Tri-State membership gathers for 58th annual meeting

More than 500 electric cooperative representatives and industry officials attended Tri-State's 58th annual meeting where they reviewed recent activities and addressed numerous issues and challenges facing the electric utility industry. Those in attendance paid tribute to Tri-State chairman Harold "Hub" Thompson, who announced his retirement as an electric co-op director after 26 years.

Following the meeting, the association's board of directors was seated for the upcoming year. Under the cooperative business model, each of Tri-State's 44 member distribution systems is represented on its board, which is the democratically-elected governing body of the association.

Rick Gordon, representing Tri-State member co-op Mountain View Electric Association (Limon, Colo.), was elected the new chairman.

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