Society of Professional Rope Access Technicians

“Sprat delegates management functions to multiservice management company (mmco), an unrelated professional management entity. Management services provided by mmco include, planning and executing budgets and financial operations as well as supervising exempt operations. Mmco is directly supervised and reports to the board of directors. Jody bird is an employee at mmco and acts as the top management official for sprat. During 2024, sprat paid mmco $197,638 for management services rendered. Jody bird receives compensation through mmco for her services rendered to sprat.”

“Regular membership is open to any organization or individual involved in rope access and related industries. Applications for membership are certified by the membership committee or designated individual. Once certified, to be considered a regular member in good standing all dues and fees must be paid and kept current. Each regular member is entitled to one vote. There are three types of regular member: (a) company: organizations that employ rope access personnel, provide rope access services or consulting, manufacture or distribute rope access equipment, or provide rope access training in either a for-profit or not-for-profit operation are eligible for company membership. Company members are regular members with voting rights. (b) company premier: organizations that employ rope access personnel, provide rope access services or consulting, manufacture or distribute rope access equipment, or provide rope access training in either a for-profit or not-for-profit operation are eligible for company premier membership. Company premier members are regular members with voting rights and receive additional benefits approved by the board of directors. (c) individual: individuals who are engaged in rope access work or providing rope access education qualify for individual membership. Individual members are regular members with voting rights.”

“Board members are elected by the regular members from among the regular members.”

“The governing documents may not be adopted, amended or repealed without approval of at least two-third of the membership under a quorum vote.”

“The form 990 is prepared by an independent accounting firm and then a draft is provided to the management company for review. A complete copy is provided to all voting board members prior to filing with the internal revenue service.”

“The conflict of interest policy applies to each director, principal officer and members of the evaluations committee. In addition to the required completion of the conflict of interest disclosure form on an annual basis, the policy contains a duty to timely disclose if a conflict were to arise during the year. If a potential conflict were to arise the individual would disclose the potential conflict to the board of directors either verbally or in written communication. The board of directors would evaluate the facts and circumstances involved, including but not limited to, any statement from the individual with the potential conflict, but that individual would be excused and not be present for the board of director's final deliberation and vote in determining whether or not a conflict exists.”

“The bylaws are available in the members only area of the website. The governing documents and financial statements are made available to the public upon request.”

“Technical consultant 101,867. Document translation fees 366. Credit card fees 30,314. Bank fees 500.”