Colorado Criminal Defense Bar

“The executive director and the board treasurer, as available, have a meeting with the external consultant to review the form 990 and its required attachments and schedules. During this meeting a through review of all financial and narrative information is undertaken to make sure all reports and schedules reflect the actual operating results of the agency for the most recently completed fiscal year. After this review, the executive director provides a summary presentation of the 990 to the agency's board. The executive director files the completed return with the internal revenue service.”

“Conflict of interest disclosure: the agency maintains a board resource manual with all policies and procedures. Each board member has access to the manual and the orientation to dully explain the roles and responsibilities of each member. The executive director and board executive committee work together to ensure compliance with the conflict of interest policy. The agency's executive committee works to ensure compliance with board policies.”

“Compensation review: the agency executive director and support staff work together to secure non profit salary survey information from a variety of non profit sources, along with other sector trend and agency data, as available, to develop a salary range for executive, management and staff salaries. This information, along with the agency's salary history form the basis for compensation arrangements and updates.”

“The agency files all of it's required filings in a timely manner. Guidestar.org for download and viewing. The agency makes available it's public governance documents to any interested party, who makes a written request. The requests are generally answered within ten business days of receipt. The agency does not publish it's internal financial documents. The agency will make any of it's required public filings available to those parties making a written request who are otherwise unable to obtain them. Such requests are generally completed within 10 business days of their receipt.”