[Watchdogs] Why does PEC belong to TEC ?

[Merle L. Moden]

Paul:

It's bad enough that we waste member-owners' money on dues to Texas 
Electric Cooperatives (TEC) and the National Rural Electric Cooperative 
Association (NRECA).  But, the attached page from the 2009 cost of 
service study shows that about 29% of dues money in 2007 was used to 
influence legislation.

It's a bitter pill to swallow that we are paying for TEC (for sure) and 
the NRECA (probably) to influence legislation against our interests.   
Last session of the Legislature TEC opposed open elections, open 
records, open meetings, open etc., etc. for Texas electric cooperatives

The fact that the PEC Board and management continues to support 
expenditures for organizations opposed to the best interests of PEC 
member-owners is a glaring example of the contempt with which they hold 
the member-owners of the PEC.

Incidentally, the cost of service consultant didn't really remove these 
"unallowable" expenses, they simply reclassified them and placed then 
elsewhere.

Mr. Merle L. Moden
1111 Thompson Ranch Road
Wimberley, Texas 78676-6129
512 847-1335


On 3/15/2011 5:25 PM, Paul Langston wrote:
> Dear Lana:  I see by the Resolution (ID#1507), that PEC paid dues to 
> TEC for the upcoming year.  A noteworthy $127,809.
> Why do we belong to that Coop?  Do we need them?  How much money do we 
> make by belonging to that TEC?
> I would have hoped that the Leaders of PEC would have cut them off 
> after The Board cancelled that letter of Fuelburg that instructed PEC 
> to only buy their Capital Supplies from TEC, no bids, no pricing, no 
> competition.  But they didn't, did they?
> Sincerely,  Paul Langston   830-598-1322
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