Block 7
March 10, 2011
Present: Justin Brown, Will Dinneen, Sarah Dorado, George Ellerbach, Laura Farmer, Mike Kragenbrink, Sean McKenna, Natashia Pierce, Dee Ann Rexroat, Carol Stock, Matt Zhorne
Minutes: Block 6 minutes were approved
Media updates
KRNL: The committee and KRNL staff decided to recommend keeping the KRNL over-the-air signal and not moving to online only. The staff updated bylaws and will work on 10 ways to improve KRNL next year, including adding an events director to improve programming, holding at least one program a block, use remote broadcasting, and have at least one Mount Vernon community event per semester. KRNL staff will go through applications this block (before spring break), in which they focus a lot on the first-years because they want to start training new people.
KRNL Week is coming up right after spring break, including Cornell Idol and a dance party.
Cornellian: Current heads met with incoming editor-in-chief Tom Kirk to talk about what he wants to be doing, and are training him asap. Tom is on board to do three issues with eight pages each, each block, and have one editor per section for next year, which helps Tom focus on managing the newspaper as a whole. They also want to get the website up to date so that it can include daily breaking news. They will also look at the jobs to be cut, and alternate staff during different weeks so people can have a taste at different styles of writing or have a break some weeks. They will add a Managing Editor again.
Finance: $350 moved from general account to fundraising account, fundraising account is perfectly balanced. ACP conference: there are some checks with mistake. There is one $218 check that got duplicated, so need to work on that.
Royal Purple: They are far behind on deadline but plan to complete the entire book by March 21 [note: they did that!]. It is due March 15. One editor has been helping all along, and she’s the only one who receives her full pay. Some others did some work, so they just get $5 or $10 per month.
Annual budget process/timeline: Annual budgets due to Media Board noon Monday, April 4. Media Board meets 11:30 Tuesday, April 5, and Thursday, April 7
Budget approval week (budget fest): consumable supplies will be separate and pre-approved. Groups can still go through the process, and if they need more justifications, groups can still come to Senate and talk. PAAC is assigned to one night. PAAC and media organizations will be on separate nights.
Media reserve accounts: We reviewed the history and why they exist for being able to plan ahead. Senate is wondering about combining the media reserve into one account, and a general reserve for other organizations. It makes sense for Cornellian and Royal Purple since they share the newsroom computers and buy them together; Media Board was open to including KRNL with them.
Meanwhile, Sean McKenna, now Appropriations Chair, is working on extending the honoraria policy so it’s clearer philosophically. Mike Kragenbrink mentioned that if students are paid over $6000/year they may need to be getting a tax form from the college; he’s investigating.
Honoraria research: Dee Ann gave her report on how other ACM award honoraria. Although Chase was not there to report, it was said that due to Cornell’s academic standards, it would be extremely unlikely for our students to receive credit.
Honoraria
paid from student fees
Beloit
Cornell
Knox
Grinnell (flat fee per semester)
Colorado College (radio station pay includes work-study if they are eligible;
majority of newspaper’s budget is from advertising/subscriptions so it mostly
pays for honoraria)
Honoraria
paid from operating budget
Monmouth (does not charge students a
student fee)
Honoraria
paid from student fees AND operating budget
St. Olaf (fees plus Dean of Students
operating budget)
Credit
Coe College
No
pay, no credit
Lake Forest
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