Our  Grievances

Against the Board of Directors of Hilco Electric Cooperative, Inc.

These items have been reported, and many feel these items are not appropriate for the directors of HILCO:

• The directors are elected by you, the member, but you are not allowed to attend the monthly director's meetings or committee meetings where they make decisions about your company's welfare and your electric rates.  (Can you imagine if your local city council didn't allow you to attend their meeting, how upset you'd be?)  What are they doing that can't bear scrutiny?
   

• The directors recently passed a rule that members cannot get copies of any financial documents.
   

• Directors have failed on numerous occasions to respond to member's requests for information.
   

• Directors have failed to respond to member's requests to curtail their outlandish spending.
   

• Re-districting has occurred twice, prior to elections, that appears to have been done to protect Margaret Hill from competition.  The current board just re-districted, cutting Margaret Hill's district tremendously, and removing a member who had announced he was running against her.  Click here to see the recent changes.  Click here to visit the "Our Right to Vote?" page.
   

• Directors are violating policies, including:

• failure to follow policies concerning direct communication with HILCO employees,

• asking employees to work on their personal computers,

• directing employees to not inform the GM/CEO of these personal requests,

• demanding that employees conduct personal business for them,

•  violating board policies concerning travel reimbursement procedures,

• making false claims for reimbursement,

• failure to follow board policies concerning in-State training where possible,

• providing false/misleading information to the membership concerning relationship of HILCO board fees/budgets versus national averages, and,

• failure to follow board policies concerning discipline of employees.

The grievances above were brought to the attention of the board by Jerry Lemons, former CEO/General Manager of HILCO.  At the February 2007 meeting, the directors of Districts 2, 5, 6, and 7 voted over the objections of the three remaining directors to remove him without explanation or cause.  As Jerry has decided to pursue other endeavors, HILCO has lost him permanently.  The co-op grew from a $40 million company to a $100 million company during his tenure at HILCO.

It just keeps coming -- click here to read more!

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