Ann Arbor Womens City Club

“The organization has member individuals, not stockholders. The voting membership at large meets annually. The members annually elect thegoverning board, vote to approve or reject proposed changes to the bylaws,and vote to approve or reject proposed increases in the organization's borrowing authority with local banks. Each member has one vote.”

“The organization's members meet annually to elect members of the board ofdirectors.”

“Decisions subject to approval of members the organization's membership at large meets annually. The organization's members are individuals who annually elect the members of the board of directors to govern, vote to approve or reject proposed changes to the bylaws, and vote to approve or reject proposed increases in the organization's borrowing authority with local banks. Each member has one vote.”

“Organization's process to review form 990 the form 990 is presented at a regularly scheduled meeting of the finance committee of the board of directors and once approved by the finance committee, it is presented to the board of directors, who approves it prior to being signed and submitted to the irs.”

“Each director is annually asked to sign a statement acknowledging their receipt and understanding of the organization's conflict of interest policy. The president of the organization monitors compliance with this policy.”

“The process for the hiring of the organization's general manager includes appointment of a committee by the board of directors, such committee being charged to identify, solicit, and interview candidates, to decide upon a specific candidate, and to negotiate a contract with that candidate. As part of that process, the committee obtains and analyzes compensation data of comparable organizations and comparable employment positions. The board of directors votes to ratify the contract negotiated with the selected candidate. For the hiring of employees other than the general manager, the general manager performs the functions of identifying, soliciting and interviewing candidates, obtaining and analyzing salary data for comparable positions at comparable organizations, setting compensation levels, and extending offers of employment.”

“The organization's bylaws are available on a password-protected area of its website. The financial reports are made available to members upon request. Financial reports are not available to the general public.”

“We view our dining and events program as a program service. Following audits of our fiscal years ended 4-30-13, and 4-30-14, the irs concluded in a closing letter dated 2-27-15 "we accept the return as filed and in an addendum to that letter, referencing our dining activity, explained "it is our position that the income received from this activity is not related to your exempt purpose, and is regularly carried on however, the activity does not appear to be profit motivated...if the activity does produce a profit in any year, then that income should be reported as unrelated business income on form 990-t." for the fiscal year ended 4-30-25, this program continued to produce a loss. A brief summary follows: dining and events program revenue $ 1,188,228 dining and events program expenses $ 1,328,681 loss $ 140,453”