PPEC welcomes Stacy Morrison to the team

We welcomed Stacy Morrison in January as our HR & Administrative Manager. Stacy is a graduate of Continental High School and Vantage Career Center, and comes to PPEC with a wealth of human resources experience in the healthcare field, ranging from payroll to benefits, employee relations, file keeping, and beyond. She earned her Associate of Science in Business Administration from Everest University in Tampa, Florida, in 2016. She and her husband, JD, have been together 15 years and have three sons: Jax, Spencer, and Myles. They reside in Defiance, Ohio, with their three dogs and two cats.

Why did you want to work at PPEC? I feel like PPEC offers a real future in my career. The atmosphere just walking in the front door is welcoming, from the staff to the overall environment.

What are you looking forward to? I am most looking forward to getting to know all the employees.

What are some of your hobbies and interests outside of work?

Anything with my family. We love to go on vacation (I prefer beaches and sunshine) and playing sports.

What’s a fun fact about you? I won a computer skills competition at Rhodes State College with one hand. (I fractured my right wrist — I’m right handed to boot — in two places and had surgery so it was not functional.)

Do you have a motto that inspires you? Never regret. I believe God puts everything in our life for a reason, and we choose to either let it affect us or grow from it.

Many businesses use the word “member” to describe their customers. Places like Sam’s Club or Costco and even American Express like to refer to their customers as members. You pay a fee to buy their goods and services, but that is really all you get for the “membership.” You have no right to vote for the board of directors or to participate in any meaningful way in the organization.

In cooperatives like PPEC, membership really does mean something more than just the right to buy electricity. Co-ops of all types are founded on the Seven Cooperative Principles, which give us guidance and strategic direction. Membership also gives you rights as an owner of this co-op.

As we prepare for our 87th Annual Meeting of the Members, it makes sense to highlight the qualities that make electric cooperatives different from other types of utilities and businesses.

Members maintain democratic control of our co-op, which means they elect fellow members to represent them on the board of directors/ trustees every year. As a bonus, co-op members receive special benefits through programs like our rebate programs, energy audits or Co-op Connections. We also return margins (“ profits”) to our members in the form of capital credits.

Another principle that sets us apart from other businesses