National Recreation and Park Association

“Nrpa's by laws were update in january 25, 2018 to reflect the following: section 1 title and qualifications officers of the association shall be chair of the board of directors, chair-elect, past chair, secretary, and treasurer. All officers must be directors. The position of past chair and the chair-elect shall alternate one-year terms with the chair-elect serving in the 2nd year and the past chair serving in the chair's first year. There will be no chair-elect in the chair's first year and there is no past chair in the chair's second year.”

“The organization has members that are either agency, advocate or professional. The members have no rights to share in the profits nor do they have any electoral rights.”

“A draft of the form 990 is reviewed, in detail, by the board of directors and the chief financial officer at the fall board meeting. Prior to filing, a final version of the form 990 is provided to all members of the board.”

“Board members are asked to review and sign the conflict of interest policy annually. The conflict of interest policy covers all directors and officers of nrpa. The nrpa board of directors delegates the authority to the nrpa finance committee to make determinations under this policy and to administer sanctions, including warning, reprimand, censure, and expulsion. The finance committee shall advise the board of directors of any actions taken. In the event a member of the finance committee is charged with a violation of this policy, that member shall recuse him or herself from any finance committee deliberations on the matter.”

“Compensation for all nrpa staff persons, with the exception of the chief executive officer, is determined using the process outlined in the compensation policy which includes outside comparative data, internal equity analysis and recommendations from human resources and is at the sole discretion of the ceo as dictated in the nrpa bylaws as "chief of staff". The chief executive officer's compensation, as per nrpa bylaws, is at the discretion of the chair of the board of directors (a non-staff, elected position to whom the ceo reports and has no conflict of interest) and includes the following procedures in determining the initial compensation: 1. Review and collaboration with the executive committee and the search committee which excludes persons with a conflict of interest; 2. Use of data as to comparable compensation for similarly qualified persons in comparable positions at similarly situated organizations provided by human resources 3. Contemporaneous documentation and recordkeeping with respect to deliberations and decisions regarding the compensation maintained by the search committee during the process and by nrpa human resources after the process and determination is completed, in compliance with record retention regulations regarding payroll records. 4. Search committee only applies when hiring the ceo. The chair is responsible to doing the annual performance review of the ceo. The chair gets input and feedback from the entire board and then reviews the information and recommendations with the executive committee. The review and compensation is presented to the full board. Nrpa did use an independent outside compensation consultant that looked at similar sized organziations, type, location, etc. The salary was based on the comparable data. Ongoing compensation adjustments for a sitting chief executive officer are subject to parameters set in the ceo's initial employment contract (typically a 3-year contract), and as per nrpa bylaws, is also at the discretion of the chair of the board of directors (a non-staff, elected position to whom the ceo reports and has no conflict of interest) and includes the following procedures in determining any annual compensation adjustment: 1. Review and collaboration with the executive committee which excludes persons with a conflict of interest; 2. Use of data as to comparable compensation for similarly qualified persons in comparable positions at similarly situated organizations provided by human resources; 3. Documentation and recordkeeping with respect to deliberations and decisions regarding the compensation maintained by nrpa human resources after the process and determination is completed, in compliance with record retention regulations regarding payroll records. Nrpa's compensation policy was published on february 1, 2001 and updated in july 1 2016. All non-ceo staff have been hired using the process established in the compensation policy.”

“The association believes its organizing documents, including the conflict of interest policy are proprietary in nature and therefore, these documents are not made available to the public for the same period of disclosure as set forth in section 6104(d). The federal forms 990 and 1023 are made available upon request. The association also provides summarized financial statements in its annual report which can be downloaded from its website.”

“The npra term for its boardmembers runs from october to september, consequently the board list report in this return is made up of the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 boards.”

“Other consulting fees: program service expenses 1,703,091. Management and general expenses 265,279. Fundraising expenses 102,258. Total expenses 2,070,628.”

“The process for overseeing the audit of the financial statements and selection of an independent accountant that audited the financial statements has been consistent with prior years.”