Council Meetings
Quarterly Meetings and Community Dialogues
Meetings of the Community Council are open to the public. For further information, please call Anne Healy at 202-885-1264 or send an e-mail to ahealy@wamu.org.
Quarterly Meetings
The WAMU Community Council meets four times a year. Meetings are held in the community room at the station, which is located at 4000 Brandywine Street in northwest Washington, D.C., and are open to the public. Kenneth E. Barnes, Sr. and Dale Clayton Morrison serve as the Chair and Vice Chair of the Council. Dates and times for the quarterly meetings are posted on our website and announced on-air at least seven days in advance. For further information, please call Anne Healy at (202) 885-1264 or send an e-mail to ahealy@wamu.org.
The WAMU 88.5 Community Council held its final quarterly meeting of 2008 on Wednesday, December 10th. The Council approved the report submitted by its nominating committee which recommended the appointment of the following three people to serve on the Council: Judge Anita M. Josey-Herring, Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia; George H. Bohlinger, III of Easton Hanover Partners. LLP and former president of the Community Foundation of Greater Washington; and, Donald R. Quayle, a member of the Board of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, who has had a distinguished career in public broadcasting and was the first president of NPR. WAMU’s General Manager, Caryn Mathes, has appointed these new members to terms which began on January 1, 2009. The Council also approved the nomination of Kenneth E. Barnes, Sr. and Dale Clayton Morrison to continue as Chair and Vice Chair of the Community Council for another year.
Community Dialogues
The WAMU Community Council sponsored five outstanding Community Dialogues during 2009. These off-the-record discussion meetings focused on wide ranging issues of great concern to our community and provided background information and valuable contacts for the station's news and programming staff. The topic for the first meeting was “Transportation in the Washington Metropolitan Area - A Look Into the Future” and the panelists included Margaret McKeough, the Executive Vice President and COO of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, Kathleen Penney, Chief Engineer of the District of Columbia’s Department of Transportation, and Edgar Gonzalez, Deputy Director for Montgomery County’s Department of Public Works and Transportation. The April Community Dialogue focused on “Historic Preservation”. Tersh Boasberg of the DC Historic Preservation Review Board, Amy Weinstein, an award winning local Architect, and two representatives from the Arlington County Department of Community Planning, Housing and Development participated in the discussion. The June meeting examined “Emergency Preparedness in the Washington Metropolitan Area” and panelists included Linda Mathes, CEO of the American Red Cross of the National Capital Area, and Christopher T. Geldart, Director of the Office of National Capital Region Coordination at FEMA. “The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in DC” was the subject of the fourth Community Dialogue. Dr. Shannon Hader, Director of the DC HIV/AIDS Administration participated in this discussion along with Adam Tenner, Executive Director of Metro TeenAids, and representatives from several local organizations which provide counseling and medical care to people with HIV/AIDS. The fifth and final Community Dialogue took place at the end of November and focused on “The Status of the Healthcare Safety Net in Northern Virginia” Representatives of local nonprofit organizations that provide health care services to uninsured residents of Virginia discussed the overwhelming problems faced by those without insurance.
