Members to decide on single member district voting

The South Car­oli­na Gen­er­al Assem­bly has passed a new law requir­ing coop­er­a­tive mem­bers to con­sid­er sin­gle-mem­ber vot­ing dis­tricts. Mem­bers will decide in a ref­er­en­dum at York Elec­tric’s Annu­al Meet­ing.

Expla­na­tion

York Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive is divid­ed into nine (9) dis­tricts, and each dis­trict is rep­re­sent­ed by one Trustee on the board. This struc­ture ensures that our entire ser­vice ter­ri­to­ry is rep­re­sent­ed. Cur­rent­ly, you can vote in every dis­trict elec­tion, regard­less of where you live. How­ev­er, if the Coop­er­a­tive adopts sin­gle-mem­ber vot­ing dis­tricts, you would only be allowed to vote for a board can­di­date who lives in the dis­trict where you live. That elec­tion would occur every third year.

Ques­tion

Would you like to con­tin­ue to be able to vote every year for every seat on the Board up for elec­tion?

____ YES: “I want the oppor­tu­ni­ty to keep vot­ing for every seat on the Board every year.”

____ NO: “I only want the author­i­ty to vote for can­di­dates in my own dis­trict every third year.”

Proposed bylaw changes for York Electric

York Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive encour­ages mem­bers to review the pro­posed bylaw changes that will be vot­ed on at the Annu­al Meet­ing of Mem­bers. The full doc­u­ment show­ing these mate­r­i­al changes, along with some addi­tion­al typo­graph­i­cal cor­rec­tions, is avail­able for down­load here.

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