Trustee Elections Will Be Held by Mail This March

Members of Wheatland Electric Cooperative, Inc., will receive trustee election ballots by mail in late March.

Ballots will be mailed by MARCH 25 and must be returned by APRIL 17, which is at least five days prior to this year’s annual meeting, according to WEC’s bylaws. WEC’s 2026 annual meeting will be held on APRIL 22, 2026, in Great Bend, Kansas. 

The primary meeting in GREAT BEND will be livestreamed to seven additional remote meeting locations: Scott City, Leoti, Tribune, Syracuse, Garden City, Harper and Caldwell. 

Members across our service territory are encouraged to attend any of these meeting locations to hear cooperative news and updates, enjoy a meal, ask questions and enter for door prizes. For more information on this year’s annual meeting, see Page 12H of February's Kansas Country Living. 

For the third year in a row, WEC’s mail-in voting will be conducted and managed by Survey and Ballot Systems, a national data solutions company and trusted third-party provider, based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Members with questions about our mail-in voting process are encouraged to call their local WEC office or email us at memberservices@weci.net. WEC is governed by a 10-member board of trustees elected by the cooperative’s membership.

One board seat in each of the following districts is up for election this year:

• DISTRICT 1 — Scott and Logan counties, Kansas
• DISTRICT 2 — Wichita and Wallace counties, Kansas
• DISTRICT 4 — Hamilton and western half of Kearny counties, Kansas; and Prowers County, Colorado
• DISTRICT 5 — Finney, eastern half of Kearny, and Gray counties, Kansas

WEC’S BYLAWS ALLOW FOR 2 METHODS FOR TRUSTEE NOMINATIONS

NOMINATION BY THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE 
The board of trustees appoints a nominating committee made up of one member from each of our seven districts. Members should contact WEC to get the contact information for their fellow member who represents their district on the nominating committee or contact Jim McVay, WEC’s general counsel, at 620-793-4223 or jmcvay@weci.net, BY FEB. 24 if they are interested in being nominated. 

NOMINATION BY A PETITION OF MEMBER 
Twenty-five or more members of WEC can nominate any member as a trustee candidate. Nominations by petition must be sent to WEC BY MARCH 8. Members interested in running should contact Jim McVay, WEC’s general counsel, at 620-793-4223 or jmcvay@weci.net, BY FEB. 24.