Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture

“As stated in the organization's bylaws, the corporation shall have an executive board whose functions shall be to take action, which may be required between meetings of the board of directors. The executive board may exercise the authority of the board of directors in the management of the corporation. The executive board is comprised of eight regular members, four of whom will be officers of the corporation plus four selected from the remaining board members. The salmon gear groups will hold two seats each”

“Ssraa is govered by a 21 member board. 13 elected seats represented by the commerscial salmon fishing gear groups and eight appointed representatives of other groups affected by the salmon industry. All represented groups are present in southern southeast alaska region.”

“The organization follows an established election and appointment policy to select interested persons to serve on the board of directors. Gear seats are elected by their active permit holder peirs following the nomination and election policy and procedures. The appointed seats are selected by each of the represented gear group memebers as prescribed by policy.”

“The board by exercising policy may also choose to delay a decision to a second meeting to obtain input from outside experts requiring a second reading. This policy decision allows the board to consider an item twice before a vote, if deemed necessary. In this scenario the final decision is still with the full board. Certain functions and decisions are restricted to or controlled by the elected gear seats such as selection of appointed seats and approval of terminal harvest area (tha) rotational calendars. These are funcitions primarily performed by a subset of the board. Other governance decisions that affect policy are regulatory decisions where some internal policy approvals are controled by regulatory and/or cooperative processes working through the state of alaska department of fish & game (adfg); adfg/private nonprofit hatchery regional planning team (rpt) process, and adfg commissioner. In these processes board policy approval is predicated on consideration of others outside the board process and control.”

“Prior to signature and submittal, the 990 is reviewed inhouse by the operations and general managers, contract accountant and then forwarded to the board of directors for their comments and/or questions.”

“In place is a conflict of interest policy for the board and gm. All on the board must file a disclaimer and update annually. These disclaimers of possible conflict are in the board personnel files and available to the president. At meetings potential conflicts are adjudicated at board level.”

“Ssraa makes its forms 1023 and 990 available to the public upon request.”

“Ssraa makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements available to the public upon request.”