[WXBH-Discuss] RE: Meeting Last Night

[John Hicks]

Since Aron chose to send this to the entire wxbh-discuss list and since 
most of you were not present at Thursday's directors meeting, a little 
background may be in order:

The main item of business was the appointment of committees within the 
board of directors. These are not meant to be standing committees but 
merely committees to allow the board to get some pressing work done in 
an efficient manner. Those committees are:

--Physical facilities - to assess the condition of the building and the 
policy and procedures for managing the building

--Collectives - to assess the state of the collectives, their nature, 
their strength and viability

--Public information/public relations/marketing - to ensure that the BH 
is presented to the world in a consistent, realistic, and positive manner.

--Finance and insurance - to ensure that we are conducting business in a 
legal and responsible manner.

Aron was appointed to the finance committee at our treasurer John 
Wilborn's request. I imagine John felt that would be a way of being 
doubly sure that radio would have sufficient control and oversight of 
its funds.

Perhaps Aron should also have been on the PR/marketing committee, but we 
were following an ad hoc principle that each director would serve on 
only one committee and he was not there to express his preference.

Aron is correct that he and I have a disagreement regarding the wxbh.org 
website. The issue concerns whether we should continue to use a content 
management system to update the content (which I favor) or revert to 
using plain HTML (which Aron favors). I favor using a CMS because it 
enables ordinary people to contribute content to the site without having 
to know HTML.

Finally, the executive committee that Aron mentions has always been a 
part of the Brick House bylaws (and is a feature of most non-profit 
organizations). It consists of the four officers. We four met last 
Sunday to prepare the agenda for Thursday's board meeting. (That's where 
we devised the list of committees.)

I hope that clarifies things a bit. Please feel free to post any 
questions or observations.

John Hicks
Co-Chair, Brycc House, Inc.

P.S. Unfortunately, Mark McKinley, our other co-chair, was leaving town 
for the weekend just as Aron made his post. I spoke with Mark by phone 
and read him Aron's post. He is without Internet access until he gets 
back, so he will catch up with the list at that point.


Aron Conaway wrote:
> I missed the meeting last night and was not there for various 
> personal-to-the-Brick-situation reasons despite the fact that I was 
> doing a Music Show with Jamie at 6:00. I asked a couple of people about 
> the meeting last night and upon receiving a couple of brief synopsizes, 
> have very adverse reactions to the very significant direction that the 
> project is moving in. I am unsettled by the recent decisions made in 
> changing the structure of the project and sad to find out that there are 
> committees being carved out without collective participation (from what 
> I have gathered).
> 
> First off, having Kristen as committee liaison, means Kristen will be in 
> the mix of everything. That, right off, turns me off from wanting to be 
> involved at all. Second off, I am not a “financing-committee” type 
> person, so this is not really the place for me. Third, I believe that my 
> strengths and interests are clearly in the outreach and PR area, which 
> fell I have made clear. I feel as though I am being drawn out of this 
> position without any consideration at all for my opinion (also making my 
> efforts to this point seem pretty under-appreciated). I have significant 
> media contacts and the experience of making an Arts organizations 
> financially successful, culturally significant and even legendary. I am 
> friends with and know just about every profoundly significant 
> underground band and musician in this town and can easily get them 
> interested in participating in this project. I believe that I have a 
> pretty clear vision as to how this PR campaign needs to be done for 
> WXBH. But I am not comfortable with the way its rolling presently.
> 
> Months ago and recently I have found it nearly impossible to be able to 
> put to good use all my time, effort and talent put into the newly 
> designed website, because John H. keeps insisting that it be done in his 
> PHP format. I designed it in HTML and in my experience (and opinion), 
> everyone who designs strong and easily updatable websites, designs in 
> HTML. It is the most useful and universal design language there is. I 
> feel John is being overbearing and controlling with his web server.
> 
> I am uncomfortable with the recently developed executive committee 
> situation and find it very stifling to my ability to be effective and 
> even in feeling comfortable in taking any personal ownership in this 
> project.
> 
> Kristen is at the LAVA House painting shit on my belongings and painting 
> cryptic words like "BE WELL" on the floor in front of my studio. This is 
> absolutely insane and makes me not want to be in the same mile as her. 
> Kristen you are a fucking nut! Stay out of my way and as I have told you 
> repeatedly keep my and Hallie's name out of your fucking mouth. I will 
> never again be a part of this project unless she is  100% gone. She's 
> all yours.
> 
> I am stepping out of this situation.
> 
> Good Luck.
> 
> Free Agent Aron Conaway
> 
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