> From what was said on the Pacifica National Board teleconference
> meeting on May 3, 2007, it appears that Pacifica's Executive
> Director Greg Guma is leaving his position.
>
> Here's the excerpt from that PNB teleconference meeting that I
> played on the air, it comes at about 9:06 on the audio of the full
> meeting.
>
> The excerpt starts off with PNB Chair David Adelson calling on
> Thomas Ruffin, PNB Director from WPFW in Washington, D.C., to speak
> to a motion about when in July to hold the next PNB meeting. After
> Mr. Ruffin reveals that the PNB will be dealing with the question
> of finding Mr. Guma's successor at this meeting another PNB member
> reminds him that this is an open, public teleconference meeting.
> When Mr. Ruffin reiterates the need to get as much information on a
> successor to the Executive Director as possible a number of PNB
> members chime in to remind him that it's a public meeting. In the
> end Mr. Ruffin gets the point.
>
> Interestingly, the Pacifica Foundation's bylaws mandate that the
> meeting be held in June, but the PNB has apparently decided that
> the end of July is close enough. They held their March meeting in
> April, so I guess they figure that they can do whatever they want
> in spite of the bylaws. There are also at least a couple of people
> on the PNB at this time who have been on it for more than five
> consecutive years, which is the limit that the bylaws impose.
> Bylaws? What bylaws? No wonder Pacifica is such a mess.
>
> The fact that the PNB is going to be getting serious about choosing
> Executive Director Guma's successor in July indicates that he's
> leaving that position. Mr. Guma ascended to the throne of Executive
> Director in January 2006. He hasn't been able to turn around
> Pacifica's downward spiral, nor has he successfully addressed
> issues of embezzlement, corruption or malfeasance within the
> Pacifica network. As Executive Directors of Pacifica go, his has
> been a pretty short term. And what will the PNB replace him with?
>
> I think that Mr. Guma had good intentions to start with but those
> intentions fetched up on the shoals of Pacifica's legendary
> internecine machinations and the greed of some who are associated
> with Pacifica.
Any volunteers to succeed him? Ha ha ha.
Doug