Board Notes 10.27.20

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Old business

Fall program

– what to do about remaining no shows? 

— five or six shows that folks aren’t able to do. No solid leads on why. 

— whatever we’re doing should be reflected in our program. Any ideas about what we should do? 

— Leith purposes to replace them with syndicated shows. Hand off the shows and update the schedule. 

— Amy suggests to send a last notice email 

Training
– how Goes it? 

— Amy says training is going well. Everything is moving pretty quickly, in terms of getting through the training manual. We just did FCC regulations, and Amy did a visual tour of the board. The sound section (section 5 of the manual), we’re hopefully going to go in depth on studio and remote production next week. 

— Amy has a question about the reading material. Luke did a manual (for remote production), Amy will probably share that with the trainees. 

— Ben Spencer also put together a tutorial for audacity on Mac. Luke has organised resources, rather than make a specific tutorial. Work within that framework, how to incorporate. 

— Luke put in links that had to use the programs, videos, blog posts, and etc. 

Board Election
– BM proposes we push the election to the Dec staff meeting, as we are not ready for an election this sunday
— staff email has not been sent – so no new candidates.

— that is lulu’s fault, she takes full responsibility for this. 

— ben says don’t stress. We gotta focus on the pledge drive anyways. 

— people can still help us out. Push back elections anyways.

— staff email. We do need an email for the staff meeting, that does come from the president. 

— Lulu will send that. We can hit them with the one, two combo. send email that we have a meeting on Sunday where we will talk about the pledge drive, the link is forthcoming. I like the technique — keeps it on their mind for another WESU meeting. 

— also worth noting, there is a link that brings us to all of the staff meeting notes. All of the emails we’ve sent out. Fun fact. 

SBC Budget request- Any updates?   

— check in. 

New Business

Pledge Drive – 

  • $30K goal for spring and Fall will keep giving levels consistent with last year and provide some wiggle room.  
  • Transmitter is paid in full – so that’s about $8K we can use elsewhere on tech needs not being met by SBC or University. 
  • Ben M will start working out language for long form pledge appeal and readying resources and instructions for broadcasters.
  • Will make an online pledge resource page for staff. 
  • do we go with old pledge drive design? new colours. New design and t-shirt for next semester. 
  • great idea to make an online shop. 

Staff meeting on Sunday – Major theme will be the pledge drive
– Outline, goal, expectations, and resources for pledge drive.
– Lulu Can 

— open discussion about success and challenges with pledge drive 

Premiums –

  • One reason we ended up ahead of the game last spring was because of money saved on premiums (to the tune of $3-4,000) hence there’s a good argument for moving ahead with no premiums.  
  • We could perhaps do a sticker or something else that we can offer EVERY donor, that doesn’t cost extra to ship.

Other updates – follow-ups?

Charles updated our emergency alert system this past week. 

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