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 | Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative Corp. 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 | Each year, the members elect the governing body (Board of Directors) at the annual 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 B, line 11 | The General Manager and Accounting Manager reviewed a completed copy of the Form 990 before it was filed with the Internal Revenue Service. A copy of the Form 990 was provided to the board of directors prior to it being filed with the Internal Revenue Service. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c | The General Manager/CEO is responsible for monitoring and enforcing the conflict of interest policy. If a conflict of interest were to arise, it must be immediately reported to the General Manager/CEO. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 | The Board of Directors reviews the performance of management employees on an annual basis and determines the compensation for those employees for the coming year. Data from the NTCA yearly compensation survey is considered by the Board when determining employee compensation. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 | The governing documents and policies are provided with the membership certificate. Financial statements are included in print form as an insert in telephone bills. All documents, policies, and financial statements are available upon request. |
| Form 990, Part IX, line 24e | Corporate operations 2,740,684. Customer operations 2,449,766. Operating taxes 682,743. |
| 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. Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative Corp. has interpreted the words "patronage dividends paid" in the instructions to mean margins that are assigned or assignable to the members. Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative Corp. assigns the net margins to its members each year. Therefore, the amount listed in Part IX, Line 4 represents the net margins assignable to the members for the calendar year ended December 31, 2013. |
| Form 990, Part XI, line 9: | Increase in memberships 12,220. Post-retirement benefit plan unrecognized gain 5,062,496. Post-retirement benefit plan amortization of unrecognized loss 213,000. Equity method loss from affiliates -704,212. Net margins assigned to members 1,445,421. |
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