Autauga County Fire Fighters Association

“The organization has members, volunteer members, honorary members and charter members. Members include all of the volunteer fire departments in autauga county. Volunteer members are all of the individual people who are the members in the volunteer fire departments in autauga county. Honorary members include any person demonstrating unselfish devotion to furthering the interest of fire protection, prevention and safety and they have made contributions that are outstanding and above normal fulfillment of their professional duties and responsibilities and are elected by the membership upon recommendation and approval of the board of directors. Charter members are the volunteer members accepted for membership before 3/29/1978.”

“All directors shall be elected by the member class at the annual meeting of the corporation.”

“There are no committees authorized by the organization to act on behalf of the governing body at this time.”

“The form 990 is reviewed by all board members before the return is filed. Following the mailing of the form 990, the return is open for review and inspection by any others at the first association meeting following the filing of this annual return.”

“The officers of the association are the chiefs of the ten departments with the exception of the non-voting secretary and the non-voting treasurer. Each of the department leads is invited to attend meetings at the other departments on a rotating schedule. Each of the departments are open for tours. The officers of the association are required to review the association's policies on "conflict of interest", "whistle blower", and "records retention and destruction" each year.”

“The organization's articles of incorporation included a section which disallows a member to receive direct or indirect benefit from the organization. The board has adopted a written conflict of interest policy signed by the officers and updated annually to disclose their interests that could give rise to conflicts of interest.”

“All final documents are available for review and inspection upon request. With the request of any person or organization; two officers of the board will provide access to the documents at the earliest possible time. The board does not allow public access or review without two officers to avoid possible collusion and to provide the best possible on the spot responses to any questions that may arise since no one officer can be fully knowledgeable in all matters of the board.”

“Lance messer - po box 681045, prattville, al 36068. Pete crowe - po box 681045, prattville, al 36068. Gilbert jennings - po box 681045, prattville, al 36068.”