West Hartford Education Assn Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

During the 2024-2025 school year, we accomplished the following: attended the cea summer leadership program. The cea survey was filled out and suggestions for workshops were provided. The whea was a gold sponsor for the hands accross the green golf tournament in july. This was probably the 14h year that the whea has participated. The whea president, brian putkonen and the executive vice president, ron wziontko had weekly meetings with the director of human resources and bi-monthly meetings with the superintendent. Members of the exective commitee were able to attend the new teacher meeting and luncheon at the beginning of the year to welcome the teachers and promotemembership. We also greeted teachers who were new to west hartford at the teacher social in august. Teachers from across west hartford gathered together at the whea's annual fall social in september to celebrate the start of the new school year. We also presented out "teacher of the year - nora mchugh" with a plaque and a check for this year's dues. We are now using our new google site to transition communications to your home email addresses. This shift ensures privacy and prevents external influence on our messages. We gathered members to celebrate all of their hard work on january 26 for our winter social. In addition, members were invited to attend hartford county forums during the year. The president attended all of the hartford county president's forums. 16 members signed up to attend the ce ra in order to represent the goals of the whea through representation. The executive team met monthly and as needed to execute their responsibilities. Monthly representative council meetings were held to inform members of issues and concerns throughout the district. Several training workshops for new whea representativesand their mentors were held. As needed, the whea executive vp called the grievance committee together to discuss possible grievances. Our executive board also met several times for executive team workshops where we discussed updating our vision, mission, goals, and plans for the upcoming year. The whea president also sits on the town wide safety committee and surveys all members four times per year to share safety concerns at this meeting. The whea sent a memnber of the representative council to every board of education meeting. In addition, whea members are seated on the plec, townwide safety & health, superintendent's advisory and a districtwide stipend committee. The whea president and a teacher also sit on the steering committee for the district pdec (plec). In december, the whea again made a donation to conard's junior class holiday effort; they shop for and wrap toys, gifts and much-needed warm clothing for less fortunate west hartford students. The whea also participated in the cef holiday bear project. The whea continued the tradition of contributing to safe-grad after-prom parties at hall and conard high schools. We made donations to the west hartford scholorship fund, which provides scholorships to high school seniors, and the foundation for west hartford publicschools, whiich supports "educational projects, programs, and initiatives that enhance and enliven the classroom experience for all west hartford public school students". Finally, our whea president attended 10-minute building rep meetings in person and online. He represented teachers on teval assistance plans and held weekly 1:1 meetings with cea uniserve.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 85.6%; rating input score 86
• Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Limited
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: Fail
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -0.7%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 9.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings