The Associate Members of KDHX will have new representation on the troubled community radio station’s board of directors after a lawsuit was settled Friday. Kip Loui and Courtney Dowdall will join the seven current members of the board. They were voted in by the associate members — the station’s volunteers — at a meeting on Sept.
26. The station management had contended that meeting was not called according to station policy, and that the vote taken was therefore invalid. The new settlement keeps a third person voted in by the associate members, Darian Wigfall, from joining the board.
The nine members of the board will be six fewer than the station’s bylaws require. Three are supposed to be elected by the associate members, and 12 appointed by the board of directors. The case had been scheduled to go to trial on Tuesday.
Both sides issued a joint statement saying they “are pleased to announce that they have resolved the pending lawsuit” and that they will not make further comment on the matter..