| Return Reference | Explanation |
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| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 2 | Mario Santa Cruz and Mario Santa Cruz, Jr. have a family relationship. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 6 | The local has the following categories of membership: (1) Journeymen - members working in the trade paying full dues; (2) Apprentices - members learning the skills of the trade paying full dues; (3) Nonworking - members who are disabled to work paying reduced dues or called for military service paying no dues; (4) Retired - members who have retired from the trade paying reduced dues; and (5) Honorary - members who have retired from the trade with over 50 years of membership paying no dues. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 7a | Members that have rights to elect members of a governing body: a member in "good standing" that has been a member of the local at least 12 consecutive months has the right to nominate and vote for the officers of the local union every three years. In order to be in "good standing", members must not be more than 2 months in arrears in the payment of dues. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 7b | Members in good standing have the right to vote, at the monthly meetings (general membership), in regards to the following recommendations made by the Board: contributions, conferences and training to be attended by officers, or noncontracted expenses. Members are entitled to question any expense read during the general membership meetings and therefore the expenses could be denied or approved. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 8b | There are no committees with broad authority that act on behalf of the board. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b | A copy of the 990 is shown to the Board before it is filed. The Financial Secretary reviews and approves the 990 for filing. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c | The conflict of interest policy covers Board members. Each Board member must complete a disclosure of any and all conflicts on an annual basis. The conflict of interest policy is reviewed on an annual basis by each member of the Board. When a conflict arises the person with a conflict shall disclose all facts material to the conflict at the Board meeting or, if they are unable to attend, must report the conflict so that the chair can present it before the Board. The person with the conflict must recuse themselves from the room while the remaining Board votes on the matter. They must also recuse themselves from all matters concerning the conflict. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15b | The Regional Council approves the main policy for determining compensation and allots a predetermined amount to the Local to be distributed to its Board members. The allotted amount is then approved and distributed by the Financial Secretary. The percentages of how much each Board position receives is approved by the local Board in the minutes. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 | No documents are made available to the public. |
| Form 990, Part XII, Line 1 | The organization utilizes a modified cash accounting method. |
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