Kirill, 1. I suspect that statement from DOR that you cited is in error because it appears to me from the information that I linked that a trade name registration is also required for orgs that do business under their Secretary of State registered name. I believe that the page that you cited is intended as a resource for those who intend to register *additional* trade names, which we do not.
2. Yes, I confirmed that HUB will let us use both locations. However I believe that we will get only one mailbox, and HUB said that if we rent 24 hour access in the future that we would get a key for only one site. 3. I have not yet had time to investigate registered agent services further. Pine On Jan 25, 2015 6:47 AM, "Kirill Lokshin" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > >
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