Trustee Elections Will Be Held By Mail This Spring

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

Ballots will be mailed March 24, 2025, and must be returned by April 18, 2025, which is at least five days prior to this year’s annual meeting, according to WEC’s bylaws.

WEC’s 2025 annual meeting will be held on April 23, 2025, in Scott City, Kansas. 

The primary meeting in Scott City will be livestreamed to seven additional remote meeting locations: Leoti, Tribune, Syracuse, Garden City, Great Bend, 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, enter for door prizes, and more. For more information on this year’s annual meeting, see February's Kansas Country Living. 

For the second year in a row, WEC’s mail-in voting will be conducted and managed by Survey and Ballot Systems, a national data solutions company based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, as a trusted third-party provider. Trustees selected the reputable firm to ensure a transparent, effective and fair election process. 

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: 

1. DISTRICT 5 (Finney, eastern half of Kearny, and Gray counties in Kansas)
    
2. DISTRICT 6 (Great Bend, Kansas)
    
3. DISTRICT 7 (Harper, Kingman, Sumner and Sedgwick counties in Kansas)

WEC’S BYLAWS ALLOW FOR TWO METHODS FOR TRUSTEE NOMINATIONS 

1. 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. 14 if they are interested in being nominated. 
    
2. 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 10. Members interested in running should contact Jim McVay, WEC’s general counsel, at (620) 793-4223 or jmcvay@weci.net, BY FEB. 14.