[NewPacifica] Request for contact information from the LSB



Attention:  Vajra Kilgour

It has come to my attention that the contact list for LSB members in 
the Board's official website (wbailsb AT yahoogroups.com)  has STILL 
not been updated, despite repeated requests that the secretary and 
chair do so.  Please provide current (and working) email and 
telephone addresses for each member of the LSB, as is required.

Please send the corrected, updated list to the Secretary of the PNB 
for the Board's records: she is copied on this message, above.

If the secretary is unable or unwilling to provide this information 
to other members of the LSB, the chair should direct someone else to 
provide it.  The current list, attached and copied below, was posted 
by Berta Silva in February of 2005.   Some people are there who are 
no longer on the board.  Some names of people on the board are 
missing, and I note that those complaining about not having been 
contacted by other members are prominent among those complaining. 
How can LSB members expect to be contacted, by mail or telephone, if 
they refuse to provide contact information?

It is the responsibility of the Secretary and ultimately of the Chair 
to keep contact information current.  If members refuse to provide a 
working telephone or email or mailing address, they cannot then 
complain about not having been contacted for official notices. 
Someone wanting to contact the entire board should not be obliged to 
ferret out secret contact information about board members, or cull 
message boards for working emails which in fact may not be the ones 
read by the member for official information.  The board must provide 
members with the official means of contacting each other.

Additionally, elected members must be available to the members of the 
station: please update this list, and if any information is to be 
kept private, mark it as "private."  However, there must be at least 
ONE contact item (phone or email) that is the legally provided 
contact information. and which always works.  Members cannot provide 
a single email address or a telephone number and then claim that no 
one contacted them about a special meeting (e.g. Lucas), or refuse to 
provide contact information and claim no one called them (e.g. 
Roberts), or provide only one item, and then claim they never go the 
message because that mode was not working (e.g. L.Davis).

The list is and has been seriously out of date.  You have been asked 
before to update the list.  Members attempting to notify other 
members of an official meeting or event are under no obligation to 
search beyond the officially provided list in the official LSB 
communication site, (wbailsb AT yahoogroups.com), which should 
contain information given to the Secretary,  for missing contact 
information:  rather, it is the responsibility of the board chair to 
see to the updating of the list.

I am copying the PNB Secretary, Mary Berg, and would copy the WBAI 
chair, Vajra Kilgour, personally except for the fact that there is no 
email address provided in the list of official contacts, and her 
email address is truncated in her messages to the list.  (I mention 
this as an example of the problem in contacting members directly and 
easily as well as officially.)  While I am certain that the Chair 
reads this list, and have written to her individually on occasion, my 
point is that there is no official way of contacting individual 
members of the board, especially those who do not wish to be 
contacted.   Please update this list immediately,with information 
that is current and accurate and working,  and put out a notice when 
you have done so.  If you want an updated list of newly elected 
members of the LSB, please put out a call to those members for their 
preferred data.

Carolyn Birden


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Carolyn Birden
Listener-elected Member,  WBAI Local Station Board
Director, Pacifica National Board

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