Geneva Foundation

“There are no committees with authority to act on behalf of of the governing body.”

“Prior to filing form 990, the following steps are performed: 1. Executive director submits a rough draft to the audit committee. Each member of the committee is asked to review and submit questions or feedback to the executive director. 2. A discussion among members of the committee occurs and a consensus decision is made to authorize completion of the final draft. 3. The final draft is submitted electronically to each member of the board for review. When member's questions and feedback is concluded, the audit committee makes a consensus decision to approve filing.”

“Geneva does not have a formal process for annually asking board members about conflicts of interest. During orientation and training of new members at the beginning of board service, the executive director reviews the conflict of interst policy and the board member's code of conduct. It is communicated to each member that they are expected to inform the board president or executive director immediately if there is a potential for conflict or an actual conflict of interest that arise during their tenure.”

“Geneva does not regularly conduct salary comparisons for the executive director. An initial salary comparison was conducted at the beginning of employment for this position and set at the mid-range level. For seven years, the raise for the exectuive director position was given annually in accordance with agency-wide raises that were based on performance and capped at 5%. The executive director opted to not take a raise for the next several years due to the financial challenges the agency was experiencing. During the prior year and current year, the executive director once again took a pay raise capped at 5%.”

“The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available upon request.”

“Donated capitalized website design costs 9,000.”