{"id":2122,"date":"2018-04-19T11:11:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T15:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/?page_id=2122"},"modified":"2018-04-19T11:15:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T15:15:44","slug":"april-18-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/?page_id=2122","title":{"rendered":"APRIL 18, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Public Radio in Mid America<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Board of Directors Meeting<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>April 18, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Called to Order:<\/strong> 2:38 pm Eastern Time<\/p>\n<p>Present: Neenah Ellis, Nico Leone, Paul Maassen, Steve Schramm, Dan Skinner<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRIMA Conference Planning<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dan is scheduling board members to introduce\/moderate sessions at the PRIMA conference in Chicago May 9-11, 2018.\u00a0 He is asking the moderators to reach out to the presenters and see what they need.<\/li>\n<li>AV is all set at the hotel.\u00a0 You can use your computer or use theirs. Meeting room and meals all arranged.\u00a0\u00a0Hotel and meals:\u00a0 breakfast and lunch Thursday and Friday at the hotel.\u00a0 Friday is the box lunch.<\/li>\n<li>36 hotel rooms have been booked.\u00a0 Minimum is 38.\u00a0 Still waiting for NPR to make reservations. Paul thinks we are likely to make the minimum.\u00a0\u00a0 No other issues to report from Paul regarding the hotel. There is on-site parking at approx. $20\/day.<\/li>\n<li>Working now on the reception.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 6-8:30\u00a0 There will be some food, buffet, not a big dinner.<\/li>\n<li>Transportation to WWDTM.\u00a0 A bus can go over. Meet in the lobby. Round-trip bus will be available. Bus departure time to come.\u00a0 The show runs from roughly 8-10pm. Bus is likely to leave around 6:30 pm, last session on Thursday to end around 4:15.<\/li>\n<li>Unlikely to be a traditional PRIMA Suite due to the small size of the hotel suites, so the plan for both nights will be to\u00a0 gather at the bar and put drinks on the\u00a0 PRIMA tab.<\/li>\n<li>Annual business meeting,\u00a0 Dan will take notes in Neenah\u2019s place, since she is unlikely to be able to attend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Nominating Committee Work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Committee put together a slate of officers and distributed it to the membership per the bylaws. The officers slate is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Maassen &#8211; President<\/li>\n<li>Steve Schramm \u2013 Vice President<\/li>\n<li>Myrna Johnson \u2013 Board Member #1<\/li>\n<li>Nico Leone \u2013 Board Member #2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As of this date, no alternate candidates have been proposed by membership, but they have until 2 weeks before the meeting to do so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note for Future Planning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dan has been the PRIMA webmaster since 2004 and will continue to oversee the website for now, but we need to turn it over to someone else in the next few years. Dan will continue to serve as webmaster through his term of Immediate Past President, unless a replacement is found before then.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting adjourned at 3:10 pm ET<\/p>\n<p>Submitted by Board Secretary Neenah Ellis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Radio in Mid America Board of Directors Meeting April 18, 2018 Called to Order: 2:38 pm Eastern Time Present: Neenah Ellis, Nico Leone, Paul Maassen, Steve Schramm, Dan Skinner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":64,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2122","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2122\/revisions\/2129"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}