The Woodlands Religious Community Inc

“The executive committee is empowered to make decisions on behalf of the corporation between meetings subject to ratification by the board, if and to the extent such ratification is required by the bylaws or by law. The executive committee is composed of the chairman, vice chairman or chairmen, secretary, treasurer, and such other person or positions as the board of directors or executive committee designates from time to time.”

“The form 990 will be reviewed by the cfo and president & ceo prior to filing.”

“Board members are covered; cfo reviews payments to ensure if any are made to board members, officers or key employees; board members with conflicts are not allowed to vote on relevant item.”

“Line 15a- process to establish compensation of top management official the organization determines compensation by using comparisons of similarly sized organizations to determine a going market rate. For leadership positions, the organization utilizes third party market surveys to benchmark compensation levels. When the board reviews the line item budget annually, they review a specific line for total employee compensation. Each year, the board discusses the year over year adjustments to pay, which are generally applied equally to all employees. The executive committee of the board reviews actual compensation expense on a monthly basis. This annual budget discussion is recorded in the board meeting minutes along with the decided upon total compensation expense. The compensation of the president & ceo is set by the compensation committee of the board of trustees after the chief human resources officer gathers comparable peer institution compensation data for the president and vice presidents and provides the data to the board's compensation/executive committee. The executive committee uses the appropriate benchmark data as part of setting the president's compensation, to ensure reasonableness. The compensation committee is comprised of selected board members disinterested with regard to the compensation arrangements. The compensation committee keeps contemporaneous documentation of the deliberations and decisions regarding the compensation arrangements. This process is completed prior to the beginning of each calendar year being approved. Line 15b-process to establish compensation of other officers or key employees the organization determines compensation by using comparisons of similarly sized organizations to determine a going market rate. For leadership positions, the organization utilizes third party market surveys to benchmark compensation levels. When the board reviews the line item budget annually. They review a specific line for total employee compensation. Each year, the board discuss the year over year adjustments to pay, which are generally applied equally to all employees.the executive committee of the board reviews actual compensation expense on a monthly basis. This annual budget discussion is recorded in the board meeting minutes along with the decided upon total compensation expense. Each vice president's salary is recommended by the president after completing the annual performance evaluation of each vice president and the comparability data. The president submits each vice president's salary and benefit recommendation to the compensation committee of the board of trustees. The executive committee reviews the president's recommendations and comparable data for to ensure that compensation packages remain reasonable. Surveys from organization such as united way are utilized in benchmark of salaries for all officers and key employees using comparability data approximately every three years. The 2024 survey is the most recent data used for benchmarking salaries. The board of directors reviews the annual salary budget but grants individual salary approvals to the ceo.”

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