Qualifications to Serve as a Director

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Certain specific qualifications to be eligible to become and remain a Director are set forth in the Cooperative Bylaws. In addition, statutory and common laws impose certain duties upon Directors. The following questions are designed to ensure that you are eligible to be a candidate for Director and to remain a Director if elected.

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3. Are you a member of the Cooperative?

4. How long have you been a member?

5. A Director is responsible for, and must actively participate in, the governance of the business and affairs of the Cooperative. The Board of Directors of the Cooperative is quite active. It is anticipated that you will spend a minimum of 25 days, on an annual basis, at meetings of the Board of Directors, General Membership, committees, and other bodies as well as training, conferences, and workshops. (The biggest share of meetings are during the week when many people must be at work.) Are you able to commit that amount of time to be actively involved in the affairs of the Cooperative?

If no, please explain

6. Are you employed by, or financially interested in a company which competes with the Cooperative, sells energy or supplies to the Cooperative?

If yes, please explain.

7. A Director has a duty of loyalty to the Cooperative and a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of the Cooperative and its members as the Director reasonably believes to be the case under the circumstances. In connection with those duties, please answer the following questions. Will you be able to act in the best interests of the Cooperative even though the act of the Cooperative may conflict with your personal interest?

If no, please explain

Do you have a commitment of loyalty to another commercial enterprise that may conflict with the best interests of the Cooperative?

If yes, please explain.

8. Have you been an employee of the Cooperative at any time in the preceding five (5) years?

If yes, when and at what location:

9. Are you a relative of any Cooperative employee or Director as defined in the Qualifications for Eligibility policy?

10. If your answer to Question 9 is "Yes," what is that relationship?

11. Have you read and do you meet all of the qualifications as outlined in Governance Policy G101- Qualifications for Eligibility to Serve on the Board of Directors and Article 4, Section 4.3 of the Bylaws ( copies of which have been provided to you)?

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