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By MARKSCOLFORO
Arundel Newspaper* Staff Writer
None of the four candidates put forth by Consumers Against Rappahannock Electric (CARE) was elected to the board of directors at the electric co-op’s annual meeting in Spotsylvania County last Saturday.
But CARE organizer R. Dean Irvine did manage to get a couple of motions passed, and hasn’t given up on two others that failed.
One of the failed motions would have given co-op members the ability to mail in absentee ballots in the election for the board of directors. The other would have forced the coop to lower all consumer rates by five percent within a year.
Mr. Irvine, a co-op member from Madison County who charges waste and mismanagement of the memberowned utility has led to the state’s highest electric rates, voted 100 proxies mailed to him by others concerned with the co-op’s management.
But the board of directors held almost 9,000 proxies and used them to defeat Mr. Irvine’s motions and vote themselves back into office.
After the four CARE candidates, including Mr. Irvine, were defeated, CARE’s organizer hit the podium with several issues.
He first proposed a bylaw amendment that would have required at least two candidates be put forth for every open seat on the board and that their names and backgrounds be printed in the coop’s newsletter at least two months before the annual meeting.
That amendment also called for allowing members to vote absentee ballots for the board of directors by
95.5%