For the last few years, many Pacifica members have expressed concerns about whether the Pacifica Foundation and our stations can survive, with the continuing drop in members, listeners, and donations, while debt keeps going up and our governance (boards) struggles to function.

As an example of the financial issues, Pacifica has a $3.2 million loan, that was used to refinance another debt (to Empire State Realty Trust), and that is due in April 2021, and which uses all of our buildings as collateral and which has no repayment plan.

In addition, Pacifica has failed to qualify for about $1 million in grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting each year for the last 7 years, primarily because of very late audits and secondarily because of inadequate meeting notices for governance meetings.

Further, the infighting, political struggles, and turmoil on Pacifica's boards have resulted in frequent turnover of management, including 6 interim or regular Executive Directors in the last 3 years.

For these and other reasons, many Pacifica members want the national board to have a referendum on new Bylaws (which define how our governance/boards are constituted and operate). For more details on why they are calling for this, see the web page on Why New Day Pacifica.

Please take a few minutes to give us your thoughts regarding all this.

Results of this survey, including comments (but without identifying who said what) may be shared publicly on newdaypacifica.org. We won't share your name or contact information there, but we need to make sure it's real people who are providing survey responses.

Feel free to invite your Pacifica friends to fill this out, too.

If you have not yet signed the petition calling for a vote for new Pacifica bylaws, please do so.