Alioto-Pier calls for a hearing on Tenderloin Housing Clinic – Board of Supervisors, October 30, 2007
note that she specifically mentions what happened at the Mission Hotel
From today’s Beyondchron (Randy Shaw – what, me worried?)
Me thinks he’s referring to this
I’ve always wondered about the people so heavily involved in local politics but aren’t elected
the basic question revolves around this “Understanding what constitutes lobbying under
the 1976 law is not difficult. In general, you are
lobbying when you state your position on specific
legislation to legislators or other government
employees who participate in the formulation of
legislation, or urge your members to do so (direct
lobbying). In addition, you are lobbying when you
state your position to the general public and ask the
general public to contact legislators or other
government employees who participate in the
formulation of legislation (grassroots lobbying).
does THC do that?..through beyondchron?
just an example> We also worked with Assembly member Mark Leno to get state legislation passed in 2003 to exempt SRO’s from the state Ellis Act.
or this> (+) Randy Shaw, Tenderloin Housing Clinic
– Supports legislation
from the Planning Commision 2002
for the Mission Hotel component, one thing THC didn’t do was cooperate with anybody when the press got interested. Maybe now they’ll have to cooperate when it comes to the Board of Supes who authorized the master leasing hotel arrangement in the first place. Questions like:
how many people were recently fired an why?..It wasn’t just Carlos Hernandez either, but nobody can get anybody from THC to talk. This secrecy in a publicly funded institution is what is making people suspicious
if there are audits of THC then why doesn’t THC make them public?
In fact, according to the 990, THC is supposed to have filed a IRS form 5768 with the IRS, but Guidestar doesn’t have that
It’s supposed to be publicly available and Beyondchron should be posting it if they have nothing to hide
the form 5768 reads, in part
Section references are to the Internal
Revenue Code.
Section 501(c)(3) states that an
organization exempt under that section
will lose its tax-exempt status and its
qualification to receive deductible
charitable contributions if a substantial
part of its activities are carried on to
influence legislation. Section 501(h),
however, permits certain eligible
501(c)(3) organizations to elect to make
limited expenditures to influence
legislation. An organization making the
election will, however, be subject to an
excise tax under section 4911 if it
spends more than the amounts
permitted by that section. Also, the
organization may lose its exempt status
if its lobbying expenditures exceed the
permitted amounts by more than 50%
over a 4-year period. For any tax year in
which an election under section 501(h) is
in effect, an electing organization must
report the actual and permitted amounts
of its lobbying expenditures and grass
roots expenditures (as defined in section
4911(c)) on its annual return required
under section 6033. See Schedule A
(Form 990 or Form 990-EZ). Each
electing member of an affiliated group
must report these amounts for both itself
and the affiliated group as a whole