Hi Ann,
Actually, in Washington State, PO boxes are not permitted for use when
registering a business with the state, because legal service of process
cannot be delivered to a PO box. I also believe that PO boxes are not
permitted as substitutes for physical addresses when registering a bank
account; the bank is required to check the account holders' names against
Federal criminal databases and watchlists, and needs to be able to execute
its own legal demands against the account holder if necessary. (Let's hope
that we never encounter that situation!)
I will need to work out how the registered agent / service of process
activities would work with Impact HUB, but my initial conversation with
them suggests that they *may* be willing to be a registered agent on our
behalf as well.
I do appreciate your willingness to check with someone at Impact HUB to see
if they might be willing to temporarily let us borrow their contact
information. However, since these are all issues that we're going to need
to resolve soon anyway, I think we should try to solve them once only, in
order to save everyone time and effort (:
Pine
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Ann Summy <ann.summy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Pine, I can ask an Impact HUB member if there's
some way to get around the
address issue. It may take a couple of days to get an answer.
Seems to me this kind of thing comes up with 501(c)(3) organizations all
the time. Business/organization bank accounts allow the use of PO Box
addresses. There is some juggling that can be done using that or
transferring the business address from a temporary (maybe personal) one to
a final one later.
--Ann
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On Jan 19, 2015 4:09 PM, "Pine W" <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Wikimedia DC, Alex (WMF), and Cascadia board,
As I mentioned in an earlier email, Xero is having a sale that will save
$90 in cost if we subscribe by the end of January. (I have a coupon code
for the sale.)
In addition to this timing consideration, I have observed the following
conundrum: we can't set up a bank account if we don't have an address and a
Washington State business registration, and we can't set up our address
with Impact HUB if we can't pay, and we can't register with Washington
State if we can't pay.
To get out of this conundrum, because timing is important (the Xero sale
ends on January 31, which means that we need have funds available before
then), and because Wikimedia DC's reporting requirements appear to be less
time-consuming than PEG's reporting requirements, I would like the group's
permission to request interim funding from Wikimedia DC's grants program
for the following expenses. The payment would be made to me, and I would
use the funds for the following purposes:
Two months of Xero subscription, after discount, plus tax: $33
Two months of Impact HUB rent, for 2 days each month: $70
Two months of Impact HUB mailbox rent: $50
State of Washington business license, including $19 processing fee and $5
trade name fee: $24
State of Washington Secretary of State nonprofit corporation
registration: $30
City of Seattle registration: $110
City of Bellevue registration: $86
Initial refundable bank deposit with BECU: $5
High-security checkbook from BECU: $35
Total grant request: $443
Any remaining funds would be returned to Wikimedia DC. If these expenses
are funded by Wikimedia DC, then they would be deducted from our upcoming
PEG request to WMF.
Is this agreeable to Cascadia's Board members? We need at least 4 members
of our Board to agree before I can submit this request to Wikimedia DC.
Thank you!
Pine
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