PRESS RELEASE
Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative’s (SMECO’s) Board of Directors has appointed 10 members to the 2008 Nominating Committee scheduled to meet on Saturday, May 17, at the Co-op’s Hughesville Executive Building. This committee will select a slate of candidates for the five available Board seats up for election at SMECO’s Annual Meeting. The following Board seats will be up for election: one in Calvert County, one in Charles County, one in Prince George’s County, and two in St. Mary’s County.
The 2008 Nominating Committee includes the following:
SMECO customer-members interested in being nominated should submit a resume to a member of the committee or mail it to SMECO, Attention: Joseph Densford, Board Attorney, 15045 Burnt Store Road, P.O. Box 1937, Hughesville, Maryland 20637. Resumes should be submitted by Monday, May 12, 2008.
In addition to nominations made by the committee, any 15 or more SMECO members acting together may make other nominations by petition by Friday, June 27, 2008. Nominations will be posted in each SMECO office and mailed to each member with the Annual Meeting notice.
SMECO’s Annual Meeting will be held Wednesday, August 27, 2008, at the Co-op’s Hughesville headquarters. More than 1,500 members registered for last year’s meeting. This year, absentee mail-in voting will also be available to those customer-members who are unable to attend the meeting. Details will be published in the Co-op’s monthly newsletter.
Selection of the Nominating Committee members is in compliance with SMECO’s bylaws. For more information regarding the committee, nominations, and qualifications of directors, refer to Article IV, Sections 4.02 and 4.03, of SMECO’s bylaws. Bylaws may be obtained from any SMECO office.