Reformed Benefits Association

“The RBA has two initial members, the Christian Reformed Church in North America Board of Trustees, (or CRCNA BOT) and the Reformed Church in America Board of Benefit Services (RCA BOBS). Additional members can be admitted by the RBA Board of Trustees with the provision that they do not jeopardize the tax-exempt status of the RBA under Section 501(c)3 of the code and that admittance of the new member does not cause any benefit plans sponsored by the RBA to cease constituting a single employer plan within the meaning of CPPEPA.”

“Member authorization to appoint Trustees: Per the Bylaws of the RBA, the RBA Board of Trustees is comprised of 6 voting trustees and 2 non-voting trustees. Regular voting trustees are appointed by a member organization, the initial Board of Trustees comprised of 3 trustees selected by the RCA BOBS and 3 trustees selected by the CRCNA BOT. Any vacancy will be filled by the original appointing member of the trustee position that is vacant. The 2 Non Voting Trustees are appointed 1 each by the member organization, and can be removed and replaced by the member organization at any time.”

“Robert Nykamp: 7202 Sable Drive, Hudsonville, MI 49426, John Terpstra: 3221 W Prospect Rd, Fort Collins, CI 80526, Kenneth Wigboldy: 2173 Hall Circle, Livermore, CA 94550, Timothy Zeutenhorst: 914 7th St SW, Orange City, IA 51041, Denise Ratcliffe: 75 Summer Hill Rd, Wayne, NJ 07470, Lloyd Bierma: 492 Orchard Hill Rd, Holland, MI 49424, Kenneth Bradsell: 475 Riverside Dr Suite 1606, New York, NY 10115”

“Review of the 990 form: The 990 form is completed by the Finance Manager for the RBA and submitted to the Board Treasurer for review prior to submitting to the IRS. .”

“Conflict of Interest policy: All Board members are required to sign the Conflict of Interest Policy. The policy is given out as a part of the annual August Board meeting. Existing board members are required to review and re-submit the form if any changes to their status occurred, new Board Members are required to submit the form at that time.”

“Whistleblower Policy: All RBA employee positions are paid as CRCNA employees. As such, all policies in place for CRCNA employees are also applied to RBA employees. The CRCNA has a public whistleblower policy available on their website, www.crcna.org”

“Document Retention and Destruction Policy: All financial services for the RBA are handled in the CRCNA financial services department. The CRCNA written document retention and destruction policy is applied to all services rendered for the RBA.”

“Compensation review and approval: The CRCNA Non-Voting Board Member, and the Benefits Director, are currently secunded under the CRCNA payroll with costs allocated to the RBA. The current CRCNA pay scale and compensation evaluations are applied to any RBA employee. All CRCNA compensated employee positions, including any officers or director positions are evaluated by the Human Resource Committee (HRC) and an outside group to determine position grades or levels. Each grade is then assigned a Pay Scale based on Internal, Individual, and External Equity. These Pay Grades and Pay Scales are annually reviewed an updated by the HRC. the RCA Non-Voting Board Member is currently secunded under the RCA payroll with costs allocated to the RBA. At this time RCA compensation policy and review is unknown”

“Availability of public documents: The RBA Govering Documents, Conflict of Interest Policy, and financial statements are available on request.”

“As of the time of this filing, the independent audit for the 2014 year is still in progress and not completed.”