Board of
Incorporators (BoI)
The December 2004 12-year contract between Baltimore City and
Comcast specifies that the mayor appoint a "Board of
Incorporators" to help the city setup a tax-exempt
corporation that will then run public access TV independently from the
city. The city hired consultant Bunnie Riedel of
Riedel Communications to lead the
process. The 13 appointed members of the Board of
Incorporators were:
Linda C. Barclay - Chief, Legal Advice and
Opinions Division, Baltimore City Law Department
Marvin L. "Doc" Cheatham, Sr. - President,
Baltimore City Branch of the NAACP
David Crandall
Margaret Footner - Executive Director,
Creative Alliance
Loretto Gubernatis - public access
producer, filmmaker and head of McDonagh Davis Associates
Marilyn Harris-Davis - Executive Director,
Mayor's Office of Cable and
Communications
Mark R. Heckman, AIA - Principle, Marks, Thomas Architects
Crissa Holder Smith - video production and
corporate communications teacher, University of Baltimore, School of
Communications Design
Helen Holton - member from the 8th District of the Baltimore City
Council
Jermaine Johnson - Director, Neighborhood
Outreach, Greater Homewood Community Corporation
Phyllis Reese - member of the Cable
Communications Advisory Commission
Evan Richardson
Greg Whitehair - public access producer
and member of Baltimore Grassroots
Media
Meeting
Minutes
Some of the Board of Incorporators Meeting Minutes
CMBC Board Nominations
The initial deadline for turning in
nominations for the board of Community Media of Baltimore
City was Wednesday, May 31, 2006. There
were 41 nominations received for a total of 13 board
positions.
As of Oct. 10, 2006 it appears that the
Board of Incorporators is likely to reopen the nomination
process for three to five CMBC board members as the
nominating committee has only agreed upon eight to ten of
the earlier nominees. A new nomination form has been
created that may or may not be official, and it lists a new
deadline of Oct. 27,
2006. If reopening the nomination process has to
be approved at the next BoI meeting, on October 25, that
would leave only two days or less from public announcement
to the deadline. The form is: Board Nominating Form B.doc
At the Oct. 25, 2006 BoI meeting at
Sojourner-Douglas College, it was decided that nominations
would be reopened for CMBC board members with a new
deadline of Nov. 15, 2006.
On Dec. 14, 2006 the Board of
Incorporators met for the last time and finalized their
selection of CMBC board members.
The first meeting of the initial 13-member CMBC board was
Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007 at 6:00-8:00
p.m. at Sojourner-Douglass College.
