West Central Electric Cooperative is governed by a board of 9 directors elected from among the members.
Nominations are announced in May at the Nominating Committee meeting.
Director elections are held during the annual meeting each year in August. Three directors are elected each year for a 3-year term.
Members may vote in person at the annual meeting, or by mail-in ballot. (Details of how to obtain a mail-in ballot are printed in the Annual Meeting Official Notice mailed to members in July before the meeting.)
Board of Directors Qualifications:
Article IV
Directors
Section 3. Qualifications
To apply/run to be a director and remain a director, a person must comply with the following qualifications:
(a) Be an individual,
(b) Have the capacity to enter into legally-binding contracts,
(c) Not have been convicted of or plead guilty to a felony,
(d) Be a member who continuously uses cooperative energy and services at his/her permanent, primary place of residence in the district which they were elected to serve,
(e) Not in any way be employed by or financially interested in a competing enterprise or business, including selling any form of energy. They also must not be in the business of selling electrical supplies to the cooperative,
(f) Not have been, in the last 3 years, employed by the cooperative or be a close relative of said employee.
(g) Not be a close relative of a current board member.
(h) A close relative will be defined as a child, parent, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, grandchildren, grandparents. This includes their spouses and anyone living in the same household.
(i) Attend 2/3 of the regular meetings unless excused for cause by 2/3 of the remaining board members.
Under establishment that a director is holding office in violation either the qualifications or residency provisions, the board shall by 2/3 roll call vote of the full board remove such director.
Nothing contained in this section shall affect in any manner whatsoever the validity of any action taken at any meeting of the board of directors.
The board meets on the fourth Thursday of the month to make decisions concerning the cooperative's business.