else or personally begin reworking the Employee Handbook?
3) Is the new employee Personnel handbook finished?
4) What is the status of this personnel handbook?
5) If it has not been finished and distributed to the staff when will it be done?
6) Is there a Personnel Handbook that is being used at the station, ie does the Business Manager or any
management employee provide such a handbook to an employee when they are hired or when they ask for one?
7) If there is one, has it been distributed to all employees?
8) Is there a record that employees have received it?
9) Are there written policies for reporting discrimination and retaliation complaints in place at the station? And if
so how are they made available to employees?
10) Have any sexual harassment trainings taken place KPFA? If so how many, and which staff were invited, and
which attended?
11) When was the Human Resources Consultant Hired?
12) What was the hiring process for this consultant?
13) What are the Human Resource Consultant's job duties?
14) How much is the Human Resource Consultant paid?
15) What if any Human Resources job duties do you as IGM retain?
16) Have any performance evaluations been done of any employee during your time as IGM? If so, is there a
schedule for the conducting of annual performance evaluations of all employees? If there is such a schedule, will
it be completed annually?
17) When you are aware of a grievance of discrimination or retaliation as IGM, what steps do you take, what are
your policies to ensure that it is handled properly according to state and federal law? Please let me know
what protocols that you rely on for your responses.
18) Are there any policies in place at the workplace regarding workplace violence, and if so, what are they? and
how and when are they provided to employees.
Vote: Yes 9, No 9. Motion fails.
Substitute motion made by BET and seconded: The KPFA LSB requests KPFA management provide
the LSB all existing personnel policy and procedure documents, along with an account of which ones
are being revised or created, and the process, and timeline for doing so. The LSB further requests KPFA
management make itself available to discuss those policies at the next meeting of the LSB.
First vote: call for vote on substitute motion: Yes 12, No 0, Abs 7
Vote on substitute motion: Yes: 12, No: 0, Abst: 7. Motion carries. Roll call vote:
Yes: Bonnie, Brian, Dianne, Tico, Rych, Sarv, Sherry, Susan, Warren
Abst: Aki, Anthony, Chandra, Henry, Joe, Noelle, Sasha, Shahram, Tracy
Motion made and seconded that the record show that Noelle Hanrahan of the LSB accused Brian
Edwards Tiekert of obfuscation after she was called to order. She then asked if it was too big a word.
Item #14: Motion re: CAB (TR)
Motion made and seconded to move this item to the October agenda. No objections.
Item #15: Motion re: GM Review (TR)
It is resolved that the KPFA LSB begin the mandated annual evaluation of the KPFA Interim General
Manager and Interim Program Director for 2008. Seconded. No objections.
Public Meeting Adjourned at 2:50pm
Time Certain 3pm: Executive Session
Final September 08 LSB minutes
http://lsb.kpfa.org/files/sept%20final%20minutes.pdf
To: KPFA LSB
Fr: Susan McDonough
Re: Draft #1 Minutes from September 13, 2008 LSB & Delegates’ Meeting
Held at Café de la Paz, Berkeley, 11am-3:30pm
Dt: September 30, 2008
Item #13: Motion re: HR Practices (NH)
Motion made and seconded: Be it resolved that: The LSB requests that the interim General Manager Lemlem
Rijio to provide the answers to the following questions:
1) How long have you been IGM?
2) When did you assign to someone else or personally begin reworking the Employee Handbook?
3) Is the new employee Personnel handbook finished?
4) What is the status of this personnel handbook?
5) If it has not been finished and distributed to the staff when will it be done?
6) Is there a Personnel Handbook that is being used at the station, ie does the Business Manager or any
management employee provide such a handbook to an employee when they are hired or when they ask for one?
7) If there is one, has it been distributed to all employees?
8) Is there a record that employees have received it?
9) Are there written policies for reporting discrimination and retaliation complaints in place at the station? And if
so how are they made available to employees?
10) Have any sexual harassment trainings taken place KPFA? If so how many, and which staff were invited, and
which attended?
11) When was the Human Resources Consultant Hired?
12) What was the hiring process for this consultant?
13) What are the Human Resource Consultant's job duties?
14) How much is the Human Resource Consultant paid?
15) What if any Human Resources job duties do you as IGM retain?
16) Have any performance evaluations been done of any employee during your time as IGM? If so, is there a
schedule for the conducting of annual performance evaluations of all employees? If there is such a schedule, will
it be completed annually?
17) When you are aware of a grievance of discrimination or retaliation as IGM, what steps do you take, what are
your policies to ensure that it is handled properly according to state and federal law? Please let me know
what protocols that you rely on for your responses.
18) Are there any policies in place at the workplace regarding workplace violence, and if so, what are they? and
how and when are they provided to employees.
Vote: Yes 9, No 9. Motion fails.
Substitute motion made by BET and seconded: The KPFA LSB requests KPFA management provide
the LSB all existing personnel policy and procedure documents, along with an account of which ones
are being revised or created, and the process, and timeline for doing so. The LSB further requests KPFA
management make itself available to discuss those policies at the next meeting of the LSB.
First vote: call for vote on substitute motion: Yes 12, No 0, Abs 7
Vote on substitute motion: Yes: 12, No: 0, Abst: 7. Motion carries. Roll call vote:
Yes: Bonnie, Brian, Dianne, Tico, Rych, Sarv, Sherry, Susan, Warren
Abst: Aki, Anthony, Chandra, Henry, Joe, Noelle, Sasha, Shahram, Tracy
Motion made and seconded that the record show that Noelle Hanrahan of the LSB accused Brian
Edwards Tiekert of obfuscation after she was called to order. She then asked if it was too big a word.
Item #14: Motion re: CAB (TR)
Motion made and seconded to move this item to the October agenda. No objections.
Item #15: Motion re: GM Review (TR)
It is resolved that the KPFA LSB begin the mandated annual evaluation of the KPFA Interim General
Manager and Interim Program Director for 2008. Seconded. No objections.
Public Meeting Adjourned at 2:50pm
Time Certain 3pm: Executive Session
Final September 08 LSB minutes
For more information:
http://lsb.kpfa.org/files/sept%20final%20m...
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