June board meeting highlights

To provide additional transparency to the membership, highlights of the board meetings each month are published in Ohio Cooperative Living (OCL) magazine. Due to the expansive number of topics and discussions, these are only the highlights. In accordance with the Code of Regulations, full meeting minutes are available to all members in-person at the co-op during regular business hours.

Call to Order

• Meeting was called to order at 6:03 p.m.

Attendance

• All directors were present, as well as legal counsel, President/CEO, and senior staff (or representative).

Cyber Security Presentation

• Federated Rural Electric Insurance Exchange gave a presentation on the four types of Cyber Insurance and Cyber Crime Insurance.

Approval of the Consent Agenda

• Approved consent agenda consisting of prior meeting minutes, new members, collection report, delinquent graph, deceased estates, and outage reports.

Action Items

• A motion was made and seconded to keep the same slate of o cers and assistant o cers.

• Safety reports, Administrative Policy 216 Information Technology, Wage and Salary Plan, NCE RUS AK45 Treasury Direct Loan Contract, and Cooperative Family Fund Contribution approved as presented.

• A motion was made and seconded to appoint Board Chair Snavely as the voting delegate for the 2023 NRECA Regional Meeting.

Departmental Reports

• Monthly Financial, Operations, Key Accounts/ Economic Development, Communications, IT, weekly report, and Billing department reports reviewed.

• President/CEO VanHoose reported on the monthly management weekly report and quarter 1 of material cost and lead time.

• HR Brown reviewed Organization Policy 110, Personnel Policies 329 and 316 with no recommended changes at this time.

• Comms Manager Clifford updated the board about communications intern Hannah Chaffee.

Legal

• NRECA Legal Reporting Service Bulletins reviewed.

Association/Committee Reports

• Reviewed NRECA 2022 Annual Report.

• Reviewed CFC Solutions report and Federated Open Lines newsletter.

Board Training

• Reviewed 2023 ACES meeting.

Adjournment

• The meeting adjourned at 9:37 p.m.