Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth Inc

“There is only one class of members in catholic charities and said members are all voting members”

“The members have the power to elect the directors of catholic charities and to fill vacancies on the board of directors.”

“The members have all rights, powers and authority allowed or given to the members by the texas non-profit corporation act in addition to the rights, the following powers are reserved exclusively for the members and no attempted exercise of any such powers by any one other than the members shall be valid or of any force or effect whatsoever. 1 to determine the mission and identity of catholic charities and approve long range plans as they relate to the mission and identity, 2 to elect the directors of catholic charities and to fill vacancies on the board of directors, 3 to adopt, amend, alter, modify, suspend and repeal the articles of incorporation and the bylaws, 4 to approve the purchase, sale, lease, transfer, encumbrance, construction, or destruction of land and buildings owned by catholic charities or in which catholic charities has legal or equitable title, 5 to approve mergers, consolidations. Or affiliations or catholic charities with any other organization, 6 to adopt the plan of distribution of assets upon dissolution in accord with applicable federal and state law, 7 to approve public fund-raising campaigns in the name of catholic charities, 8 to participate in the search and evaluation committee of the executive director, and 9 to approve the selection and hiring of the executive director.”

“The governing body is the only committee that has authority to vote and act on their behalf.”

“Review of the form 990 begins at the ceo/president and cfo/vp of administration level for accuracy of information. The 990 is then presented to the finance committee of the board for review and recommendation to the full board of directors based on their review of the documents.”

“Monitoring of conflicts of interest: the conflict of interest policy requires that each new board member and employee review the policy and annually disclose any potential conflicts. Additionally, the policy states that information regarding business interests of board members, directors, employees, or family members will be treated as confidential and shall generally be made available only to the chair of the board, the president, and any committee appointed to address conflict of interest, except to the extent additional disclosure is necessary in connection with the implementation of this policy. Our pqi plan states the administration committee has responsibility for reviewing conflicts of interest. The committee handles the review of conflicts of interest as part of their quarterly meetings and individual committee member has been assigned responsibility for reviewing and reporting of these items.”

“The ceo/president's salary and benefits are approved at the board of director's level which is spelled out in article x - 10 9 under the executive committee responsibilities in the agency by-laws. The executive committee is responsible for completing a yearly performance evaluation based on the ceo/president's job description and other excellence plan items established at the beginning of each performance evaluation period. The executive committee is then responsible for making a recommendation to the full board of directors for salary and fringe increases for the ceo/president. The salary and fringe recommendations are based on performance and industry survey guidelines for similar executive director positions in the social service non-profit sector. Various non-profit surveys are used to evaluate this. Other management executives are evaluated on a similar process but at the ceo/president level. The ceo/president is responsible for completing a yearly performance evaluation of the vp's on the management team based on their job description and other excellence plan items established at the beginning of each performance evaluation period. The ceo/president is then responsible for making sure the agency budget will cover the recommended raises. Salary range levels are established for each level of the organization through an agency pay grade system. The board of directors are responsible for the approval of the budget for the agency, which would include these raises.”

“Catholic charities diocese of fort worth, inc makes the agency financial statements and form 990 available through guidestar.org each year after completion of the audit. These items, plus the governing documents and conflict of interest policies, are made available for review at the 249 w thornhill drive, fort worth, tx 76115 location during normal business hours of the agency.”

“Change in interest in net assets of endowment 421,269.”

“No change has been made in the oversight process or selection process during the year.”