Hi Pine, On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 4:15 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:
> *(3) In line item 4, why is a trade name fee required?* > > New businesses, including new nonprofits, are required to register their > trade names with the State of Washington. See > http://bls.dor.wa.gov/tradename.aspx and > http://bls.dor.wa.gov/forms/700028.pdf. Note that a trade name is > different than a Federal trademark registration. > As stated at http://bls.dor.wa.gov/tradename.aspx, trade name registration is required for "a corporation, limited partnership, or limited liability company operating under a name *other than the name registered* with the Office of the Secretary of State" (emphasis mine). It is our understanding that CWUG intends to operate under its registered name. If this is not the case, please provide (a) the trade name CWUG intends to register and (b) the rationale for registering a trade name. > *(4) In line items 6 and 7, why is local registration occurring in > multiple jurisdictions?* > > Short answer: tax registrations in multiple jurisdictions are necessary if > we intend to operate legitimately throughout the Seattle area and > throughout the Cascadia region. > > Long answer: Cascadia includes a wide geographic area: British Columbia, > Washington State, and Oregon State. We intend to have events in multiple > jurisdictions to try to maximize participation and ease of attendance for > our members. In the Seattle metro area, our participants reside in many > cities other than Seattle; the geographic size of the Seattle metro area > and its notorious traffic problems (which rank the 8th worst in the nation > according to one analysis of 2013 data; see > http://www.forbes.com/pictures/ehmk45mihf/8-seattle-wa/ and > http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimgorzelany/2014/03/04/the-most-traffic-jammed-cities-in-the-u-s/) > make it a very practical idea to have events in multiple locations. Perhaps > not known to outsiders is that the Seattle metro area (see > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_metropolitan_area) includes > numerous smaller jurisdictions, perhaps the best known of them being the > cities of Redmond (where Microsoft is headquartered), Renton (where Boeing > manufactures 737 aircraft) and Everett (where Boeing manufactures 777 and > 787 aircraft, and the location of Naval Station Everett). In 2014 we had > events in Seattle and Kirkland, which are on opposite sides of Lake > Washington. Bellevue is immediately south of Kirkland, and it is often far > easier to transit between Bellevue, Kirkland and Redmond than any of those > eastside cities to or from Seattle. Conveniently for us, Impact HUB has > offices in Seattle and Bellevue, and we will take advantage of the ability > to apply our single rent payment to use Impact HUB's services on either > side of the lake. Later this year, and not directly relevant to this this > startup grant request that we are making to WMDC, we also intend to > register and spin up operations in the City of Portland in Oregon where our > board member Another Believer is active. We may also have events in > Kirkland again which would require a Kirkland registration (although we may > discuss whether it's necessary to register in both Bellevue and Kirkland if > we can consolidate our activity in Bellevue, or if the City of Kirkland > will grant us a de minimis exception). Our longer-term goals include > operating in Vancouver BC, which will require cooperating with the Canadian > authorities. Cascadia's geographic reach necessitates that we operate and > register in multiple jurisdictions if we intend to have broad programmatic > reach, facilitate ease of access for participants, and operate in a legal > manner. > The publicly available Impact HUB materials suggest that membership at each Impact HUB location is distinct from membership at other locations. Have you confirmed with Impact HUB that a single rent payment will allow you to use space at both locations simultaneously? On a related note, will Impact HUB be providing registered agent services for CWUG? If not, what arrangements have you made or are you making to obtain such services? Thanks, Kirill -- Kirill Lokshin Secretary, Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org
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