Dan River Basin Association

“The organization has members, but the organization does not have shareholders.”

“The members of the organization elect the governing body (board of directors). The board of directors elects the officers.”

“Organizational decisions are subject to the board of directors' approval.”

“The form 990 was prepared by rouse, rouse, penn and rouse cpa firm with data and other informational input from drba staff, drba board members and others. The final draft of the report will be distributed electronically to all board members for their individual review prior to the may 30, 2018 special board meeting. The board members should forward any questions concerning the report to tiffany haworth, executive director prior to the board meeting. Lf a board member is unable to attend the meeting, then his or her comments or approval on the draft form 990 should be submitted to ms. Haworth prior to the board meeting. A presentation and review of this 990 draft will occur at the may 30, 2018 board meeting, and this draft will be amended as necessary during this review process, prior to acceptance by the drba board and its individual members.”

“The organization distributed a copy of the conflict of interest policy, with request that each member disclose an actual or potentional conflict of interest, sign, and return a copy of the policy. This distribution and request was made (1) at our board meeting (may 10, 2017), (2) by mail or email on july 10, 2017 to any board members that had not returned the forms. This information was assimilated into the 990 form as to related party transactions and potential conflicts of interest have been disclosed in this filing. Each board member is given a copy of the conflict of interest board policy upon election to the board. The copies that were requested from each board member (april - may 2018) are for transactions related to our 2017 activities on our form 990.”

“The personnel committee meets periodically (at least annually) to review the performance of the executive director and evaluate the competitiveness of the compensation package and the organization's capability to retain its staff, while evaluating information from other regional non profits as it relates to their disclosed compensation package information. When the executive director initially hired the personnel (then the committee consisted of the executive committee of the board), research was done concerning salary scales in similar organizations in order to establish a reasonable budget for compensation to discuss with candidates for the position.”

“The organization's bylaws, other governing documents, policies, and audited financial statements are available for review by appointment at the headquarters office location of the organization at 413 church street, suite 401, eden, nc 27288. The organization's form 990 tax return is posted on another's website, www.guidestar.org, for review annually.”

“The virginia museum of natural history for events that reached 150 students. Drba continued to provide its kids4rivers, river experience and tub of bugs programs for youth both in the classroom and at community events. Drba also continued to offer its citizen water quality monitoring, rain barrel and environmental education teacher professional development workshops. Using the litterati program, drba worked alongside hundreds of youth to pick up and classify more than 1,000 pieces of litter in henry county, coordinated with averett baseball players on day to engage to plant riparian buffer and litter removal in danville and cleaned up almost 100 miles of trails and waterways through other cleanup events in 2017. Three years after coal ash spill on the dan river, drba continued to remain committed to stewardship efforts in monitoring water quality and providing education to the public. In 2017, drba presented to twenty-five civic and school groups about the current state of the dan river and strategies the organization is doing to ensure that monitoring and water quality monitoring continues. Drba also hosted 8 citizen water quality monitoring trainings and its citizen water quality monitoring (cwqm) program added 20 new cwqm volunteers who monitored regional waterways monthly through 2017. Cwqm programs are now active in the city of danville, the city of martinsville and henry, halifax and patrick counties in virginia and rockingham county in north carolina. In addition, drba launched its water quality map that allows users to see monitoring results of their local waterways. Drba continues to offer its water protector certification, storm drain marking, river watch and the riparian buffer programs to inspire stewardship in the region. To further its education and stewardship outreach, drba participated in the eden riverfest, danville river district festival, wild blue river festival and philpott lake safety day. Drba also continued to invest resources in educating the public about the issues related to hydraulic fracturing, uranium mining, coal ash waste, pipeline development, forestry best practices and littering.”

“Engineers to complete the philpott lake blueway and smith river blueway water trail in virginia and rc tourism on dan river blueway in north carolina. Drba also worked with partners to launch a "try a bike" event and a bike-to-art project in nc. Drba helped offer saturday family fun floats and co-hosted the 10th anniversary smith river fest in henry county, virginia to attract more outdoor recreational visitors to the region. Drba provided maintenance for several river accesses and provided environmental review for trails in north carolina.”

“6 to 5 in 2017 and provided three summer internships in rockingham county, nc. Drba staff continue to serve on the board of the virginia association for environmental education (vaee), maintain council membership of the vruec (virginia resource use education council), vncli (virginia no child left inside) coalition, board of friends of mayo river state park, selection committee for planners for belews creek greenway, belews park planning group, advisory board of the virginia water resources research center, chair of the west rock rivers & trails group and advisory board member of greensboro fat tire society. Drba staff were also guest lecturers for the virginia museum of natural history second thursday science talks, hosted eco-tourism workshops for small businesses, presented to the master gardeners and served on the planning team for the stoneville pocket park. Drba also participated in developing the vision 2035 middle border forward environmental plan. In 2017, drba also collected information on historic african american pathways during segregation and worked with landowners and local african american churches to initiate a trail-planning project in eden, nc.”

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