For our members
Annual Meeting
The 79th Annual Meeting of the members will be held on Thursday, April 16, 2025, at the Lincoln County High School in Eureka, Montana. This event is an opportunity for our members to learn more about their cooperative. They also transact any business to come before the membership.
At the meeting, the results of the trustee election are announced. Members are also given an update on cooperative happenings and financials.
Trustee Election
As a member of Lincoln Electric, you have the right to get involved in your cooperative. One of the main ways to get involved is electing fellow members to your Board of Trustees. These nine members meet once a month to review cooperative policies, financials, and evaluate the direction of the cooperative.
Trustees are elected each year by Lincoln Electric members by mail-in ballot. Ballots are mailed to all Lincoln Electric members with their official Notice of Meeting. Your mail-in ballot must be completed and submitted as noted on the ballot.
Trustee nomination petitions are available October through December. You can learn more about your Board of Trustees here.
78th Annual Meeting
2025 Meeting Recap
Lincoln Electric Cooperative’s 78th Annual Meeting of the Members was held at Lincoln County High School on Saturday, April 12, 2025. Two percent of the membership, or 106 members, was needed to achieve a quorum. We had 297 memberships registered at the event. The meeting began at 9:00 a.m. and was adjourned at 10:11 a.m.
Our auditor, Louis Brandley of Decoria & Co, P.S., gave a brief financial update based on Lincoln Electric’s 2024 audit. He reported that the cooperative is in great financial standing.
Your Lincoln Electric board approved the retirement of capital credits for the 45th consecutive year. In 2025, over $350,000 will be retired to members and former members. Overall, we’ve returned more than $14 million to our members in the form of capital credits, landing Lincoln Electric near the top cooperatives in the country for capital credit retirements.
Mark Hash of O’Brien, Hash, & Biby, Lincoln Electric’s legal counsel and meeting parliamentarian, presented the results of the 2025 trustee and By-Laws amendments election. There was one nomination received from incumbents for each district, District 6 Upper from Sandra Mason and District – 7 Lower from Tina Taurman. Per the LEC By-Laws, since the same number of qualified nominations were received for the same number of expiring trustee seats in the appropriate districts, the nominees shall be trustees for the districts as if duly elected by the membership.
Lincoln Electric Co-op approved 9 separate Luck of the Draw Scholarships for a total of $20,000. LEC uses unclaimed capital credits to fund the scholarships.
Rolling Hills Land Owners Association won the grand prize of free electricity for a year, based on $150 per month. They donated the prize back. After a re-draw, Brenda Miller won the grand prize.