§ 12-05 Approval of Coordinating Agency.
RCNY § 12-05
(a)To solicit contributions among municipal employees, a charitable non-profit organization eligible pursuant to the conditions specified in 55 RCNY § 12-04 may make written application to the Commissioner of Citywide Administrative Services for approval as the coordinating agency for the City.
(b)In December of every year there shall be made available at the offices of the Commissioner of Citywide Administrative Services a proposed calendar of events for the preceding years' Combined Municipal Campaign, if any. This schedule shall include a timetable for application.
(c)The application shall contain a detailed statement and furnish documentation evidencing the organization's compliance with all conditions of eligibility as a coordinating agency and shall provide the following: (1) corporate or registered business name and address of the organization; name, titles and addresses of its directors or principals and executive officers; registration number obtained upon registration pursuant to Article 7-A of the Executive Law; (2) concise description of the organization's structure, origin, and history of its activities in the City; financial statements for its two immediately preceding years of operation, showing contributions and other revenues received, administrative and overhead expenses, costs of operations and other significant financial data; a specification of the extent its operations have been carried out by volunteers' services; (3) statement of its plan and program for performing charitable services within the City over the next three-year period, with particular description of projected benefits to employees' communities of residence; (4) copies of charter or certificate of incorporation, bylaws, latest external audit by a certified public accountant and letter from the Internal Revenue Service certifying tax exempt status pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; (5) a listing, by corporate or registered business name, address, and name of the authorized principal representative, of each constituent charitable non-profit organization included in the coordinating agency; the applicant shall certify that it has examined and established compliance by all of its constituent organizations with the conditions and requirements of eligibility specified in 55 RCNY § 12-03.
(d)The applicant shall furnish additional information and documentation as requested by the Commissioner of Citywide Administrative Services.
(e)The Commissioner's determination as to the approval or refusal of an application hereunder shall be conclusive and binding, and written notice thereof shall be given to the applicant.
(f)If it should become necessary to change the coordinating agency while the annual solicitation campaign or the year of contributions is in progress, the Commissioner shall substitute another charitable non-profit organization eligible to be coordinating agency pursuant to 55 RCNY § 12-04.
