One Simple Act Can Lead You to $250

Your mailbox, or inbox, should have an offer that’s hard to refuse: taking a moment to fill out an SVEC annual meeting proxy that puts you in the running for a $250 electric bill credit.

Members who submit a proxy, or those who register online to participate in the Aug. 3 meeting via telephone, are entered into the bill credit drawing. The proxy serves as your “RSVP” if you cannot attend, and you can designate the SVEC board of directors or another member to vote on issues in your absence.

Proxies cannot be used for voting in director elections.

While winning one of the 12 bill credits is nice, members who return their proxy or register for the meeting are also fulfilling a vital role in their co-op membership. It helps fulfill the necessary meeting attendance requirements to move business along, such as bylaw changes.

Member David Lawrence, a bill credit recipient in 2022, takes his participation as a co-op member seriously.

– David Lawrence, SVEC member

“I feel it is important to be involved in the cooperative’s annual meeting because when we use the coop, we become members and owners of the co-op,” he says. “We elect local members to the co-op board of directors at the annual meeting. Our co-op is locally owned and run, plus our involvement in the annual meeting keeps the co-op strong and focused on the local needs of us, the customers and owners.”

While you’re filling out a proxy or registering for the meeting, take time to vote in this year’s board elections. Four seats will be filled. Find details in the ballot you received in the mail or online.

By filling out a proxy, you have not registered for the annual meeting. Those are two separate actions. If you do both, your proxy will not be counted.

We look forward to your participation in this year’s election and meeting.