KPFT Notes

Due to the time crunch at all the stations, the deadlines for the elections has been extended. The new timeline is:

June 1st Nomination period begins.
July 15th Nomination period ends. All candidates must have their forms turned in.
Last day to join a Pacifica station.
July 15th Candidates will be given air time at their respective stations to share their vision for Pacifica
Aug 29th Ballots shall be mailed to all 95,000 members
Oct 14th ALL BALLOTS MAILED IN MUST BE RECEIVED BY THIS DATE!
Nov 15th The election will be certified if the quorum for the election is met.

Date of Record -
To run as a candidate or to vote, a person must have been a member in the period from July 16th 2008 to July 15th 2009

A person qualifies for membership by:
1. Paying $25 to one of the stations
2. Volunteering at a station for a minimum of 3 hours
3. Obtaining a waiver from the Local Station Board.

On July 18th, KPFT Radio hosts the “Wear That Funky Music!” Service Auction at One Americas Plaza, 2311 Canal Street.

Guests are encouraged to dress as a song title or music personality and there’ll be costume contests as well as a table decorating contest. There’ll be a silent auction, live auction and raffles. This is a great opportunity for our radio listeners to meet and interact with other listeners, support the station financially and be entertained.

Call 713-526-4000 x315 to buy tickets over the phone. You and your friends, or your business, may want to sponsor a table. If so you can buy a table at the Brown Paper Ticket link, or download the Ticket and Tables order form at this link, or call 713-526-4000 x315.

Last, but certainly not least, we are looking for donated items/services. For businesses or nonprofits, this offers bidders an opportunity to learn more about the business/nonprofit in the process of donating to KPFT — a Win! Win! Win!

Some examples of Service Auction items:

• Write a simple will for you
• Change and rotate tires
• Read a palm, cast runes
• Repair your fence
• Perm or cut your hair
• Cater a meal
• Spay /neuter your pet

or provide:

• Floral arrangements & delivery
• A stay at a beach house, mountain cabin or hotel on time-share
• Restaurant gift certificate
• Lunch at X restaurant with X celebrity
• Tickets to a play, musical event, ballet, dance, museum, with backstage tour
• Custom made boots/hat
• Murder Mystery or specialty dinner
• Cooking/dance/art lessons or tutoring
• Website/computer assistance
• Chiropractic exam, acupuncture massage
• Historical or custom-made tours
• Special entertainment for your party (singer, magician or clown)

Every service contract/donation will be assigned a song title and creatively described in terms of music in some way. If desired, the donor’s name, address, email address and phone number will be featured in the auction catalogue, on our auction website and may be mentioned in promotions for the event. We are also soliciting sponsorship ads for the Service Auction catalogue. You can get this information from the web site, or call Robin Lewis, KPFT Development Director, at 713-526-4000 x315.

A heads-up or Twitter users:

On Monday, I began posting tweets to educate, interest and cajole listeners of KPFT (and Pacifica signal areas in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City and Washington, D.C.) to run for our Local Station Board.

Follow me on Twitter to catch a daily link, fact or note on the Pacifica elections or monitor the hashtags #pacifica and #pacificaelections.

This year is a pivotal year for Pacifica Radio. Our bylaws support listener members in good standing to run for seats on our local boards of directors. A large number of board members this year have reached their term limits, per those same bylaws. Change is in the air, so why not involve technically hip and smart people like you to become board members?

With your participation, our Local Station Board in Houston and boards in all our signal areas can be forward thinking. Visit the Pacifica elections website to download a candidate petition (all candidates must get signatures of listeners to be considered a candidate) and other info. We need you. Please consider running for the board.

Just a note to say I’ve added a training category under my own site for aspiring community radio types. While the KPFT-centered stuff will be at KPFT Notes, internalish/training kinds of things will move there. Of note, I’ve updated and expanded my radio syndication tips piece and added tips for music breaks and how to use Sony Vegas for audio production. I hope to add a three-part series next week on using Linux for radio production too. Check it out at the link above.