Portland Cement Association

“The following are all business relationships: enrique escalante, ron henley and steve ambrose work for gcc of america. Frank craddock, hamid farzam, mike philipps, satish sheth, robert sullivan, karl watson jr. Work for cemex. John stull, craig campbell and maik strecker work for lafarge north ameria. Thomas chizmadia, kari saragusa and daniel m harrington work for lehigh hanson. Allen hamblen and thomas edwards work for calportland. James gatens, curtis leslie, charles sunderland, and j. Randall vance work for ash grove. David a nepereny, massimo toso, dan nugent and raymond seipp work for buzzi unicem usa. Roger smith jr. And scott palmer work for salt river cement company. Guy sidos and eric holard work for national cement company. Timothy kuebler and bill zarkalis work for titan america. Alex car and francesco carantini work for essroc. Eric flesch, chip hussey and scott morkem work for argos. Thomas beck and jason morin work for continental.”

“Cement industry members. Any business organization or group of business organizations under common ownership, government agency, or individual engaged in the manufacture or sale or portland cement in the united states or its territorial possessions shall be eligible to become a cement indusry member, subject to a minimum payment of dues to be established annually by the board of directors. In the case of membership applicants located in a country other than the united states, association membership may be granted to a cement industry trade association representing a majority of cement companies of that country. The annual fee for membership in such cases shall be determined by the board of directors.”

“Although each member only has "one vote", there are various personnel (ceo, coo, subsidiary, etc) eligible to be a board member. The votes of members at board meetings shall be weighted proportionally on the basis of shipments (as computed by the secretary for the latest calendar year) on which dues have been paid by the pca member company whom the member belongs too. If a given pca member (or group of an affiliated member company) is represented by more than one company, the member company's shipments or shipments of the group of the affiliated member company shall be allocated using a prorated amount amongst those members participating in the meetings.”

“The 990 form was not distributed to the governing body prior to filing the form this year.”

“The votes of directors at board meeting shall be weighted proportionally on the basis of shipments (as computed by the secretary for the latest calendar year) on which dues have been paid by the pca member company whom the director represents. If a given pca member (or group of an affiliated member company) is represented by more than one director, the member company's shipments or shipments of the group of affiliated member company shall be allocated pro rata amoung those directors participating in the meetings.”

“An employee has been designated the responsibility for communicating and following up as necessary.”

“Compensation of the ceo is reviewed and approved by the compensation committee which is a committee of the board of directors.”

“The form 990 is available upon request.”

“Governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are available upon request.”

“Jan farnsworth, corporate secretary, is signing the form as the authorized signor.”

“Equity in earnings of subsidiary 135,922. Pension related changes other than net periodic pension cost 250,098. Transfer of net assets -3,955,100.”