Arizona Soccer Association

“The organization has three membership categories 1 soccer leagues, 2 soccer clubs, and 3 individual players, parents, and guardians. Only soccer club and soccer league members are entitled to vote. Individual player/parent members are not entitled to vote.”

“Each soccer club or soccer league member, in good standing, votes on the organizations board of directors. Votes are allocated to each soccer club based on the number of the soccer players registered and in good standing within the club. Each soccer league member is entitled to one vote.”

“The following acts require approval from the membership body 1 amendments to the organizations bylaws, 2 adoption of the organizations budget, 3 election of all officers except district commissioners, 4 approval of fees, 5 ratification of actions of the board of directors, 6 ratification of any redistricting, and 7 conduct of additional business at the annual general meeting as deemed appropriate by the board of directors.”

“The treasurer of the organization distributes a pdf copy of the 990 return to all board members for review and comment prior to being filed.”

“Officers and directors are required to sign a conflict of interest statement annually and disclose if any conflicts might exist, if conflict arises it is disclosed to the board for review. The person who has the conflict will recuse themselves from the meeting when this issue for which there is a conflict is presented.”

“The chief executive officer and /or the executive directors salary is reviewed annually by the organizations compensation committee. In accordance with their policy, the committee makes salary recommendations to the board based on review of corroborating references. The board votes on any changes to salary and implements accordingly. The organization has no other paid officers or employees meeting the irs definition of a key employee.”

“The organization makes it governing documents, including its conflict of interest policy, and tax returns available to the public on their website and by request.”

“The organization manages a odp hosted tournament which has 14 members clubs they are one of the 14. The funds belonging to the other thirteen clubs were not properly being reflected as a liability.”