Ke Kula O Samuel M Kamakau Inc

“The board treasurer and company executive director works closely with the contracted cpa firm and external accounting consultant to ensure timely submission of the form 990 returns to the irs on an annual basis. The completed form 990 is provided to the board of directors sufficiently in advance of the filing deadline to enable a detailed and conscientious review by all members of the board. All questions and concerns of the board are addressed and incorporated into the form 990 as deemed appropriate. After final review and approval by the board of directors, the external accounting consultant will work with the contracted cpa firm to file the final form 990 as required.”

“The organization ensures compliance with the conflict of interest policy by requiring all board directors to submit a signed agreement upon acceptance of their board seat and update their disclosures as conditions change.”

“Although the executive director's position is served as a volunteer, the executive director's time served as the hookipapa grant's executive director was compensated.”

“Compensation for the project director of hookipapa was reviewed and approved by the board members and was set based on the grant's approved budget and comparable wages. Compensation for other positions serving the fulfill the hookipapa grant objectives was based on comparable wages for similar positions.”

“Kai loa, inc's board agendas, approved minutes, by-laws, articles of incorporation, audited financial statements and other organization documents are kept for public viewing in the current office location.”

“Project hookipapa, a 3-year u.s. Department of health and human services- administration for children and families federal grant. Project hookipapa's goal is to increase the hawaiian language proficiency of instructional staff at ke kula o samuel m. Kamakau." the objectives of hookipapa are to 1) by the end of 36 months, two (2) administrators and three (3) instructional staff will be trained to administer the actfl (american council on the teaching of foreign languages) oral proficiency interview (opi), an assessment to measure oral hawaiian language proficiency of kamakau students, 2) by the end of 36 months, 65% of kamakau hawaiian immersion teachers will increase their oral proficiency levels by one or more levels, and 3) by the end of 36 months, there will be a total of six (6) tools or resources developed to increase the proper use of spoken hawaiian language for staff, families and students.”

“ALL OTHER PROGRAMS.”