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Editor's Note: Folks, meet three of your new board members of Pedernales Electric – the place that sends you your monthly electric bill and is planning our energy future. Send them a quick congrats, if you like, and by all means, remind them who they'll be representing on the board. Larry Landaker, larry.landaker@gmail.com, Patrick Cox, Ph.D. (center in photo), patrickcox7@gmail.com, and Cristi Clement, clemoore@gmail.com
By Bob Ochoa
RoundUp Editor
Johnson City, Tx – Larry Landaker and Patrick Cox, two Wimberley area residents, and Cristi Clement of Marble Falls were announced as the winners in Pedernales Electric's board of directors election Saturday afternoon at the co-op's annual meeting here in LBJ's hometown.
Hays Countians will now have two representatives at the table on the 7-member PEC board, in Landaker and Cox.
Mr. Landaker and Ms. Clement will represent PEC service Districts 6 and 1, respectively, for three year terms. Mr. Cox beat out several candidates last year to fill a one-year unexpired term on the board and ran unopposed this year for a full three-year term in District 7.
Landaker, 58, a Realtor associated with Keller Williams Realty in Wimberley, received 5,152 member votes to second place finisher San Marcos resident David Bethancourt, with 4,488 votes, and third place finisher Linda Kaye Rogers of Woodcreek, with 4,285 votes. This was Ms. Rogers second run for a director position, and Landaker's first. Landaker ran on a campaign to develop actionable plans for meeting PEC's 30% renewable and 20% efficiency goals by 2020, limit board director terms, and requiring continued open meetings and open records transparency.
Ms. Clement, 67, a retired 24-year United States Air Force veteran, collected 7,713 votes. Mark A. Mayfield, 51, placed second in this PEC District 1 race with 7,603 votes. Clement ran on a strong reform platform. She pledged to "put members first, improve cost efficiencies, deliver energy at lower rates . . . and reward conservation."
Cox, 57, associate director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at UT-Austin, ran on a platform of expanding PEC's efforts to increase renewable energy and conservation, improving the power co-op's financial structure and eliminating unnecessary expenses. He received 16,637 member votes.
With about 194,000 PEC member/owners eligible to vote, the 23,125 ballots cast represents a turnout of 11.8 percent, about equal to last year's (and first) truly open board election. This year, members cast 19,315 ballots by mail, 3,723 electronically, and 87 in person at Saturday's annual meeting.
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This comment from John A. Worrall of Round Mountain on the pec4u watchdog discussion group: What a week...! ...Clark Thomas coughs up $4 million (back into the hoppers of PEC)...Bennie gets the first three of his richly-deserved indictments...PEC has a majority of elected directors, for the first time ever. Every member/owner of PEC and everyone @ PEC4U.org should be proud of all that has been accomplished in such a short period of time.
Moments after voting concluded at 2:30 p.m., the ballots were counted inside a room at the back of the PEC training center hall where the annual meeting was held. Election Services Corporation, a Ronkonkoma, New York, firm conducted the count. At right, ESC president Frank Fatone oversees the counting. Assisting, at back, is ESC vice president Ingrid Veidis.RoundUp Photo/Bob Ochoa
1 comment:
So, what was the point of the election if these people are not going to serve now?
The old regime still rules.
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