The Carolinas Gateway Partnership Inc.

“Contributors that make contributions over a set dollar amount are considered members.”

“Members who contribute over a set dollar amount may designate members of the board of directors and/or members of executive committee.”

“The ceo reviews the tax return first, and then emails a pdf copy of the return to all members of the executive committee. Once the ceo is satisfied that all executive committee members have had the opportunity to review the return and provide feedback, the return is corrected (if necessary) and filed.”

“Board members are required to sign a conflict of interest statement when they are seated as a board member. We distribute those statements annually to all board members and they are kept on file here. The personnel manual contains conflict of interest provisions and employees are required to read and sign an acknowledgement of the personnel policies when they are hired. Board members who come on during the year are required to sign the conflict of interest statement.”

“The president and ceo salary is determined by review and vote of the board at a regularly scheduled meeting, based on a number of factors including: an annual performance review conducted by the chairman based on agreed-upon performance factors and reviewed by the managers of the individual public sector funding agencies (who are non-voting members of the board); comparable salary and benefit structure from the international economic development council. The president and ceo is the only paid staff subject to this review. Other members of the paid staff are subject to an annual merit review by the president, with salary guidelines approved by the board.”

“Officers are subject to an annual merit review by the president, with salary guidelines approved by the board.”

“The governing documents, tax returns and audited financial statements are kept in a public document file located at the organization's office. These documents may be reviewed by the public upon request.”

“Building v at the whitaker business and industry center. The project will employ 74; the company and developer will spend 17 million up fitting the building. Carolina innovative food ingredients, a processor of dehydrated sweet juice and pulp announced it will build a new state-of-the-art food grade processing facility which will employ 64 and spend 20 million on the facility. In addition, nash county, the carolinas gateway partnership and duke energy brought in mccallum sweeneynoted site consultantto evaluate and recommend additional planning and infrastructure needs on the site. The partnership has also been assisting the town of nashville in its plans for the west nashville commerce park.”