MARRIL CORSEN MEDIA PROJECT, LTD.
Corporation:

The Project is a volunteer, nonprofit, public service corporation that has been:

  • Chartered in the State of Illinois (Secretary of State File #66220729),

  • Recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN: 26-3154881, DLN:
    17053034319019) allowing tax benefits such as deductions, exemptions, and
    other considerations allowed by law, and

  • Registered under both the Charitable Trust and the Solicitation for Charity Acts
    with the Illinois Attorney General (CO# 01056653).

The Project was formed in August 2008. It came about as a result of a three month
survey of various community groups, their leaders, and citizens who all expressed
concern about the lack of an effective means to exchange information between
public
service
groups and the general population. It was further discovered that the community
lacks a comprehensive method and dependable network, which could facilitate
information
that is:
  1. Timely,
  2. Accurate,
  3. Authoritative, and
  4. Concise.


Board:

The Project’s original Board of Directors are:
  • Brian Kelly (President and Executive Director),
  • Eugene Carroccia (Executive Vice President), and
  • Gail Highland (Executive Secretary and Treasurer)

They
will continue to serve as Directors and Officers of the Board until the Project
initiates fund raising and operations. They may also
continue as the Executive
Committee for up to five years.

The Directors of the Board shall be members of the community with initiative,
energy,
passion, and a vision in line with the Projects purposes and goals. There will be up to
t
hirteen Directors who shall serve on the board for a renewable term of one year.
Directors shall be elected to the Board by the Membership at the Annual
Membership
Meeting held on the third Tuesday of October. The officers of the Board shall be
selected from the Directors. The purpose of the Board is to set and maintain guidance
and governance of the Project. It has additional purposes including:
  • Modifying goals and objectives,
  • initiating and enforcing directives pertaining to personnel,
  • finances,
  • ethics, and
  • legal issues.

The Board shall further take on the role of perpetuating the Project as needed by the
community.


Members:

The Corporation shall have Members. Members shall be real persons who live in the
community. The membership shall elect the Board of Directors from a slate of
candidates presented to the Membership by the Executive Committee. Membership is
annual and is predicated on the payment of membership dues, the amount of which is
set by the Board of Directors.


Staff:

The Project shall enlist a staff of volunteers to operate the service. The staff shall be
from the community unless the Board directs otherwise.
The staff shall consist of:
  • A project director,
  • A program manager,
  • A technical engineer,
  • Several section supervisors,
  • Up to 32 information facilitation specialists and on-air personalities.

Future staff would include:
  • marketing personnel,
  • reporters and journalists, and
  • mobile production technicians.

All staff shall undergo thorough training on topics such as:
  • Ethics,
  • Obscenity,
  • FCC and IRS Underwriting Provisions,
  • Hardware Operation,
  • Software Utilization,
  • Fund raising, and
  • Journalism.

All staff will be expected to conform to all policies and guidelines, written and otherwise
conveyed, established by the Board.
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