Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens

“Hillwood estate, musuem & garden's (hillwood) mission is to share the renowned art collections, exceptional gardens and related public and educational programs with a wide and diverse audience. Since its opening, hillwood has served hundreds-of-thousands of visitors, including local and visiting members of the general public, families (traditional and non-traditional), curators and scholars, and pre-school through high school students.”

“Nedenia c rumbough and stanley h rumbough, trustees, have a family relationship. Ellen charles, george iverson and andrew iverson, trustees, have a family relationship.”

“The federal form 990 is prepared by an outside accounting firm. The draft return is reviewed by the director of finance and the audit committee and is made available to the board of directors prior to being finalized. If no corrections are noted, it is then filed with the internal revenue service.”

“Each trustee, committee members, officer, and senior staff are required to sign an annual conflict of interest disclosure statement, certifying an understanding of the policy and disclosing any known conflicts of interest. Hillwood conducts a periodic review of compensation and business arrangements for compliance with the policy. In conncection with any actual of possible conflict of interest, an interested person must disclose all material acts to the board or committee members considering the proposed transaction or arrangement. After disclosure of the financial interest and all material facts, and after discussion with the interested person, he or she shall leave the meeting during discussion of, and the vote on, the transaction or arrangement involving the possible conflict of interest. After exercising due diligence, the board or commitee shall determine whether hillwood can obtain a more advantageous transaction or arrangement from a person or entity that would not give rise to a conflict of interest. If a more advantageous transaction or arrangement is not reasonably possible under circumstances not producting a conflict of interest, the board or commitee shall determine by a majority vote of the disinterested trustees whether the transaction or arrangement is in hillwood's best interest, for its own benefit, and whether it is fair and reasonable. In conformity with the above determination, it shall make its decision as to whether to enter into the transaction or arrangement.”

“As an employer, hillwood believes that it is in the best interest of both the organization and its employees to fairly compensate its workforce for the value of the work provided. It is hillwood's intention to use a compensation system that will determine the current market value of a position based on the skills, knowledge and behaviors required of a fully competent incumbent. The system used will be objective and nondiscriminatory in theory, application and practice. Compensation criteria: the human resources director prices positions to market by using local, regional, and industry specific survey data. The market data primarily includes museums, non-profits and other similar institutions; includes survey data for more specialized positions (for example, information systems, marketing, human resources); and addresses any significant market differences due to geographical location. The system evaluates external equity, which is the relative marketplace job worth of every museum job directly comparable to similar jobs, factored for general economic marketplace. The system evaluates internal equity, which is the relative worth of each job in the company when comparing the required level of job competencies, formal training and experience, responsibility, and accountability of one job to another and arranging all jobs in a formal job structure. Responsibilities: as part of the annual budgeting process the board of directors reviews and approve, as appropriate, funds to be allocated for total compensation, which would include base salaries, bonus, variable based or incentive based pay and all other related expenses, including benefits plans as recommended by executive management. The board sets the position level, pay range and specific components of the total compensation package for the executive director. Management responsibility: the director of human resources is responsible and accountable to the board of directors. In that capacity they are charged with ensuring that hillwood is staffed with highly qualified, fully competent employees and that all compensation programs are administered.”

“The federal form 990 is made available to the public upon request.”

“Forms are available upon request.”

“The process didn't change from the prior year.”