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.
