EXECUTIVE
ORDER EO 84-13
CHARITABLE
CONTRIBUTIONS
This Executive Order establishes a plan for
combined employee charitable contributions to social service, health, and
welfare organizations through payroll deductions or other payment methods in
one annual solicitation.
Currently, both endorsed and unendorsed
fund-raising drives occur sporadically throughout the year and, with one
exception, do not have the convenience and benefit of payroll deduction and
other features of a coordinated collection system. These separate drives are
neither as efficient nor effective as they can be for the various charitable
organizations or for state agencies and employees. This situation must be
alleviated.
A policy committee established by this Order
will represent the employees in state government and higher education. The
committee will, in cooperation with charitable organizations, organize and
effect one solicitation effort each year. The Governor's Office will no longer
be the clearinghouse for endorsement of various charitable drives.
After careful study of organizations which
typically make appeals for financial support from state employees, the
committee will evaluate each and authorize those which may participate in one
annual combined effort to secure funds for distribution to the organizations
engaged in charitable, public health, welfare, and service purposes in
accordance with RCW 41.04.035 and RCW 41.04.230.
NOW, THEREFORE,
I, John Spellman, Governor of the state of Washington, by virtue of the
authority vested in me, do hereby order that:
(1) A policy committee be established to be
known as the Washington State Employee Combined Fund Drive Committee.
(2) The function of this committee shall be to:
(a) Determine which agencies engaged in
charitable and public health, welfare and service purposes shall participate in
one annual combined effort to secure funds from state employees through payroll
deduction or other payment method;
(b) Establish the policies necessary to
conduct one annual campaign for employee contributions for the established
organizations. No other separate campaign drive shall be conducted under the
auspices of the state of Washington after September 30, 1984, without the
approval of the committee;
(c) Establish the policies necessary to collect
and distribute the funds collected through one annual combined effort.
(3) The
committee shall be composed of not more than eight state employees appointed by the Governor for three
year terms, except that the terms of
those first appointed shall be staggered with two persons appointed for one
year, three persons appointed for two years, and three persons appointed for
three years, as determined by the Governor. The members shall be selected from
the following groups:
(a) One member from an
employee organization;
(b) One member from
the Legislative branch:
(c) One member from
the Judicial branch;
(d) Three members from
state agencies;
(e) Two members from
higher education;
(4) The
Governor shall name one of the members as acting chairperson to call the first
meeting, at which time the group will elect a chairperson to serve for the term
of one year, and such other officers as may be needed.
(5) Members
of the committee shall serve without additional salary, but shall be reimbursed
by their employing agencies for travel, lodging and meals in accordance with
state law and regulations.
(6) All
costs such as printing of brochures, preparation of slide presentations and
other promotional costs shall be the responsibility of those organizations designated
to participate in the distribution of all funds collected. In circumstances
where promotional costs cannot be associated with an individual charitable
service organization, the costs shall be shared in a percentage relating to the
total funds distributed.
(7) The
Department of Personnel shall provide the administrative support for the
operation of the committee.
(8) This
order is effective September, 1984, and shall remain in effect until cancelled
or modified by the Governor.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused
the seal of the State
of Washington to be
affixed at Olympia
this 31st day of May
A.D., Nineteen hundred and eighty-four.
JOHN SPELLMAN
Governor of Washington
BY THE GOVERNOR:
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Secretary of State
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