Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership

“The organization made the following amendments to its bylaws during the fiscal year: to approve the change of the term "chairman" to "chair and the term "director" to "trustee" universally in the bylaws. Section 1.1: changed the physical address to the current registered office at 15481 second street, waterford, va 20197. Section 6.2: reduced the minimum number of trustees from (10) ten to (7) seven. Sections 6.402 and 6.404: extend the term limits of trustees in from two 3-year terms to three 3-year terms and to remove contradiction and obsolete language. Section 6.404: state that trustees who have reached their term limits are eligible to re-join the board after one year off the board. Section 6.7: include the state of west virginia and the district of columbia as approved locations for official meetings of the board of trustees. Section 6.704: include that all meetings will be presided over by the chair or the chair's designee in the absence of the chair. Section 6.8: to state "the trustees shall serve without compensation unless the board agrees otherwise. Subject to that provisio,..." section 7.2 and 8.1: to state that "a past chair, serving as a member of the board may serve as a voting member of the executive committee, at the pleasure of the board." section 7.4: to correct grammatical errors. Section 8.1: to remove the chairs of the education committee, the destination marketing committee, the land use committee and the transportation and community design committees from the executive committee. Article viii committees: section 8.3: nominating committee - to strike the word "elected." section 8.5: to rename the destination marketing committee as heritage tourism committee and redefine the committee. Section 8.6: to rename the land use, transportation and community design committee as preservation/conservation committee and to redefine the committee. Section 8.7: to redefine the education committee. Section 8.8: to remove the living legacy tree planting committee. Section 8.9. To remove the council of elected officials.”

“The 990 is reviewed by the organization's president, treasurer, finance committee and the full board prior to being filed with the internal revenue service.”

“All trustees are given the conflict of interest policy statement, which is signed and respected, as reflected in the board minutes. All employees sign a conflict of interest statement which is in their file.”

“The executive committee of the board of trustees reviews the compensation agreement, conducts an analysis of comparable executive compensation, negotiates with the candidate and prepares a report for the board's approval. The full board then considers and responds to the report.”

“The organizations, governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are made available to the public upon request”

“No changes from the prior year.”