The Buzz
The Buzz is a monthly message from Boone Electric Cooperative to our community celebrating what it means to be a member-owner of your local electric cooperative. Boone Electric Cooperative: Your Co-op, Our Community.
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Episode 30: Boone Electric Cooperative's 2026 Annual Meeting (opens the original)
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Boone Electric Cooperative's Annual Meeting is just around the corner! BEC Board President Kim Ponder discusses the importance of annual meeting to members and changes to this year's format. We hope you'll join us on Thursday, Sept. 10 for this year's meeting!
Episode 29: Thank You, Frank and Joel (opens the original)
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Two longtime Boone Electric Cooperative directors, Frank Glenn and Joel Bullard, are retiring after more than 50 combined years of service to the co-op and its members. On a very special episode of The Buzz, we sat down with Frank and Joel to hear about their early days of learning the cooperative business, the challenges that arose on the board room table and their words of wisdom for the future leaders of Boone Electric.
Episode 28: Meet The 2026 Board of Directors Candidates (opens the original)
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Boone Electric Cooperative's 2026 Annual Meeting is just around the corner, scheduled for Thurs., Sept. 10, 2026. In this month's episode, we discuss the voting process at annual meeting and also hear from the candidates — incumbents and challengers — running in this year's election for the Boone Electric Cooperative Board of Directors.
Episode 27: BEC’s Most Frequently Asked Questions (Part 2) (opens the original)
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In the second part of our series on Boone Electric’s most frequently asked member questions, BEC Assistant General Manager Vicki Kemna returns to the studio to wrap up our discussion about some of the co-op’s most misunderstood facts. In part two, we discuss members versus membership, how voting rights are determined for annual meeting, what a proxy is and why clearing an easement with neighbors is a sometimes difficult but very important process to providing reliable electric service.
Episode 26: BEC's Most Frequently Asked Questions (Part 1) (opens the original)
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When a business has been around for 90 years, it must be doing something right. But, not everything a cooperative does is self-explanatory. Boone Electric Cooperative Assistant General Manager Vicki Kemna joins the show for the first in a two (or more!) part series about the most frequently asked questions — and most misunderstood facts — members have when it comes to their co-op.
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