2025 Trustee Election Information

The cooperative shall hold a 2025 election of trustees to serve three-year terms on 4 Rivers Electric’s governing board.

The election of trustees is by district, and only qualified candidates nominated by petition shall appear on the ballot. Each of the three board districts has one position included in each election cycle. Your district of membership can be found at the top of your 4 Rivers monthly bill; please reach out to our office if you have any questions on your district of membership. View district maps here.

Download candidate packets including Petitions for Nomination here. Completed petitions must be submitted by 5:00 p.m., Dec. 30, 2024.

Board of Trustee positions available for nomination for the 2025 election:

District 1, Position 7

  • David Kunkel, incumbent

District 2, Position 8

  • Stacy Heins, incumbent

District 3, Position 9

  • Loren Dickens, incumbent

Petition Requirements

To be placed on the ballot, a petition containing the signatures of at least 20 members of the cooperative who live in the district for which the election is being held, approving the nomination of the individual member to be placed on the ballot, must be delivered to the 4 Rivers office at either Lebo or Fredonia by 5:00 p.m., December 30, 2024.

For members interested in running for the board, candidate packets can be downloaded here or picked up in any of our offices. Packets include more information on trustee duties, along with the petition form for collecting member signatures. For interested members, we recommend reading 4 Rivers Cooperative Policies, including ­105 Ethics and Fiduciary Duty and 110 Disclosure of Cooperative Information.

Voting for Candidates

Ballots will be mailed to members in each of the districts. Only the names of the nominees for such district shall be on the ballot. Returned and completed ballots must be postmarked or received at the Lebo office on or before their set due date. Election results will be announced at the Annual Meeting of Members in March and in the Kansas Country Living.