LK Education Bulletin

Hands on Workshop for Incorporating Your School Support Organizations with the State Of Tennessee August 13^th at 1:00 – 2:30 Eastern Time by WebEx

Chuck Cagle, Lewis King’s Education Practice Leader and Joe Ballard, Associate attorney in our Knoxville Office will conduct a 90 minute workshop that will review in depth the steps and information for filing a school support organization charter with the state of Tennessee. This workshop should be of interest to school district representatives and school support organization individuals who are responsible for aiding their organizations compliance with Tennessee’s newly enacted financial accountability statute.

Workshop material including a model charter, bylaws and state filing forms will be provided and downloadable for participants from our education blog site at lkbulletin.squarespace.com. The amended law does not require a school support organization to become a 501(c)(3) entity pursuant to IRS requirements and that filing process will not be part of this workshop. For certain organizations we believe the benefits of being a 501(c)(3) entity are important and in discussing the model charter and by-laws we will comment on provisions that should be included should that filing status be your organization’s goal. Specific items to be reviewed include:

1. Application for EIN with IRS necessary for opening organization’s bank account

2. Charter and by-laws for non-profit organization

3. Exemption of non-profit charter filing fee

4. School Support Organization Manual published by State Comptroller’s Office

5. Tennessee State Sales Tax Exemption

To receive an invitation with directions for this WebEx session, please respond with the registrant's name, e-mail address and the approximate number of participants to schoolsupport@lewisking.com by Friday August 8^th. Invitations will be e-mailed Monday August 11th.

Lewis King Education Practice

Bill Kunkel Coordinator