ANNUAL MEETING 2016 UPDATE
ANNUAL METTING INFORMATION AND DIRECTOR ELECTION PROCESS
Altamaha EMC will hold its 2016 annual meeting at the Southeastern Technical College in Vidalia, Georgia, on Wednesday, November 2, 2016. Official notice of the time, date and place will be provided to each member in advance of the meeting. Director elections will be held at the annual meeting for District 2, comprised of the cooperative’s service territory within Treutlen County; District 3 comprised of the cooperative’s service territory within Montgomery County and District 5 comprised of the cooperative’s service territory within Laurens and Johnson Counties. The following is a summary of the provisions of the cooperative’s bylaws pertaining to the process for election of directors:
Section 3.03 Qualifications of Directors.
Qualifications to become or remain a nominee or a director of the
cooperative: Must be eighteen (18) years old or older on the date of
election. Must be a member and bona fide resident of the district
represented and receive service from the cooperative at his or her
primary residence. May not, within five (5) years prior to the
election, have been an employee of the cooperative. May not be a
close relative of any person who is an employee or director of the
cooperative. May not be employed by or hold a financial interest in
a competing enterprise or a business selling electric energy or
supplies to the cooperative. May not be the incumbent of or candidate
for a salaried elective public
office. May not have been convicted of
a felony.
Section 3.04 Nominations by Nominating Committee.
The
Board of Directors appoints a nominating committee comprised of
independent members of the cooperative. The nominating committee
meets not less than sixty five (65) days prior to the annual
meeting and nominates one or more candidates for the directorships
that are to be filled at the annual meeting. Written notice of the
names of the members of the committee and the meeting date for the
committee will be provided to the members prior to their meeting and
shall be posted at the cooperative’s headquarters.
Other nominations for director elections may be made by written petition signed by not less than one hundred (100 members which shall be submitted to the Secretary of the cooperative or his nominee not less than forty five (45) days prior to such meeting.
Section 3.06 Posting of the notice of nominees.
The
Secretary shall be responsible for posting at the headquarters of the
Cooperative the nominees for the election made by the nominating
committee and by petition and if feasible, shall include same in the
notice to the members for the meeting at which the election is to
be held.
Section 3.07 Restrictions on Other Nominations.
Except in the event that all candidates nominated by the nominating
committee and petition are deceased, or withdrawn in writing from
candidacy prior to the election, no other nominations shall be in
order.
Section 3.08 Election procedures.
Directors shall be
elected by a plurality vote of those members from the applicable
voting district, or those authorized to vote for them pursuant to
Section 2.05 of these bylaws as set out below, at the meeting in
which the election is to be held. Should two or more candidates
tie for the highest vote, then run-off ballots shall be taken among
them.
Section 2.05 Representation of Members.
Unless it is made to
appear otherwise by writing executed by the member and filed with the
Secretary or his designate prior to a meeting of the members, a
person eighteen (18) years of age or older residing in the primary
residential abode of the member, who presents himself or herself to
the Secretary, or his designated registrar(s), prior to a meeting of
the members, as a representative of such member, shall be deemed to
act and vote for the member he purports to represent and in as full
and ample manner as if the member had been present and personally
acting at the meeting. The presence of the member purported to be
represented by such person shall, however, revoke the authority
hereby created and only the member shall be entitled to act and vote
at such meeting. Except as is expressly provided for herein, no other
person shall have the authority to represent, act or vote for any
member at a
meeting of the members.
Section 2.07 Credentials and
Election Committee.
Section 2.07 of the bylaws provides for a
committee of not less than five (5) nor more than fifteen (15)
independent members to oversee the nominating, registration and
election processes and to resolves disputes relating to same
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