LEANDER INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT

ACADEMIC ADVOCATES ASSOCIATION

CHARTER NUMBER 01585490-01

I, the undersigned natural person over the age of 18 years, acting as incorporator, adopt the following Articles of Incorporation for a corporation under the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act.

ARTICLE 1

The name of the corporation is Leander Independent School District Academic Advocates Association.

ARTICLE 2

The corporation is a non-profit corporation.

ARTICLE 3

The period of duration is perpetual. 

ARTICLE 4

The purpose for which the corporation is organized is to promote charitable, educational and scientific activities within the meaning of the Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3).  The primary purpose of the corporation shall be the development, assistance, and maintenance of the educational, charitable or scientific programs or activities for the public schools in the Leander Independent School District.

ARTICLE 5

The street address of its initial registered office is 16835 FM 1431, Unit 14, Leander, Texas 78641, and the name of its initial registered agent at such address is Elizabeth H. Frey.

ARTICLE 6

Except as otherwise provided in these Articles, the corporation shall have all the powers provided in the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act.

ARTICLE 7

A.  The corporation shall not pay dividends or other corporate income to its members, directors or officers or otherwise accrue distributable profits or permit the realization of private gain.  The corporation shall have no power to take any action prohibited by the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act.

B.  The corporation shall have no power to take any action that would be inconsistent with the requirements for a tax exemption under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) and related regulations, rulings, and procedures.  The corporation shall have no power to take any action that would be inconsistent with the requirements for receiving tax deductible charitable contributions under Internal Revenue Code Section 170(c)(2) and related regulations, rulings, and procedures.  Regardless of any other provision in these Articles of Incorporation or state law, the corporation shall have no power to:

1.        Engage in activities or use its assets in manners that are not in furtherance of one or more exempt purposes, as set forth above and defined by the internal Revenue Code and related regulations, rulings, and procedures, except to an insubstantial degree.

2.        Serve a private interest other than one that is clearly incidental to an overriding public interest.

3.        Devote more than an insubstantial part of its activities to attempting to influence legislation by propaganda or otherwise, except as provided by the Internal Revenue Code and related regulations, rulings, and procedures.

4.        Participate in or intervene in any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office.  The prohibited activities include the publishing or distributing of statements and any other direct or indirect campaign activities.

5.        Have objectives that characterize it as an “action organization” as defined by the internal Revenue Code and related regulations, rulings, and procedures.

6.        Distribute its assets on dissolution other than for one or more exempt purposes; on dissolution, the corporation’s assets shall be distributed to the state government for a public purpose, or to an organization exempt from taxes under the Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) to be used to accomplish the general purposes for which the corporation was organized.

7.        Permit any part of the net earnings of the corporation to inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or member of the corporation or any private individual.

8.        Carry on an unrelated trade or business except as a secondary purpose related to the corporation’s primary, exempt, purposes. 

ARTICLE 8

The corporation shall have one or more classes of members as provided in the Bylaws of the corporation.

ARTICLE 9

The number, qualifications, manner of selection, duties, terms, and other matters relating to the Board of Directors shall be provided in the Bylaws.  The initial Board of Directors shall consist of nine (9) persons, consisting of the following persons at the following address:

Elizabeth H. Frey                     16835 FM 1431, Unit 14, Leander, Texas 78641

Christina J. Cavalli                   303 Marigold Lane, Cedar Park, Texas 78613

Lori G. Horton                          1406 Cedar Park Drive, Cedar Park, Texas  78613

Walter M. Manly, IV               16621 Spotted Eagle Drive, Leander, Texas  78641

Jennifer M. Dawkins                600A Country Aire, Round Rock, Texas  78664

Chris Kay                                   1630 Starwood Drive, Cedar park, Texas  78613

John Tristan                              404 S. Blue Ridge Parkway, Cedar Park, Texas  78613

Diane Jaeger                              406 Cedar Mound, Cedar Park, Texas  78613

Pamela B. Manly                       16621 Spotted Eagle Drive, Leander, Texas  78641

ARTICLE 10

A director is not liable to the corporation or members for monetary damages for an act or omission in the director’s capacity as director except to the extent otherwise provided by a statute of  the State of Texas.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this the 17th day of May, 2000.

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Elizabeth H. Frey, President, Incorporator