REGULATION NO. 29 - DONATIONS/SPONSORSHIP GUIDELINES

  1. Under the line item Donations/Sponsorships:

    1. Donations are defined, as monies given which must be helpful to a Community, Organization, Union or Individual;

    2. Sponsorships are defined as monies given to activities; teams or individuals where there are promotional aspects for the Union of Taxation Employees.

  2. Requests for funds will be submitted by the member to their Local, who will   then transmit them to their RVP. The RVP will forward the request to the National President with a recommendation. The RVP will forward the request to the National President and the 1st National Vice President with a recommendation.

  3. The National President may approve donations/sponsorships up to five hundred dollars ($500.00) with the agreement of the 1st Vice President.  In the absence of the National president or 1st Vice President, the 2nd National Vice President shall be delegated as one of the two approval officers.

  4. All Donations/Sponsorship funds will be approved and expended in the Calendar year.

  5. The maximum sponsorship per request shall be five hundred dollars ($500.00) per year except under exceptional circumstances this may be increased by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of Council.

  6. Every January a complete list of donations/sponsorships will be sent to all Locals. (whom, city and the amount).

  7. All donations/sponsorships cheques will be made out to the organization, team, and individual etc. for whom the amount was approved.

  8. a minimum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) of the line item Donations/Sponsorships be allocated to Strike Appeals and Holiday Relief Funds; and

  9. if less than the $2,000 has been spent or allocated as of December 1st, that the balance be available to other types of Donation/Sponsorships at the December Executive Council meeting.

Sections 8 and 9 were adopted in October 2004 and transferred from the Resolution of Record in December 2013.

Adopted June 2003
Amended September 2009
Amended December 2013
Amended June 2022