Author: IHCO

IHIA Members – 5 IHIA Board Seats are open for your nominations, including self-nomination. Please print the attached nomination form and make sure IHIA gets it before Tuesday, January 22, 2024.

The 2024 Board of Directors Annual Election season is upon us, and IHIA is now accepting nominations for IHIA Board Member CANDIDATES for 2024.

Each year, IHIA members elect (3) directors for a 3-year term to its 9-member board. The 2024 Board of Directors (BOD) election, due to board member resignations in 2023, will have additional positions for (1) a one-year term and (1) a two-year term.

BOARD MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES

· Fiduciary Duties as Board members.

· Adherence with the IHIA Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation, including amendments. Link/References provided below.

· Adherence with the Colorado Revised Statutes Title 7 Articles 121 – 137, also known as the Colorado Revised Nonprofit Corporation Act. Link/References provided below.

· Organizing and facilitating Community Events and Activities

· Organizing and facilitating Community Events and Activities

· Community Center maintenance, capital improvements, and operations

· Utilizing donations responsibly

· Attending monthly Board of Directors meetings

· Providing a Sense of Community for Indian Hills residents

· Keeping Indian Hills History alive for our Community

If you would like to be a candidate OR would like to nominate another IHIA member to be a candidate for the IHIA 2024 Board of Directors, please fill out the form on the back page and drop it off at the Community Center Drop Box or mail to: IHIA, PO 267, Indian Hills, CO 80454.

Nominations must be received by Tuesday, January 22, 2024. Nominees must be an eligible voting member of IHIA.

If you provide the name(s) of a nominee for a candidate, the BOD will follow up with the potential candidate to determine their willingness to serve and eligibility. Qualifying nominees will be asked to provide a BIO of no more than 200 words.

Your name and/or nominee name(s) will be added to the Ballot if the member requirements of the Candidate/Nominee(s) form are met.

The Ballot and BIOs will then go before the membership via mail, and the membership will vote for (3) 3-year terms, (1) 2-year term, and (1) 1-year term from the Ballot to become new members of the BOD. Ballots will be counted at the Annual Meeting/Chili Dinner on March 9, 2024 at 7:00PM.

Colorado Revised Nonprofit Corporation Act: https://codes.findlaw.com/co/title-7-corporations-and-associations/

Nonprofits and Fiduciary Duties of Board Members (Directors): https://pmillerlawoffice.com/non-profit-and-fiduciary-duties/ AND https://www.cohoalaw.com/governance/fiduciary-duties-of-board-members-an-overview/

Some Colorado nonprofit organizational best practices: https://www.ucdenver.edu/docs/librariesprovider143/cdv-library/colorado-nonprofit-best-practices/pp_secondedition.pdf

IHIA Bylaws: https://indianhillscolorado.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1992-0201-Amended-Bylaws-adopted_compressed.pdf

IHIA Articles of Incorporation: https://indianhillscolorado.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IHIA-Articles-of-Incorporation.pdf

IHIA Articles of Incorporation Amendments: https://indianhillscolorado.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IHIA-Articles-of-Incorporation-amendments-2007.pdf

Indian Hills Improvement Association Bylaws

Indian Hills Improvement Association Articles of Incorporation Amendments approved and filed in 2007, as obtained from https://www.sos.state.co.us/ – The following two amendments were officially added to the IHIA Articles of Incorporation in 2007:

Please add these two amendments to the Indian Hills Improvement Association’s Articles of Incorporation.

a. Said organization is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code.

b. No part of the net earnings of the organization shall inure to the benefit of, or be distributable to its members, trustees, officers, or other private persons, except that the organization shall be authorized and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services rendered and to make payments and distributions in furtherance of the purposes set forth in the purpose clause hereof. No substantial part of the activities of the organization shall be the carrying on of propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, and the organization shall not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distribution of statements) any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office. Notwithstanding any other provision of this document, the organization shall not carry on any other activities not permitted to be carried on (a) by an organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code, or (b) by an organization, contributions to which are deductible under section 170 (c) (2) of the Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code.

Indian Hills Improvement Association Articles of Incorporation, as obtained from https://www.sos.state.co.us/ –

Jeffco’s future vision – In case you didn’t know – Jeffco is working to change regulations and plans. They want your input – https://togetherjeffco.com/

The questionnaire they would like you to answer/be involved: https://togetherjeffco.com/get-involved/survey_tools/questionnaires

https://www.jeffco.us/4578/Together-Jeffco-2023-Plans-and-Regulatio

Location: Arrowhead Park – Movie and live music in the park. Brats, hotdogs, chips, and drinks for sale.

The movie will start at dusk. Free popcorn. The movie will be “Super Mario Brothers”

To Pre-register and for more information – https://indianhillsfunrun.com/

Constitutional rights – affirmed.

For the full story: https://dnyuz.com/2023/03/17/residents-right-to-be-rude-upheld-by-massachusetts-supreme-court/

In her comments to the board that night, she said, she was trying to hold the town accountable for breaking the state’s open meeting law, a violation that the state attorney general’s office had confirmed. “I know it’s not easy to be volunteers in town, but breaking the law is breaking the law,” she said at the lectern in the mostly empty chamber, holding a homemade sign that said “STOP SPENDING” on one side and “STOP BREAKING OPEN MEETING LAW” on the other.

After a board member, Daniel L. Kolenda, cut her off and accused her of “slander” against “town officials who are doing their very best,” Ms. Barron told him, “Look, you need to stop being a Hitler. You’re a Hitler. I can say what I want.”

Ms. Barron was merely exercising her constitutional rights and calling out people who were breaking the law. Imagine speaking up against your local small town board or local charity board for failing to honor the legal rights of the citizens, residents, or members based upon the actual laws and their constitutional rights, only to be shut down, or attacked in person on social media.

Good to see the courts affirmed the individuals constitutional rights in the case.

Who: IHFR – Indian Hills Fire Rescue

When: Next Monday evening – February 27 from 7pm to 9pm

Where: Indian Hills Community Center located at 5381 Parmalee Gulch Rd, Indian Hills, CO 80454

Will it be an “Albuquerque Low” ? That is being discussed as a strong possibility, with upslope snow.

https://www.facebook.com/DenverFrontRangeWX

Three weather models are all indicating the same, read more here: https://tinyurl.com/4y4cj4vz

Sharing of learned knowledge – Many within Indian Hills may be involved with various different non-profit organizations and in various different roles, often as volunteers.  An important question that may arise during the ordinary course of business within a non-profit is who owns the works created by the volunteers and, additionally, who owns the copyright of those created works by volunteers.

From business plans, event ideas, images, music, puns, slogans, or even website or social media posts created by volunteers within a nonprofit, who is the lawful owner?

For those of you who own/run a non-profit organization, you may want to learn and know: per the US copyright law, volunteers own the copyrights for all things they create while volunteering for the non-profit; unless the non-profit has a signed written agreement with all the volunteers where all volunteers transfer ownership of items created as well as ownership of all copyrights to those materials to the non-profit corporation. If no signed agreement exists, the volunteer(s) own all works and copyrights of those works they created while volunteering. This is very different from if an individual is employed within a business, all works created by employees and the copyrights of the created work are generally owned by the business.

Two excellent references provided by multiple lawyers on a recent conference call discussing business and nonprofits, copyrights and trademarks, and numerous other topics are: https://www.copyrightlaws.com/who-owns-copyright-volunteer-works/ and https://www.copyright.gov/title17/

Do the due diligence, pay for a copyright attorney when needed, and protect the works you have created and the copyrights you own. If the non-profit desires to own all works created and copyrighted by the volunteers for the non-profit, the non-profit must create agreements, and obtain signatures from the volunteers.