SEPT. 28, 2023

The 2023 Annual Meeting of the membership of the Kankakee Valley Rural Electric Membership Corporation was held at the Porter County Expo Center in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, on the 28th day of September, 2023. A catered meal was served to the members beginning at 4:30 p.m. CST by REMC employees and Board members. Live music was presented on the indoor stage beginning at 5 p.m. The business meeting was scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. CST, pursuant to notice provided to each member of the Cooperative. The business meeting included the announcement of board members for a new three-year term, and prizes were awarded.

A copy of the proof of mailing of the Notices and the Secretary’s Affidavit is appended as EXHIBIT A at the end of these minutes and was included in the member program distributed to each member who appeared and registered at the meeting.

The business meeting opened, and the first matter of business was the consideration of the notice of the meeting. The reading of the Notice of the Meeting to Members as provided in Bylaw Art. III Sec. 3, was waived and dispensed with after a motion duly made and seconded carried on a unanimous vote. The next item on the agenda was the reading of the minutes of the 2022 Annual Meeting. On motion duly made and seconded, the membership resolved to waive the reading of the minutes. Then, on motion duly made and seconded, the minutes of the 2022 Annual Meeting were approved as printed in the program, on vote. A count of the members present for the meeting showed that a quorum was reached pursuant to Bylaw Art. IV Sec. 4(d). A total of 695 members appeared in person at the Annual Meeting.

The membership was advised at the Annual Meeting that two directors’ seats were up for election at this Annual Meeting for terms of three years each or until their successor shall be duly elected and qualified. The candidates were selected by obtaining nominations by petition pursuant to the cooperative’s bylaws.

Because there was only one eligible member running for each of the two board seats, in accordance with Bylaw Art. IV, Section IV, no vote was held, and each board candidate was elected by motion made and duly seconded by the members at the Annual Meeting. On motion duly made and seconded, Mike Yankauskas was duly elected to the position of Director of District 4 for the ensuing three years. On motion duly made and seconded, Russell Guse was duly elected to the position of Director At Large for the ensuing three years.

CEO Sears announced prize winners, which included anyone whose registration card was selected regardless of whether or not the member was present at the time of the drawing.

The chairman called for any other business or new business to be brought to the membership’s attention; there being none, the meeting was duly adjourned.

EXHIBIT A

Secretary’s Affidavit of Mailing of the Notice of the 2023 Annual Meeting

State of Indiana, County of LaPorte

I, Bill Bohling, being first duly sworn, upon his oath deposes and says: That I am the duly elected and qualified Secretary of the Kankakee Valley Rural Electric Membership Corporation, hereinafter called the Cooperative.

That on the 1st day of August 2023, I had mailed to each member-consumer of the Cooperative, to the addresses as they appear on the records of the Cooperative, a notice of the Annual Meeting of the member-consumers to be held on September 28, 2023, by deposing such notice with postage prepaid thereon and addressed as aforesaid in the United States mail. The total number of member-consumers receiving notice of the Annual Meeting on said sate was 17,052.

Subscribed and sworn to Bill Bohling, Secretary, before me this 1st day of August.

Alissa Tucker
Notary Public County of Resident, LaPorte
My commission expires February 2030.