The Annual Meeting

Not surprisingly considering the 36,000+ proxy votes assigned to the Board-controlled Proxy Committee (which we believe included O.C. Harmon, one of the incumbents up for reelection), the incumbents won the election. The PEC4U candidates made a fair showing considering our late start at rallying proxies, at around 730 votes each. This included 370 proxy votes which were assigned to PEC4U representatives; we assume that the remaining 360 came from the reported 580 members in attendance – or about 60% of those attending the meeting.

The major issue aired at the meeting had to do with the election process. PEC President Burnett and General Manager Fuelberg acted surprised that anyone felt that the process is unfair, alternating between saying that “it’s been this way for years” and promising that they’d examine the election process. This despite the fact that PEC4U’s people have been trying to get the message across to the PEC management for months that the elections process is deeply flawed.

Toward the end of the meeting Burnett or Fuelberg announced that there would be well publicized local meetings in the next few months scattered throughout the PEC service area in order to get feedback from the membership about the nominations, proxy, and elections process. Please let us know of meetings announced in your area, if any.