Claiborne Electric members set an Annual Meeting attendance record  at the 2025 meeting on June 7.

Thank you to the 1,650 members who attended today’s Annual Membership Meeting!

In today’s election for the District Two Board of Directors seat, Willie “Butch” Sensley won with 64% of the vote.

Prize winners are listed below and will be contacted early in the business week about how to accept prizes. Congratulations to all prize winners!

Prize winners are as follows:

WHITTON, JERRY – $5,000

LEWIS, LESLIE – $4,000

SENN, BOBBYE – $3,000

KROUSE, DON – $2,000

HAULCY, VERONICA – $1,000

Registration Card Prizes:

ELKHARASH, SALEM – $500 (Homer site)

WALTON, TONY – $500 (Farmerville site)

$100 gift card winners:

AMBROSE, JASON

ANDREWS, QUANIECE

BEASLEY, TROY

BOONE, JANE

BOWER, JAMES

BROWN, SHAWN

BURCH, TARA

CALLEN, SUZONNE

CHE, WENDY

DAVIDSON, JARROD

DUNN, TAYLOR

ELKINS, LARRY

EVANS, TIFFANY

FERRINGTON, DARRAN

FRANKLIN, WES

FULLER, CHRIS

GIPSON, EUGENE (JR)

HEARN, VON

HIGHTOWER, CHRIS

HILL, SHERONDA

HODGE, ROBERT

HOLLIS, DANIEL

JONES, TAMMY

KALSTONE, ELLEN

LEWIS, ROBERT

MARDIS, CHRISTOPHER

MCCLINTON, HASKELL

MCGEE, STEPHANIE

MEDLIN, RONALD

NATION, ELAINE

PATTERSON, ROBERT

PERRITT, LORENZ

PHILLIPS, JAMIE

REDDEN, TERRY

REEVES, MICHAEL

RHODES, MELISSA

ROBINSON, EVA

SANDERS, PEGGY

SIMMONS, ROBERT

SIMPSON, ROGER

SIMPSON, SCOTT

SMITH, KEITH

TURNER, TINA

UNION VILLAGE, LLC

WADE, GLENN

WAINWRIGHT, ANGELA

WATLEY, SARAH

WILSON, STEPHEN

WOOD, LINDA

YEATS, SHARON

Claiborne Electric will host a drive-through Annual Meeting on June 7.

The Co-op will have two sites available for members to register – one at Claiborne Electric’s headquarters office (12525 Hwy. 9 in Homer), and one at D’Arbonne Woods Charter School (9560 Hwy. 33 in Farmerville). Members can drive through a multi-lane site in either location to register for the meeting, be entered for all prize drawings, cast a ballot for the District Two Director seat, and receive the 2024 Annual Report. Drive-through registration will take place from 9 a.m. until noon.

At each location, members will drive in and remain in their vehicles through the registration process. Claiborne Electric employees will be directing members to lanes. After members finish registering, they will be directed to the exit.

For the registration process to flow smoothly, members are asked to bring the registration card they received by mail to the meeting. Members who bring their registration card will be entered into a drawing for a $500 gift card.

The top portion of the registration card will serve as the voting ballot for the District Two Director seat. All members who register for the meeting will be able to cast a ballot to elect Incumbent Willie “Butch” Sensley or Nominee Benjamin Walton to represent District Two on Claiborne Electric’s Board of Directors. Members are urged to bring the registration card in its entirety to the Annual Meeting. Ballots will be marked and detached from the registration card along a perforated line, ensuring a private vote. Members will cast ballots in locked boxes, and the registration portion will be collected for the prize drawing. Election information can be found in the news section at www.our.coop.

Several cash prizes will be awarded after the conclusion of the meeting. Members who participate will be eligible for cash prizes of $1,000, $2,000, $3,000, $4,000, and a grand prize of $5,000. Names will also be drawn for 50 $100 cash prizes. All prizes will be drawn after the conclusion of the meeting, and winners will be posted online and contacted directly.

Members are urged to have their registration card and photo ID ready to present upon arrival. The primary member on the account must be the one to register and present identification. If a spouse will attend the meeting without the primary member, both spouses must visit a Claiborne Electric office before the Annual Meeting to form a Joint Membership. With a Joint Membership, either spouse can present ID and represent that membership at the meeting.

An organization that is a member of the Co-op may designate a person to attend the meeting to register on behalf of the organization. At registration, that person will need to present a letter on the organization’s letterhead, signed by the leader of the organization, naming them as the representative.

Please participate in the 2025 Annual Meeting on June 7!

OFFICIAL NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING

Claiborne Electric’s drive-through Annual Membership Meeting will be held June 7, 2025.

The theme for this year’s meeting is “The Future has Never Been Brighter.” With our return to a cooperative business model in our new wholesale power contract with 1803 Electric Cooperative, we believe Claiborne Electric’s future is brighter than ever. This new partnership will benefit members and the Cooperative as we continue providing safe, reliable, and affordable electric service and meeting the needs of our members.

The Co-op will host the meeting between two sites – one at Claiborne Electric’s headquarters office (12525 Hwy. 9 in Homer), and one at D’Arbonne Woods Charter School (9560 Hwy. 33 in Farmerville). The meeting will run from 9 a.m. until noon in each location.

This year’s meeting will include an election for the Director who will represent Claiborne Electric’s District Two. Incumbent Willie Sensley, Jr. of Farmerville and Benjamin Walton of Bernice were each nominated and qualified to run for the District Two seat. The director for this district will be decided by a vote of all members attending the Annual Membership. Election ballots will be delivered by mail to members in May. They will be a perforated attachment on members’ Official Registration cards. Members are asked to have ballots filled out on arrival to help the registration process to flow smoothly.

All members who participate in the meeting will receive a gift from the Co-op and be entered for several cash and gift card prizes. Prizes will include:

• $5,000 cash grand prize
• $4,000 cash prize
• $3,000 cash prize
• $2,000 cash prize
• $1,000 cash prize
• 50 $100 gift cards

Member bills contain a section called “Current Service Detail” where charges for the billing period are listed as line items, then totaled on the bottom line.

The following explanations are an effort to help members better understand the components in this section.

For many years, the section of the bill listing charges contained a single line item called the Energy Charge. This line represented all costs associated with receiving power from Claiborne Electric. In an effort to increase transparency and line the billing language up with the tariffs approved by the Louisiana Public Service Commission, the Energy Charge has been broken into “Net Monthly Rate” and “Power Cost Adjustment” on bills.

Net Monthly Rate is the line item that includes the monthly service charge and the energy charge. The monthly service charge is the fixed monthly fee that covers the cost of being connected to Claiborne Electric’s system. This charge helps cover expenses such as electric metering, maintenance, billing, and payment processing – monthly functions that do not fluctuate with a member’s energy usage. The energy charge is the portion of a member’s bill that is associated with the expenses of operating the Cooperative each month. This charge is calculated per kilowatt-hour, and is a little more than three cents per kilowatt-hour.

The next line item, the Power Cost Adjustment, is based on the wholesale power contract between Claiborne electric and our power provider – 1803 Electric Cooperative. This line item is the bulk of a member’s cost for electricity. This charge represents the cost of generating power on a monthly basis, and is also calculated per kilowatt-hour. This charge varies slightly from month to month and is driven by the price of the fuels used to generate the electricity purchased by the co-op. The Power Cost Adjustment is typically around eight cents per kilowatt-hour.

Members who have questions about bills are urged to speak with one of our Member Service Representatives by calling our Homer office at (318)927-3504 or our Farmerville office at (318)368-3011.

We have developed the following graphic to help members understand the line items on their bills.