2017 Annual Meeting Summary

By Timothy J. Power, CEO

Nearly 380 attended DS&O’s 80^th annual meeting, which was held on April 3^rd at the Webster Conference Center on the north side of Salina.  KEC’s CEO, Bruce Graham, KEPCo’s Director of Member Services, Phil Wages, and KEPCo’s Director of Rates and Regulation, Mark Dolijac were also in attendance.  DS&O’s Communications Manager Derrick Rutherford again served as master of ceremony for the night.

Secretary-Treasurer Brain Lang presented the cooperative’s finances, average energy use per meter, and average outage time per meter in 2017.  All measures showed an improvement from prior years.  President Ron Seyfert then reported on our bid to operate and maintain the Fort Riley electrical distribution system, the board’s decision not to change the name of the company, the change in our billing dates, our peak generators, the residential peak reduction pilot program, and the new scholarship program.  Thanks to both for their informative reports.