Tuesday, May 24, 2016

2016-2017 Northwest Public Power Association Board Officers, Trustees Announced (Northwest Public Power Association)

VANCOUVER, WA. – On May 18, at its 76th Annual Conference and Membership Meeting in Tulalip, Wash., the Northwest Public Power Association (NWPPA) Board of Trustees introduced Alex Love of Nelson Hydro (Nelson, B.C.) as the 2016-2017 NWPPA Board of Trustees president. Love will serve a one-year term as board president.

At the meeting, the board also announced the following officers:

·       First Vice President Steven Taylor of Mason County PUD No. 1 (Shelton, Wash.)
·      Second Vice President Jackie Flowers of Idaho Falls Power (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
·       Secretary/Treasurer Scott Egbert of Wells Rural Electric Company (Wells, Nev.)
·      Immediate Past President Dick Morris of Trinity PUD (Weaverville, Calif.)

Along with the officer announcements, the membership re-elected seven trustees for second three-year terms: Arlen Orchard of SMUD (Sacramento, Calif.), Terry LaLiberte of Kootenai Electric Cooperative (Hayden, Idaho), Chuck Thurman of Monmouth Power & Light (Monmouth, Ore.), Jafar Taghavi of Peninsula Light Company (Gig Harbor, Wash.), Buddy Treadway of Benton REA (Prosser, Wash.), Larry Dunbar of City of Ellensburg (Wash.), and associate member repesentative Angie Sanchez Virnoche of FCS GROUP (Redmond, Wash.). In addition, Susan Thraen of Missoula Electric Cooperative (Missoula, Mont.) and Dominic Ivanoff of Kotzebue Electric Association (Kotzebue, Alaska) were both appointed to fill one-year unexpired terms.

In addition to these trustees, Bob Hammond of the City of Richland Energy Services (Wash.) was elected by the membership to serve a first three-year term on the Board of Trustees, and Terry Kelly of Salem Electric (Salem, Ore.) was re-elected for a first full three-year term.