United States Hide Skin and Leather Association

“The day to day activities are managed by the north american meat institute (nami), a unrelated organization. Nami manages and provides office space, staff support, materials, and information technology to ushsla for a fee of $183,000. Included in that fee is $114,009 of reimbursed compensation and benefits for the services of the presdient of ushsla.”

“The organization (ushsla) has filed for articles of merger on 09/19/19 to merge with leather industries of america (lia), inc., and were to be effective on 12/31/19. However, ushsla was not able to to transfer all of its assets to lia before the year end. Therefore, this is not the organization's final return.”

“The organization has "regular" members who are hides and skins producer, processor or trading companies, and "associate" members who are suppliers of goods and services to the industry.”

“The "regular" member companies of the association are able to vote for represenatives on the board of directors.”

“The decisions of the board of directors regarding changes to the bylaws of the association must be submitted to the regular members for approval. Each regular member company receives one vote.”

“The form 990 was prepared by the outside accountants and provided to the board of directors for review prior to submission with the irs.”

“All board of directors members, officers and employees are required to provide evidence of any conflicts that may arise in the course of their duties with the association. They are also required to sign the personnel manual acknowledgement that includes a standards of business ethics and conduct and conflict of interest policy. Questions concerning conflicts of interest are directed to the president. In the event that the president determines that a relationship constitutes or may constitute a conflict of interest, the president may take appropriate action(s), depending on the seriousness of the conflict of interest. That action may include meeting with the employee, immediate discharge, requesting that the employee divest property or otherwise remove himself from the conflict of interest situation, initiate disciplinary procedures, or if the situation so merits taking into consideration the employee's responsibility, waiver of the conflict, or such other action to protect the interest of ushsla.”

“The organization does not have any employees. The compensation of support staff is determined by the north american meat institute as part of the management agreement, in conjunction with the advice of ushsla board of directors.”

“The organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are available to the public upon request.”

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