Community Environmental Council

“The organization outsources fractional cfo duties to kate piontek through p3 strategy, llc. Fractional cfo duties include financial analysis, oversight of the finance department, management and oversight of the books and annual audit, reporting to board and finance committee, and creating annual budget and scenario planning. Kate is not listed on form 990, part vii, as she is not considered an officer of the organization for part vii reporting purposes.”

“The board of directors has delegated review and approval of the form 990 to the audit committee of the organization. After the audit committee reviews and approves the 990, the form 990 is then distributed to the full board for review prior to filing.”

“Annually the board of directors must sign a conflict of interest questionnaire that identifies and explains any conflict of interest that a board member may have. If a conflict of interest arises during the year to a matter requiring action by the board, the board member must immediately disclose this to the board, retire from the room in which the board is meeting and shall not participate in the final deliberation or decision regarding the matter under consideration. The minutes of the meeting shall reflect the conflict of interest and state that the board member was not present during the final discussion or vote and did not vote.”

“The executive committee of the board of directors has contracted for a five year term with the ceo that determines her compensation and benefits package. However, the executive director is reviewed annually. The compensation is determined by looking at salary surveys in the area of similar size nonprofits as well as at 990s of similar organizations nationwide. The contract is then approved by the full board of directors. All other compensation for employees is approved at the time the annual budget is approved and accepted by the board of directors.”

“The organization makes its audited financials available to the public upon request by writing to the address located on this return. In addition, the organization's audited financials can be found on our website www.cecsb.org”

“Professional fees: program service expenses 27,060. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 648. Total expenses 27,708. Contract services: program service expenses 807,780. Management and general expenses 123,018. Fundraising expenses 47,792. Total expenses 978,590.”

“Passthrough income from ubi 137,931.”