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Annual Meeting

Be informed about your Cooperative and have your voice be heard!

As a member-owned Cooperative, Annual Meetings provide an opportunity for members to hear reports from officers and directors, receive a financial update, ask questions and learn the results of the director elections.

Survey & Ballot Systems, an independent firm, conducts the election voting and will mail a ballot to Stearns Electric members in each voting district at least two weeks prior to the Annual Meeting. Members can vote ahead of the Annual Meeting by mail or online. Voting instructions will be included with your ballot. Members can also vote in-person at the Annual Meeting.

Any member in good standing may seek election for the Board of Directors in the district in which he/she resides. Interested candidates need to fill out an Application for Director within the nominations window and submit it to the Secretary prior to the election. The deadline for board candidates is typically mid-January, prior to the spring elections.

 

87TH ANNUAL MEETING

Thursday, April 4, 2024
Melrose Area High School Auditorium | Melrose, MN
7 – 8 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.)

View a recorded video of the 86th Annual Meeting, held on March 30, 2023, on our Facebook Page.

DIRECTOR ELECTION – DISTRICTS 4, 5 and 9

In 2024, Stearns Electric Association holds elections for the Board of Directors in Cooperative Districts 4, 5 and 9. The nominations window closed on Thursday, January 25, 2024. The candidates who will appear on the ballot are:

DISTRICT 4

Neil Franz | Biography

Randy Rothstein | Biography

DISTRICT 5

Jeff Koehler | Biography

Jeff Peter | Biography

DISTRICT 9

Jerry Fries | Biography

Rick Schultz | Biography

 

2023 ANNUAL REPORT

 

View the 2023 Annual Report

View the 85th Annual Meeting Minutes

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