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GRAND VALLEY POWER LINES [ ] Grand Valley News COME CELEBRATE OUR Electric Co-ops Face Strict Federal 80th Anniversary GRAND VALLEY POWER ANNUAL MEETING Automated Calling Requirements AUGUST 4 — COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY BY TOM WALCH || GENERAL MANAGER || [email protected] Great service is a cornerstone of Grand Valley purpose of telemarketing. Until the FCC rules MANAGER’S CORNER Power’s success. We recognize that great on this petition, Grand Valley Power will no Gservice requires effective communication longer be able to provide account information COMMENTS TO THE MANAGER with our members. That’s why we try to keep via automatically dialed telephone calls unless You are a member of a cooperative and the members up to date on key issues and express consent is received. If you wish to your opinion does count. If you have any developments with Colorado Country Life continue receiving the automatically dialed questions, concerns or comments, please magazine. In recent years we telephone calls and text messages let General Manager Tom Walch know also used other tools that from Grand Valley Power, please by writing to Ask the Manager, P.O. Box advancing technology makes stop by, call our office or visit our 190, Grand Junction, CO 81502, or send an email to [email protected] or use the available to us to apprise website at www.GVP.org/content/ website at www.GVP.org. consumers about important messages to obtain a consent form account and service matters. and make sure we have your current BOARD MEETING NOTICE For example, Grand Valley contact information on file. Grand Valley Power board meetings Power utilized automatically We understand how important it are open to the members, consumers dialed telephone calls with can be for our consumers to receive and public. Regularly scheduled board pre-recorded messages the information communicated meetings are held at 9 a.m. the third (sometimes called “robo- Tom Walch with these calls. It is our hope Wednesday of each month at the calls”) to reach out to a large that the FCC will issue a new order headquarters building at 845 22 Road, number of consumers in a cost-effective way. addressing the issue by the end of the year. Grand Junction. These calls are used to provide consumers We’ll keep you updated on this important The monthly agenda is posted in the information about planned outages, service issue, but in the meantime, let’s keep the lines lobby of the headquarters building 10 interruptions and tree-trimming activity, of communication open. Stop by our office, days before each meeting, and posted as well as courtesy past due reminders and call us or visit www.GVP. org and make sure on the GVP website. If anyone desires to address the board of directors, please disconnect notices. Unfortunately, efforts by we have your current contact information let us know in advance and you will be the Federal Communications Commission to on file. placed on the agenda. crack down on automatically placed calls and text messages to wireless devices will prevent us from continuing this practice. Grand Valley Power is working with Energy Efficiency the National Rural Electric Cooperative Tip of the Month Avoid setting your thermostat at a colder Association on this issue, and comments were setting than normal when you turn on your submitted to the FCC. Still pending before air conditioner. It will not cool your home the commission is a petition by the Edison any faster and could result in excessive Electric Institute and American Gas Association arguing that a customer providing a utility a cooling and unnecessary expense. phone number constitutes consent to receive Source: energy.gov service-related calls that are not for the coloradocountrylife.coop 4 JUNE 2016 7 [Grand Valley News] NOMINATING PETITIONS AVAILABLE FOR DIRECTOR POSITIONS The election process for the board of directors is now here. While 3) Otherwise possessing a substantial conflict of interest with the election is held in August, the nominating procedure started in the cooperative or a cooperative subsidiary; May. Three director positions are up for election every year. This (f) Not be an individual that has been an employee of the coop- year the directors whose terms are up for election are Tom Benton, erative within two years prior to serving on the cooperative’s Rod Martinez and Sylvia Spangler. board of directors. To be eligible for election or appointment to, and to serve on, Election procedures for the board of directors are directed by the cooperative’s board of directors, a person shall: Colorado statute, which are reflected by the cooperatives bylaws (a) Be an individual with the capacity to enter legally binding and also by election policy. All of these documents can be accessed contracts; on the internet, with the bylaws and election policy found on (b) Be a member of the cooperative and have been a member of GVP’s website at www.GVP.org. the cooperative for at least 12 consecutive months prior to Nominating petitions were available to be picked up beginning the election; May 16, 2016, at the Grand Valley Power office. Petitions must be (c) Maintain his or her primary residence in the area or territory signed and returned no later than by the close of business on June served by the cooperative; 17, 2016. (d) Be served by the cooperative; If no more than three petitions are returned to fill the three (e) Not be engaged in any business, nor employed by or materi- positions that are open for this year’s election, there will be no mail ally affiliated with any individual or entity: ballot and the election of directors will take place at the annual 1) Regularly, directly and substantially competing with the meeting to be held on August 4, 2016. More detailed information cooperative or a cooperative subsidiary; will be forthcoming in future issues of Grand Valley News and the 2) Regularly selling goods or services to the cooperative or a Annual Report. cooperative subsidiary; Capital Credits Refunds — Continued The following is the third installment of a partial list of those customers who did not claim their capital credit checks that were mailed in December 2014. Those checks reflect 60 percent of the margins that were made during 1999 and 40 percent of the margins made in subsequent years. TIf you have any information as to the location or address of any of the following individuals or businesses, please have them contact Grand Valley Power at 970-242-0040. We have unclaimed capital credit refund checks for the following people: Lepp, Marvin Loma General Store Lundgren, David C Magill, Henry A Marr, Max M Martini, Mariah Maynard, Margaret W McCurley, Deborah J Lester, Lonnie Loma Industries, Inc Lundstrum, Joseph Mahleres, Harry Marsden, Gary Martz, David W Mayne, Charlotte F McCurry, Elbert S Let It Ride Resorts Lombardi, Rex B Lundy, Charles V Mahrer, Mary P Marsh, James R Martz, Richard G Mayne, Richard L McDaniel, E Ray Levay, Gerald R Long, David I Lupo, Tony D Majors, James E Marsh, Joe R Marvin, Matthew J Mayo, Elmer L McDonald, Bobby E Levy, Stacey Long, Earl R Lusby, Linda S Malcom, Leo D Marsh, Rick E Marx, Shawn A Mayor, Tiffany A McDonald, Christine E Lewis, Carol A Long, Jon D Lutz, Edra I Maley, Gladys M Marsh, Robin G Marzano, Michael A McAllister, Gary McDonald, Patrick T Lewis, Jerry Long, Laurie Lyden, Mark Malik, Sharie Marshall, Jereme E Mascovich, Sunshine McAninch Corp McDonald, Paul A Lewis, Laura J Lopez, Josephine P Lyeth, Melanie J Mallery, Glenn A Martin, Alvin J Maserang, Wende McAtlin, Curt L McDowell, Michael E Leyden, Bonnie Jo Lopez, Matilda Lyle, David Mallory, Matthew Martin, Barbara B Maslow, Joan E McBeth, Veda R McDowell, Susan L Leyden, Clyde C Lopez, Vivian C Lynch, George Malone, Chuck Martin, Carol Mason, Chris T McBride, Jill McElhinney, George S Lichtenberg, Randall Lorig, William M Lynch, Louie Malone, Rex A Martin, Carolyn P Mason, James McBride, Michael B McEntee, Lucas D Lickers, Mark Lorimor, Harvey Lynch, Susan Maloney, Mark E Martin, Charles E Mason, Jessica V McCabe, Evelyn McEwen, Zack C Lieberman, Douglas S Lorimor, Stanley C Lynch, Tom E Mandeville, Margaret Martin, Cindy A Massaro, Daun E McCall, James L McGarvey, Debbie D Liggett, Charles Loring, D Lyngstad, Fred Mank, James A Martin, Curtis W Massaro, Elizabeth McCall, Robert McGaugh, Roy E Ligrani, Mike Losa, Dorothy Lynn, Richard E Manley, Quinn Martin, Dale V Masse, Tonia A McCallum, Robert D McGee, Jan Lind, M Jeff Loughridge, Allan Lynn, Richard K Mann, Howard Martin, Eddythe I Massengale, Loraine McCammon, Laura G McGill, Thomas D Lindell, John D Lougue, Glenda Lyon, Jonathan Mann, Jim W Martin, Harry S Massey, Dean McCanless, Billy D McGovern, Jackelyn J Lindsay, Richard E Louthan, Jane C Lyon, Lenny W Manry, Eldon Martin, Jerry R Masters, George McCann, Dean F McGreevy, James F Lindstrom, Paul L Love, Tony H Lyons, John M Manspeaker, Ray E Martin, Michael M A Mathews, Bill McCarney, Evelyn M McGuckin, William G Lindstrom, Richard L Low, Louise Lyons, Kirk Mantell, Ralph A Martin, Randy Mathews, Orie H McCarver, Samuel T McGuire, Lyn Linz, Melvin O Lowe, Donald L Lyons, Richard E Manthei, Karl A Martin, Raymond K Mathews, Paul E McClaskey, Gerald McGuire, Yong Lippincott, Robert M Lowell, Harvey M&M Orchards Manzanares, Harold Martin, Richard G Mathia, Narvil McClaskey, Lori J McHone, Shirley Livingston, Donald E Lowell, Orleta F Mabry, Jerry D Manzanares, Michael Martin, Robert C Mathis, James F McClellan, Judy E McKay, Barbara Livingston, Richard Lowenhagen, Fred Macdonald, Rod P Mapel, Roger F Martin, Rose