From: Carol Spooner
Date: Sat Aug 10, 2002 3:34 pm
Subject: Fw: Annoted By-Laws

This is from the KPFA elections committee.

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From: Max Blanchet
To: Carol Spooner
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 8:25 AM
Subject: Annoted By-Laws

Hi Carol,

Attached for your information is the latest annotated version of the by-laws. [ draft b from Carol Spooner ] It reflects comments and suggestions made at the election committee meeting on Thursday.

Additions are in bold or plain italics. Language to be removed is in brackets. We got as far as Article 8. We hope to complete this process next week.

Regards,

Max

[this annotated version is now complete 8-19-02]

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SECTION 1 "NAME": The name of this corporation is PACIFICA FOUNDATION, and it shall be referred to in these By-Laws as "The Foundation".

SECTION 2 "PURPOSE": The purpose of The Foundation is as stated in Article II of the Articles of Incorporation.

SECTION 3 "COLLABORATIVE RELATIONS": The activities of the Foundation are supported by diverse communities of listeners, volunteers, employees and contributors. Because the basis of the Foundation's governance is democratic, because the Foundation [is endeavoring] endeavors to recruit a staff that is diverse with respect to race or ethnicity, nationality, gender, age, sexual preference and disability at all levels consistent with national and local signal areas' demographics and to maintain a working environment that is free of discrimination, and because of the primacy of the tradition of volunteerism in the Foundation, all of the roles and relationships within the Pacifica communities should promote collaborative processes, where to the greatest extent practicable, all affected persons are consulted and given an opportunity to be heard, both within the structure of governance, and in the management of the Foundation as well as in its relations with the diverse communities it serves. These By-Laws shall be augmented wherever possible, by resolutions of the Board establishing Foundation policies, and implemented through detailed written Operating Guidelines and Procedures stipulating practices by which the Board of Directors exercises its fiduciary responsibilities and holds management accountable to the communities it serves.

SECTION 1 "PRINCIPAL OFFICE": The principal office and place of business of The Foundation shall be located in the County of Alameda, State of California.

SECTION 2 "OTHER OFFICES": The Foundation shall also have offices at such other places within or without the State of California as the Board of Directors may from time to time designate.

SECTION 1 "DEFINED": There shall be two classes of members: (A) "Listener-Sponsor Members", and (B) "Staff Members".
   (A)   "Listener-Sponsor Members" shall be any natural (?) person who within the preceding 12 months: (1) has contributed a minimum $25 donation to any Pacifica radio station, or such minimum amount as the Board of Directors may from time to time decide, or has volunteered a minimum of 3 hours' work to any Pacifica radio station, and (2) has returned a signed membership registration card stating that he or she has read and supports the purposes of the Pacifica Foundation. The registration card shall have printed on it the purposes of the Pacifica Foundation and shall be mailed to persons eligible for listener-sponsor membership upon receipt of the minimum donation or volunteer hours worked or mailed at the same time as the ballots for the first election following adoption of these bylaws.
   (B)    "Staff Members" shall be any [non-management] permanent paid employee of a Pacifica radio station or any unpaid staff member [or volunteer] who: (1) has worked for any Pacifica radio station at least [9] 5 hours per week in the preceding [3] 6 months, and (2) has returned a signed membership registration card stating that he or she has read and supports the purposes of the Pacifica Foundation. The registration card shall have printed on it the purposes of the Pacifica Foundation and shall be delivered by hand or mailed to persons eligible for staff membership upon completion of the required number of hours' work.
   (C)   Membership shall be determined by radio station area, and each Pacifica Foundation radio station shall maintain a register of its Listener- Sponsor Members and Staff Members. In the event that a person qualifies for membership in more than one radio station area, he or she shall be entitled to only one membership and shall notify the Foundation of which radio station area s/he wishes to be a member. In the event that a person qualifies both as a Listener-Sponsor Member and as a Staff Member, such person shall be deemed to be a Staff Member.
   (D)   Waiver of Requirements. A Local Station Board may choose to waive the gift requirement for Listener-Sponsor Membership for reasons of financial hardship for anyone who, due to incarceration or disability, cannot volunteer their time.

SECTION 2 "RIGHTS":
  (A)   Election of Directors.
    (1)   The Listener-Sponsor Members for each station area shall have the right to elect twelve Directors who shall sit on the Local Station Board committee of the Board of Directors for their station area.

{At least one person objects strenuously to the idea of parity among stations and prefers the concept of proportionality.}

    (2)   The Staff Members for each station area shall have the right to elect six Directors to sit on the Local Station Board committee of the Board of Directors for their station area.
  (B)   Amendment of Bylaws. Any amendment of the Foundation bylaws that materially adversely affects the rights of the members, or any class of members, shall require the vote of approval of the members, or class of members, as applicable, in order to be effective.
  (C)   Amendment of Articles of Incorporation. Any amendment to the Foundation Articles of Incorporation shall require the vote of approval of the Members.
  (D  ) The Members of a radio station area shall have the right to recall any Director elected by them.
  (E)   The Members of the Foundation shall have the right to approve or reject the acquisition or disposition of major Foundation assets, for example buildings or radio licenses.

SECTION 3 "QUORUM": A quorum of the Listener-Sponsor Members shall be 10% of those entitled to vote as of the applicable date of record. A quorum of the Staff members shall be one-third (1/3) (?) of those entitled to vote as of the applicable date of record.

SECTION 4 "RECORD DATE": The record date for purposes of determining the members entitled to notice, voting rights, written ballot rights, or any other right with respect to any other lawful membership action, shall be 45 days before the first written ballot or notice is mailed.

SECTION 5 "PROXIES": All action taken by Members shall be taken by the Members personally. The powers of Members may not be exercised by alternates, by proxy or the like.

{Some favor removing item 8. Some would water it down by removing any reference to demographics. And a few would make it more stringent by linking it to Article 4, Section 5.}

    (9)   ensure that national and local programming is instituted that addresses the [grievances] concerns, needs and interests of the diverse communities the Foundation [is endeavoring to] serves, especially those of marginalized and voiceless communities.

SECTION 2 "TERMS":
  (A)   The term of a Director shall be three (3) years. A director may serve two (2) consecutive three-year terms. One third of the directors shall be elected each year.
  (B)   A Director shall not be eligible for further service as a Director until one year has elapsed after the termination of a Director's second consecutive three-year term.

SECTION 3 "NOMINATION OF DIRECTORS": Nominations for the office of Director shall open on September 1st of each year and close on November 1st. Nomination papers shall be delivered to an independent elections coordinator, who shall not hold any elective Foundation office and who shall not be an employee of the Foundation and who shall be chosen by each Local Station Board, by majority vote, to oversee and certify the fairness of the elections and conformity with these bylaws. Nomination papers shall consist of the required number of signatures on a form to be provided by the election coordinator, a statement of whether the candidate is running for election as a Listener-Sponsor Member or a Staff Member, and a statement up to 500 words in length by the candidate which shall be mailed to the voting members. The candidate shall also indicate his/her gender, and racial or ethnic heritage, i.e., European, African, Latin American, Native American, Asian, Pacific Islander, Arab, or shall decline to state.
  (A)   Any eligible Listener-Sponsor Member may be nominated for the office of Director by the signatures of twenty (20) Listener-Sponsor Members in good standing.
  (B)   Any eligible Staff Member may be nominated for the office of Director by the signatures of two (2) Staff Members in good standing.

SECTION 4 "ELECTION OF DIRECTORS":

(A)   Listener-Sponsor Directors shall be elected by the Listener- Sponsor Members of each radio station area by mail ballot. Each member shall have one vote, and the top vote four (4) vote- getters shall be elected each year, subject to the diversity criteria specified below. The Proportional Representation "Single Transferrable Voting Method" (STVM) is authorized and [may] shall be utilized [, if approved by majority vote of the Local Station Board]. There shall be a 30-day period for return of ballots after mailing, and the ballots shall be counted and the election results certified by the Elections Coordinator not later than December 29th of each year.
(B)   Staff Directors shall be elected by the Staff Members of each radio station area by mail ballot, and the top two (2) vote-getters shall be elected each year, subject to the diversity criteria specified below. The Proportional Representation ["Single Transferrable Voting Method"] STVM is authorized and [may] shall be utilized [, if approved by majority vote of the Local Station Board]. There shall be a 30-day period for return of ballots after mailing, and the ballots shall be counted and the election results certified by the Elections Coordinator not later than December 29th of each year.

{Language needs to be added above in sections 3 and 4 to cover the transitional period}

SECTION 5 "DIVERSITY GOALS": It is the goal of the Foundation that a minimum of 50% of the Directors shall be racial/ethnic minorities and a minimum of 50% of the Directors shall be women. To that end, in any election of directors, half the number of seats to be filled shall be filled by the top vote-getters who are racial/ethnic minorities and half the number of seats to be filled shall be filled by the top vote-getters who are women, regardless of whether or not they are among the top vote-getters overall. However, for purposes of applying this rule, no person shall be elected a Director who does not receive at least one-half ½ the number of votes as the last person who would have been elected were it not for the diversity goals. After all the ballots are counted, the election coordinator shall examine the results to determine whether the diversity goals have been met in the aggregate and not just incrementally, and if they have not been met, then s/he shall look to see if there are candidates who are minorities and/or women who received at least half the number of votes of the lowest vote- getter who would have been elected, and s/he shall declare them elected in order of highest number of votes received, replacing the candidates who would have been elected in order of lowest number of votes received. For example: if there are 4 seats to be filled and the top 4 vote-getters are 3 non- minority men and one minority woman, the non-minority man with the least votes who would have been elected will be replaced with the next highest vote-getter who is either a minority or a woman provided s/he has obtained at least half of the votes of that non-minority man being replaced. The elections coordinator will then examine the results again to see if the diversity goals for both minorities and women has been met in the aggregate, and if not, s/he will replace the next lowest non-minority man who would have been elected with the next highest minority or woman with the minimum required number of votes who will fulfill the diversity goals.

{Language needs to be added above to indicate that this applies to all classes of membership. Also, language needs to be tightened.}

SECTION 6 "SEATING OF DIRECTORS": The Directors shall be seated at the first meeting of their respective Local Station Boards to be held in January each year.

SECTION 7 "REMOVAL OF A DIRECTOR":

(A)   Any Director may be removed by the Board of Directors at a regular or special meeting by a three-fifths (3/5) vote of all of the members of the Board of Directors, provided that the grounds for such removal are submitted with the notice of said meeting and, provided further, that the said Director shall have a reasonable opportunity at said meeting to protest his/her removal.
(B)

Upon the petition of fifty (50) of the Members of the Radio Station area that elected a Director, the Director may be removed by a 2/3 (?) majority vote of the Members voting in a recall election subject to the 10% quorum requirement. If recall procedures have not been established by the Board of Directors, then the Local Station Board Committee for that station area shall determine the recall procedures within thirty (30) days of the submission of a recall petition.

{Language needed to indicate that the LSB has the right to remove a director.}

(C)   Any Director may be removed automatically for unexcused absences as set forth in Article Five.

SECTION 9 "COMPENSATION": Directors shall serve without compensation except that they shall be allowed reasonable advancement or reimbursement of expenses incurred in the performance of their regular duties.

{ Might compensation for lost wages be offered in some cases?}

SECTION 10 "RESTRICTION REGARDING INTERESTED DIRECTORS":
  (A)   Notwithstanding any other provision of these Bylaws, not more than forty-nine percent (49%) of the persons serving on the board may be interested persons.
  (B)   For purposes of this Section, "interested persons" means either:
    (1)   Any person currently being compensated by the Foundation for services rendered it within the previous twelve (12) months, whether as a full- or part-time officer or other employee, independent contractor, or otherwise; or
  (2)   Any brother, sister, ancestor, descendant, spouse, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, mother-in-law, or father-in-law of any such person.

SECTION 1 "TIME AND PLACE OF MEETINGS": The Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors shall take place in March, at such times, and places as designated by a majority vote of the Board of Directors at the previous meeting. The Board shall also regularly meet in September of each year. All meetings shall occur at a location not farther than 25 miles from the offices of a Foundation radio station, and the Board meetings shall rotate through the five radio station areas. Directors may attend in person, or by telephone or video conference, or other electronic means, provided that all Directors may hear one another, at all times.

SECTION 2 "SPECIAL MEETINGS": Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the Board Chair, [any two] the Vice Chair[s], or by any three members of the National Committee of the Board.

SECTION 3 "NOTICE": Written notice of every regular [and special] meeting of the Board of Directors, stating the time and place of said meeting, and the purposes thereof, shall be mailed, or sent to each member of the Board of Directors by telecopier or email at least [ten] thirty (30) days before any such meeting. Special meetings shall require only 10 day advance notice. All meetings shall be announced in advance on the air.

SECTION 4 "QUORUM": A quorum at any meeting of the Board of Directors shall consist of one-third (1/3) of the duly elected Directors.

SECTION 5 "ATTENDANCE": Any Director who is absent for three (3) unexcused consecutive meetings of the Board of Directors shall be deemed to have resigned and shall be automatically removed from the Board [whether or not the absences have been excused].

{Some favor maintaining the original language.}

[SECTION 6 "ACTION BY UNANIMOUS WRITTEN CONSENT": Any action required or permitted to be taken by the Board of Directors may be taken without a meeting, if all members of the Board shall individually or collectively consent in writing to such action. Such written consent shall have the same force and effect as a unanimous vote of such Directors.]

{Section 6 should be removed.}

SECTION 7 "PROXIES": All action taken by Directors shall be taken by the elected Director personally. The powers of members of the Board may not be exercised by alternates, by proxy or the like.

SECTION 1 "LOCAL STATION BOARDS": The Directors elected by the members of the five station areas shall serve as a standing committee of the Board of Directors for that radio station, which shall be known as the Local Station Board for that radio station.

  (A)   Power and Authority: The Local Station Boards are authorized to exercise any and all corporate powers of the Pacifica Foundation, with regard to that radio station, particularly those regarding personnel management, allocation of resources, budgeting and financial management, contracting, management of Foundation assets, planning, and fundraising and development, programming, technical and technological development and compliance with federal and other broadcast rules and regulations, including the establishment of separate Community Advisory Boards (CABS) to the extent that the radio station seeks funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and such CABS are required as a condition of such grants.

  (B)   Duties: The ongoing duties of the Local Station Boards [Board] with regard to their radio stations are to:
    (1)   ensure compliance with the purposes of the Foundation as set forth in the Articles of Incorporation;
    (2)   ensure compliance with corporate responsibilities and state and federal law;
    (3)   ensure regular communication with the Members and the diverse communities the stations serve;
    (4)   appoint, supervise and remove, employ and discharge, the station General Manager, and to approve the hiring of all other station management personnel.
    (5)   generally [supervise] set policy regarding the operations and management of the radio station;
    (6)   meet at least every other month at such regular times and places as they shall determine and to meet at such other times as is necessary in order to carry out the duties of the Local Station Board; and
    (8)   ensure the execution of Foundation business decisions concerning that radio station, as required by the exercise of Board powers and authority, as above.
    (9)   ensure that the staff of the stations, including their managerial staff, is diverse consistent with [local] signal area demographics [respectively] and that an atmosphere is maintained within the stations and [vis-à-vis] with respect to the diverse communities they serve that is free of discrimination .

{Some favor removing item 9. Some would water it down by removing any reference to demographics. And a few would make it more stringent by linking it to Article 4, Section 5.}

    (10)   ensure that local programming is instituted that addresses the [grievances] concerns, needs and interests of the diverse communities the stations serve, especially those of marginalized and voiceless communities.

  (C)   Each Local Station Board shall elect a Chair, a Vice-Chair, a Recording Secretary, and a Treasurer, who shall be elected in January each year for a term of one year. Each Local Station Board shall also elect their representatives to the National Committee, the National [Finance] Budget Committee, and the National Program Committee at a Local Station Board meeting in January or February. [The Chairs of each Local Station Board shall serve on the National Committee of the Board of Directors, and shall hold the office of Vice-Chairs of the Foundation.]

SECTION 2 "NATIONAL COMMITTEE": The National Committee of the Board of Directors shall consist of [the Chairs of the five Local Station Boards, and two additional] three Local Station Board members from each Local Station Board who shall be elected by [majority] STVM [vote] by their respective Local Station Boards. Such members shall continue to serve simultaneously on their respective Local Station Boards. Of the three Local Station Board members from each Local Station Board who serve on the National Committee, one shall be a Staff Member and two shall be Listener- Sponsor Members. The National Committee members shall be elected for one-year terms commencing in January of each year. Each Local Station Board may recall from the National Committee and replace any National Committee member elected by them, by majority vote of the Local Station Board members present and voting, provided that notice of the proposed removal is sent to all members of the Local Station Board and announced on the airwaves at least 10 days prior to the meeting where such action may be taken. Each Local Station Board shall simultaneously elect a replacement on the National Committee for the Director so removed. A Local Station Board member who has been removed from the National Committee by his/her Local Station Board, shall continue to serve his/her term as a Director, unless s/he resigns or is removed as a Director pursuant to the provisions of these Bylaws.

   (A)   Power and Authority: The National Committee is authorized to exercise any and all corporate powers of the Pacifica Foundation, with regard to the Pacifica Archives, National Programming, the Pacifica Affiliate system, and other national initiatives of the Foundation, particularly those regarding personnel management, allocation of resources, budgeting and financial management, contracting, management of Foundation assets, planning, fundraising and development, programming, technical and technological development and compliance with federal and other broadcast rules and regulations.

   (B)      Duties: The ongoing duties of the National Committee with regard to national initiatives are to:
    (1)   ensure compliance with the purposes of the Foundation as set forth in the Articles of Incorporation;
    (2)   ensure compliance with corporate responsibilities and state and federal law;
    (3)   ensure regular communication with the Members and the diverse communities the Foundation serves;
    (4)   appoint, supervise and remove, employ and discharge, and except as otherwise provided in these Bylaws, prescribe the duties and fix the compensation of the Executive Director of the Foundation;
    (5)   generally supervise the management and operations of Foundation personnel to assure that their duties are performed properly;
    (6)   meet at least quarterly at such regular times and places as they shall determine and to meet at such other times as is necessary in order to carry out the duties of the National Committee; and
    (8)   ensure the execution of Foundation business decisions concerning national initiatives, as required by the exercise of Board powers and authority, as above.
    (9)   ensure that the staff of the Foundation, including its managerial staff, at the national and local levels is diverse consistent with national and [regional] signal areas' demographics respectively and that an atmosphere is maintained at all levels that is free of discrimination .

{Some favor removing item 9. Some would water it down by removing any reference to demographics. And a few would make it more stringent by linking it to Article 4, Section 5.}

    (10  ) ensure that national and local programming is instituted that addresses the [grievances] concerns, needs and interests of the diverse communities the Foundation serves, especially those of marginalized and voiceless communities.
  (C)   The National Committee may adopt resolutions requiring implementation by the local radio stations or affecting the programming of the local radio stations, and those resolutions shall be effective as to all Pacifica radio stations, unless overridden by majority vote of three of the five Local Station Boards.

{Language of (C) above needs to be clarified, especially the first 3 lines.)

SECTION 3 "NATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE": There shall be a National Program Committee which shall review and evaluate the programming of all Pacifica radio stations to insure that each station is fulfilling the purposes of the Foundation. The Program Committee members shall consist of two Local Station Board members from each station area who shall be elected by their respective Local Station Boards, one of whom shall be a member of the National Committee of the Board. In the event that the Program Committee determines that a local station is not adequately fulfilling Pacifica's purposes, the committee shall meet and confer with the Local Station Board for that station to develop corrective measures and policies.

{Should Section 3 above address the issue of the need for and nature of local program councils?}

SECTION 4 "NATIONAL BUDGET COMMITTEE": The Foundation Treasurer, who may be a treasurer of an LSB and the other treasurers of the LSBs plus one additional member from each LSB, [and the Treasurers of the five Local Station Boards] shall constitute the National Budget Committee, which shall have the duty to prepare an annual budget for the Foundation, including all five radio stations, the Pacifica Archives, the national administrative office, national programming, and all other Foundation operations. Proposed budgets for the five radio stations shall be submitted to the National Budget Committee by the Local Station Boards, as well as budgets for all national programs and departments, in June of each year. The National Budget Committee, then, in consultation with appropriate accounting and management staff and the Local Station Boards, shall make such adjustments as they deem appropriate and shall prepare a final proposed budget for adoption by the Board of Directors, by majority vote of the Directors present and voting in a quorum at the September meeting of the Board of Directors. The annual Foundation budget is to be approved no later than September 30th each year, prior to commencement of the fiscal year on October 1st. It shall also be the duty of the Budget Committee to submit at least quarterly to the full Board of Directors a report of actual income and expenses versus budgeted income and expenses, with an explanation of any major discrepancies. The budget shall also specify a maximum expenditure that may be made without specific approval of the National Budget Committee or the Board of Directors. The Chief Financial Officer (if one is appointed) shall be an ex-officio member of the National Budget Committee.

SECTION 5 "OTHER ADVISORY COMMITTEES": The Board may establish advisory committees as authorized by the nonprofit corporate law of the State of California to assist the Board in developing plans and initiatives to further Pacifica's mission and purposes, as found in the Articles of Incorporation. These committees may include Foundation members and others. The purpose of advisory committees would be to help the Board in areas such as: membership and organizational development; affiliate relations; programming for community development, peace and social justice; financial planning; fundraising and development; technological and infrastructure development; new station planning.

SECTION 1 "DESIGNATION OF OFFICERS":
  (A)   The Officers of Pacifica Foundation shall be a Chairperson of the Board of Directors, a vice-chair, [five Vice-Chairs who shall be the Chairs of the five Local Station Boards,] a Secretary, a Treasurer, and such Assistant Secretaries and Assistant Treasurers as may be authorized from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Chairperson of the Board shall not concurrently hold any other Foundation office.
  (B)   A Recording Secretary or Chief Financial Officer, who are not Directors, may be employed by the Board in addition to the Foundation Secretary or Treasurer. Any such non-Director officers shall serve at the pleasure of the Board.

SECTION 2: "DUTIES OF OFFICERS": The duties of Board officers shall be outlined in the Guidelines and Operating Procedures of the Board.

SECTION 3 "ELECTION, TERMS, AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTOR OFFICERS":

(A)   Election of Director Officers: The Officers of The Foundation [, except the Vice Chairs (who shall be elected by their respective Local Station Boards, as provided elsewhere in these Bylaws),] shall be elected bi-annually in even numbered years by the Board of Directors at the Annual Meeting in March. Only Directors who have been elected to the National Committee by their respective Local Station Boards shall be eligible for election as the Chairperson of the Board, Secretary or Treasurer of the Foundation.
(B)   Terms of Director Officers: Officers shall serve for a term of two years or until the election of their successors which ever is later, unless he or she resigns or is removed or is otherwise disqualified to serve before such time. No Officer may continue to serve as an officer past the expiration of his/her term as Director.
(D)   Removal of Director Officers: Any officer may be removed by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting by a majority vote of all of the members of the Board of Directors, provided that the grounds for such removal are submitted with notice of said meeting, and provided further that said officer shall have a reasonable opportunity at said meeting to protest his or her removal.

{Should there be language inserted above that discribes the structure of these committees?}

SECTION 1 "EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR":
  (A)   The Board shall employ a person designated as the Executive Director, whose duties shall be as outlined in the Guidelines and Operating Procedures of the Board. Generally, the Executive Director shall serve as the chief executive officer of The Foundation. The Executive Director shall be hired and fired by the National Committee.
  (B)   Oversight and supervision of the Executive Director shall be the duty of the National Committee according to the structure provided in the Guidelines and Operating Procedures of the Board.

SECTION 2 "PACIFICA OMSBUDSPERSON":
  (A)   The Board shall employ a person designated as the Pacifica Omsbudsperson whose duties shall be as outlined in the Guidelines and Operating Procedures of the Board. Generally, the Pacifica Ombudsperson shall be the public’s representative to the Foundation and empowered to respond to significant queries, comments and criticisms regarding the Foundation’s policies or radio programming standards and practices.
    (A)   The Office of the Pacifica Ombudsperson shall be completely
    (independent of the Foundation staff and management and shall
    (report directly to the Board of Directors. The Ombudsperson
    (shall prepare and present an annual report to the Board, which
    (shall also be made public.

{The role of the ombudsperson needs to be clarified, especially with regard to the role of local ombudspersons that are being considered.}

SECTION 1 "RESIGNATION": Any Director or Officer may resign his or her position by written resignation filed with the Secretary of the Foundation.

SECTION 2 "MEMBERSHIP NOT TRANSFERABLE": Foundation Membership, or membership on the Board of Directors, or any position as an Officer of the Foundation, is not transferable by assignment, inheritance, or by execution, bankruptcy, or other process of law.

SECTION 3 "EFFECT OF TERMINATION OF MEMBERSHIP ON BOARD OF DIRECTORS, OR POSITION AS OFFICER OF THE FOUNDATION": Membership on the Board of Directors, or the holding of any office in the Foundation, shall cease and terminate upon the death of the member, upon his/her withdrawal or removal as provided in these Bylaws, upon the termination of his/her Foundation Membership, or office-holding position, and, thereafter, neither the heirs not personal representative of the deceased members, withdrawing or terminated members, or office-holders, shall have any claim whatsoever upon the assets of the Foundation, or any claim whatsoever arising out of said membership or the holding of said membership or the holding of any office in the Foundation. No member of the Board of Directors, or officer of the Foundation, either while such a member or officer, or upon termination of membership or office, for any reason whatsoever, shall be entitled to the return of any monies theretofore paid by her/him or advanced to the Foundation as a contribution to the Foundation, or any station owned and operated by the Foundation.

SECTION 4 "NON-LIABILITY OF DIRECTORS": Directors shall not be personally liable for the debts, liabilities, or other obligations of the corporation, subject to the provisions of the California Corporations Code.

SECTION 5 "INDEMNIFICATION BY CORPORATION OF DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES AND OTHER AGENTS": To the extent that a person who is, or was, a Director, officer, employee or other agent of this corporation has been successful on the merits in defense of any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative proceeding brought to procure a judgment against such person by reason of the fact that he or she is, or was an agent of the corporation, or has been successful in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, such person shall be indemnified against expenses actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with such proceeding.

If such person either settles any such claim or sustains a judgment against him or her, then indemnification against expenses, judgments, fines, settlements and other amounts reasonably incurred in connection with such proceedings shall be provided by this corporation to the extent allowed by, and in accordance with the requirements of, Section 5238 of the California Non-Profit Public Benefit Corporation Law.

{Should there be language included about providing liability insurance to the directors?}

SECTION 1 "MAINTENANCE OF CORPORATE RECORDS": The Foundation shall keep at its principal office in the State of California:
  (A)   Minutes of all meetings of the Board of Directors, of committees of the Board having any authority of the Board, and, {if held, of members?}, indicating the time and place of holding such meetings, whether regular or special, how called, the notice given, and the names of those present and the proceedings thereof;

{Clarify language starting in third line of A above.}

  (B)   Adequate and correct books and records of account, including accounts of its properties and business transactions and accounts of its assets, liabilities, receipts, disbursements, gains and losses;
  (C)   A record of its members indicating their names and addresses and the class of membership held by each member and the termination date of any membership;
  (D)   A copy of the corporation's Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws as amended to date, which shall be open to inspection by the members of the corporation at all reasonable times during office hours.

SECTION 2 "CORPORATE SEAL": The Board of Directors may adopt, use, and at will alter, a corporate seal. Such seal shall be kept at the principal office of the corporation. Failure to affix the seal to corporate instruments, however, shall not affect the validity of any such instrument.

SECTION 3 "DIRECTORS' INSPECTION RIGHTS": Every director shall have the absolute right at any reasonable time to inspect and copy all books, records and documents of every kind and to inspect the physical properties of the corporation.

SECTION 4 "MEMBERS' INSPECTION RIGHTS": Members of the Foundation shall have the following inspection rights, for a purpose reasonably related to such person's interest as a member:
  (A)   To inspect and copy the record of all members' names, addresses and voting rights, at reasonable times, upon five (5) business days' prior written demand on the corporation, which demand shall state the purpose for which the inspection rights are requested.
  (B)   To inspect at any reasonable time the books, records, or minutes of proceedings of the Members or of the Board or committees of the Board, upon written demand on the corporation by the member, for a purpose reasonably related to such person's interests as a member.

SECTION 5 "RIGHT TO COPY AND MAKE EXTRACTS": Any inspection under the provisions of this Article may be made in person or by agent or attorney and the right to inspection includes the right to copy and make extracts.

SECTION 6 "ANNUAL REPORT":
  (A)   The board shall cause an annual report to be furnished not later than one hundred and twenty (120) days after the close of the Foundation’s fiscal year to all directors of the corporation and[, upon payment of reasonable copying costs,] to any Member who requests it in writing within 10 working days of the receipt of the request, which report shall contain the following information in appropriate detail:
   (1)   The assets and liabilities, including the trust funds, of the corporation as of the end of the fiscal year;
   (2)   The principal changes in assets and liabilities, including trust funds, during the fiscal year;
   (3)   The revenue or receipts of the corporation, both unrestricted and restricted to particular purposes, for the fiscal year;
   (4)   The expenses or disbursements of the corporation, for both general and restricted purposes, during the fiscal year;
   (5)   Any information required by Section 7 of this Article.
  (B)   The annual report shall be accompanied by [any] the report [thereon] of independent [accountants] auditors, [or, if there is no such report, the certificate of an authorized officer of the corporation that such statements were prepared without audit from the books and records of the corporation].

SECTION 7 "ANNUAL STATEMENT OF SPECIFIC TRANSACTIONS":
  (A)   The Foundation shall attach as an addendum to the Annual report a statement within one hundred and twenty (120) days after the close of its fiscal year which briefly describes the amount and circumstances of any indemnification or transaction in which the Foundation or one of its Radio Stations was a party, and in which any Director or officer of the Foundation had a direct or indirect material financial interest.
  (B)   The above statement need only be provided with respect to a transaction during the previous fiscal year involving more than ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,000) or which was one of a number of transactions with the same persons involving, in the aggregate, more than ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,000).
  (C)   Similarly, the statement need only be provided with respect to indemnifications or advances aggregating more than ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,000) paid during the previous fiscal year to any director or officer, except that no such statement need be made if such indemnification was approved by the Members pursuant to Section 5238(e)(2) of the California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law.
  (D)   Any statement required by this Section shall briefly describe the names of the interested persons involved in such transactions, stating each person's relationship to the corporation, the nature of such person's interest in the transaction and, where practical, the amount of such interest, provided that in the case of a transaction with a partnership of which such person is a partner, only the interest of the partnership need be stated.

As to any matter not herein specified, Robert’s Rules of Order ([revised] most recent edition) shall apply.

SECTION 1 "PROPOSED AMENDMENTS": These By-Laws may be amended, altered or repealed in whole or in part at any meeting of the Board of Directors, provided that the proposed changes have been submitted to each member of the Board of Directors at least 30 days in advance with notice of the meeting and provided further that the right of waiver of notice of meeting shall not apply.

SECTION 2 "VOTING AND RATIFICATION": In order to be adopted, any proposed bylaws amendment must receive the vote of two-thirds (2/3) of the Directors present and voting or voting by signed ballot received before the meeting at which the proposal is voted upon convenes, the Directors voting by mail ballot must attach an exact copy of the proposal being voted upon to their ballots. In addition, any proposed bylaws amendment that materially adversely affects the rights of the members, or any class of members, must be approved by majority vote of a quorum of the members, or class of members, as applicable, voting by mail ballot.

SECTION 1 "PROPOSING AMENDMENTS": Amendments to the Articles of Incorporation may be proposed by two-thirds (2/3) majority vote of the Board of Directors.

SECTION 2 "APPROVING AMENDMENTS": Any amendment(s) to the Articles of Incorporation proposed by the Board of Directors shall be presented to the Members of the Foundation by mail ballot and shall require approval by three-fifths (3/5) majority of a quorum of the members.

{Why a 3/5 majority, why less stringent than required for the by-laws?}

  No member, director, officer, employee, or other person connected with this corporation, or any private individual, shall receive at any time any of the net earnings or pecuniary profit from the operations of the corporation[, provided, however, that this provision shall not prevent payment to any such person of reasonable compensation for services performed for the corporation in effecting any of its public or charitable purposes, provided that such compensation is otherwise permitted by these Bylaws and is fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors]; and no such person or persons shall be entitled to share in the distribution of, and shall not receive, any of the corporate assets on dissolution of the corporation. All members of the corporation shall be deemed to have expressly consented and agreed that on such dissolution or winding up of the affairs of the corporation, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, the assets of the corporation, after all debts have been satisfied, shall be distributed as required by the Articles of Incorporation of this corporation and not otherwise.

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