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        <ExplanationTxt>The Recording Academy has a written policy regarding the circumstances in which first class travel may be used. The organization makes it a practice to routinely use coach or business class airline travel. Additionally, The Recording Academy receives, as part of its sponsorship income, a funded account that may be spent on coach, business and first class airline travel ("barter tickets"). The Recording Academy has a policy to utilize barter tickets first except when travel time, due to layovers, is a burden or if barter tickets do not provide an available flight option that is compatible with the traveler's schedule. The President/CEO and elected officers are permitted to fly first class either using barter tickets or not, although they are encouraged to fly business class, if available, prior to booking in first class. Further, these individuals are also encouraged to use coach class travel for very short trips. Other members of senior management (Vice President and above) are only allowed to fly business or first class if the flight is over two hours in duration. In these cases, barter tickets are the first option unless the itinerary is not compatible with the traveler's schedule. For international travel, the first choice is business class and the second choice is first class for all members of senior management including the President/CEO and elected officers.</ExplanationTxt>
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        <ExplanationTxt>The Executive Committee is comprised of the Chair of the Board of Trustees, Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees, Secretary/Treasurer of the Board of Trustees, Chair Emeritus of the Board of Trustees and four (4) sitting Trustees selected by the Chair of the Board of Trustees in consultation with the President/Chief Executive Officer and ratified by the Board of Trustees. They are granted unilateral rights to conduct business on behalf of the Board of Trustees. Any such action shall be communicated to the entire Board as promptly as the Executive Committee deems reasonably practicable. Such actions shall not include: (a)Altering major legal documents such as, but not limited to, the Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws, or Governance Manual; (b)Authorizing mergers (other than a merger of any wholly-owned subsidiary with The Recording Academy), acquisitions, joint ventures, consolidations or dissolutions; or approving the sale, lease, exchange or encumbrance of any material asset of The Recording Academy that is not in the ordinary course of business of The Recording Academy; (c)Forming or dissolving standing and Trustee-only committees of the Board, or amending the charter of any committee; (d)Taking any actions that have been expressly, by charter or resolutions, delegated to any other Trustee-only committee; and (e)Amending or repealing any resolution of the Board.</ExplanationTxt>
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        <ExplanationTxt>The following people had business relationships: Branden Bush and Tammy Hurt Beth Cohen and Dan Warner Dan Warner and Eric Schilling Fletcher Foster and Chandra LaPlume Mindi Abair and Mike Clink Cheryl Pawelski and Scott Bomar Branden Bush and Eric Jarvis Dan Warner and Claudia Brant Patrick Stump and Mindi Abair Greg Chin and Glenn Lorbecki Gilbert Velasquez and Paul Wall Michael Romanowski and Jennifer Blakeman John Burk and Mindi Abair, Nick Phillips, Ken Shepherd, Harvey Mason Jr, Peter Asher, and Chris Walden Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy serves as Chair of the Board of The GRAMMY Museum. Wayne Zahner, Chief Financial Officer, and Branden Chapman, Executive in Charge of Production and Chief Business Development Officer, both of The Recording Academy serve as Directors on the Board of The GRAMMY Museum.</ExplanationTxt>
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        <ExplanationTxt>The Corporate Secretary distributes the Statement of Conflict of Interest Policy at a Trustees Meeting. The statements are collected by the Corporate Secretary and then a summary report is given to the Chair of the Board of Trustees and the President/Chief Executive Officer. Accordingly, the Chair of the Board of Trustees as well as the President/Chief Executive Officer are responsible for both monitoring and enforcing the conflict of interest policy based on the statements that are provided.</ExplanationTxt>
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