Contra Costa County Bar Association

“Michael pierson and pa'tanisha pierson have a family relationship and a business relationship”

“Members of the cccba are attorneys licensed by the state bar of california who practice law in contra costa county and throughout the bay area as well as other legal professionals and affiliates.”

“The contra costa county bar association board of directors is comprised of five executive officers and 11 directors. The directors are elected annually by a plurality of the votes cast from the attorney membership. The executive officers are appointed by the board of directors from amongst the current directors.”

“Substantive changes to governing documents must be approved by the voting attorney members.”

“The organization retains a professional cpa firm to work closely with the executive director to prepare form 990. Prior to filing, a copy of the form is being provided to the full board of directors.”

“The cccba has a conflict-of-interest policy, which defines the conflict of interest and identifies classes of individuals covered by the policy which include officers, directors and the executive director. In january of each calendar year, persons covered by this policy will complete a form to disclose or update their interest that could give rise to conflict of interest, such as a list of family members, substantial business or investment holders and other transactions or affiliations with businesses, organizations or family members. For each interest disclosed to the president, the president will determine whether to: (a) take no action; (b) assure full disclosure to the board of directors and other individuals covered by this policy; (c) ask the person to recuse him/herself from participation and related discussions or decisions within the cccba, or (d) ask the person to resign from his or her position within the cccba. The cccba's executive director will monitor proposed or ongoing transactions for conflicts of interest and disclose them to the president in order to deal with potential or actual conflicts, whether discovered before or after the transaction has occurred.”

“Compensation of the executive director is reviewed and approved by the finance committee. The finance committee shall annually evaluate the executive director on his or her performance and ask for his or her input on matters of performance and compensation. The finance committee will obtain research and information to make a decision about the compensation (salary and benefits) of the executive director (and other highly compensated employees or consultants) based on a review of comparable data to include salary and benefit compensation studies by independent sources, written job offers for positions at similar organizations, documented telephone calls about similar positions at both nonprofit and for profit organizations, and information obtained from the irs form 990 of similar organizations. To approve the compensation for the executive director (and other highly compensated employees and consultants) the finance committee will document how it reached its decisions, including the data on which relied, in minutes of the meeting which the compensated was approved.”

“Governing documents, policies and financial statement are available to the general public, upon request, at the organization's main office.”