Tompkins County Workers Center Inc.

“The Coordinator (equivalent of Executive Director) along with the Treasurer or another designated officer reviews form 990 after preparation. Staff circulates it to the full governing body prior to filing when possible or immediately after filing otherwise.”

“Following the organization's COI policy, governing body members must annually review the COI policy, sign that they comprehend and will abide by it, and disclose any potential conflicts of interest that exist at the time of their appointment or as new potential conflicts may arise, at minimum annually. Other members then evaluate potential conflicts in closed session with the potentially conflicted member(s) absent. If members discover an undisclosed potential conflict, they follow the response procedures outlined in the policy. The policy applies to governing body members and employees. Determinations of whether a conflict exists is made by the governing body as a whole and persons with a COI may not participate in deliberations/votes to which their conflict applies.”

“Compensation of the top management employee is reviewed by a finance committee and subsequently by the full governing body based on (a) the living wage, (b) salary and benefit surveys for the region, and (c) NYS minimum salary for exempt employees. Voting members of the governing body are volunteers and so not compensated for their service.”

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

“During the entirety of FY21-22, TCWC contracted with the New York State Department of Labor to provide education and awareness to targeted populations about their potential qualification for available pandemic emergency funds for low wage earners who lost more than 50% of their wages and did not otherwise qualify for Unemployment Insurance or Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. This program is described in greater detail below under Program Service Accomplishments, Part III, Line 4D.”

“By far, the bulk of our expenses for outside services was for our sub-contract with the Midstate Education and Services Foundation in carrying out our pandemic era Excluded Workers Fund Program ($40,450). Additional outside services for which we contracted were Quickbooks Enhanced Payroll services ($920), grant writing and reporting assistance ($2,512), new database consultation and development ($670), meeting facilitation ($1,000), mediation services ($500), religious institutions outreach ($369), and junk clean out/disposal and moving assistance (690).”