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 board of directors of the dan river basin association will review the final draft of the 2018 form 990 at a special board meeting on april 4, 2019. The form 990 was prepared by rouse, rouse, rouse & gardner, cpa firm in conjunction with drba staff and input by board members and others. The final draft document will be distributed to board members at the board meeting on april 4. For those not at the meeting, the final draft will be delivered via email or in person for their review and approval prior to april 10, 2018. Board members were asked to forward questions to shawn gorman, treasurer.”

“The organization distributed a copy of the conflict of interest policy, with requests that each board member disclose in actual or potential conflicts of interest, sign, and return a copy of the policy. This distribution and request was made (1) at our board meeting (feb 13, 2018), (2) by mail or email on february 15, 2018 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.”

“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.”

“Education & stewardship the dan river basin association (drba) staff was invited to serve on the board of the virginia association of environmental education (vaee) in 2018 and presented at the virginia military institute stem conference. Drba's environmental education (ee) programs reached more than 4,000 students during the year with hands-on environmental education including 500 students from patrick county, franklin county, and martinsville city schools who planted more than 200 trees as a result of drba's streamside trees in the classroom (stic) program. Drba also partnered to launched the first floating classroom project with franklin county public schools and the first green schoolyard with albert harris elementary school. In addition, drba offered ee programs and activities to over 200 disadvantaged and underserved youth in partnership with mhc after 3. Drba also held its 3rd annual forest school program at philpott lake in partnership with us army corps of engineers and virginia museum of natural history and a summer river series program in western rockingham county. Since the coal ash spill on the dan river in 2014, drba continued its commitment to stewardship efforts in monitoring water quality and providing education to the public. Drba trained and supported volunteers in its citizen water quality monitoring program which now covers 50 monitoring sites on the dan, smith, and mayo rivers. In 2018, drba presented to 15 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 2 citizen water quality monitoring trainings and its citizen water quality monitoring (cwqm) program added 5 new cwqm volunteers. Drba continues to offer its kids4rivers, rain barrel workshop series, water protector certification, storm drain marking, river watch, cleanup crew and the riparian buffer programs to inspire stewardship in the region. Drba coordinated a dozen cleanups involving almost 300 volunteers to clean up about 185 miles of rivers and streams in 2018. 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.”

“Recreation drba continued to offer its 14th year of first saturday outings (fso), which are monthly hikes and/or paddles that are free, open to the public, and for people of all ages and abilities. In 2018, the fsos attracted a total of 121 individuals from 21 localities, a 20% increase over 2017. Drba also partnered to offer additional saturday fun floats in bassett, virginia. Drba's outdoor recreation asset enhancements included a new restroom facility at the great road river access, completed signage for the philpot blueway, maintenance at settles bridge river access, realignment of the lake reidsville trail and added 1/4 mile of trail to the mayodan bike trail. New assets and projects included the historic high rock trail and river access, smith river blueway, dan river blueway, planters road acquisition and park development plan, and planning for the lindsey bridge dan river restoration and natural white water park. Drba also assisted with mountain bike races in mayodan, nc, made the bike-to-art project permanent public art in mayodan, nc, organized the be healthy outdoor recreation series and implemented a permanent, free river tubing program. Drba continued co-hosting the 11th annual smith riverfest in henry county, virginia to attract more outdoor recreational visitors to the region.”

“Sustainable economy, heritage and operations drba's municipal memberships included the town of halifax, city of martinsville, henry county, town of ridgeway, town of mayodan, town of madison, city of eden, rockingham county, town of stoneville, wentworth, and the town of danbury in 2018. Drba staff has remained constant in 2018. 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, 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 and the middle border forward vision 2035, and presented to the master gardeners, kiwanis, rotary, several regional chambers of commerce and other local clubs and committees.”

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