To keep you informed about your cooperative’s operations and activities, here are highlights from the April 30 board meeting.

1. All directors were present. Also present were CEO Steve Seibert and Administrative Assistant Lisa Hinton.

2. The first item of business was the board’s reorganization. Director Jeff Vogel was re-elected chairman of the board, Director Gary Waninger was re-elected vice-chairman, and Director Dirk Stein was re-elected secretary/treasurer.

3. The April 30 board meeting agenda was approved.

4. The March 30 board meeting minutes were reviewed and approved.

5. The membership certificates were reviewed.

6. The vouchers were reviewed and approved.

7. The January, February, and March financials were reviewed and approved.

8. The board approved the selection of LWG CPA’s & Advisors as the auditors for 2026-2027.

9. The CEO report was presented, with Seibert reporting

the following items:

a. Fiber project update

b. Office construction project update

c. Hoosier Energy Bandon 69KV outage update

d. Hoosier Energy updates

e. RUS Form 7 review

f. ACLARA server issue

g. 2025 DG report

h. Seibert reported the following meeting dates: ACES Member Conference, May 28-29; CFC Forum, June 14-17; and the IEC Directors’ Retreat, July 24-25.

10. The 2026 Southern Indiana Power Annual Meeting was reviewed. The board approved Tuesday, April 20, as the 2027 Annual Meeting date.

11. Cory Berg, training and safety at Hoosier Energy, conducted training on capacitor banks and troubleshooting safety on April 8. Robert White, safety and risk management instructor with IEC, conducted arc-flash hazard safety training on April 14. Chuck Tiemann presented an all-employee safety training on April 20.

A safety committee meeting was held on April 20. Seibert reviewed the Federated Annual Safety and Loss Prevention Assessment.

Seibert advised that there were no lost-time accidents and no public liability claims to report.

12. Office/IT Manager Karen Mangum was appointed assistant secretary/treasurer to the board of directors for 2026.

13. Director Chris Burroughs was selected as a voting delegate, and Chairman Vogel was selected as an alternate for the CFC Annual Meeting.

14. The board approved Operation Round Up Board of Trustees nominations of Gary Waninger and Ed Denning. Each will serve a three-year term.

15. Director Randy Kleaving reported on the IEC board meeting held on April 15.

16. Director Kyle Kniereim reported on the Hoosier Energy Annual Meeting held on April 8.

17. Seibert and Director Kleaving reported on the NRECA Legislative Conference held April 27-28.

18. The next regularly scheduled board of directors meeting will be on Tuesday, May 26.