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WEST SIDE CITIZENS ORGANIZATION: Form 990EZ, tax year 2015

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Organization
WEST SIDE CITIZENS ORGANIZATION (EIN 23-7447142)
Tax period
2015-01-01 to 2015-12-31
Filed
2016-11-14
IRS object ID
201603279349200205
Schema version
2015v2.1
Source
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Every field in the e-filed return. Faint text is the IRS element name, for citing.

Return header ReturnHeader

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Address Line12314 University Avenue WAddressLine1Txt
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Business Name Line1West Side Citizens OrganizationBusinessNameLine1Txt
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Address Line1209 Page Street WestAddressLine1Txt
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PersonKrysten Ryba TuresPersonNm
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Form 990-EZ IRS990EZ

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Address ChangeYes (X)AddressChangeInd
Method Of Accounting AccrualYes (X)MethodOfAccountingAccrualInd
Website Addresswww.wsco.orgWebsiteAddressTxt
Organization501c3Yes (X)Organization501c3Ind
Type Of Organization CorpYes (X)TypeOfOrganizationCorpInd
Gross Receipts$167,016GrossReceiptsAmt
Info In Schedule O Part IYes (X)InfoInScheduleOPartIInd
Contributions Gifts Grants Etc$164,535ContributionsGiftsGrantsEtcAmt
Program Service Revenue$264ProgramServiceRevenueAmt
Membership Dues$0MembershipDuesAmt
Investment Income$46InvestmentIncomeAmt
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Gain Or Loss From Sale Of Assets$0GainOrLossFromSaleOfAssetsAmt
Gaming Gross Income$0GamingGrossIncomeAmt
Fundraising Gross Income$0FundraisingGrossIncomeAmt
Special Events Direct Expenses$0SpecialEventsDirectExpensesAmt
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Cost Of Goods Sold$0CostOfGoodsSoldAmt
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Benefits Paid To Or For Members$0BenefitsPaidToOrForMembersAmt
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Fees And Other Pymt To Ind Cntrct$22,796FeesAndOtherPymtToIndCntrctAmt
Occupancy Rent Utlts And Maint$19,330OccupancyRentUtltsAndMaintAmt
Printing Publications Postage$10,351PrintingPublicationsPostageAmt
Other Expenses Total$16,271OtherExpensesTotalAmt
Total Expenses$179,687TotalExpensesAmt
Excess Or Deficit For Year-$12,671ExcessOrDeficitForYearAmt
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Info In Schedule O Part IIYes (X)InfoInScheduleOPartIIInd

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BOY$65,176BOYAmt
EOY$68,865EOYAmt

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BOY$0BOYAmt
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BOY$22,142BOYAmt
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FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Primary Exempt PurposeThe West Side Community Organization (WSCO) powers the people of the West Side to work together to create a vibrant, thriving neighborhood for all.PrimaryExemptPurposeTxt

Program Srvc Accomplishment ProgramSrvcAccomplishmentGrp (3 entries)

Description Program Srvc AccomDescriptionProgramSrvcAccomTxtGrants And AllocationsGrantsAndAllocationsAmtProgram Service ExpensesProgramServiceExpensesAmt
Community Planning & Advocacy: As one of the City of Saint Paul's District Council partners, WSCO provides recommendations on building permits and variances to the Saint Paul Planning Commission, writes letters of support on behalf of community groups and businesses for projects and events that align with our mission, and weighs in on funding allocation decisions, such as the Capital Improvement Budget process. This work is led by West Side residents who meet monthly in our Riverfront Development and Land Use Committee (RDLU) In 2015, WSCO's RDLU Committee was integral in representing the voices in community planning decisions. For example, RDLU committee submitted letters and publicly testified in opposition to changes proposed to the West Side Flats Master Plan, a community-led land use and design document first adopted as an addendum to the Saint Paul Comprehensive Plan in 2001, and later revised. The final plan was adopted in June 2015, and while some concessions were made with regard to the proposed street grid, most of the vision community put forward remained. WSCO also reviewed several site plans for proposed mixed use development on the West Side Flats, again ensuring that the key design principles of the community were considered. We also hosted a community forum with regard to a specific Conditional Use Permit application for chemical storage expansion for a private business in the Southport Terminal, a barge channel operating on the Mississippi River. This dialogue lifted the concerns of residents, schools and churches nearby, and brought new scrutiny to the industrial zoning areas adjacent to residential areas.$0$42,074
Community Engagement & Leadership Development: WSCO launched the West Side Leadership Program in 2014: this program built a sustainable base of resident leaders from historically underrepresented communities on the West Side to carry-out transportation, food justice/health equity, and arts-related programming to improve the quality of life on the West Side. This work continued through 2015, and resulted in the following successes: * Transit-focused West Side Leadership Program members co-created the design and focus of Bike, Walk, Roll event, intended to build awareness of and start action toward bringing the community's vision around multimodal mobility and transportation to life. The event was held in June 2015. Forty-five West Siders attended the event, which involved walking, biking, or using transit to visit several sites across the neighborhood where cultural interpreters told stories about the West Side's history and assets. Those who completed the full tour were entered into a drawing for prizes donated by local businesses. Twenty attendees signed up to learn more about how to further transit issues on the West Side. * On July 25, 2015, the second annual Art on the Avenue took place on Smith Avenue on the West Side, and was visited by about 500 people. The event included 75 artists, nine of whom received a mini-grant and support from WSCO's partnership with Springboard for the Arts. Participating artists were diverse in culture, age, and stage in their artistic journey. The collaboration between cohort participants, businesses, and community stakeholders (schools, other nonprofits and service providers) under the Art on the Avenue event resulted in a positive economic development outcome: a vacant commercial space on Smith Avenue that agreed to serve as a gallery space during the event, signed a contract with its artist to permanently become a new home for Electric Machete, "a Twin Cities collective of artists and community organizers," who focus specifically on Latino and indigenous identity. * Throughout 2015 WSCO continued its collaboration, partnership, and fiscal sponsorship of Growing West Side, "a grassroots collaborative that cultivates opportunities to learn, to access locally grown food and to build authentic connections with neighbors to create a vibrant, thriving West Side community." Growing West Side now fully manages the West Side Farmer's Market and has developed further capacity around community education classes for growing food, composting, and soil improvements. Further, they have established a local seed library at Riverview Library. In fall of 2015, WSCO and its leadership cohort brought the partners (Growing West Side, Youth Farm, Humboldt Secondary School, Open World Learning School and Neighborhood Development Alliance) together to discuss ideas for management, use, and programming of a vacant lot envisioned as an urban farm/community garden. An application to secure a matching grant form the City of Saint Paul's STAR program was submitted.$0$70,124
Economic Development and Community Wealth-Building: In the fall of 2015, WSCO worked with the City of Saint Paul and Ramsey County Workforce Solutions to begin developing a West Side Entrepreneur and Business Expo event to take place in Spring in 2016. This work is, in part, trying to fill an organizing and service gap left when the Riverfront Economic Development Association folded in 2007. In 2015, we began partner and stakeholder outreach, and defined goals for the Expo event and working going forward.$0$28,049
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Total Program Service Expenses$140,247TotalProgramServiceExpensesAmt

Officer Director Trustee Empl OfficerDirectorTrusteeEmplGrp (19 entries)

TitleTitleTxtAverage Hrs Per Wk Devoted To PosAverageHrsPerWkDevotedToPosRtCompensationCompensationAmtEmployee Benefit ProgramEmployeeBenefitProgramAmtExpense Account Other AllwncExpenseAccountOtherAllwncAmt
Kathy Larson
President7$0$0$0
Alicia Lucio
Vice President7$0$0$0
Rut Lott
Treasurer7$0$0$0
Amelia Holcomb
Secretary7$0$0$0
Monica Bryand
Board Member Ex Oficio7$0$0$0
Matthew Bergeron
Board Member7$0$0$0
Lewis Dixon
Board Member7$0$0$0
Joe Gould
Board Member7$0$0$0
Armando Luna
Board Member7$0$0$0
Alice Martin
Board Member7$0$0$0
Dan Martinez
Board Member7$0$0$0
Benjamin Mike
Board Member7$0$0$0
Nancy Negrette
Board Member7$0$0$0
Nicholas Novacek Bundt
Board Member7$0$0$0
Krysten Ryba-Tures
Board Member7$0$0$0
Carol Swenson
Board Member7$0$0$0
Pam Welisevich
Board Member7$0$0$0
Salina Amey
Board Member7$0$0$0
Christine Shyne
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Schedule O IRS990ScheduleO

Supplemental Information Detail SupplementalInformationDetail (4 entries)

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Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 8Description;Amount^Miscellaneous income;2171^Total;2171^
Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16Description;Amount^Office supplies;644|Meeting expenses;4714|Travel;2227|Dues and fees;1253|Advertising;1701|Program activities and supplies;3116|Depreciation;345|Insurance;2271^Total;16271^
Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24Description;EOY Amount^Accounts receivable;4392|Fixed assets net of depreciation;345^Total;4737^
Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26Description;EOY Amount^Accounts payable;1851|Accrued expenses;1845^Total;3696^