Southern Garrett County Rescue Squad Inc

“The organization has nine different classes of membership. Only two of the nine classes have voting privileges. See below for a description of the voting classes of membership.”

“The organization has two classes of membership that may vote and elect members of the board. The first voting class is operational membership and includes those members who are at least 18 years of age, and by virtue of their training, experience, and interest are able to serve regularly scheduled duty hours. Every operational member must be currently certified by the state of maryland as a first responder, emergency medical technician-basic (emt-b), cardiac rescue technician (crt), emergency medical technician-intermediate (emt-1), or emergency medical technician-paramedic (emt-p). The second voting class is lifetime membership and includes those members who have been active for at least 20 years, but are no longer required to run their regularly scheduled duty hours per month.”

“Decisions of the governing body are only subject to the approval of voting members as described above.”

“The committees do not document their meetings and they do not have authority to act on behalf of the governing body.”

“Draft of form 990 is presented to the board during their monthly meeting. Once the form is approved, authorization is given to the organization's treasurer to file the return.”

“The organization would make available to the public its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements as follows: 1) receipt of written request for information 2) approval by the board of directors to release the information to the requesting party.”

“Members benefit - other expenses : program service expenses 52,650. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 52,650. County employee reimbursement : program service expenses 143,748. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 143,748.”