Organizations Filed Purposes:
Bay Area Legal Services is a regional, non-profit public interest law firm providing the highest quality legal counsel to individuals and non-profit groups.
BALS strives to provide a safe, stable, and secure environment to low- income and vulnerable clients by proactively responding to community needs as they arise. Some of our most significant achievements over the past years include the creation of innovative projects such as: -The Judge Don Castor Community Law Center: providing legal assistance to local non-profits -Senior Home Ownership Protection Project: saving homes of elders and preserving equity -The Legal Information Center: providing legal information to individuals representing themselves in family matters in Hillsborough County -L. David Shear Children's Law Center: representing children in foster care achieve a permanent and loving family -Fair Housing: fighting against housing discrimination and for reasonable accommodations -Relative Caregiver Program: representing relative caregivers who provide safety and stability to kin children or adult family members -Sulphur Springs: providing outreach services in a low- income community. These services have helped community members gain financial, family and economic stability in their progress towards self-sufficiency -Foreclosure prevention and eviction defense: providing prevention through mediation and modifications and eviction defense for tenants of Section 8 and public housing -Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic: resolving IRS issues and educating low-income taxpayers -Independence Preservation: providing education and representation regarding advance planning documents so that individuals are not placed under guardianships -Medical/Legal projects: serving clients in a medical setting in partnership with medical personnel -Veteran's projects: serving homeless veterans and veterans at local veteran's hospitals -Lawyers Helping Kids: legal services to support and sustain families with young children by expanding legal assistance in areas of housing, employment, relative caregiver, and family law - thereby increasing the odds that these children will have stable housing and care, and remain healthy, safe, developmentally on track, and ready to learn and succeed Bay Area's attorney and paralegal volunteers provided free legal services in 2019 valued at $859,766.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Richard Woltmann | President and CEO | 37.5 | $182,932 |
| Joan Boles | Deputy Director | 37.5 | $130,971 |
| Jp Lacasse | COO | 37.5 | $121,463 |
| Clarence Martin Lawyer Iii | Attorney | 37.5 | $111,343 |
| Mary E Haberland | Attorney-Team Leader | 37.5 | $108,751 |
| James W Hengelbrok Jr | Attorney-Team Leader | 37.5 | $102,877 |
| Lynn Abbott | CFO | 37.5 | $78,077 |
| Sonia Gamache | Former CFO | 37.5 | $45,242 |
| Tori Simmons Esq | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Sarah Lahlou-Amine | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Lee Hoffman | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Morgan R Bentley Esq | Director | 2 | $0 |
| David T Knight Esq | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Paul Martinez | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Wendy Depaul Cpa Esq | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Vivian Cortes Hodz Esq | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Barbara Williams | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Andrew O'Malley Esq | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Michael Bedke Esq | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Valorie Hoppenworth | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Sarah E Williams Esq | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Adriana Huapilla | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Yolanda V Lee | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Dionne Blaesing Esq | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Cynthia Davis-Gryce | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Yohance Pettis Esq | Treasurer | 2 | $0 |
| Kathleen Kloiber Koch Esq | Secretary | 2 | $0 |
| Leslie Schultz-Kin Esq | Chairperson-Elect | 2 | $0 |
| Gwynne Young Esq | Chairperson | 2 | $0 |
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