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Insurance Coverage - Commercial group Liability coverage

UNSCC offers member organizations in "good standing" routine meeting commercial liability insurance coverage for member-only Board of Director and General Member meetings. This coverage is included with the cost of membership.

All member associations MUST submit a Request for routine meeting insurance coverage by July 20 each year, covering the next 12 months of routine meetings so that we have an accurate listing to renewal our insurance policy for the next 12 months. There is NO insurance coverage of any type offered by UNSCC, UNLESS you submit an accurate and complete UNSCC insurance requests on a timely basis and your request/s are approved prior to the meeting or event

If you have questions, please email the Executive Director (Ken Podgorsek) or call him at 408-981-3833 at least 45 days prior to the required deadline date (date when you need to furnish proof of insurance coverage for the facility or your actual event date ) or if you have not received your coverage conformation 7 days prior to the required date or actual event or meeting date

All other events or activities require an Special Event insurance policy endorsement and/or any additional insurance premium costs will be billed to your member organizations by UNSCC.

Additional member event insurance costs have generally been $101-200 per event, but could be higher substantially higher based on number of attendees, non member public attendance, or you have higher risk activities .

Actual additional insurance policy estimated costs are NOT available from our broker but we can estimate your billable special event insurance cost based on past events. Our insurance costs for like type coverage when compared to other insurance companies have been lower with greater coverage and many times the type of coverage our policy has is not available.

All insurance requests must be submitted on "UNSCC Meeting and Event Insurance Request Form" (Word doc 35K) at least 30 days or more prior to the event.

Requests should be sent by Email ONLY to Insurance ( email at any other email address will delay processing ) and need adequate review time by our Board and insurance underwriter for completeness, policy coverage, and if there will be additional billable premium costs. Late requests maybe declined.

To receive insurance coverage from UNSCC, you MUST - 1) have your Officers or Directors who have attended our Insurance and Risk Management workshop within the last 24 months of the event or meeting 2) submit a complete insurance request form on a timely basis and 3) the Request is must be reviewed and approved by UNSCC's Board and our insurance company underwriter prior to the actual meeting or event occuring. We have these requirements so that we can have safe meeting and events and continue to offer low cost meeting and special event commercial group liability insurance coverage to our member associations.

Fiscal Sponsorship

The UNSCC can act as a fiscal agent for grants for our member associations who are not 501(c)3 or 501(c)4 nonprofit organizations. There is a fee for this service and it must be approved by the Board of Directors. The grant and the grantee must meet the UNSCC Fiscal Policy. Members interested in having the UNSCC act as their fiscal agent should contact the Executive Director at least 30 days prior to the grant deadline to discuss the grant.

Annual Conference

Each fall, UNSCC hosts a Annual Neighborhood Conference for our members and all neighborhood organizations in Santa Clara County and nearby counties. The format varies from how-to workshops, inspirational speakers, public policy discussions, interactive brainstorming and goal-setting panel discussions for our neighborhoods.

This is a major community event open to the public that draws neighborhood, community, business, organized labor, and political leaders from throughout the county to be informed about important issues and procedures at our workshops and panel discussions, network, and discuss how to improve our neighborhoods and communities.

Neighborhood Networking

Member organizations can substantially benefit and save time by networking with other UNSCC members who have similar issues and concerns or have successfully addressed these issues. Our regular meetings provide an opportunity to meet other neighborhood and community leaders and you can find new ideas that will be useful and time saving for your own group.

UNSCC also has an Members only email group and Internet web site UNSCC-MEMBERS to foster communication between members. You can receive official UNSCC-MEMBERS emails and participate in online dicussions or view extensive files and web links by emailing your name, member association association title, and contact information to Executive Director and we will email you an invitation to join,

UNSCC also has 2 open to the public internet sites - 1) this site - www.unscc.org and 2) UNSCC-NEWS - www.groups.yahoo.com/group/UNSCC-NEWS/Links

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