KYRS Policy Discussion

If you have policy questions or concerns, this is the place to voice them. It is important as KYRS programmers that we all have some input regarding what the policies of the station are. We should not allow a few to decide for the majority so let's talk about policy.

At the KYRS Board of Director's first meeting on April 11, 2007, the issue of station policy was discussed. Perhaps because KBOO (Portland) is a well-established community radio station in our region of the country, KBOO's policy and personnel manuals were given primary consideration by the Board at that first meeting. It was suggested that in the pages of that policy manual one could feel thirty years of struggle and that adopting those policies would be a way to avoid those years of conflict.

In those 30 years of conflict reside, in many ways, the heart and soul and personality of that great community radio station. The same could be said about any great community organization.

Certainly every community organization needs its policies and procedures. But to impose artificial rigid policies and procedures with the intent of circumventing conflict is to deny the creative potential in conflict.

This is the type of issue which lends itself precisely to the reality of a collective. The Board of Directors of KYRS will continue to meet and discuss and adopt policy. The Board's policy committee--which met on Saturday, April 29, 2007 in 3rd floor board room at the Community Building--will continue to meet and formulate and propose policy.

How will KYRS programmers provide their input into the policies which will significantly impact their experience at the station and the impact of that on the listeners, members and volunteers of the station, not to mention the large Spokane and Eastern Washington communities?

The Collective is already being portrayed by some as not functioning, despite the fact that it has met every two weeks for 2 1/2 months. Please let other programmers know and attend. Once there make your voice heard.

NEXT KYRS PROGRAMMERS' COLLECTIVE MEETING:
10th PROGRAMMERS' COLLECTIVE MEETING
Thursday, July 12th, 2007 at 6 PM
Community Building, 35 W. Main St., Spokane, WA
If upon arriving, no one is there, find us at the Red Lion Tavern (Main and Division).