The Olana Partnership

“The executive committee is in charge of recommending the compensation and benefits of the president. Regarding management compensation, an annual review is made of current salaries for similar positions to determine fair compensation.”

“The organization provides its financial statements and the conflict of interest policy to others upon request. The financial statements are also made available on the organization's website as well as a third party website, guidestar, for public view.”

“The organization provided a copy of the 990 tax return to the board of trustees. The trustees were given time to review and provide comments prior to being submitted.”

“Each trustee, officer, and member of the professional staff of the partnership is provided with a copy of the conflict of interest policy and an annual disclosure form. The board of trustees shall annually review the conflict of interest policy and procedures contained therein and shall then give a copy, together with any amendments, to each trustee, officer, and member of the professional staff.”

“A family relationship exists between phoebe gubelmann and kate gubelmann, both are members of the board of trustees.”

“Landscape/Viewshed: The Olana Partnership (TOP) continued to develop and expand its public programming focused on Olana historic landscape as part of the larger vision to provide visitors with an integrated, comprehensive experience of Olana as a work of landscape art and design. TOP's viewshed protection efforts are ongoing and involve monitoring all development within the extensive viewshed of Olana's National Historic Landmark 250-acre historic landscape. In 2019, the bulk of this work focused on TOP's coordination with Scenic Hudson to petition the Town of Livingston, NY to require a full environmental review for proposals for large communications towers on Blue Hill, a highly visible and significant location in Olana's viewshed. Capital Development: 2019 was the second year of The Olana Partnership's (TOP) capital campaign to fund the design and construction of a new visitor entry and orientation facility known as the Fredric Church Center. As of December 31, 2019, the campaign had raised $4,537,000 of the $10 million goal with 100% participation by TOP's Board. TOP's campaign is part of the larger capital development for Olana State Historic Site contained in the Strategic Landscape Design Plan (2015) and being undertaken with OPRHP. OPRHP is funding substantial elements through its capital budget. In 2019, TOP was involved in an advisory role in the completion of Phase I of the larger plan, the restoration and rehabilitation of the historic landscape surrounding the Main House. TOP also participated in additional planning and design work for other components, to be funded and constructed in future years.”

“During the year ended december 31, 2019, the olana partnership assumed all visitor services and interpretive programming responsibilities from the office of parks, recreation, and historical preservation (oprhp).”