Willow Grove Volunteer Fire Co No 1

“The president shall only have a vote in the event of a tie vote of the board.”

“Richard drennen, treasurer, and brian drennen, director, have a family relationship. Christopher jones, president, and charles jones, fire chief, have a family relationship.”

“There are two classes of voting members: (1) active and (2) active life members. (1) active: any person serving six months probationary membership is eligible for election to active membership. Probationary members must be at least eighteen years or age. In addition, ff1 or fire police school must be successfully completed and to be an active member, at least 25 percent of all possible qualified activities must be participated in between november 1 through october 31. Active membership shall be limited to 100 firefighters and 25 fire police. (2) active life: all active members and fire police shall become life members after twenty years of service, the years need not be consecutive. To be an active life member, at least 10 percent of all possible qualified activities must be participated in between november 1 through october 31. There are also classes of non-voting members: probationary, associate, fire police, honorary, junior and auxiliary.”

“Voting members have the authority to elect and remove board directors by a three-fourths majority quorum vote of the members present and voting at the time of the vote.”

“The bylaws may only be amended by a three-fourths majority vote of those voting members present at the time of the vote.”

“The form 990 is prepared by an independent accounting firm. A copy of the return will be reviewed by the board and approved prior to being filed with the internal revenue service.”

“The governing documents and financial statements may be obtained upon request at the fire company offices. At this time there is no formal written conflict of interest policy.”