Wednesday, March 19, 2014

KCETLink President, Al Jerome, Retiring

It's been a unsettling couple of months at work.

First we had revelations (via an All Staff meeting in January) that my workplace has been bleeding money for the past 2 years. In good news, according to the Board of Directors meeting I attended a week ago, we are on track to have a 2.5 million surplus at the end of Fiscal Year 13, which is in June. That is down from 3.7 million that they projected, but still better then being 7 and 12 million in the hole, as our finances were for FY 11 and FY 12.

That said, our President calls another All Staff meeting on Tuesday and announces that he has decided to retire. He has given the board ample time to do an executive search and is confident that a replacement will be in place, as of July or August. In plenty of time for him to leave in September, for our 50th Anniversary.

So that is what is going on at work. What I am eternally thankful for, is the fact that there was a lull in the drama, while I was 3,000 miles away at school.

I am not sure what I would be thinking, if I was not back in my cubie at work.

Who knows what the future holds for me and for KCET.

More to come.

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