Annual Meeting 2024
Our Annual Meeting will be held on Saturday, April 6, 2024
Registration 10:00 a.m.
Business Meeting 11:00 a.m.
Animas School Auditorium
Animas, New Mexico
All Members Welcome!
*Columbus Electric Cooperative will not be providing transportation to and from Animas.
The Cooperative is required to notify each member of the following provision of the By-Laws. The following passage regarding the nomination of Trustees is from page 6 of the By-Laws of Columbus Electric Cooperative, Inc.
ARTICLE IV, SECTION 4, Nominations.
(a)NOMINATIONS BY PETITION
Any fifteen (15) or more members, in any one district, acting together may make nominations by petition for trustee of their district, and such petition shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Cooperative twenty-five (25) days prior to the annual meeting of the members. Upon receipt of such nominating petition from any district, the Secretary shall immediately post said petition at the office of the cooperative, and such nomination shall be announced at the annual meeting prior to election of trustees.
(b)NOMINATIONS MADE FROM THE FLOOR.
Additional nominations for trustee for a particular district or for trustee-at-large may be made from the floor at the meeting of the members by any member from the same district. Each member shall be entitled to nominate one candidate from his district.
(c)NOMINATING FOR TRUSTEE-AT-LARGE.
When the trustee-at-large is to be elected, nominations may be made by members of any district in the same manner set forth in sub paragraphs (a) and (b) above.
(d)NOTICE FOR NOMINATIONS
The names of the nominees for trustees so made by petition shall be set forth in the notice of the annual or special meeting of the members at which trustees are to be elected, and the Secretary shall at such meeting list all nominations made by petition and from the floor.
If you have questions about your Voting District, the nominating process, or would like a copy of the By-laws, please contact the Co-op.