Topsham Public Library

“The board of trustees meets and reviews the audited financial statements and form 990 before the form 990 is filed.”

“It is the responsibility of each board member to disclose on a timely basis any matters which may give rise to a conflict of interst, or which may otherwise prevent the board member from performing his or her duties in accordance whith applicable law and the conflict of interest policy. All conflict of interest transactions must be approved in accordance with the library's conflict of interest policy. From time to time, the board of directors shall take reasonable steps to assure that every director has read, understood, and agreed to comply with the policy, which may include the requirement that all directors sign a written statement acknowledging and agreeing to the policy.”

“The library's human resource committee does periodic research on compensation using federal statistical data for maine libraries and maine municipal association documentation of local compensation of library directors.”

“The treasurer position may be a paid position in which case the board sets the compensation. The treasurer is not a voting member of the board.”

“The library makes available to the public upon request its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements.”

“Regular volunteers provided approximately 61.98 hours per week of service to the topsham public library for a total of 3,223 hours during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2016. In 2015, volunteer service was valued at 23.56 per hour by the independent sector. The total value of donated volunteer hours based on this figure is 75,933.88. The friends of the topsham public library offer support in the form of an annual books sale the proceeds of which are used to provide programming for the library for all ages.in fiscal year 2016, the amount of support from the friends came to 10,181.44. Individuals and local organizations have also provided umreimbursed library programming over the course of fiscal year 2016. These programs have been lectures, artist talks, poetry readings, knitting group,etc. And have an estimated value of 21,300.”

“Line 1a - the town of topsham prepares and files all necessary forms 1099 using the town's ein. Line 2a - the town of topsham prepares and files all necessary employee wage reports. The town prepared and filed 14 w-2s on behalf of the library using the town's ein.”

“Change in value of beneficial interest in perpetual trust -9,020 total -9,020”