John Tracy Clinic

“The board of directors of jtc is responsible for approving auxiliary organizations. Jtc maintains regular communication with the guild and auxiliary groups that support jtc. When requested, the finance department of jtc assists in the preparation and filing of the 990 returns filed by the guilds. Jtc has and has always had fundraising affiliates under the group exemption. The only functioning affiliate left is the desert friends of jtc, a separate entity that runs their own fundraising activities in order to generate donations for jtc. Jtc does not have any official policies and procedures for these affiliates.”

“The organization engaged its outside cpa firm to draft its form 990 using information provided by management. The cpa firm presents the form 990 to management for review and analysis. The final draft is provided to the board of directors before filing.”

“A conflict of interest disclosure statement is furnished annually to each director. The forms are reviewed and signed by each director with any conflicts noted and returned to the staff member who handles board affairs. The existence of a conflict is determined by the full board. Any director with a potential or actual conflict of interest must recuse him/herself from deliberations on the matter in question.”

“It is the policy of john tracy clinic to base an employee's salary at the time of their hire on comparable salary data and to review salaries annually as part of the budgeting process. If, based upon economic conditions and jtc's financial status, funds are avaialble to give raises then comparable salary data is obtained from the form 990s of similiar organizations and the center for nonprofit management to help the board determine salary raises.”

“The organization's form 990 is available upon request.”

“The audited financial statements and donor policies are posted on the organization's web site and available to the public. Upon request from the general public, the organization will provide access to other governing documents and conflict of interest policies as required by law.”

“The john tracy clinic maintains a chair and committee of directors emeritus to acknowledge retired board members. These directors no longer officially serve on the board of directors and do not have any voting power. The committee of directors emeritus consists of the following individuals: david l. Buell, director emeritus patricia a. Fry, director emeritus lyle k. Krapf, director emeritus gary u. Rolle, director emeritus robert j. Wagner, director emeritus jay rakow, director emeritus”