Black Hills Symphony Orchestra Society Inc.

“The completed form 990 and all attachments are reviewed by the treasurer who prepared the source data and by the executive director who signs the submitted form. After completion of the form 990, an executive summary is prepared and presented during a meeting of the board of directors.”

“Periodic reviews are performed to ensure that the organization complies with the conflict of interest policy. If there is a reasonable cause to believe that a member has failed to disclose a conflict of interest, the governing board will conduct a hearing to investigate and take appropriate disciplinary action.”

“Annually we compare our salary data to the league of american orchestras (lao). The board treasurer reviews the annual "administrative staff salary and benefits survey final reports" published by lao comparing our salary data with other comparable orchestras. This information is shared with the board of directors during the budgeting process.”

“Copies of the governing documents are available either by providing copies on request or inspection at the office of the organization.”

“Encocuraged to develop as musicians.”

“Area schools. Of that 1,750, almost 600 children are low-income, minority, or both. The orchestra donates their time to put this performance on. We also fund the busing for all the rapid city area school children, which is the majority of the children. The schools no longer pay for busing to the concert, and we believe that if we do not pay to have the children bused to the performance, they will not come.”

“Young artist competition: the young artist competition offers a high level performance opportunity for serious, high school-aged musicians. The winner of this concerto competition performs with the black hills symphony during our march concert.”

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