Three Re-Elected at Tri-County Annual Meeting

MANSFIELD — Tri-County Rural Electric Cooperative members re-elected three incumbent board directors during the utility’s 2004 Annual Meeting, held Saturday, July 10, at Williamson High School near Lawrenceville.

Tri-County members re-elected Ferd Irish of Coudersport, Alfred Calkins of Troy and Donald Blackwell of Blackwell to represent Districts 2, 6 and 8, respectively.

Three of Tri-County’s nine board seats were up for election this year. Directors are elected to three-year terms.

All three incumbents ran unopposed and were unanimously elected.

Guest speaker at the co-op’s annual meeting was David Cowan, president of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), the national service organization dedicated to representing the interests of the nation’s nearly 1,000 cooperative electric utilities and the 36 million consumers they serve.

Cowan, a director with Adams Electric Cooperative near Gettysburg, offered insight into lobbying activities provided by the NRECA in Washington, D.C.

About 800 people attended the meeting to hear election results and business reports from the cooperative’s management team and directors.

During a reorganizational meeting that immediately followed the annual meeting, Ferd Irish was re-elected board chairman, Ralph Snyder of Cross Forks was re-elected vice-chairman and Alston A. Teeter of Milan retained his post as secretary-treasurer.

Unlike investor-owned utilities, Tri-County is a non-profit organization, owned by its consumer-members. A democratic organization by nature, the cooperative conducts an annual meeting each July to update consumer-members on the progress made during the year.

Annual meetings also provide consumer-members with the opportunity to offer input and voice concerns before the board of directors and management staff.

With headquarters in Mansfield, Pa., Tri-County Rural Electric Cooperative has served the residents of northcentral Pennsylvania since 1937. Today the cooperative provides electricity to approximately 18,000 members in Tioga, Potter, Bradford, Lycoming, Clinton, McKean and Cameron counties.

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