WRFI Board Meeting Minutes 3-10-26

WRFI Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

Tuesday March 10, 2026 

Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/jqs-wiub-osw

In attendance:

Talaya Centeno

Amie Herman

Marc Faris

Peter Bakija

Joe Romano

Corinne Shanahan

John Young

Niki Ray-Israelsohn

Ben Coakley

Absent:

Stephen St. Francis Decky

6:05: Call to Order.

6:15: Meet with potential board candidate.

Board interviewed board candidate. Board voted against candidate based on lack of compatibility.

6:30: Committee Reports.

Development

Governance

Personnel

Finance

Development reports fund drive coming up in a month. Ben reports we got a car donation. Ideas about use of donated cars for things other than salvage to raise money.

Personnel board reports meeting about some personnel issues. Niki agrees to join the personnel committee.

6:45: Executive Session.

Executive session deemed unnecessary.

7:00: Hungerford Hill Tower.

Board had a discussion about improving studio transmitter Link to main tower.

7:15: Translator Opportunity.

Spoke to consulting engineer about potential upgrades to translator coverage.

7:25: ED Report.

-Solved a tech problem with a channel on the web stream, issue resolved.

-Back up link to Irish Hill continues to not function. Ben is working on it.

-Office is being rearranged in the station, to make more room for volunteers to operate. Might require some furniture acquisition.

-Station ran some well received Creatives episodes; Ben reached out to some board members with an appropriate background to help out with this.

-Some work going forward with a project involving a Cornell class and the Daily Sun.

-Ben contacted ASCAP about some rights issues; is yet to receive a response. 

-Ben looking at some time off in June; will make sure to have appropriate coverage at the time.

-Light discussion of Strat-plan progress. The staff is using the Strat-plan as a basic guide for going forward.

7:45: Board Recruitment.

Amie reports some outreach, contacting some local folks for board ideas or board membership. Niki also reports making some contacts with some local folks, who might be available in the near future. Board would like to add 1-2 new Board Members by the summer.

7:55: Consent Agenda

Minutes for Board Meeting 2-10-26

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