Wesley Homes

“The organization's executive committee consists of the chair, past chair, chair elect, treasurer and secretary of the board of trustees. The executive committee has and exercises the authority of the board of trustees, except the executive committee does not have the authority of the board in reference to: 1. Amending, altering, or repealing the bylaws; 2. Electing, appointing, or removing any member of the executive committee or any director or officer of the corporation; 3. Amending the articles of incorporation; 4. Adopting a plan or merger or adopting a plan of consolidation; 5. Authorizing the sale, lease, or exchange of all or substantially all of the organization's property and assets; 6. Authorizing the voluntary dissolution of the organization or adopting a plan for the distribution of the organization's assets; or 7. Amending, altering, or repealing any resolution of the board of trustees which by its terms provides that it shall not be amended, altered, or repealed by the executive committee.”

“The organization is organized as a not-for-profit corporation and includes members from the pacific northwest conference of the united methodist church, who have the right to participate in the selection of the organization's governing body.”

“The board members are elected at the annual meeting of the members. At least a majority of the elected board members must be members of the united methodist church.”

“The board of directors delegated the responsibility of reviewing the form 990 to the finance committee. Management and the finance committee reviewed in detail the form 990. A copy of the 990 was presented to the board prior to filing.”

“Each may, or when a new member arrives on the board, board members are given a disclosure form to sign and submit declaring any possible conflict of interest. Should conflicts exist, the conflicts are disclosed to the other board members. Board meeting minutes would reflect the conflict as it relates to a relevant discussion and the member with the conflict would abstain from the discussion and decision. Each member has been given the policy upon membership to the board. Monitoring of conflicts of interest is managed by the wesley homes executive assistant.”

“The organization has a process for determining compensation of the ceo and key employees that includes partnering with an independent, third-party compensation firm which provides comparability data. Contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation and decision is aided by this independent compensation data along with evaluation of compa-ratio (derived from established wage scales) and performance. Ceo compensation has an added layer of review which includes deliberation of this data among the board of trustees. The company's vice president of human resources leads the annual salary administration process. The process described here was last completed in 2023.”

“Wesley homes' governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are made available to the public upon request.”

“Contract services: program service expenses 7,305,146. Management and general expenses 5,376,541. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 12,681,687.”

“The process for oversight and selection of an independent accountant has not changed from the prior year.”