AGENDA FOR 2019
ANNUAL MEMBER AND ANNUAL BOARD
MEETING
4/21/10 AT THE KKFI ANNEX ROOM 3:30 PM.
The annual meeting of the Friends of Community Media 501(c)3
corporation consists of two meetings, the meeting of the membership of the
group which will elect the 2019-2020 board of directors, and after adjourning,
the new 2019-2020 board will meet to elect the officers of the board of the
corporation.
Annual dues of $10.00 are paid to the FCM
treasurer before the beginning of the meeting.
Call to order 3:30 PM
when a quorum is established.
The Friends of
Community Media statement of purpose is read:
The mission
of Friends of Community Media is to promote non-commercial community-based media of all types, to educate
citizens on the nature of the media, and to encourage all media to be
responsive to the public in coverage.
A quorum for the carrying out of the annual meeting consists
of the attendance of a majority of the members from 2018-2019. New members may be voted in according to the
bylaws to vote in the 2019-2020 election of the board.
Members who are eligible to vote have attended meetings in
the past year and have paid their dues before the annual meeting begins. New members who have been voted in will
establish the new quorum of the membership for the coming year.
TREASURER REPORT – Validation of membership
SECRETARY – Minutes from the 2018 annual meeting 4/12/18. Additions/corrections.
NEW BUSINESS
Election of the membership chairperson –
According to the bylaws:
Sec.
11 The membership chairperson shall be
elected at the annual meeting. The corporation secretary or a designee by
members shall be responsible for taking minutes, the corporation secretary is
responsible for keeping official copies.
Sec. 12 The presiding membership chairperson shall
serve for one year, and may not serve more than two consecutive years as
membership chairperson. In the absence
of the chairperson at any membership meeting, the members attending shall
select another person to preside over that same meeting. The membership chairperson shall sit
ex-officio without vote on the board of directors.
FCM ANNUAL MEETING AGENDA –
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Nominations
for board members. The relevant bylaws
says:
ARTICLE VI–BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Sec. 1 The property and business of the corporation
shall be managed and controlled by the board of directors. The outgoing board of directors shall provide
financial accounting of the corporation to the incoming board of directors
after each election of a new board at the annual meeting of the corporation.
Sec. 2 The board of directors shall consist of
seven directors, four directors in even years and three directors in odd
years. The board of directors shall be
elected by the members at the regularly scheduled annual membership meeting
which shall take place immediately before the annual board of directors
meeting. Each member of the board of
directors shall serve for a term of two years.
Nominations for FCM
membership committee opened: Relevant
bylaw:
ARTICLE IV—MEMBERSHIP AND MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
Sec. 1 Classes of
members: The membership of the
corporation shall have one class of members.
Sec. 2 The
membership committee shall be a standing committee chosen by the
membership. In the absence of a
membership committee the entire FCM board shall act as the
committee. The membership committee
shall establish specific criteria for membership in FCM.
Minutes shall be kept of membership committee meetings, and shall be
appended to the minutes of the FCM board of directors.
Sec. 3 The
membership committee shall be composed of three members consisting of at least
two-non-board members. Any person interested
in becoming a member of the FCM shall submit a completed approved
membership form to the secretary of the corporation and shall be retained in
the FCM Corporation’s repository of official records in the office
of record of the corporation.
Election
of the 2019-2020 FCM board of directors. Relevant bylaw:
ARTICLE VI–BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Sec.
2 The board of directors shall consist of seven directors,
four directors in even years and three directors in odd years. The board of directors shall be elected by
the
members at the regularly
scheduled annual membership meeting which shall take place immediately before
the annual board of directors meeting. Each
member of the board of directors shall serve for a term of two years.
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Board members serve for 2-year terms. There
is a 7 member board of directors. In
2018 year, 4 seats were filled and this year there are 3 seats to be elected
with terms expiring for M.C. Richardson and Spencer Graves and Richard Thompson
completing a 1 year term for a board member who resigned.
Setting a schedule for the required 4 yearly member meetings
for and monthly potluck social events.
MEMBER MEETING ADJOURNED
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE FCM
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
TREASURER REPORT
SECRETARY: MINUTES
FROM THE 2018 ANNUAL BOARD MEETING READ – ADDITIONS AND
CORRECTIONS
ELECTION OF OFFICERS
– Chair – Vice Chair(s), Treasurer, Secretary
SCHEDULE THE REQUIRED QUARTERLY BOARD MEETINGS
NEW BUSINESS
BOARD MEETING
ADJOURNED
