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“Alpaugh academies has a shared services agreement in place which includes the sharing of school staff and various other expenses between a network of charter schools. This agreement involves three non-profit public benefit corporations: capistrano connections academy, alpaugh academies, and friends of california virtual education. The corporation has also contracted with a third-party organization (connections academy of california, llc a subsidiary of connections education, llc) to provide educational products and services to the schools. Due to delays in the receipt of state funding, the corporation has arranged with connections education to process its payroll including the paying of school staff which requires the use of the ein number of connections education, llc. As part of this arrangement, the schools reimburse connections education for paying staff as funding becomes available. As all staff members are reported on the schools' behalf using the ein of connections education, llc, no employees are listed as part of this return.”

“The authorizing district has the right to appoint a district representative to the board; however, this right has not been exercised.”

“The 990 is distributed and reviewed by the board prior to submission. The board may delegate this function to the finance/audit committee, but currently that committee is comprised of the full board.”

“All designated filers submit a form 700 annually to the school filing officer. The forms are also submitted to the fair political practices commission, which is the code reviewing body. Form 700's are available to the public upon request.”

“Prior to approval of annual salary for the executive director (if salary is being changed) a review of comparable salaries in the area is prepared and submitted for review to the board members, who then review, discuss and approve the executive director's compensation package during a publicly noticed meeting.”

“Since the corporation is a public agency, all governing documents, board policies, meeting minutes, agendas, meeting packages of backup materials, etc, are public records and an electronic copy of each is kept as well. There is a public records policy (policy available upon request) regarding how to and from whom to make a request of these documents.”

“The return is being amended to revise the answers to form 990 part iv question 3 because the taxpayer does not engage in any type of political activity beyond grassroots lobbying of legislative issues. Because of this correction, schedule c part i is no longer applicable and has been removed.”