Attach to Form 990 or 990-EZ.
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| Return Reference | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 | Trustee Reinhard and Trustee Westlake each have auction businesses that operate indpendently of each other. Trustee Scheiderer occasionally clerks at auctions of each of the two auctioneers. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 6 | The cooperative has approximately 11,000 member/owners. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7a | Every member/owner has one vote for cooperative trustees. Each of the 7 trustees serve 3 year terms and must live within a defined district. Once elected, trustees represent all member/owners, therefore member/owners are not limited to voting for the trustee representing only their district. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7b | Elected trustees make decisions concerning governance of the cooperative on behalf of the member/owners. However, a change to the bylaws is subject to a vote by the member/owners. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b | The Form 990 is distributed to the trustees in its entirety for their review. The form is then discussed at a regularly scheduled board meeting after which corrections and/or adjustments are made if necessary. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12 | The conflict of interest policy states that trustees and employees are required to discuss any potential conflict of interest issues with the CEO as they arise. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 | The wage and salary structure for all positions at the cooperative is compiled annually by an independent 3rd party contractor. The salary structure is reviewed and approved by the board of trustees annually. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 | Bylaws and Articles of Incororation are available to the public in the lobby of our office at 15461 US Highway 36, Marysville, Ohio. The conflict of interest policy is also available upon request. Audited financial statements are available for viewing on the cooperatives website under URL ure.com/ohio-cooperative-living-magazine. |
| Form 990, Part IX, Line 4 | Benefits paid to or for members is for patronage dividends paid to members and is interpreted to mean current year margins to be allocated to members in the following year in accordance with the cooperatives bylaws. This is not an expense according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and was not recorded as an expense on the books of the cooperative in either the prior year or the current year. This is a reconciling item between book net income and tax net income on Schedule D, Part XII, Line 4b. |
| Form 990, Part IX, Line 6-23 | Many of the expenses listed on these lines have been spread over many expense accounts according to their function and are included in expenses categorized by function in Part IX, Line 24. |
| Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 | Other changes in net assets or fund balances include 1 Margins to be allocated in the following year 3,577,987 increase, 2 Capital Credit Retirements 3,611,347 decrease, 3 Capital Credits forfeited back to the cooperative 10,504 increase, 4 Escheat Process 39,203 increase, 5 Changes to Postretirement Benefits Fund including Actuarial Gain 42,720 increase, 6 Youth Scholarships paid out 4,500 decrease, and 7 Change in Equity of Scholarship Fund 4,921 increase. |
| Software ID: | 20011422 |
| Software Version: | 20.0.2.0 |