2026-04-04T20:21:02-07:00 2025-12-31 990 2025-01-01 202578831 DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION OF YAKIMA DOWN 5095711328 14 South 1st Street Yakima WA 98901 John Baule Treasurer 5099614172 2026-04-04 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z John A Baule 14 South 1st Street Yakima WA 98901 714880 0 X downtownyakima.org X 2003 WA The Downtown Association of Yakima (DAY) is a certified National Main Street organization with the goal of making the urban core of the City of Yakima the premier place to live, work, and play. 11 11 9 43 0 0 0 714880 751618 0 0 0 0 0 751618 714880 0 0 0 0 319156 297733 0 0 0 378687 419634 697843 717367 53775 -2487 524228 521741 0 0 524228 521741 The Downtown Association of Yakima (DAY) exists to make the City of Yakima's urban core the premier place to live, work, and play. Primary activities are a facade restoration program, monthly educational breakfast meetings, free summer evening concerts, operation of a weekly Farmers' Market, maintenance of hanging flower baskets and street-level container plantings, removal of garbage and grafitti, and offering activities and advice to boost downtown's safety, appearance, economic activity, and appeal. 0 0 9828 0 43750 Hanging Baskets & Flowers; The Association maintains 290 flower baskets which hang from the city-owned street-lamp poles. DAY owns the basket containers, the City of Yakima buys the flowers, and then DAY maintains each basket on a daily basis by monitoring and/or repairing irrigation lines, repairing vandalism, replacing plants that do not thrive, and fertilizing. DAY also plants and maintains (in a similar manner as with the hanging baskets) annuals and perennials in about 360 street-level concrete pots and planters permanently placed all around the downtown core. Expenses may seem low, but the bulk of cost for this program is in the staff labor, which is more accurately reported in the overall downtown maintenance program described below. There is also a considerable amount of volunteer labor from adjacent business owners and other DAY volunteers. 194709 0 175000 Downtown Maintenance: Under a contract awarded to DAY by the City of Yakima, business and propery owners in a downtown special assessment district pay mandated fees to the City of Yakima for extra services, which DAY provides and is reimbursed for by the City of Yakima from these specially collected fees. These extra services include a daily pick-up and removal of garbage from city-owned receptacles as well as directly off the sidewalks, streets, and gutters; the maintenance of permanent ground-level shubbery qnd plants; the removal of snow from sidewalk/street intersections; the monitoring an removal of all grafitti; assistance in managing issues of homelessness; the the pruning and lighting of street trees; advice to businesses on CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design; and works closely with the City of Yakima's Departments of Public Services and Parks in all ways which promote health, safety, and positive downtown experiences. NOTE: This program area typically reports more expenses than revenue as DAY subsidizes the work of the City contract with funds from other sources. However, 2021 remained unusual in that the rolling quarantine lockdowns and guidelines instituted by the state & local governments greatly affected the hourly staffing due to issues related to child care when schools were closed, family illness, and other such pandemic challenges. This reduced hourly payroll, but the salaried staff and volunteers stepped up to maintain all the services by working increased hours. There was also a special $143,257 capital improvement for a downtown venue space--costs were paid in 2022 but contractual reimbursement was not received before the end of the fiscal year 83855 0 90784 Farmers' Market: DAY operated a Farmers' Market for 21 consecutive Sundays from May 23-October 1o (this was a shorter season than normal as directed by the State Department of Health due to the pandemic), The Market is certified by the Washington State Farmers' Market Association, which requires the inspection of farms to ensure the produce is grown locally with proper health and safety features. Normally, there are also vendors who sell their own handicrafts (i.e. no resale or mass-produced items are allowed), but this was not allowed iin the beginning of the 2021 season. The Market was self-sustaining financially in 2021due to a one-time $20,000 pandemic grant from the WA State Farmers Market Association. This may not be the case in 2022, but the Market will continue with funds from other sources in DAY because a functioning market is important to the health and appeal of downtown. 343583 0 226576 Special Events: DAY offers a number of downtown events which have a threefold mission--to attract people to visit and enjoy downtown, to encourage people to patronize downtown businesses, and to raise revenue to support the overall organizational mission. These events included a series of free summer evening concerts; a wine, food, & music festival in June; and "Sip & Stroll" at which people are encouraged to get samples of locally-produced beer and wine while shopping at downtown businesses, a facade restoration grant program, a Chalk Art Festival, a Community Christmas Tree Lighting & Decorating program, and a very successful Small Business Saturday promotion. In addition, there were one-time expenses for street lighting, pruning, and electrical upgrades. 343583 0 226576 631975 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 9 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 11 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 X X John Baule and the DAY CEO 5095711328 14 South 1st Street Yakima WA 98901 Curtis Wilson Executive Director 40 0 X X 78500 0 0 Dave Zabell President 8 0 X X 0 0 0 Alexandra Vice-President 5 0 X X 0 0 0 John Baule Treasurer 15 0 X X 0 0 0 Rhonda Ostreim Secretary 5 0 X X 0 0 0 Kristi Foster Director 3 0 X 0 0 0 Todd Hodges Director 4 0 X 0 0 0 Lori Fiske Director 5 0 X 0 0 0 Dmitri Director 3 0 X 0 0 0 78500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43336 0 508333 163211 0 714880 0 0 0 0 0 43336 0 714880 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 78400 52233 26167 0 0 0 160290 154689 5601 0 0 0 32694 22307 10387 26349 20210 6139 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17786 16061 1725 0 12190 7644 4546 0 8206 4024 4182 0 0 0 0 0 16011 0 16011 0 3845 819 3026 0 0 0 0 3208 3208 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21918 14310 7608 0 Downtown Maintenance supplies 52078 52078 0 0 Farmers Market Supplies 51214 51214 0 0 Concerts and Program Expenses 75837 75837 0 0 One-Time Street Tree Lighting & Pruning 157341 157341 0 0 0 0 0 0 717367 631975 85392 0 511963 132910 0 377001 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11830 0 12265 11830 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 524228 521741 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 524228 521741 0 0 524228 521741 524228 521741 -2487 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 481869 544182 512928 751617 718764 3009360 160000 160000 171250 175000 175000 841250 641869 704182 684178 926617 893764 3850610 3850610 3850610 1 1 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11830 0 11830 0 0 0 0 11830 Free Summer Concerts 43336 0 43336 0 0 8424 8184 41571 11933 0 0 43336 0 43336 0 0 8424 8184 41571 11933 70112 -26776 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The completed Form 990 is circulated among the members of the Board of Directors--both the current Form and the one that was accepted for the prior year. Numbers are all compared by a third party with the bank statements and the monthly internal financial reports to ascertain there are no discrepancies. As the organization operates entirely on a cash basis, with all expenses documented by submitted vendor invoices and previously approved employee salary rates, any unusual revenues or expenses are virtually impossible to bury! Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 The organization is small, but it is part of the local not-for-profit community and a member of the Washington State Main Street Program, which is administered by the Washington State Historic Preservation office with similar local organizations in about 40 other communities in Washington State. The salary of the Downtown Association of Yakima is set to be competitive with other similarly-sized non-profits and Washington Main Street community programs. This allows the Board of Directors benchmarks for setting the CEO's salary in Yakima. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 All financial reports are available upon request, as so stated on the organization's website and at the monthly public breakfast meetings.