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“The audit committee reviews the form 990 and a copy is provided to all board members prior to filing with the irs.”

“All new board members are required to complete a conflict of interest statement as part of their orientation, and all existing board members are required to complete an updated form at the annual board meeting in october. The ceo's executive assistant is charged with making sure every board member has completed a form and reporting the outcomes to the audit committee chair.”

“Kcpt reviews annual data compiled by the corporation for public broadcasting to monitor comparable positions and salaries and to try to maintain a median level of compensation. This data is used to monitor staff salaries, ceo salaries, and benefit comparables for staff & ceo. Aggregate staff compensation and benefit information is reported and discussed throughout the year to the finance and hr committee of the board. The executive committee of the board establishes criteria that includes both the ofjective criteria for financial performance and subjective criteria for leadership and execution of the strategic plan. The executive committee meets with the ceo to discuss this criteria and then the committee determines any bonus and increase as an outcome of the evaluation.”

“Form 990, the governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are available for public inspection upon request.”

“Educational activities (k-12, early education, kc reache distance learning, ged/adult education): kcpt's k-12 media service provides curriculum based classroom media services to approximately 210 area schools, which includes 7,000 teachers and 87,000 students. The video content is correlated to state standards and enables teachers to actively engage students in any subject matter. Teacher professional development is included in this service at no additional charge. Kcpt also facilitates a 10 week martha speaks reading program with area 4th grade students reading to kindergartners. Martha speaks is a vocabulary/language arts program and website with outreach components that teaches new words to children. Kcpt also places raising readers library corners in area libraries. The corners house several activity books tied to pbs children's literacy programs. In addition, quarterly early education professional development sessions are held at kcpt and are offered free of charge to area early education providers such as parents as teachers and head start family advocates, librarians and early education teachers. Kc reache is an alliance between kcpt and 7 accredited post-secondary institutions with a mission to provide time-flexible distance learning options to students in the kc area. Kcpt's web site offers, free of charge, ged connection, workplace essential skills and financial fitness providing a convenient web alternative for adults to get their ged certificate and improve their lives. The population served by all educational efforts includes infants through adults.”

“Kcpt community engagement efforts for 2014 include: kcpt has expanded its partnership with the health care foundation of greater kansas city to cover health stories by working with kansas health institute news service and kcur public radio. Kcpt has also joined the harvest public media collaboration focused on agricultural issues of food, fuel and field. Harvest public media is a network of reporters and public broadcasting stations throughout the midwest. Other local collaborations include the kansas city public library on a series called meet the past where notable regional citizens from the past, portrayed by actors, are interviewed by the library's executive director before a live audience and the nelson-atkins museum of art in a series called art tastings with julian zugazagoiti, also before a live audience. Kcpt continues to work with tivoli cinema to offer free public screenings of films scheduled for upcoming broadcast of the emmy award-winning pbs series independent lens.”

“Kcpt has an audit committee that assumes responsibility for overseeing the audit and the selection of an independent accountant. The process has not changed from the prior year.”