Attach to Form 990 or 990-EZ.
Information about Schedule O (Form 990 or 990-EZ) and its instructions is at| Return Reference | Explanation |
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| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 6 | Hickman-Fulton Counties Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation is a not-for-profit membership organization whose members have identical voting rights and are assigned margins in accordance with the cooperative's bylaws. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 7a | The annual meeting of the members shall be held for the purpose of electing board members, passing upon reports for the previous fiscal year, and transacting such other business as may come before the meeting. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 7b | The membership must approve decisions that involve substantial transfers of cooperative assets, amendments to the cooperative's bylaws, as well as other decisions requiring approval of the membership by law, the charter of incorporation, and/or the cooperative's bylaws. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 8b | There are no committees with the authority to act on behalf of the board of directors. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11 | The Form 990 was reviewed by the accounting staff at the cooperative before it was presented to the board of directors. A member of the accounting firm who assisted in the preparation of the Form 990 attended a board meeting, provided the directors with a copy of the Form 990, and conducted a formal review of the Form 990 with the directors before the it was filed with the Internal Revenue Service. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c | Each responsible person shall annually complete a disclosure form identifying any relationships, positions, or circumstances in which the responsible person is involved that he or she believes could contribute to a conflict of interest arising. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 | The process to determine compensation shall include all of these elements: Review and Approval - The compensation of the person is reviewed and approved by the board of directors and President/CEO of Hickman-Fulton Counties RECC, provided that persons with conflicts of interest with respect to the compensation arrangement at issue are not involved in this review and approval when his/her own compensation is determined. Use of data as to comparable compensation - The compensation of the person is reviewed and approved using data as to comparable compensation for similarly qualified persons in functionally comparable positions at similarly situated organizations. Contemporaneous documentation and recordkeeping - There is contemporaneous documentation and recordkeeping with respect to the deliberations and decisions regarding the compensation arrangement. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 | The cooperative's governing documents and conflict of interest policy are available to the public for review on its website. The financial statements are available upon request at the cooperative's headquarters. |
| Form 990, Part IX, Line 4 | The instructions to the 2013 Form 990 indicate that organizations exempt under Section 501(c)(12) should report patronage dividends paid to their members in Part IX, Line 4 of the Form 990. Hickman-Fulton Counties Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation has interpreted the words "patronage dividends paid" in the instructions to mean margins that are assigned or assignable to the members. Hickman-Fulton Counties Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation assigns the net margins to its members each year. Therefore, the amount listed in Part IX, Line 4 represents the net margins assigned to the members for the calendar year ended June 30, 2014. |
| Form 990, Part XI, line 9: | Increase in Memberships 555. Net Margins Assigned/Assignable to Members 422,150. |
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