Shalom Austin

“Updates wording with most recent state and federal legal language/requirements; deletes outdated language or wording like "jcaa or "portfolio chairs, and outdated mission and values statements; references policies that don't belong in bylaws and can easily be updated; fixes notice requirements for consistency and to reflect current practice/make it easy to adapt in future removes references to the board being able to hire/remove any staff except for ceo; removes the reference to specific dates for the annual meeting and leaves it to the discretion of the board; simplifies explanations of nominations and voting process as related to electing a slate of board members and officers at the annual meeting; removes requirement for shalom austin members to be jewish or members of a jewish household, and removes requirement for board members and committee chairs to be jewish. Clarifies that board chair can ask certain people to serve as ex-officio board members; clarifies committee duties, authority, membership, etc.; and clarifies the duties of the board chair-elect.”

“Any jewish person, member of a jewish household, or current dues-paying members of the shalom austin jewish community center (or who makes a substantially equivalent contribution to the shalom austin annual campaign), who is 18 years or older, and connected to the greater austin metropolitan area during any part of a fiscal year, shall be a member of shalom austin for the current fiscal year.”

“SEE LINE 6 ABOVE.”

“SEE LINE 6 ABOVE.”

“The form 990 is distributed to the board of directors prior to being filed for any questions or comments.”

“The conflict of interest policy is required to be signed annually, we really rely on the trustees to notify shalom austin if anything changes which would create a conflict.”

“When determining compensation for ceo, cfo, and top management officials, comparison analysis of other communities and other local non-profits of like size and programming is used. The board of directors is responsible for determining the ceo compensation. Ceo signs a contract. Ceo determines compensation for other executive management.”

“We make our records available upon request, the form 990 is also available through various web sources.”

“Other fees for services: program service expenses 1,156,786. Management and general expenses 467,980. Fundraising expenses 43,335. Total expenses 1,668,101.”

“ROUNDING 386.”

“Process was not changed from prior year.”