The Annual Meeting is held to elect board trustees, give reports covering the previous year and allow members to meet engage with their cooperative. At the Annual Meeting, trustees to succeed those whose terms have expired shall be elected by ballot.
In 2024, members voted to accept the proposed bylaw change to accept nominations for the board solely through petition. Before the change, Pioneer Electric utilized a “Committee on Nominations” to elect nominees for its board of trustees, voted on by the membership at the cooperative’s annual meeting. The approved bylaw change now stipulates that nominations be accepted by petition only.
Districts up for election in 2025 are Districts 5, 6, and 9.
District 5: David C. Light (Incumbent)
David C. Light is a farmer in western Kansas. He lives with his wife, Renee, in the community of Rolla, Kansas, where he has served as a City Council Member for 30 years, and currently serves as Mayor. He operates and manages a multigenerational family farm of 10,000 acres.
David is an investor and board member of the Northwest Cotton Gin Co-op. He is a Producer Trustee of the NCC, Cotton Foundation. He is the Kansas Trustee, Producer, Southern Plains member of Cotton Board; he also serves as Trustee on the Pioneer Electric Co-op Board and Southern Pioneer Electric Co-op Board. David is also a licensed real estate agent in Oklahoma, and Kansas, for Faulkner Real Estate.
*Biographies have been run as submitted by Board of Trustees candidates.