Barr Center

“The barr center finance and audit committee has the authority to select the external audit firm.”

“The entire governing body reviews the form 990 tax return prior to filing. The completed tax return is presented in its entirety to the board of directors. The board reserves time for questions and comments before approving the tax return. Once approved, the form 990 is signed and returned to cla to be e-filed with the irs and any necessary state agencies along with all required attachments.”

“All board members are covered by the policy. Disclosures are reviewed by the executive director, if conflict is noted, the board and executive team is made aware to ensure any conflict of interest does not generate any conflict when approving payments or allocation of resources and does not interfer with independence and loyalty to duties provided to the barr center. If a conflict exists, the board member with the conflict shall not vote or use his or her personal influence to adress the matter, and he or she shall not be counted in determining the quorum for the meeting. All conflicts disclosed to the board will be made a matter of record in the minutes of the meeting in which the disclosure was made, which shall also note that the board member with a conflict abstained from the vote and was not included in the count for the quorum for that meeting.”

“Compensation for the organization's executive director is independently reviewed annually by the deputy director and the board of directors. The organization uses third party compensation scale and reviews compensation based on independent performance reviews conducted by the deputy director. The performance review contains performance reviews completed by all director-level staff.”

“Governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are not available to the public”

“Payroll processing: program service expenses 0. Management and general expenses 5,385. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 5,385. Marketing: program service expenses 146,407. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 146,407. Other contracted services: program service expenses 1,652,602. Management and general expenses 233,668. Fundraising expenses 12,650. Total expenses 1,898,920.”

“Barr center formed its finance committee of the board which oversees and selects the independent audit firm to conduct the organzation's barr center 82-5480444 financial statement audit.”