Central Texas 4C Inc.

“The Form 990 and applicable schedules are prepared by the Finance Director. The Executive Director reviews and checks completed forms for accuracy. The completed packet is given to the Board's Finance Committee for review and approval. The completed Form 990 and applicable schedules are presented to each Board member for review. At the Sept Board meeting, if approved, an officer of the organization will sign the original for submission.”

“12c.)Yes. All contractual obligations are scrutinized by administrative staff for appropriateness. The Board of Directors regularly looks at all expenditures, contractual and otherwise. The Fraud Risk Assessment Program also monitors compliance with the Conflict of Interest Policy. Other agencies, such as the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and USDA, monitor Central Texas 4C, Inc. for all State regulations and the Office of Head Start regularly monitors the agency for compliance with the Federal requirements of conflict of interest issues.”

“15 a&b.) Yes. Before approving salaries of the Executive Director and other key administrative personnel, the Board of Directors studies data in the agency's Community Assessment pertaining to prevailing salaries of local, state and national non-profit agencies in addition to the comparability data from the latest State of Texas Head Start Salary Survey. The process includes getting the data assembled and studied over a two month period with Board members doing queries in the local community in the interim. When the Board meets again, the information is discussed and the salaries are approved or disapproved by the voting members.”

“A copy of the most current audit report is available on the agency web site freely accessable by the public along with a link to the most current form 990. The single audit is posted to the Federal Audit Clearing House. Our annual report is available to the public as is our annual Program Information Report (PIR).”