Of kalw being part of the project. I was ex sighted about that. My mind starts racing when i think about creative collaboration in a space like that. Opportunities that could serve students, and the listening public. As excited as i am by those prospects, i am stepping down as general manager. Ive come to the conclusion at this point klaw needs more than a station manager, it needs an executive who can lead it as a Critical Community institution. And after a lot of reflection i came to the conclusion i am not that leader. In my packet of materials that we handed out to you i have the Fall Programme guide where i explain my decision and an essay where i talked about the job of being kalws g. M. And what i see ahead for the station. It will give you a good idea of where im coming from. As you begin work with a new general manager, i strongly encourage the board and district leadership to take care with this Creative Community enterprise and take a long view of its relationship with the district and educational mission. I want to thank all the people at sfusd ive had the public to work with. And specifically the staff and teachers at burton high where ive been working on campus for the past 16 years. I truly say i love coming too school at burton and im grateful to have worked with two supportive and enthusiastic principals. And finally i want to offer any thanks to the district liaison to the station for a decade and the decade has been a friend and alli to the station. Thank you. Thank you. I just want to say a few words before we take your questions and you just heard a sampling of some of the ways that kalw expands the educational mission. From its inception, kalw has been about educating future radio professionals and under matts leadership the station has carried forward that work in ways its founders could have never imagined. About a decade ago, kalw partnered with Burton High School students and set out to report the stories of local veterans. I see some of you remember that. That was early on in my introduction to klaws relationship to sfusd and i was impressed by the highquality interviews conducted and edited by our sfusd students. I was excited by the work of kalw and the fact they were part of the bringing the staal enters of the students together with the community. What ive come to learn also, is that behind every one minute of good radio is at least 20 hours of work. In the case of this project with student reporters, someone on the klaw staff wrote a grant to pay for staff who worked with students, someone met with the teachers in advance to plan the lesson, someone found the veterans who would be interviewed, someone listened to dozens of interviews to help guide student editors and that is just a shortlist of the many steps involved in ink ing the highquality sound that we hear on klw. In short, it takes resources to produce great content. As matt martin said, tonight is the last time he will come before the board as klws station manager. Matt has been a phenomenal leader, who is well respected by listeners, staff and the public Radio Community across the nation. Under his charge, the station has cultivated and grown diverse local talent that was first heard here on kalw and can now be heard across the nation. This is been possible because matt embraced new ideas. He has gone above and beyond to be responsive to listeners and to sfusd while staying true to a code of ethics. For over a decade. Matt and a half dated to the uncertainty of a major recession and through changes in how people consume media, including an explosion of channels people can dune into to for news and arts reporting. Matt has managed to keep kalw strong throughout all of this. Without compromising its commitment to being commercial free. So were in agreement as we search for the next general manager that a big priority for that general manager needs to include generating the resources necessary to help klaw sustain and grow its educational and community mission. But tonight, on behalf of sfusd i want to thank matt martin for leading klaw in a panther is consistent with our core values of being social justice, diversitydriven and fear less. Matt, you have dedicated 16 years to our 77yearold Community Treasure that is klaw radio. Our Community Thanks you for your stewardship. Thank you. Commissioner sanchez. Yes, id like to thank you for your commitment and your years of service with klaw. Making that link stronger with our district and our students. I think its so important. I also want to thank you and others who brought us the daily menu for our lunches. Which ask us to suspend our disbelief our School Lunches are that yummy. Its wonderful to listen to. When i see it i say what its not the same thing i just heard. I also want to thank you for making connections with my favourite teachers and its wonderful and i didnt realise you were working with scores, which links poetry and soccer. And having our students that are basically poetry slam winners share their poetry on your station. Thank you again for all your work. You are welcome. Commissioner norton. Well, you know i think were going to just go around and everyone is going to thank you because were all, i think were all grateful for your time at klw. And i want to say you know, i think it takes tremendous courage, really, to sort of decide that its time for someone else to take the stage and particularly after a very successful tenure at klw. I want to commend you for that. Inform you to see maybe there needs to be a new leader to take it to the next level. I have really appreciated working with you and particularly just the close relationship between our schools and the station and im always amazed that people who dont have any connection to the School District will say oh, yeah, i heard you on klw the other night during the meeting. Its amazing to me that people would listen to our meetings that didnt have to. Apparently they do because they love klaw and their car radios are tuned to it. I just want to ask if you have any thoughts, i mean, you know, my concern in looking at the Financial Statement are that theres been a deficit the last couple of years. And i know that youve worked really hard to try to get the station on firmer financial footing. I wonder if you have any thoughts on where the station should go under a new leader and in order to get itself on firmer footing . So, one of the things i provided to you was this article i wrote for current. And i think it lays it out plainly. One of the primary things is that, ive been coming to you talking about it for a couple of years is about getting basically what we call a friends group. A 501c3 that fund raises for the station. I think that given that were part of the School District, but our governing board, you all are great and im glad for the relationship, you are not in a position to take that on. But thats really the fundamental thing. For me, one of the primary reasons that ive decided, maybe its time to have someone new come and do this work is that ive known that for a few years. That really is the under pinning thing. Without that organized support, or under Resources Development effort. Its not going to be we will keep going, you know, we will make it happen. But the station wont reach its potential. Ive gotten to be part of incredible growth at the station where we have a glimmer of whats possible and lots of great things have come out of it. As a community and institution its not where it needs to be under my leadership. I dont think its real magical what needs to be done in those terms. We have done what lots of non profits do. You go for the programming, right. Thats where you put your resources because that what you love and thats what you value and thats what people respond to. The Development Infrastructure behind that hasnt been committed to in the same way. So the next leader will have to do those things in a certain order. Obviously none of the things arent going to happen in 18 months. It will be a process of doing those things but i thats thats where it starts. Sunil agnihotri, i wish you well and keep us posted on where you are next. Thank you, very much. Just to say i love a klaw. There may be ways im involved in the future. Its not wanting to be there but its a question of saying it needs a new leader. I want to thank you for the many, many long hours you spent on really bringing this station back from the brink. Seven years ago, i was a shiny new board member, one of the first issues was whether we should extend the station a line of credit. I got many emails saying what is the School District extending a line of credit to a radio station. It was the right thing to do. Im very proud of the broadcast license we had. One of the oldest licenses in the country. And just want to really thank you for being open. We made some suggestions at that time about reaching out into the community for Additional Resources for support which you followed up on and really did bring this station back from the brink of financial challenges. And then several years ago when we were at this meeting, talking about ways to deepen our relationship in terms of the Educational Opportunities that kalw had to offer at that time, you did not have opportunities for our students and you have now made it an important component of the programming at this station. Its really so amazing to take something that was an idea and to create these opportunities for students, particularly on the eastside of town, where there are fewer opportunities. I think its so important to make these kinds of very unique opportunities for exposure to media important. And finally, as we are facing kind of precarious times for ideas and democracy and discussions, klw continues to be an important part of the community and a lot of this is thanks to your leadership. So thank you very much. Thank you. Commissioner walton. I just want to say thank you so much for your work. I think that we definitely hear you in terms of the direction that the station could go with some of the things we also may be able to do to make it more vibrant and more thriving and some of the innovation that we can add. I appreciate that. I wish you the best. Thank you. Commissioner haney. I also want to say thank you and congratulations for all of your hard work, not just keeping this station afloat but making sure it thrives. I know that every time youve come in front of the board since ive been here, people have always asked you how we make sure our students and bringing them and their experiences and their voices into what you have to offer. And sharing that and i have definitely seen a progression where each year you bring more and more stuff to us and this year you just went straight there and led with it. In what we were i do one thing. As commissioner said, sort of someone unusual situation in relationship that we have. And you sort of alluded to the fact that that relationship may have in some ways made parts of what you know needs to happen and more complicated and somewhat more maybe didnt exactly structure in the way that maybe you think it needs to in the future. Is there something that you would say or leave with regards to the relationship with sfusd . Do you think im not saying you did say that. Im wondering im trying to get a little closer at what you thought i said. You were saying that what needs to happen in terms of a friends of or more built out development to support the station and that its not something that we would take on and sort of a normal board for a station or number of structure for a station might allow for that. Is there a sense that maybe in the future you could see a new type of relationship with sfusd or even more independent or is that something that you feel has only been a benefit to klaw. Just to give context from elsewhere in public radio, right, so i mean its not uncommon for public radio stations to have [ please stand by ]. And in the fact that we have access to both the talents and the ears of the students of this district potentially. I see there being a you know, i can see i havent been able to bring that into fruition in a way that i might dream of, but i think theres Great Potential there in the way that the relationship with the School District could be an asset in the longterm, but it will require a different kind of thinking than weve done on either side of this relationship about what that what that might mean. And we have to keep in mind that this is an enterprise unit. That we receive great inkind support from the School District, but its been 25 years since any cash has flowed into kalw from the School District, so that means we have to keep the people who listen and who support the station in mind, and that means that any kind of thinking about oh, how do we deepen this relationship, how do we make it something more strategic needs to keep in mind theyre supporting a broad public, and they need to support the station. I dont know if that gets to what youre asking, but i dont have one answer for you, but thats kind of the landscape i think about it in. I want to add something to that response which is also in looking at other models across the country, there are models where the licenseholder is either a district or a university and yet theres also a sort of friends of type of group that helps to bring in revenue to support the station in a way that, you know. This used to exist for k alw, but it hasnt existed for sometime, so i think that is one of the priorities for the incoming general manager to setup, and at that time we can go into deeper discussion about that. But the other thing i wanted to sort of put an asterisk on that matt mentioned is in the conceptual organization of the art center, there is a potential for kalw to be a partner in that work and to use that as a place for our student talent to be showcased; also for kalw to have more proximity to the arts corridor, as well, and to the city center, and so we theres a lot of discussion about that, and i hope that the board might learn more about that and think about that in the possibility as well as also the chance to have kalw as a Capital Campaign which could boost the stations interest and the art center interest, as well. Got a few comments, but im going to excuse our student delegates. Can i say one thing before we go . Yes. I just wanted to thank you for your Service Tonight to k kalw. Although ive never been a personal listener, i think it takes a lot of respect when to realize to step down for the greater good. As a student, i really love that you created opportunities for my peers and for students in the sfusd, and im very sure that all the students feel the same. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. One thing i wanted to add is the commitment to working to students, i have been part of that work, but it really is something, just an educational commitment and training is something that is really infused in the station, so, i mean, i just want to make it clear that and kind of when i looked at it, i was like oh, yeah, we do this. This was something to me that i kind of think about all the parts, but yeah, this is a big part of what this station does, but thank you. So i really appreciate the presentation, the commitment to our city and our partnership with our district. I was trying to make sure i got the years right. You were connected. Youve been working for kalw for 16 years. Yeah. So i came to the station as a producer in 2001, and then was hired as general manager in 2006. Okay. And i was just thinking over the course of our city, like, the arc of time, im sure youve seen a lot. You know, the city has changed a lot, and you know, keeping journalistic integrity and being a voice for the public and keeping people informed of this district, and just going around the city, just creating work for that long, content, im sure is nerveracking. Its good work to get to do. Yeah, youve got to love it. It just makes me wonder, whats he going to do. Close to two decades, im sure youll be in a similar field. Yeah. I probably wont up far afield, but ive come to this station when i was 32, and so i need to step away for a minute before i really think about whats next, but. Cool. Well, thank you, and i look forward to hearing about whats next for you. Appreciate it. Thanks. Section i, consent calendar, items removed at the previous meeting, there are none tonight. Section j, introduction of proposals and assignment to committee, we have six policy six policies, for policy 7310, naming a approximate ill, board policy 1335. 4, drug and alcohol free schools, board policy 3100, budget, board policy 1325, advertising and promotion, board policy 6171, title i programs. Unless i hear otherwise from legal counsel, these proposals are referred to rules, policy and lengths latigislation comm so one point of policy, i think your naming of the facility and drug and alcohol free schools should be referred to buildings and grounds, they both relate to facilities issues; and i would recommend that board policy 3100 be referred to budget, and its the pleasure of the chair as to whether or not you want those policies to also go to rules or if it is sufficient that theyre also going to the other specific committees. Commissioner sanchez . Just i would like the facilities name to go to both committees. I think buildings and grounds and to roles. Then i would suggest that we just have them all go to rules and then, the items number 2 and 3 also go to buildings and grounds, and item number 5 also gl glow goes to budget. So may i have a motion and second for first reading. So moved. Second. S section k, there is none tonight. Section l, Board Meeting reports. Lets see. Commissioner sanchez, rules, policy and Legislation Committee . We dealt with the major item, which was the facilities permit earlier in our discussion and voting. Commissioner haney, budget . We heard a number of informational items, the financial audit, which we heard also tonight and voted on. We heard an updated budget for 1819 and the lcap development with some new numbers based on state numbers and in our analysis and calculations, we looked at a schedule of comparison of teachers salaries, looking at where our teachers salaries will compare to 17 or 16 other unified School Districts around the bay area. Right now, in a particular level, which is step ten that they sh