Hendy Woods Community Inc

“Description AmountDepreciation from 4562 1,618Insurance 1,936Program Expenses 3,760Taxes and Licenses 35Website Design 159Bank Charges 435Office Expenses 80”

“Category Beginning of Year End of YearInventory 5,626 4,435Equipment,net 10,281 8,663”

“Category Beginning of Year End of YearAccounts Payable 79 92Sales Tax 1,578 1,539”

“The Hendy Woods Community (HWC) will continue to actively engage with the Mendocino County community, our visitors, State Parks staff, and other non-profits.We will be meeting with Sid Garza-Hillman, Executive Director, MendoParks (Mendocino Area Parks Association) in the near future to collaborate on a few park projects.Ongoing activities: We will continue to pay the Day Use fee for all local residents on the Second Sunday of every month and for all Mendocino County residents on New Years Day. We provide a credit account at the local hardware store so Park staff can purchase needed maintenance and repair items without a lengthy State requisition process. Our volunteers run the Visitor Center and lead guided hikes during the summer season. We organize and implement Invasive Species Control events where our volunteers help pull scotch broom, fennel, hemlock, and other damaging invasive plants that would not otherwise be kept in check. As needed, we will also keep providing a safe way for the attendees at a local Beer Fest event to use bus transportation to and from Hendy Woods and the event in Boonville to avoid dangerous driving under the influence. We will continue to ensure that Camp Hosts have a battery charger available to assist campers who find themselves with flat batteries. We will persist with advocacy outside of the park. Signage repair work will begin when the rains cease, and we have hired a local artist to do this at both ends of Anderson Valley; our signs welcome visitors to come to the park. We will We will also resume the process of replacing the Hermit Hut signs and Visitor Center signs.At the campfire gathering facility, we will begin the process of replacing the worn-out benches and making other needed improvements, ensuring that health and safety issues at the campfire site are being addressed. Prevention is the best medicine.On a priority basis, we will continue to champion improving drainage near the Day Use Area where the culverts and drainage channels are blocked and a brush dam further impedes normal drainage, resulting in root damage and failure of adjacent ancient redwoods, including one giant that fell in 2023 as a direct result of the drainage problem. The flooding also closes all access to the Day Use Area in even modest rainfall events. At our request, the Assistant Director of the Mendocino County Resource Conservation District (MCRCD) made a site visit, reviewed the site conditions, and created a plan of action to correct the situation. The MCRCD is very familiar with the area as, a number of years ago, they were engaged in an erosion control project fairly close to the area of current concern.HWC is also working on parking improvements at the Day Use Area. We have identified an area that is suitable for additional parking, and District Superintendent Bill Maslach has reviewed it and made suggestions that will result in efficient use of the available space. Looking long-term we are in the initial planning stages for creating a new Visitor Center to replace or upgrade the small, less than pleasing 22-year-old modular building that currently houses the Visitor Center. Relocation is also under consideration. We are again updating the Discovery Trail brochure to be consistent with the current on-the-ground situation. After the intense rains and flooding of the 2022-23 Winter, many of the trails required rerouting, and that trail work is currently in progress. We pay for the brochures and give them to Hendy Woods free of charge.Hendy Woods is currently one of the parks designated for free day use entry for any 4th Grade student and their families under a statewide program. We continue to ensure that as many Mendocino County and Anderson Valley 4th Grade families as possible are able to take advantage of this program. We will continue to actively recruit more volunteers to keep the Visitor Center open for more days and longer hours as well as providing informational walks through Hendy Woods.The Day”

“Form 990-ez, part v, information regarding personal benefit contracts:the organization did not, during the year, receive any funds, directly,or indirectly, to pay premiums on a personal benefit contract.the organization, did not, during the year, pay any premiums, directly,hendy woods community, inc. 45-4465332or indirectly, on a personal benefit contract.”