Save the date for your 2024 annual meeting

May the FOURTH be with you. Save the date for your 2024 annu­al meet­ing of mem­bers on Sat­ur­day, May 4, 2024. Our team is excit­ed to offer anoth­er year of con­ve­nient dri­ve-thru reg­is­tra­tion and we’ll have free hot dogs again, while sup­plies last.

Look for more infor­ma­tion about our annu­al meet­ing in upcom­ing issues of South Car­oli­na Liv­ing, on our web­site and on our social media chan­nels. Remem­ber, your reg­is­tra­tion card will be on the cov­er of April’s mag­a­zine.

If you are inter­est­ed in run­ning for YEC’s board of trustees, includ­ing the vacant seat in Dis­trict 2, please review the qual­i­fi­ca­tions and time­lines as they are writ­ten in our Bylaws (see below).

Bylaw excerpt

Arti­cle IV Trustees, Sec­tion 4.06 Nom­i­na­tions:

Not less than nine­ty (90) days pri­or to the meet­ing, nom­i­na­tions may be made by twen­ty-five (25) or more Mem­bers of the Coop­er­a­tive in writ­ing over their sig­na­tures on an explic­it peti­tion doc­u­ment list­ing their nominee(s) in like man­ner. This doc­u­ment must be obtained from the Coop­er­a­tive no more than one hun­dred twen­ty (120) days pri­or to the Annu­al Meet­ing and must be spe­cif­ic to each Trustee Dis­trict. In addi­tion to the required peti­tion, can­di­dates must attend a Board-devel­oped edu­ca­tion­al pro­gram on Coop­er­a­tive his­to­ry, oper­a­tions and gov­er­nance not less than six­ty (60) days pri­or to the next Annu­al Meet­ing or have a min­i­mum of three (3) years of ser­vice as an elec­tric coop­er­a­tive Trustee. The edu­ca­tion­al require­ment will be offered at the Coop­er­a­tive on two (2) spec­i­fied dates pri­or to the Annu­al Meet­ing. In addi­tion to the oth­er qual­i­fi­ca­tions and require­ments set forth here­in, no per­son shall be eli­gi­ble to be nom­i­nat­ed as a Trustee can­di­date if they were an unsuc­cess­ful Trustee nom­i­nee for any Trustee Dis­trict in any of the last three (3) years. In oth­er words, a per­son may only be nom­i­nat­ed as a Trustee can­di­date once every three (3) years.

The Sec­re­tary shall mail to the Mem­bers with the notice of the meet­ing, or sep­a­rate­ly, but at least thir­ty (30) days, but not more than forty-five (45) days pri­or to the date of the meet­ing, a com­plete state­ment of the names and address­es of all nom­i­nees for each Trustee Dis­trict from or with respect to which one (1) or more Trustees must be elect­ed, show­ing clear­ly those who have com­plet­ed the edu­ca­tion­al require­ment and those who have com­plet­ed a min­i­mum of three (3) years of ser­vice as an elec­tric coop­er­a­tive Trustee. The Sec­re­tary shall post in like man­ner such nom­i­na­tions at the Coop­er­a­tive offices at least forty-five (45) days pri­or to the next Annu­al Meet­ing.

Dis­trict 2 vacan­cy

For­mer YEC Trustee Mar­i­on Comer’s seat is vacant and open to peti­tion for can­di­da­cy from inter­est­ed, qual­i­fied mem­bers. Please note—if you are suc­cess­ful­ly elect­ed to fill this seat, you will be required to run again in 2025 per the defined term lim­its set forth in our bylaws.

You may direct any ques­tions regard­ing board elec­tions to Car­ol New­man at (803) 628‑5555 or Carol.Newman@yorkelectric.net.

Mem­ber sur­vey

Let us know what you think by com­plet­ing our Amer­i­can Cus­tomer Sat­is­fac­tion Sur­vey here! In addi­tion to the draw­ing for a $100 gift card, one lucky York Elec­tric mem­ber who par­tic­i­pates will receive a $100 pow­er bill cred­it. That’s two chances to win! To be entered in both draw­ings, either com­plete the sur­vey online, return the sur­vey to the address pro­vid­ed or drop a com­plet­ed sur­vey by one of our office loca­tions.

 

Hol­i­day clos­ings

YEC offices will be closed to cel­e­brate the fol­low­ing hol­i­days:

• Thanksgiving–Nov. 23 and 24
• Christmas–Dec. 25 and 26
• New Years–Jan. 1, 2024

Crews will be on stand­by in the event of an out­age. YEC wish­es you and your fam­i­ly a healthy, safe and hap­py hol­i­day sea­son. Mer­ry Christ­mas from your co-op!

State­ment of Nondis­crim­i­na­tion

You may view the Title VI State­ment of Nondis­crim­i­na­tion here