Urology Care Foundation Inc.

“The executive committee has delegated authority only to handle the details of management between board meetings. However, the executive committee reports back to the full board, which normally should ratify any significant decision or action of the executive committee.”

“Ucf amendments are approved by the aua board of directors. The main changes to the ucf bylaws are the creation of a new board, removal of the office of research, and modifications to committees. The aua board of directors created a new ucf board that consists of the chair, three non-urologists and three urologists which shall include the aua treasurer who serves as the secretary-treasurer of ucf. The ucf board was created to operate independently with respect to fundraising and programming while still including a degree of oversight and ultimate control by the aua board. Bylaws amendments are approved by the aua board and the aua treasurer serves as the secretary-treasurer of the ucf board. Mike sheppard, aua executive director, is currently serving as the executive director of the ucf. The bylaws were written to allow a new aua associate director to assume this role if requested by the aua board. Functions of the audit and investment committees are now included in the joint finance committee. The aua bylaws committee will also serve as a joint committee; and both the finance and the bylaws committees may include ucf representation. The bylaws committee was informed that the aua board may modify some elements of the committee section in the future to meet the needs identified by the new ucf board. In addition to the ucf bylaws, there is a memorandum of understanding between aua and ucf which clarifies the oversight relationship between the two organizations.”

“Ucf's members are the members of the ucf board of directors, a self-electing and self-sustaining board. Those directors are identical to the board of directors of the american urological association education and research, inc., whose directors are elected by its broad membership and the ucf board is indirectly chosen by those members.”

“See explanation for line 6.”

“The form 990 was reviewed by the audit committee, senior staff, and an electronic copy was provided to the entire board prior to filing.”

“All committee members are required to complete an annual conflict of interest disclosure statement. The coi's are reviewed by all committee chairmen prior to all meetings. The review is listed as a discussion item on every committee agenda and the review and discussion is documented in the committee meeting minutes.”

“The governing documents, financial statements, and the conflict of interest policy are all available upon request at our corporate office, 1000 corporate boulevard, linthicum, md 21090.”

“The board of directors and committee members of the urology care foundation, inc. (ucf) rotate on a fiscal year cycle typically june 1st through may 31st.”

“The number of volunteers was estimated based on the number of physician's serving on committees and other task force innitiatives”

“Urology care foundation, inc. (ucf) does not have any employees. All the services provided for the ucf are performed by employees of the american urological association education and research, inc. (auaer) under a cost sharing arrangement. These expenses reflected on page ten of this return on lines 5 through 10 are the expenses paid by the ucf to the auaer under the cost sharing arrangement for services provided by auaer employees for the ucf.”

“This process has not changed from the prior year.”