At Prairie Land Electric, your voice matters. Since 1938, we’ve been owned and governed by members like you. Your vote in our annual board election is your voice in your cooperative, a chance to weigh in on leaders who will represent you and your interests.
Please vote in the trustee election each year. Details for the upcoming election are below. If you have further questions, please call our headquarters at 785-877-3323 or 800-577-3323.
As outlined in the Cooperative’s Bylaws, a Nominating Committee will meet in our Norton office in December before the election year and select the candidates to run for the trustee election positions.
Per Cooperative’s Bylaws, nominations may also be made by petition. Interested candidates may contact the Norton office to request the appropriate form. The petition must be signed by not less than twenty-five (25) members of the district for whom the Trustee is to be elected. Petitions need to be delivered to our Norton office no later than the end of business on January 10. All nominations shall be posted in the Norton and Concordia offices.
All trustees shall be elected by secret mail ballot of the members of the Cooperative for a three (3) year term to be staggered such that no more than one (1) position shall be up for election in each district each year. Each Trustee shall be elected who is an actual bona fide resident within the Trustee District to be represented.
The elections shall be conducted on an “at large” basis; therefore every member of Prairie Land Electric is eligible to vote for all positions in the elections. Upon completion of the nominating process, voting materials will be mailed to Prairie Land members by January 25 of each year. The Bylaws, as amended, require the use of mail ballots for Trustee Elections. Ballots and a postage paid return envelope will be furnished for the member to use.
Ballots must be returned to the Norton office by end of business on February 10 of the respective year.
The Board of Trustees appoints the Election and Credentials committee. The committee will count the ballots by February 20, and the election results will then be announced.