Board of Trustees Percy Moreu, President District2Trustee@okcoop.org
District 2
Mike Argo, Vice President
1
Rusty Grissom, Sec. Treasurer
3
Ronnie Tharp, Asst. Sec. Treas.
9
Ronnie Grover
4
Shirley Idleman
5
John Jensen
6
Danny Watters
7
Bob Usry
8
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Oklahoma Electric Cooperative 242 24th Ave NW | PO Box 1208 Norman, OK, 73070 321-2024, FAX 405-217-6900 http://www.okcoop.org
Senior Management Co-op Manager...............................Patrick Grace Chief Financial Officer.........Preston O’Brien, CPA VP of Engineering...........................Thad Peterson VP of Operations...............................Marty Hayes VP of Administration...........................Jonna Buck VP of HR and Legal Services............Tracy Mowdy VP of Metering................................John Spencer Mgr of Fiber & Broadband.........David Goodspeed Oklahoma Electric Co-op News is published monthly by Oklahoma Electric Cooperative, 242 24th Ave. NW, Norman, OK 73069, (USPS865-700). Subscription rates: $6.00 per year for non-members, 50¢ per year for members. Periodical postage paid at Norman, OK and other additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Please send form 3579 to: Oklahoma Electric Co-op News, PO Box 1208, Norman, OK 73070.
Co-op News Editor Brianna Wall
Hidden Account Numbers Worth $300 Each month, OEC will pay $50 to the two co-op members who locate their hidden account numbers inside the Co-op News that month. The hidden account numbers will be placed at random within the text of each issue and not on the mailing label. The amounts will simultaneously increase in $50 increments until one or both account numbers are located by their respective owners or until the maximum of $500 is reached. 1. One of the hidden account numbers must be your own. 2. You must advise OEC by phone, mail or in person at the co-op’s office by the 15th of the month. If you find your account number call the Member Relations department at 217-6708.
FROM the
TOP Patrick Grace, CEO
We've all heard about cybersecurity breaches, whether big box stores have been the target or small, family-owned stores, they're a reality in the world we live in today. While every entity that stores any data at all is at risk for a cybersecurity breach, we want you to know we are taking every precaution available to ensure our security detail is the highest it can possibly be. We take members' privacy very seriously — we don't share it or give it out unless we're court-ordered to do so. We do not store credit card data and follow processing protocol put in place by the National Information Solutions Cooperative, which houses our member database. This is why we don't take credit card payments in the office — all credit card transactions are completed by a third-party processor that is PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliant. Focused efforts in cybersecurity resulted from a 2016 strategic initiative set forth by our board of trustees. Since then, one of our IT systems engineers, Brad Keener, worked with the National Guard on a cybersecurity exercise, and another IT systems engineer, Casey Davis, was selected to serve on the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association's Cybersecurity Member Advisory Group. You can be certain we are doing everything we can to ensure your information is protected. Our access to the electric grid might make co-ops appear to be relevant targets for a cyber attack, but we only distribute the electricity, we don't generate it or transmit it. I can ensure you our generation and transmission partner, Western Farmers Electric Cooperative, is taking necessary precautions to combat potential cyber attacks, as well. In an uncertain world you can be certain of one thing: we continue to do everything we can to ensure our members can rely on the power and services we provide.
