Lake Support and Emergency Recovery Inc.

“The first amendment to the bylaws of the organization was adopted and approved to be effective as of december 23, 2019. The amendment included a name change as reported on the organization's form 990 for 2019. The amendment also included deletion and replacement of various articles and sections, mostly related to the number of board members, annual meeting requirements, specification of officer titles and rules for holding such office.”

“The board has hired an outside public accountant to provide year-end adjustments and tax return preparation services. Management reviews and accepts the adjustments and tax returns. Copies are available for review by each member of the governing board upon request.”

“Compliance with the policy and all conflicts disclosures are subject to the oversight and review by the board of directors.”

“Governing documents, official policies and internally prepared financial statements are held in the organization's administrative office and are available upon request.”

“The mission of this organization is to strengthen lake county's recovery from any disaster through a coordinated community-wide approach which provides for the immediate and long-term unmet needs of their citizens. With the assistance of local, state, federal and other funding through grants and donations, the organization and volunteers respond to the needs of those directly affected by tornadoes, hurricanes and other disasters, and to assist in repair and recovery. This also includes partnering with the florida division of emergency management in promoting and provision of its hurricane loss mitigation program (hlmp). The organization is also available when needed for partnering with other organizations to meet the needs of those in the local and neighboring communities.”

“Beginning in 2016 and continuing since then, the organization has received grants and assisted with local administration of the florida division of emergency management's residential construction mitigation program (rcmp)and its hurricane loss mitigation program (hlmp). These programs make funding available for retrofitting of residential, commercial and mobile home properties to make them more hurricane resistant, and allows property owners to possibly receive assistance with wind mitigation, a new roof, gable end bracing, shutters, hurricane resistant windows and doors and more. (note: the rcmp is no longer in effect and currently falls under the hlmp.) during 2020 the organization continued with this program, assisting 7 homeowners with strengthening of their homes, with each receiving one or more of the following: new roof, secondary water barrier, gable end bracing, shutters for all openings, impact resistant door, impact resistant garage door, etc.”

“The organization partners with local emergency response agencies when opportunities arise and remains prepared and available should any events take place that would require emergency response. Since hurricane irma hit the area in september, 2017 the organization has provided various assistance to victims to help with clean-up, tree and debris removal, tarps and other supplies for needed repairs, education and advertising to local residents and property owners regarding resources available, etc. The organization assisted with and provided hurricane irma disaster recovery, such as repairs and replacements of roofs, flooring, air conditioning, doors, insulation, other building materials, painting, various interior and exterior repairs and other disaster recovery needs. A total of 312 homes have received assistance. The organization also created the laser faith based initiative which meets quarterly and has contacts of over 300 churches throughout lake county. The quarterly "meetings" (some virtual "zoom" calls) has a regular attendance of 50 churches. The initiative has been able to assist with debris removal from storms, placing tarps on homes, etc. In the spring of 2020, the organization completed the necessary work with the homes that had been impacted from hurricane irma. A total of 312 homeowners received assistance throughout the years as a result of this program. In addition, a team was deployed the day after a tornado came through the area and damaged 4 homes. The team was able to help place tarps on the homes as well as complete debris removal. This tornado was not related to hurricane irma. The team of 6 volunteers came from the laser faith based initiative explained above.”

“Upon the arrival of covid-19 it was brought to laser's attention that there was a shortage of blood available in the nation. The organization partnered with 13 locations that hosted blood drives for the "laser one blood one drive". Through this blood drive a total of 200 units of whole blood was donated as well as 4 units of rbc. The organization also partnered with the lake county sheriff's office to collect food items to meet the immediate needs of lake county families struggling due to the covid-19 pandemic. Various collection locations were arranged and then delivered to local food pantries throughout the county. They also facilitated the growing need of food for the food pantries and brought in 12 semi-truck loads of food that were dispersed to the pantries, with 312,900 meals equalling a value of 661,560 in food donations brought into lake county. Also related to covid-19, the organization was able to coordinate the response to reverse isolation face masks. They worked with volunteers as well as the sheriff's textile program to produce 58,062 cloth face masks while accumulating 323,937 volunteer hours.”

“Contract labor 2,200 0 0 consulting services 41,500 0 0 total 43,700 0 0”